Robert Hernreich - Tragic Love: Love Knows No Bounds When Internet Couple Ends With Coma (WTOL 11 Toledo)

Tragic Love: Love Knows No Bounds When Internet Couple Ends With Coma (WTOL 11 Toledo)
They were a young couple just starting out e-mailing for weeks over Internet. Moments before going out on their first real date, a terrible accident right here in the Cleveland suburb that changed everything.

Father of the Internet Talks About His Child's Future (WebProNews)
Vint Cerf, who is commonly known as the "father of the Internet", has posted an article on the Official Google Blog , as part of their series of experts predicting the future, such as Marissa Mayer did for search and read more

Madison County buses to have free Internet access (BizJournals)
Madison County (Il.) Transit Express buses will be equipped with free wireless Internet access beginning Oct. 1.

Senate bill aims to protect children from Internet predators (Deseret Morning News)
With the prodding of Oprah Winfrey and Ed Smart (father of kidnapped-and-found Elizabeth Smart), the Senate passed a bill Friday that is designed to help protect children from Internet predators and to help investigation of child exploitation, including child pornography.

Japan's KDDI to offer 1G bps Internet connections to homes (New York Times)
Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI will start offering from October 1G bps (bits per second) fiber-optic Internet hook-ups for less than the current price of a connection one tenth the speed, it said this week.

Internet service providers want to set industry guidelines for online privacy (Los Angeles Times)
Verizon, Time Warner Cable and AT & T executives, who testified this week before a Senate committee, say they want 'to go forward with this self-regulatory approach.' Internet service providers called for industrywide guidelines to protect privacy online in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday. But they want to set the guidelines themselves.

Computer applications float in Internet cloud (AFP via Yahoo! News)
When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud. Mann, a 41-year-old technology blogger, is one of thousands of Americans who are shunning packaged software in favor of programs served up as services available on the Internet.