RSS & Blogging

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A former Russian policeman, who accused officers in his home town of corruption in blogs that had more than one million Internet hits, said on Tuesday he wanted to discuss the affair with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Full Story »

HAVANA - The U.S. State Department issued a statement late Monday decrying attacks on three Cuban bloggers, including one who has gained international attention for her searing observations about life on the communist island. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said it "strongly deplores" the forcible detention and beating last week of three Cuban bloggers on their way to a peaceful march in Havana. Full Story »

HAVANA (AFP) - Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday. Full Story »

HAVANA - A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition activity. Full Story »

This week on the PC World Podcast, Hassle-Free PC blogger Rick Broida joins PC World editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, and Mark Sullivan for a half-hour discussion of the week's biggest tech stories. Full Story »

More details have emerged about Microsoft Courier, Redmond's rumored tablet project. Gadget blog Gizmodo has uncovered a set of illustrations that make it clearer how you would operate the device, and what its mains functions would be. On paper, Courier looks like it would be an innovative device, with some killer features. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scripps Networks is close to an agreement to acquire a majority stake in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable company, the New York Times' DealBook blog reported on Wednesday. Full Story »

The morning I was scheduled to talk to the co-founder of a collection of popular neighborhood news blogs in Seattle, he had to put me off for almost an hour because he had been busy covering a fire. Full Story »

This must be a joke: A Novell corporate blog item that chastises the City of Los Angeles for recently selecting Google Apps to replace Novell's GroupWise e-mail and calendaring software. Full Story »

Twitter's recently rolled out Lists feature may spell the end of a micro-blogging tradition. Full Story »

Have you been reading those blog posts about a Windows 7 hack that will allow a clean install of the OS using an upgrade disc rather than the full version? Microsoft wants you to know that while this might be possible, it is also illegal - unless you own a valid license, which many do. Full Story »

Microsoft has a bit of advice for people using the Windows 7 operating system introduced earlier this month: Follow the law. In a blog posting at the Microsoft SMB Community Blog, Eric Ligman of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group wrote that a number of blogs and postings are offering hacks that enable the use of a less-expensive upgrade disk for a new Windows 7 installation. Full Story »

Microsoft issued a friendly reminder in a blog post earlier this week that if you installed Windows 7 on a blank hard drive using an upgrade disc, your Windows installation is illegal. Well, maybe... but I'll get to that in a second. Full Story »

Plurk, a rival to Twitter that offers Chinese-language mini-blogging, has won an unlikely promoter in former Taiwanese presidential candidate Frank Hsieh. The runner-up in last year's Taiwan election launched a new book on Thursday titled "Frank's Plurk Diary." Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - On the verge of her 70th birthday, Canadian author Margaret Atwood is forging into new territory to promote her latest novel "The Year of the Flood." Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Popular US gadget blog Gizmodo apologized to its readers on Tuesday after being duped by malware masquerading as an advertisement. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Microsoft's MSN is in talks with MySpace about using the social network?s MySpace Music to help power music offerings on the software giant's online portal, technology blog AllThingsD said Tuesday. Full Story »