US presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain continue to pave new trails as they use online media in their campaigns.
Senator Obama has become the first presidential candidate to advertise in video games.
Meanwhile, the McCain campaign has complained to YouTube that it unfairly removed campaign videos that feature copyrighted content.
YouTube responded that the campaign can appeal the removals

Virgin Media has criticised some broadband speed tests, saying they rely on 'dirty data'.
It said current tests were often inaccurate.
It is concerned that tests for 50Mbps (megabits per second) services, which are starting to launch, will be even more inaccurate.
More people are using broadband speed tests to find out whether the speed they are actually getting comes close to what service providers promise.

OL PEJETA, Kenya - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta con more...

'China has been monitoring and censoring messages sent through the internet service Skype, researchers say. Citizen Lab, a Canadian research group, says it found a database containing thousands of politically sensitive words which had been blocked by China.
The publicly available database also displayed personal data on subscribers.......The database held more than 150,000 messages which included words such as 'democracy' and 'Tibet' and phrases relating to the banned spiritual movement, Falun more...

Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who invented the Web as a way of communicating with professional colleagues, has announced the creation of The World Wide Web Foundation. 'Berners-Lee said that he was particularly keen for the foundation to make the Web more useful to people living in what he described as 'underserved communities'. For example, the Web could provide information leading to better health care. He also emphasised the need to minimise the spread of potentially dangerous or mis more...

'Brussels is considering making broadband access available for all. The fast growth of broadband has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect. Current statistics suggest about 36% of households in EU member nations have high-speed net access. When a majority of EU citizens are using a telecoms service, EC rules dictate that it becomes one every European should be able to enjoy.'

'Brussels is considering making broadband access available for all. The fast growth of broadband has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect. Current statistics suggest about 36% of households in EU member nations have high-speed net access. When a majority of EU citizens are using a telecoms service, EC rules dictate that it becomes one every European should be able to enjoy.'

'People across the developing world could have high-speed Internet access by late 2010, thanks to a new global satellite system. The system was announced last week (9 September) by the Jersey-based O3b Networks, whose name stands for the 'other three billion' people in developing countries who don't have access to the Internet. Their satellite-based infrastructure will bring Internet access to countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.'

'Mobile phone subscribers worldwide will hit the four billion mark by the end of 2008, the head of the United Nations International telecommunications Union (ITU) said Friday. Most of the increase in cell phone usage will be from the rapidly developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, which altogether account for over 1.3 billion mobile phone subscribers by year-end, it said. In its daily news digest, the ITU said the number of subscribers has surged nearly 25 percent annually for more...

'CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are widespread security measures on the World Wide Web that prevent automated programs from abusing online services. They do so by asking humans to perform a task that computers cannot yet perform, such as deciphering distorted characters.' A program called reCAPTCHA has been developed to ask 'users to decipher scanned words from books that computerized optical character recognition failed to recognize. We sho more...