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Prep-Cyber Corner
(Broadcast News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The upcoming Beijing Olympics will serve as more than a venue for sporting events.
The Games will also be used by N-B-C to determine the online habits of the viewing public.
N-B-C says its research should provide a full picture of how people are supplementing TV viewership with video streaming, video on demand and mobile phones.
The company's chief researcher calls it a ``billion-dollar research lab.''
The network has scheduled 36-hundred hours of Olympic programming on its main network, as well as Telemundo, USA, Oxygen, MSNBC, CNBC and Bravo.
That's the equivalent of eight days of programming packed into each day.
The company is also planning to make 2,200 hours of streaming video available on NBC.com.
On the 'Net:
http://www.nbc.com
(ONLINE CHEATING)
An investigation is under way into alleged online cheating by prospective and current M-B-A students in the United States.
Thousands are accused of looking at current questions on their entrance exams.
The publisher of the test has shut down the domain and is looking into who used it to cheat.
And those scores could be thrown out.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered Scoretop.com to pay the Graduate Management Admission Council 2.35 (m) million dollars and to turn over a computer hard drive containing payment information and user IDs.
The council has sued Scoretop's operator for copyright infringement.
It alleges the site offered current questions from the Graduate Management Admission Test as well as other private material.
On the 'Net:
http://www.scoretop.com/
(ONLINE SITE GUIDELINES)
How far does free speech extend?
That's a question that's hard to answer in this cyberworld we live in.
Experts say words and images that are provocative, but otherwise legal, are often erased by companies that market public spaces online.
Companies provide their own rules and regulations for their sites and even dabble in foreign policy when they cooperate with countries such as China.
What results is often a case-by-case, company-by-company resolution.
GoDaddy.com general counsel Christine Jones says, ``We often get caught in the middle between a rock and a hard place.''
Flickr community director Heather Champ says the company crafts its policies from users and trains workers to try to find fair resolutions.
But that's a tough issue to monitor.
Analysts say when online sites are controlled by private corporations it creates vagueness, confusion and inconsistency.
On the 'Net:
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
http://www.myspace.com/
(NEW XBOX GAME)
Xbox 360 owners have a new choice when shopping for a game to play.
Konami has released ``Hellboy: The Science of Evil.''
The game boasts a new generation of graphics and an all-star voiceover cast.
``Hellboy: The Science of Evil'' lets players experience all-new adventures and lots of laughs, as well.
The actors such as Selma Blair who lent their voices to the motion picture are also featured in the new action-packed game.
On the 'Net:
www.konami.com
(The Associated Press)
Copyright ? 2008 The Canadian Press
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