InternetYahoo mixes old and new in Internet-age news service (AFP)

AFP - Yahoo is building an Internet-age news service, leveraging its global audience of a half-billion people to win exclusive interviews with world leaders.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo is building an Internet-age news service, leveraging its global audience of a half-billion people to win exclusive interviews with world leaders. Unlike websites that just aggregate news stories plucked from the Internet, Yahoo is cutting content deals with wire services and other "traditional" outlets as well as investing in a bullpen of its own reporters. "Yahoo News is a news organization," director of editorial programming Jessica Barron told AFP in an interview this week. "We have been doing a lot of original reporting and we are going to be doing a lot more." Reporting coups claimed by Yahoo News include a recent interview with South Korean president Lee Myung-bak in which he maintains that his country could re-unify with North Korea in his lifetime. During his first Internet-only interview US president George W. Bush played along with Yahoo News request to impersonate a "Dr. Evil" character from a hit "Austin Powers" film and the snippet became an online sensation. Yahoo News also got US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to confide she had "a crush" on handsome actor Denzel Washington. "We get these interviews because we have this global audience of 500 million viewers," Barron said. ... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

InternetMalicious Flash ads attack, spread via clipboard (CNET)

CNET - A new type of Internet-based attack is spreading in which Flash-based ads seize control of a Web surfer's clipboard and paste in a link to a malicious site in the hopes that it will be spread from there into e-mails, blogs, and instant messages.

InternetDreamWorks, Intel Collaborate on 3-D Movies

Chipmaker and movie company bring tech and cinema together.