Internet News from Reuters (Complete list)
Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:41:07 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.	German "fakebook" site incurs wrath of Facebook Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:11:52 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ehssan Dariani, founder of German social network studiVZ, never made any secret of his admiration for Facebook, which is now suing studiVZ for copying its ideas and look.
Website claims to help drivers avoid speed traps Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:46:55 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drivers in most of the United States and some of the UK can find out where the police speed traps and so-called red-light cameras are on the Internet -- for free.	Crowd-sourcing the e-car Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:16:34 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) HELSINKI (Reuters) - After the wikipedia, the wikicar. "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year.
China arrests online dissident in pre-Olympics crackdown Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:06:20 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested a prominent Internet dissident for violating his probation terms, a rights group said, as the country steps up a pre-Olympic crackdown on dissent to ensure the Games go smoothly.	Nintendo, Fujifilm start Wii online photo service Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:25:27 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) TOKYO (Reuters) - The Nintendo Wii just got a photogenic makeover.
Joost, TOM Group launches China joint venture Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:06:07 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet television service Joost and Chinese media conglomerate TOM Group will launch a joint venture on Wednesday to court viewers in China, even as the government tightens restrictions on such services.	Art shock troops mock Russian establishment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:23:16 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) MOSCOW (Reuters) - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow.
MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:26:12 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace Internet social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again.	Too poor, sick for Greek pilgrimage? Email a prayer Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:24:11 GMT (more with latitude, longitude) ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's holiest pilgrimage site on the Aegean island of Tinos has launched an email service allowing those too poor or sick to visit in person to have their prayers read to its icon of the Virgin Mary.