Internet News

Old media often bemoans the copy-and-paste habits of bloggers and self-professed citizen journalists, alleging that the "re-reporting" they do is more akin to plagiarism than journalism. Full Story »

Here's our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment: • Taxpayer advocacy groups are calling on John Boehner to slash salaries of House members to prove that the GOP-led House is serious about cutting spending. (The Hill) • Scientists have found that large patches of coral near the site of the [...] Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants. Full Story »

NEW YORK - TV subscribers are ditching their cable companies at an ever faster rate in the past few months, and many of them aren't signing up with a satellite or phone competitor instead. Full Story »

Newsy is an online video news service that monitors, analyzes and presents news coverage from all over the world. It has brought this technology to smartphones across all platforms, so we sat down and chatted to CEO Jim Spencer about the company, its development process, and the future of mobile news. Full Story »

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow for an open Internet separate from specialized services that may prioritize IP traffic, a group of Internet and technology pioneers have recommended. Full Story »

BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in the German state of Saarland arrested a teen on Friday suspected of publishing three videos on the Internet which threatened to carry out attacks to force the release of a German convicted of terrorism. Full Story »

Location-based services may be poised for growth, but only a small percentage of mobile users are taking advantage of them. That's the big takeaway from a new study released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Full Story »

Last night Google made a subtle change to the Terms of Service in its Google Contacts API. Websites will not be able to automate the import of a user's Google contacts into their own database, unless they reciprocate the exchange. Full Story »

Google Instant is going mobile. Google unveiled Instant, a search-as-you-type approach that works to serve up results on the fly with each keystroke, in September. Full Story »

Pioneer RSS feed manager Bloglines will continue operating thanks to a last-minute agreement for MerchantCircle to take over operation of the service from Ask.com. Full Story »

Months ago, Twitter released a clunky tool called Blackbird Pie for embedding tweets in blog posts. Today WordPress has radically simplified and improved tweet embedding with a new feature, also named Twitter Blackbird Pie. Full Story »

ROME (AFP) - Italy will liberalise public wifi access to the Internet from next year, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Friday, referring to a much-criticised law restricting wifi connections for security reasons. Full Story »

LONDON (AFP) - Shares in Russian Internet company Mail.ru, an investor in social networking site Facebook, surged on their London debut on Friday. Full Story »

Nielsen has said in a letter to clients obtained by AdAge that a technical glitch caused it to underreport the amount of time people spent on websites in its syndicated Internet use study. Full Story »

Instant “on” Google Instant has been updated for Android, banking big on HTML5. The new search feature offers instant predictions on your queries, shaving even more milliseconds off the time it takes you to get the results you’re looking for. In line with Google Instant’s iPhone release, the updated Android tool is clearly one Google’s (GOOG) heavily vested in. Full Story »

Google recently launched a beta version of Instant, the company's search solution that displays results as you type, for Android and Apple iOS 4 mobile devices. For now, the beta test is available only to users in the U.S. and you can access it only through your handset's browser instead of Google's mobile apps. To try it out, just go to Google.com from your mobile device and then click the "Turn on" link for Google Instant located below the search box. Full Story »

The Japanese government scrambled on Friday to find out how video of an altercation between a Chinese fishing trawler and the Japan Coast Guard ended up on YouTube. Its appearance marked the second time this week that sensitive government information was leaked on to the Internet. Full Story »