The Internet Stories for 2009

OnLive One Step Closer 175
Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India 167
Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook 125
Security In the Ether 93
A Brief History of Modems 249
NetBIOS Design Allows Traffic Redirection 68
Simplifying Search For a Younger Audience 72
Wikileaks Needs Help, and Not Just Money 134
Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers 256
Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google 241
Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast 274
Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed 549
Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP 131
Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest 464
US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January 376
After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship 160
$300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal 315
FCC's New Broadband Plan Prioritizes Competition 71
UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers 187
Microsoft Acknowledges Theft of Code From Plurk 215
Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249
Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam 118
Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship 200
Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service 242
Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time 52
Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA 184
Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 565
Israeli ISPs Caught Interfering With P2P Traffic 139
WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API 39
Virtual Money For Real Lobbying 85
Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China 114
ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158
How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?) 275
Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense 596
Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests 289
Personalized Search From Google Now Opt-Out 206
"Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison 1127
Microsoft Tweaks Browser Ballot As EU Deal Nears 187
MIT and the DARPA Network Challenge 68
Salon.com Editor Looks Back At Paywalls 246
Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" 497
Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change 103
Google Launches Public DNS Resolver 540
Net Neutrality Seen Through the Telegraph 249
NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container 55
Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic 560
Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? 387
Augmented Reality and Privacy 144
The Technology Behind Last.fm 125
G-WAN, Another Free Web Server 217
German President Refuses To Sign Censorship Law 272
Record-Breaking Black Friday For eBay's PayPal 115
Government Delays New Ban On Internet Gambling 143
Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall 262
Wikipedia Disputes Editor Exodus Claims 207
In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs 227
Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers 155
30,000 UK ISP Users Face Threat Letters For Suspected Illegal File Sharing 218
Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK 280
Toshiba Employee Arrested For Selling Software To Break Copy Limits 90
Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents 352
Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids 434
Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers 632
Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age 138
Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency 214
Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe 83
Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space 83
Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works 468
How Heavy Is the Internet? 174
Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE 154
Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" 332
Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 477
Bing Gains 10% Marketshare 514
Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" 312
Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments 762
Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table 327
DNSSEC Implementation Held Up By Tech Delays 57
New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests 278
DNS Problem Linked To DDoS Attacks Gets Worse 69
URL Shorteners Get Some Backup 224
Russian Whistleblower Cop On YouTube 176
German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names 859
Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV? 321
FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP 184
"Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes 447
Recovering the Slums of the Internet? 218
MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download 323
HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web 406
Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? 932
LegalTorrents Launches Copyright-Compliant Tracker 113
Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close 369
Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom 404
Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet 207
Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records 244
Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain 1172
Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches 549
Paul Vixie On What DNS Is Not 164
NH Supreme Court Hears Case On Protections For Anonymous Sources Online 47
Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay 154
China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts 139
Vint Cerf Plugs Android Into Interplanetary Net 69
EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes 109
Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking 698
Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share 350
Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla 206
Paywalls To Drive Journalists Away In Addition To Consumers? 131
Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan 136
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability 187
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning 227
ICANN Might Pre-Register gTLDs To Placate Critics 70
Lawmakers Caught Again By File-Sharing Software 203
3 Strikes — Denying Physics Won't Save the Video Stars 284
Towards a Permission-Based Web 230
ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs 284
New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners 335
Hulu Blocks International Access Via Witopia 256
The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time 152
Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan 387
"Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain 294
Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic 341
Amazon Cloud Adds Hosted MySQL 173
Geocities Shutting Down Today 396
New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout 66
Cyberterror Not Yet a Credible Threat, Says Policy Thinktank 165
Game Retailers Facing Digital Distribution Transition 155
