The Internet Stories for 2008

Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target 412
Content Filtering Pulled From Free Broadband Proposal 111
Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords 630
CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate 300
Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" 314
BBC's iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs 172
Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? 183
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? 154
Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality 249
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250
Vietnam Imposes New Blogging Restrictions 206
Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion 414
Doubts Multiply About the "Long Tail" 194
Repair Crews Reach Vicinity of Damaged Cables In Mediterranean 145
As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" 366
Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In 307
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans 133
Are Newspapers Doomed? 338
An In-Depth Look At Game Piracy 504
Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again 329
Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch 376
With Olympics Over, China Re-Censors Internet 242
Yahoo Promises To Anonymize and Limit User Data 76
Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users 178
A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1 271
Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51
Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook 204
Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash 361
100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293
Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead 140
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability 455
Sleep Mailing 195
Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off? 171
Telstra Kicked Out of $15bn Broadband Project 158
The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 97
FCC Cancels Free Internet Vote 257
Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCA 69
Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook 107
Australia Says No to Internet Censorship 209
Google's Mayer Says Personalization is Key To Future Search 93
Google Zeitgeist 2008 136
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Now Final 57
Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity 516
Google Chrome Is Out of Beta 444
Broadband Access Without the Pork? 412
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System 436
FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users 329
Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way 292
Botnets As "eWMDs" 172
DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve 179
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web 367
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing 216
Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler 290
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation 318
Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" 133
Google To Sell Truly Open Android Dev Phone 219
Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection 351
China's .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD 86
Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" 320
UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia 668
Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up 272
Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea 124
German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia 113
Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 404
Amazon Fights Piracy Tool, Creators Call It a Parody 268
RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation 41
AT&T Sidestepping Google, Eyes Symbian 139
A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas 188
IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years 425
Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme 193
Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains 232
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" 279
Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test 258
Second Google Android Phone Revealed 176
'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox 370
Google Was 3 Hours Away From DOJ Antitrust Charges 221
Who Protects the Internet? 177
Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering 231
Mobile Broadband to Hit 42Mb/sec In 2009 129
New .tel TLD Now In Use 175
The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug 122
The Other Side of the Sprint Vs. Cogent Depeering 174
Making BitTorrent Clients Prioritize By Geography? 227
Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers 291
French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life 193
BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" 238
Rumors Flying On $20 Billion Microsoft Offer For Yahoo 112
Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown 872
Google's Gatekeepers 150
Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186
"Cyber Monday" Expected To Draw Virtual Crowds 133
Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" 144
Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now 237
Grandma's On the Computer Screen This Thanksgiving 73
Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions 568
Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On 205
Houses With Tails 307
The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
Triple-Engine Browser Released As Alpha 181
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147
Inside Safari 3.2's Anti-Phishing Feature 135
Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems 87
Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests 371
Facebook Wins $873 Million Lawsuit Against Spammer 128
Google Map To Real Piracy 262
EU Strikes Down French "3 Strikes" Copyright Infringement Law 271
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours 166
Google Turns On User-Tweakable Search Wiki 161
Integrating the Web Into Games 52
Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely 123
Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE 290
After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" 430
Microsoft Blames Add-Ons For Browser Woes 307
A Web App For Real-Time Collaborative Writing 157
Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins 317
Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF 134
Network Neutrality — Without Regulation 351
Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids 189
CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads 245
Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy 400
Google Terminates Lively 186
IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship 261
Towards a World Wide Grid? 105
FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules 63
Court Slams Door On Sale of Spyware 51
Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid 337
McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control 242
Google To Host 10M Images From Life Magazine's Archive 79
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang To Step Down 199
McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch? 194
NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking 83
Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 End of Life 138
French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge 326
OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs 207
Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net 569
Google Earth Recreates Ancient Rome 97
Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team 179
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA 159
Google Is Taking Spoken Questions 94
US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops 96
Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites 110
Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying 211
US Has More IPv6 Eyeballs Than Asia, Because of Apple 162
Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer 857
Mind Control Delusions and the Web 631
Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center 125
IBM Bringing Powerline Broadband Back? 141
New Search Engine Takes "Dyve" Into the Dark Web 55
Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet 81
Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill 218
Google Can Predict the Flu 289
40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs 146
OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps 336
Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial 231
China Defines Internet Addiction 201
DNS Inventor Tackles Flaw 101
MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube 116
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack 135
Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform 73
How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? 230
China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites 174
Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon 84
Yahoo Interested In a Microsoft Buyout, But Microsoft Isn't 174
A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet 120
Four Google Officials Facing Charges In Italy For Errant Video 153
Website Optimization 71
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes 419
Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan 98
Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine 410
Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads 402
Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy 324
Google Kills Yahoo Ad Deal 79
Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials 184
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic 68
Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox 310
AT&T Begins a Trial To Cap, Meter Internet Usage 421
Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany 63
Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet 547
Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web 399
Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users 205
Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering 325
Google Apps Gets a 99.9% Guarantee 155
French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law 225
How To Supplement Election Coverage? 241
Google May Scrap Yahoo Deal 49
Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering 262
Google Sheds Light On 'Dark Web' With PDF Search 78
Morris Worm Turning 20 84
Google Book Search Settlement Receiving Criticism 119
Why We Need Unlicensed White-Space Broadband Spectrum 179
Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet 413
Chrome Helping Other Browsers Out, Says Opera CEO 187
Explore the Web From China 165
Study Shows Social Networking At Work Is Good 94
Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 316
After Domain Squatting, Twitter Squatting 201
ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains 198
Running Google Android On iPhone Clones 191
Tech Giants In Human Rights Deal 97
MTV Launches Music Video Site 192
Sony Claims PS3 Javascript Performance Is Better Than IE7's 112
The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' 452
$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google 238
Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files 75
The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds 117
10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web" 205
Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation 120
Russian Regulators Block Google Online Advertising Acquisition 120
Australian Government Ignoring Problems With Proposed Filters 292
Blogger.com Banned In Turkey 262
Belgian ISP Scores Victory In Landmark P2P Case 76
Security Flaw In Android Web Browser 59
Google Launches User-Driven Debate Site 68
Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? 450
The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education 68
ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs 168
Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet 356
In UK, Broadband Limits Confuse Nine In Ten Users 217
Amazon Beefs Up Its Cloud Ahead of MS Announcement 89
Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran' 516
Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? 454
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday 143
Finding Better Tech Broadcasts? 205
Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth 428
Google Opens Up Android Codebase 204
Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab 272
Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency 164
FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust 435
iGoogle Users Irate About Portal's Changes 321
Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage 255
Al-Qaeda Web Sites Go Offline 284
Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack 275
Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers 31
Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office 293
Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released 148
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia 424
Web Singletons? 254
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit 370
Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins 430
Android Also Comes With a Kill-Switch 300
FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity 134
Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant 406
Full Review of the T-Mobile G1 Android Device 135
Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain 114
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law 459
World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS 287
Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle 500
Google Demands Higher Chip Temps From Intel 287

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