If you own a website or blog, then chances are at some point you’ve needed to hit the interwebs to search for an image to use on it. If you’re using an image for commercial purposes, then you need to have the rights to use it from the original creator. Previously Google Image Search would pull all the images on the web up in a search, now its added a filter to help you see only pictures you can actually use.

Television as we know it is becoming more and more prevalent on the web. If you miss your favorite program when it originally airs and didn’t set your DVR or VCR to record it, chances are you can still catch it a few days (or insome cases just a few hours) later on the world wide web. If you’re new to watching television on your computer, here are some of the best sites to catch all your favorite television shows.

It looks like Wikipedia, is going to start to allow users to add video clips to Wikipedia pages in addition to text. The new video option will allow users to find video of things they might be looking for an edit and embed clips on the site for others to view later on.

It looks like Activision may stop making games for the Sony Playstation unless prices start to drop for the console. With the high price of consoles consumers are picking up versions of games for the cheaper Xbox and Wii instead of springing for the high-priced Playstation and games.

Amazon’s Kindle is getting bigger. Amazon released a new larger version of the popular e-reader this morning, the Kindle DX, just four short months after the release of the Kindle 2.

If you like to watch YouTube on your television then a new version of the popular video sharing site YouTube XL is bound to be just what you’ve been waiting for. As you can imagine, the new XL site is extra large and has a new television-friendly interface to make browsing videos on your television a snap.

Don’t like the route Google Maps has given you to get somewhere? Now the map program will not only give you what it considers the “best” route, it will also let you drag and drop the suggested route to create your own customized alternate route as well.

There seems to be more news each day of how user generated videos, the former darlings of the media, are becoming a little less welcome on the Internet.

Is Nokia attempting to take a bbite out of Apple’s piece of the smartphone market. It would appear that way. Nokia recently announced that it will be releasing the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and get this just like the iPhone it has a touch screen which is a first for Nokia.

On the heels of New South Wales Department of Education and Training’s announcement that it would dump its Microsoft’s Outlook/Exchange platform to migrate to Google Apps, other organizations across Australia are flirting with the notion of handing over their antiquated systems to Google as well.  Google has seen slower than anticipated adoption of its corporate suite, but that all might be changing in the near future.

After only a few days live in Australia, Google’s Street View is already uncovering some unsavory details, as well as raising privacy concerns as it has in other parts of the world.  So far, explorers have already uncovered a lying neighbor, caught a cheating spouse and snapped a man sleeping on the job. 

Any internet entrepreneur looking for start-up capital anywhere in Australia knows how sparse it really is.  This combined with a lack of access to people with the specialist skills required, leaves little hope to bringing your dream alive.  WebEquity is a new web-community that aims to change that reality.

A new study has shown that Australians are spending more time on the Internet than they are`watching television or movies. The study was conducted by Illuminas in several geographic areas including Australia, New Zealand, Europe and US.

The Australian Government has allotted $128.9 of its annual federal budget to give Aussie children a safer and friendlier online environment. Around $49 million of this budget will go to law enforcement while the rest will be used for ISP filtering plan.

Search and software giant Google is seeking out new tech talent down under. They will be running a recruitment week in major Australian cities all this week, looking for the best and brightest to help them bring Google to Australia. The division that is seeking new young software stars is Google Research and Development.

Vodafone representatives have declared that mobile advertising is on the upswing, whether users like it or not. With revenues from mobile ads set to reach $108 million dollars AUS within the next few years, you know the next level of assault on the consumer is set to begin. The companies, like Vodafone who are gearing up to bring these ads to the masses certainly don’t seem to care whether the consumer wants one more area of invasion or not.

You wouldn’t think that domain squatting was still a lucrative practice. Back when the World Wide Web first opened its portals to the public, it was common to try and buy domain names of trademarked companies, like Coca Cola or Pepsi, and then sell them back to the company for a nice chunk of change once the company finally decided to make a web page. That practice is still going on, to an extent.

The recent requirement by the Australian government for telecommunications companies to release data about their infrastructure to bidders for the new government FTTN (fiber to the node) network may have unexpected costs to Australian tax payers. The legislation calls for voluntary submission of the data. The data will be going to both the government and bidders on the FTTN spectrum for the national broadband initiative.

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Australia’s new Labor government has been planning a big roll out of a grand scale fiber to the node (FTTN) network. As part of this grand roll out the government introduced (and passed) legislation ordering telecommunications companies to give them data about their network infrastructure. The bill is known as the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment, or National Broadband Network Bill.