Sat 30 August 2008

Web-crawling absurdists tipped as the 'future of comedy'
Source: Media Guardian

Google CEO confident Yahoo! deal will go ahead
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company's search ad deal with Yahoo! will go ahead by October, according reports.
Source: NMA

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
During the Internet’s first three decades, most traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States. Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.
And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably military — consequences.
Source New York Times