E-commerce in protected wildlife booming (AFP) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:02:31 GMT A baby parrot is seen in 2008 at Seropedica Recovery Center, a reserve of the Brazilian Environmental Institute (Ibama, in Portuguese) 70km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before being returned to its natural habitat. From ivory trinkets to live parrots, the Internet has become a virtual supermarket in imperilled species that is hard to track and even harder to crack, 1000 say experts.(AFP/AUSTRAL FOTO/File/Renzo Gostoli)

Law Enforcement Push for Stricter Domain Name Rules (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:18 GMT PC World - Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.

Facebook Intros On-the-fly Search Result Suggestions (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:10:14 GMT PC World - Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries.

Can Internet Explorer 9 Get Microsoft's Mojo Back? (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:54:00 GMT PC World - With improved speed and support for HTML 5, Internet Explorer 9 could be Microsoft's next step toward restoring its old mojo.

Study: Piracy Could Cost EU 1.2 Million Jobs (PC Magazine) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:54:02 GMT PC Magazine - A study into Internet piracy by a Paris-based consultancy published on Wednesday showed that 1.2 million jobs in the European Union could be lost over the next five years if more is not done to clamp down on illegal downloading.

Microsoft: IE9 Won't Support Windows XP, Period (PC Magazine) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:37:49 GMT PC Magazine - Windows XP users will not be able to run the final version of Internet Explorer 9, according to Microsoft executives, cutting out a decade-old, yet still popular operating system.

Classmates.com Settles Class-Action Suit for $9.5M (PC Magazine) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:50:48 GMT PC Magazine - Classmates.com has agreed to pay more than $9.5 million to settle a class-action suit that accused the Web site of duping customers into signing up for paid services. But affected customers will barely receive enough for a cup of coffee.

Qualcomm to Bid in India’s Broadband Wireless Auction (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:20:13 GMT PC World - Qualcomm said on Wednesday that it is has filed an application to bid in India's auction for licenses for broadband wireless access (BWA) in the 2.3 GHz band, to promote the TD-LTE (Time Division Long Term Evolution) standard.

Google partners call for clarity on China plans (Reuters) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:03:04 GMT Reuters - Chinese firms selling advertising space on Google's search pages have demanded clarity about the search giant's plans in China, as speculation increases over Google's future in the world's largest Internet market.

Chinese ad firms seek Google compensation talks (AFP) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:52:50 GMT Pedestrians pass the Google company logo outside its Beijing headquarters. A group of 27 Chinese advertising agencies have sent Google a letter calling for talks over compensation for possible business losses if the Internet giant pulls out of the country.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)