Study: Cox, Comcast Internet Subscribers Blocked (Wired News)

It sure looks like Cox and Comcast are blocking file-sharing connections. The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbruecken, Germany surveyed 8,175 Internet users around the world and found conclusive evidence of the practice at only three ISPs, including StarHub in Singapore.

Aplana Software Has Developed a New Web-Site for Russian TV Channel Sport Using Microsoft Silverlight Technology (Broadcast Newsroom)

MOSCOW, BUSINESS WIRE — Aplana Software, a Moscow based software services company and a member of I.T.Co Group, has successfully developed a new interactive web-site for Russian TV Channel ‘Sport’ (www.sportbox.ru) to broadcast sport events for internet users.

Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked (AP via Yahoo! News)

Comcast Corp.’s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and is at the center of calls for “Net Neutrality” laws, but another U.S. cable company appears to be doing the same thing without drawing scrutiny.

Windows to run on One Laptop Per Child computer (Reuters)

Reuters - Microsoft Corp reached an
agreement to make available its Windows operating system
software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s XO Laptop,
the company said on Thursday.

U.S. game sales jump 47 percent in April on GTA4 (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc’s “Grand Theft Auto 4″ and Nintendo Co
Ltd’s Wii console stole the show.

Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave (AP)

AP - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.