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• News Corp and Microsoft Plot Anti-Google Pact

  Why a reported deal between Microsft and News Corp. that would delist News Corp. content from Google wouldn't work.

• Berners-Lee's foundation wants the Web to improve life

  The World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee's latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change.

• ICANN approves internationalized domain names

  Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language accessibility.

• Using the Internet makes people smarter, study finds

  Could it be that the Internet actually - gasp! - makes you smarter?

• ICANN freed from US gov't oversight

  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the nonprofit greater independence, while giving more countries oversight of the organization.

• Internet lenders to pay $1 million to settle complaint

  A group of Internet payday lending companies that allegedly threatened customers who didn't make payments with arrest and called customers at work and swore at them has agreed to pay US$1 million to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the state of Nevada.

• Internet pioneer Cerf urges IPv6 migrations

  Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has repeated a call for migrations to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to stave off an anticipated lack of available addresses on IPv4.

• Chinese man detained in second Web addict beating

  Chinese police have detained a man who beat teenagers sent to an Internet addiction camp he ran, state media said Wednesday.

• China's grip on Web prevents dissent on deadly riots

  Beijing's Internet clampdown appears to have succeeded in shutting out dissenting views over deadly riots in western China that claimed at least 156 lives.

• DNS attack downs Internet in parts of China

  An attack on the servers of a domain registrar in China caused an online video application to cripple Internet access in parts of the country late on Wednesday.

• EU pushes for single online content market

  The European Commission wants to scrap the patchwork of national rules governing what music and movies consumers can download from the Internet, and instead create one marketplace for everyone in the European Union, commissioners Vivane Reding and Meglana Kuneva said Tuesday.

• US lawmakers target deep packet inspection in privacy bill

  U.S. lawmakers plan to introduce privacy legislation that would limit how Internet service providers can track their users, despite reports that no U.S. ISPs are using such technologies except for legitimate security reasons.