http://www.earthtimes.org The Earth Times online newspaper, serving the planet with Internet and web news that matters en-us PHP/4.4.4 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295024,china-jails-tibetan-website-founder-for-15-years-group-says.html Beijing A Chinese court has sentenced the founder of a Tibetan-language website to 15 years in prison after convicting him of disclosing state secrets, while in a separate case a Tibetan blogger was sentenced to five years in prison, rights groups ... Internet,Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:40:18 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295024,china-jails-tibetan-website-founder-for-15-years-group-says.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294990,readers-would-pay-for-online-news-italians-more-than-americans.html Washington - Readers would be willing to pay small monthly amounts for online news, according to an international survey released Monday. Americans were at the bottom of the list of what they would be willing to pay, at 3 dollars a month, compared to... Internet,Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:55:16 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294990,readers-would-pay-for-online-news-italians-more-than-americans.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294985,german-official-europe-needs-plan-to-handle-orphan-works-texts.html Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief culture adviser welcomed Monday the removal of German books from search giant Google's project to create a world online library, and said Europe must solve the orphan works dilemma on its own. Google... Internet,Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:07:25 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294985,german-official-europe-needs-plan-to-handle-orphan-works-texts.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294852,egypt-launches-first-arabic-internet-domain.html Cairo - Egypt is to create the world's first Arabic language internet domain, with registration opening Monday, the country's telecommunications ministry said Monday. Website owners will now have the option of using .msr in the Arabic script, which... Internet,Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:16:17 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294852,egypt-launches-first-arabic-internet-domain.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294791,german-publishers-criticize-new-google-books-deal.html Frankfurt - German book publishers - angered at being included in the Google Books Settlement without being consulted - voiced concern Sunday that they had now been excluded. The US search giant and US publishers announced Friday that the revolutiona... Internet,Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:58:20 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294791,german-publishers-criticize-new-google-books-deal.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294741,computer-and-internet-briefs.html Washington - How would you like to have an expert look at your PC and tell you what you need in order to get it running at its potential? You could pay a tech expert lots of money to do the job or you could download the free Belarc Advisor (http://ww... Internet,Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:10:35 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294741,computer-and-internet-briefs.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294739,first-aid-for-forgotten-windows-passwords.html Munich - Forget your Windows password and you have got a problem. Without the password, users can't get back into the operating system, says Thomas Baumgaertner, a Microsoft spokesman at the company's Munich office. Access to personal data is then bl... Internet,Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:10:30 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294739,first-aid-for-forgotten-windows-passwords.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294738,new-apple-tv-software-available.html Munich - Apple has released new software for its Apple TV network media player. Version 3.0 offers a redesigned user interface, the company announced. The new version provides simplified navigation through iTunes libraries, as well as the ability to ... Internet,Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:10:27 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294738,new-apple-tv-software-available.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294737,microsoft-study-shows-growing-threat-of-computer-worms.html Munich - The danger of corporate computers becoming infected by worms has risen dramatically recently, according to a new study by Microsoft. The study showed that, globally, the chances of infection by a computer worm had increased by almost 100 per... Internet,Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:10:25 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294737,microsoft-study-shows-growing-threat-of-computer-worms.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294736,google-unveils-social-search-function.html Hamburg - Google is testing a new Social Search function to make it easier for people find their friends' blogs and twitter feeds. The only catch is that users of the service need to have an open profile with Google that includes personal contact dat... Internet,Technology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:10:24 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294736,google-unveils-social-search-function.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294699,new-google-books-settlement-restricts-scale-of-project.html New York/Hamburg - Google has reached a new, more limited agreement with US publishers over the internet search giant's project to make millions of digitalised books available online. The new Google Books settlement, following months of negotiations,... Internet,Technology Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:34:20 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294699,new-google-books-settlement-restricts-scale-of-project.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294629,youtube-says-hi-to-high-definition.html San Francisco - Online video site YouTube is to introduce high definition video capabilities next week in a move that marks another milestone in the transformation of the internet into a full-fledged video viewing platform. The Google-owned company s... Internet,Technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:52:21 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294629,youtube-says-hi-to-high-definition.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294115,googles-holiday-gift-to-travellers-in-us--free-airport-wi-fi.html San Francisco - Internet giant Google is offering travellers in the United States a generous gift for the holidays. The Silicon Valley company said Tuesday that it would provide free Wi-Fi service at 47 major airports throughout the US until January ... Internet,Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:58:19 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294115,googles-holiday-gift-to-travellers-in-us--free-airport-wi-fi.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294112,intel-launches-e-book-for-blind-dyslexic.html San Francisco - Computer chip giant Intel on Tuesday announced the launch of a new kind of book and text reader that it said will be a boon to people suffering from blindness and dyslexia. The Intel Reader uses a 5-megapixel autofocus camera to captu... Internet,Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:52:27 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294112,intel-launches-e-book-for-blind-dyslexic.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294034,norwegian-royals-open-facebook-page.html Oslo - The Norwegian crown prince couple have signed on to the social networking site Facebook, the palace said Tuesday. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have earlier kept friends and others updated about some of their activities vi... Internet,Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:28:17 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294034,norwegian-royals-open-facebook-page.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293949,firefox-celebrates-five-years.html San Francisco - The open source internet browser Firefox marked its fifth anniversary Monday, celebrating its rise from an unknown challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a formidable competitor that has been downloaded over 1 billion times by... Internet,Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:34:18 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293949,firefox-celebrates-five-years.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293946,google-to-buy-admob-for-750-million-dollars.html San Francisco - Google is to pay 750 million dollars to buy AdMob, a provider of advertisingon mobile phones, the internet search leader announced Monday. The deal is the third largest ever undertaken by Google and underscores the company's strategy ... Internet,Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:52:19 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293946,google-to-buy-admob-for-750-million-dollars.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293707,computer-and-internet-briefs.html Washington - Having trouble figuring out how to create a PDF document? If you already have a program such as Acrobat, Foxit, or PDFCreator installed and you do not see the PDF button in the application from which you'd like to create the PDF file, yo... Internet,Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:10:27 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293707,computer-and-internet-briefs.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293138,youth-ministry-blocks-any-email-bearing-the-word-teen.html Wellington - The New Zealand government department responsible for issues to do with young people cannot receive any emails with the word teen in them because they are automatically blocked as potentially pornographic, a news report said Wednesday.... Internet,Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:10:37 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293138,youth-ministry-blocks-any-email-bearing-the-word-teen.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292705,computer-and-internet-briefs.html Washington - Run across a web page you don't want to forget? In Windows Internet Explorer, you can quickly place a shortcut to it on your desktop by right-clicking inside the page and selecting Create Shortcut from the pop-up menu. Creating shortcu... Internet,Technology Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:10:45 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292705,computer-and-internet-briefs.html