AP - Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
AFP - Internet giant Google announced Monday it was adding nine more languages to Google Translate, its automatic translation program.
AFP - A new blog launched Monday by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became inaccessible within hours after aides sorely underestimated the number of Internet readers it would attract.
AP - A German court has ruled that Google Inc. must change terms of service that could be interpreted to compromise a user’s rights, a decision the consumer advocacy group that brought the suit welcomed Monday as a victory for online transparency.
PC World - Show of hands: Who here’s in favor of a subscription TV model offered through iTunes? Most of the people who aren’t, I’m guessing, are television industry executives.
AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that its Web site has added almost 1 million new items through a new program that lets outside sellers market products on its Web site.
AP - Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet:
Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Monday it would open an online store for smartphone applications on September 14 in Europe.
Reuters - More than a third of consumers in Western Europe will access the Internet using their mobile phones by 2014, according to a research report published by Forrester Research on Monday.
PC World - All around the world, the focus of games has been moving from video games to arcade games and further towards online games. Currently, the online game market is growing steadily with an increasing number of users due to higher provision rates of broadband, enhanced console network functions, diversification of online game genres and an expansion of casual MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).