ISPs experimenting with new P2P controls
Companies such as Comcast, Verizon and Qwest are trying several different ways to "manage" heavy file-sharing traffic across the Net. While some new technologies look promising, one expert says it's unlikely that one method will immediately satisfy both user demands and those of the network. Read more...

RedRoller launches shopping for shipping to SMBs

Report: Yahoo plans to reorganize

EBay boosts fraud protections for PayPal users

House leaders plan hearing on Google-Yahoo deal

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$1M deposited in banks via MoneyAisle in first week

Judge to plaintiffs in Yahoo lawsuit: Don't rush me

Microsoft turns to Europe for help in snaring search market

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Elgan: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster
The cell phone advertising disaster is coming, and there's not much any of us can do about it.

Opinion: What will rule the 'new' Internet?
With many young people generating their own content on evolving video and social networking sites and sharing it with tools like BitTorrent, the Web of the future may resemble its very beginning, when most resources and content distribution were created by individuals and not large conglomerates.

Q&A;: Networking veteran launches unique auction site
The frustrating search for a high-def TV prompted Mukesh Chatter, who has founded two other companies, to develop a start-up auction site in which sellers bid for the business of buyers.

The many uses of enterprise wikis
CIO sat down with Scott Johnston, senior product manager of Google Sites (and former vice president of products at Jotspot) to talk about Google Sites and what types of use cases for the product have emerged since it launched.

IDC: U.S. Internet ad spending to boom
Spending in U.S. online advertising will reach $51.1 billion in 2012, says IDC.

Opinion: Better than locks: A security approach to 'free'
Kevin Kelly's "Better Than Free" essay has been burning up the Internet for months as readers debate which concepts hold value online (and how to monetize those values). Geoff Leeming tackles the question from the security point of view... and comes up remarkably optimistic.

Opinion: Top 10 Google flubs, flops and failures
Among all the success stories of the huge and unorthodox Internet company are some that are, uh, not so much.

6 factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight
Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.

Opinion: What's a blogger, anyway?
The media should stop stereotyping bloggers. Every kind of person blogs. Some of them reflect insightfully on media reports, and some don't. And some die of heart attacks.

Opinion: A new kind of Web — don't miss these 11 sites
Check out these examples of how the Web is evolving to present information in new ways to help you get organized, boost productivity or just have some fun.

More than half of the women in science, engineering and IT leave the field at mid career. Sylvia Ann Hewlett explains why. Thin, flexible, low-power digital paper is just around the corner. Will your next book or newspaper be 'e'? If you want faster speeds and GPS and you talk a lot, the answer is probably yes. Being mobile these days means more equipment — and more problems. Here's how to make things a bit easier.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

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