What If They Turned Off the Internet? 511
Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops 106
Peering Disputes Migrate To IPv6 111
Developing Nations Crippled By Broadband Costs 239
Judge Rejects Sheriff's Suit Against Craigslist 121
FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations 297
Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites 200
Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents 455
EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy 272
The Risks and Rewards of Warmer Data Centers 170
Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users 185
CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules 184
Doing Internet Searches Boosts Older Brains 65
AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC 239
Google Envisions 10 Million Servers 169
Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law 1364
Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push 200
Kaspersky CEO Wants End To Online Anonymity 537
Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help 326
Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All 239
Internet Traffic Shifting Away From Tier-1 Carriers 153
FCC Considers Opening Up US Broadband Access 253
Experimenting On Mechanical Turk 46
The Sad State of the Mobile Web 220
Cisco, Motorola, and Other Companies Take Aim At Net Neutrality Rules 239
1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland 875
Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes 620
Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death 266
Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites 58
Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet 207
SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood, Even By the Pros 292
Swarm — a New Approach To Distributed Computation 80
The Problem of Shards, Servers, and Queues In MMOs 253
Misadventures In Online Journalism 133
Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services 366
Why Microsoft's EU Ballot Screen Doesn't Measure Up 283
Yahoo! Opens Floodgates On Homepage To Devs 49
Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier 94
Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal 82
Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering 125
CBS Interactive Sued For Distributing Green Dam 133
AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads 191
FTC States Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Reviews 310
Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 438
Will Books Be Napsterized? 350
ICANN Studies Secretive Domain Owners 101
Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm 135
The Pirate Bay Sails To a New Home 244
Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper 219
Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy 336
A Mobile Phone Mesh That Can Survive Carrier Network Failure 131
Americans Don't Want Targeted Ads 404
US Relaxes Control Over ICANN 230
Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day 122
OnLive CEO Provides Details On Cloud Gaming 136
Verizon CTO Argues For Metered Pricing 99
100-Petabit Internet Backbone Coming Into View 137
Pirate Party Unites In Australia 173
Company Offers Customizable Web Spidering 46
Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again 200
Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone 221
Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8 152
Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure 459
FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted 270
News Content As a Resource, Not a Final Product 156
Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education 165
Austin Police Want Identities of Online Critics 320
Canadian Court of Appeals Decides Website Linking Isn't Libelous 75
Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet 475
US Government Sets Up Online "App Store" 138
France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again 207
Initial WebGL Support Lands In WebKit 181
Google Groups Used To Control Botnets 63
eBay Denies New Design Is Broken, Blames Users 362
Geist On Copyright As Canada Consult Nears End 38
Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You 102
Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server 113
Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net 406
GaiKai Beta To Start In Europe "Later This Month" 121
How Wired's Hiding Writer Was Found 83
Parental Control Software Datamines Kids' Online Conversations 105
Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia 464
Has the WebOS Finally Arrived? 227
Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy 318
How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers 313
Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals 139
Doctorow On What Cloud Computing Is Really For 348
OnLive Begins Beta Testing 80
Musicians Oppose Anti-Piracy Measures In the UK 150
Hosting Data-Transfer Quotas Are Fading Out 135
Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC 49
Happy Birthday, Internet! 213
Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition 426
Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 556
Web Hosts Hit With $32 Million Judgment For Content 202
Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control 102
Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping 251
Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold 137
Chinese Censor-Beating Software Resembles Malware, But Isn't 160
Swedish Regulators Ban Word "Bank" In Domain Names For Non-Banks 175
After Canadian Prodding, Facebook To Change Privacy Policy 64
US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft 451
Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade 673
Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network 68
Proposed UK File-Sharing Laws May Be Illegal, ISPs Upset 198
Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently 370
Finalists Chosen In Apps For America 2 Contest 64
FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality 343
Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits 248
Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online 94
Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval 453
Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off 745
Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown 348
Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide, 2nd Edition 69
First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality 343
Apple, Google, AT&T Respond To the FCC Over Google Voice 326
Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity 205
Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit 168
Twitter Developing Location-Based API 90
Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled 257
Google Brings SVG Support To IE 233
Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library 144
Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers 172
First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center 278
IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities 315

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