Anti-Google Group's Creeptastic Video Campaign (PC World)PC World - Consumer Watchdog, an anti-Google group, invaded Times Square with a 540-square-foot video cartoon of Google CEO Eric Schmidt frightening children -- and me -- with threats of infiltrating their online lives. Watch it with the lights on. Full text |
Reuters - A sharp drop in classified advertising sales brought on by free Internet listings and a cooling real estate market helped push U.S. newspaper publishers' financial results lower in the first quarter.
Reuters - Bob Geldof and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) are planning to set up a Web site they say will be a definitive guide to mankind.
AP - A human rights group launched a campaign Thursday against Yahoo Inc. on grounds the U.S. search company assisted China's communist government with torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents.