Internet News

• FCC urges Internet companies to safeguard Web (Reuters)
  Reuters - Internet service providers need to work harder to prevent hacks, data theft and other fraud, including contacting customers whose infected computers have been hijacked by organized crime and helping them clean out viruses, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.
  
  
• These comedy apps will put a smile on your face (Appolicious)
  Appolicious - Today’s most innovative comedians are not necessarily telling jokes in front of a live audience, on TV, or in the movies. A new golden age of comedy is playing out online and via mobile applications for smartphones and tablet computers. There are apps that showcase the funniest satirists on Twitter, broadcast interviews with newcomers and comedy legends, and make classic publications like The Onion and Cracked come alive.
  
  
• IBM eyes cybersecurity market with new platform (Reuters)
  Reuters - International Business Machines is gearing up to take a chunk of the growing Internet security market by applying its data analytics to help companies and organizations fight cyberattacks.
  
  
• Microsoft files EU complaint over Google, Motorola (Reuters)
  Reuters - Microsoft Corp has asked EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a patent dispute with Google Inc and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc as it stepped up its battle against Google.
  
  
• Pokemon developer battles App Store rip-offs (Appolicious)
  Appolicious - There’s still no official Pokemon title in the iTunes App Store, despite the clamoring of fans for a mobile version of Nintendo’s incredibly popular monster-catching role-playing game series.
  
  
• EU seeks legal opinion on global copyright (Reuters)
  Reuters - The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it would refer a disputed global agreement to tackle online piracy to the bloc's highest court to check whether it complies with EU fundamental rights.
  
  
• NY group: Online journalists censored, attacked (AP)
  AP - A global coalition against censorship is needed to protect online journalists and bloggers who are being targeted by repressive governments, a leading advocacy group said Tuesday.
  
  
• EU suspends copyright treaty ratification (AP)
  

  AP - The European Commission, facing opposition in city streets, on the Internet and in the halls of parliament, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement, and instead will refer it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights.

  
  
  
  
• Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail (AP)
  

  AP - The founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload was released on bail Wednesday after a New Zealand judge decided Kim Dotcom lacked means to flee because his funds had been seized.

  
  
  
  
• Kim Dotcom wins bail in fight against U.S. extradition (Reuters)
  Reuters - U.S. crime-fighters failed in a bid to keep alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom behind bars on Wednesday when a New Zealand court freed him from jail and instead put him under effective house arrest and banned him from using the Internet.