Design Interactif

InfoWorld - As a federal ban on discriminatory and access taxes on the Internet approaches a Nov. 1 expiration date, Congress is once again embroiled in a question that comes up every three or four years:  To what degree does the Internet merit special federal protection from state and local tax collectors?
More: continued here […]

Reuters - EBay Inc disclosed on Friday that Germany's top court ruled several months ago that the world's largest online auctioneer must do more to halt the sale of counterfeit goods on its site.

More: continued here

InfoWorld - The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet.
More: continued here

Reuters - This Just In, a comedy Web site launched in February by Time Warner divisions AOL and HBO, will shut down at the end of August, according to sources.
More: continued here

Reuters - Google Inc. has made its biggest move yet on the U.S. mobile Web market by signing a deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. that positions the Internet company to build services to run on Sprint's planned WiMAX high-speed wireless network.

More: continued here

PC World - Wikia Inc.'s project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with its acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday.
More: continued here

AdWeek.com - LOS ANGELES Quickly following its May debut, Ray-Ban's "Catch" became one of the most-popular sponsored viral videos. (It now has had about 11 million views globally, according to Los Angeles-based Feed Company.) The agency behind the video, Omnicom's Cutwater, is now hoping to discover what, exactly, made it successful by experimenting with the […]

AP - Kazakhstan and Georgia are among countries imposing excessive restrictions on how people use the Internet, a new report says, warning that regulations are having a chilling effect on freedom of expression.
More: continued here

Reuters - An Internet video brainchild of three twentysomething former University of California grad students has won big backers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Red McCombs, co-founder of Clear Channel Communications.
More: continued here

NewsFactor - Like team members before a big game, the players in the race for high-speed mobile networks are lining up. On Thursday, Sprint Nextel announced that it had chosen Google to provide search, interactive communications, and social networking for the portal on its upcoming mobile WiMax network. And last week, Sprint announced that it […]