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The One World international documentary festival, which opens here on Wednesday, will focus on the new weapon in revolutions and revolts across the world: the Internet.

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The legal battle is almost certainly just beginning, but for now Barry Diller-backed Aereo is bringing New Yorkers broadcast television via the Web, claiming that the airwaves are public property and the public ought to be able to access them in any way it likes. So, how is Aereo planning to earn its money? By charging $12 a month for customers to lease a tiny antenna that pulls in over-the-air broadcasts, and the service that sends television content along via the Internet. …

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The case that kick-started conversations across the U.S. about gay youths and Internet privacy was sent Wednesday to a jury that must decide whether a former university student is a criminal or just a young man who was confused by seeing two men kiss.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he wants “Internet giants” to pay tax in France, shortly before he was due to meet the founder of the micro-blogging site Twitter.

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After weeks of testimony, the case that kick-started national conversations about gay youths and Internet privacy was sent Wednesday to a jury that must decide whether a former Rutgers University student is a criminal or just a young man who was confused by seeing two men kiss.

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Federal regulators filed charges Wednesday against two managers of investment funds that buy stocks of privately held Internet companies including Facebook Inc. They were accused of misleading investors and failing to disclose fees.

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CHARGES AGAINST FUND MANAGERS: Federal regulators filed charges against two managers of investment funds that buy stocks of privately held Internet companies like Facebook. They were accused of misleading investors and failing to disclose fees.

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A potentially nasty battle to reshape Yahoo’s board of directors will begin within the next week unless the troubled Internet company submits to the demands of a major shareholder.

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An American man has filed a class action suit against Apple over claims that the company’s iPhone virtual assistant Siri does not function as advertised.

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(Reuters) – The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Scotland in 1768, said it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. Here are a few facts about the publication: SOME NOTABLE DATES: * The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was published and printed in Edinburgh for the engraver Andrew Bell and the printer Colin Macfarquhar by “a society of gentlemen in Scotland” and was sold by Macfarquhar at his printing office. …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings Ltd, China’s biggest internet company by revenue, plans to step up its expansion in social networking, search and e-commerce to attract more online advertisers as it looks to diversify from its competitive core gaming market. The group, which has spent the last year spreading into areas like travel and instant messaging, beat forecasts on Wednesday with a 43 percent jump in fourth-quarter revenues. …

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(Reuters) – Zynga Inc filed with regulators for a secondary stock offering of up to $400 million on Wednesday, paving the way for some early investors to exit their holdings. Shares of the online games maker, which have risen 33 percent since the company went public, rose marginally in premarket trading on Wednesday. They closed at $13.38 on Tuesday on Nasdaq. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Zynga said it is waiving the lock-up arrangement the company had with some of its existing stockholders to facilitate the offering. …

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LONDON (Reuters) – A YouTube video gone viral has propelled Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, back onto the agenda, entrenching his position at the top of the list of the world’s most wanted men. But how long the current spike of interest will last is far from clear. Hits on the video appeared to have fallen sharply in recent days, while the charity has also found itself on the receiving end of a savage backlash. Produced by U.S.-based group ” Invisible Children”, “Kony 2012″ has scored more than 77 million hits in less than a week. …

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LIRA, Uganda (Reuters) – Few faces evoke more hatred and fear in northern Uganda than Joseph Kony, one of Africa’s most wanted men whose army of child soldiers preyed on this town for years and whose brutal legacy has been thrust back into the spotlight by a hugely popular U.S. video. A wave of anger and depression swept over 27-year old Isaac Omodo as he stared at fuzzy images of young boys mutilated by the rebel warlord whose drugged and vicious fighters abducted Omodo’s brother at the height of northern raids by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 2001. …

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(Reuters) – Internet security experts have set up a system to alert Americans when sensitive personal information such as social security numbers and online banking log-in credentials turn up in the hands of cyber fraudsters. AllClear ID, an Austin, Texas-based company that provides identity theft protection, is offering the free service with help from the non-profit National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance. The NCFTA collects information on identity theft cases from member organizations that include law enforcement agencies, big Internet retailers, banks and computer security companies. …

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LIRA, Uganda (Reuters) – Few faces evoke more hatred and fear in northern Uganda than Joseph Kony, one of Africa’s most wanted men whose army of child soldiers preyed on this town for years and whose brutal legacy has been thrust back into the spotlight by a hugely popular U.S. video. A wave of anger and depression swept over 27-year old Isaac Omodo as he stared at fuzzy images of young boys mutilated by the rebel warlord whose drugged and vicious fighters abducted Omodo’s brother at the height of northern raids by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 2001. …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators brought charges against an online trading platform and two private funds that were offering Facebook shares, the first major actions following a year-long probe into lightly regulated trading in private company shares. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged SharesPost, which matches buyers and sellers of private shares, and Chief Executive Greg Brogger with failing to register as a broker-dealer before offering securities. SharesPost and its CEO agreed to settle without admitting or denying the allegations. …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – New real-identity rules to be imposed on China’s Weibo are likely to make the country’s most popular microblogging platform more alluring to advertisers, as Sina Corp seeks to start generating revenue from its product later this year. On Friday, Beijing-based users on Weibo will need to be registered with their real identities in order to post online. Other major cities, such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, are expected to adopt similar rules. …

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Intel has been pitching media companies its “virtual cable operator” plans, sources “familiar with the effort” told The Wall Street Journal’s Sam Schechner and Don Clark, but from what we know of the plan there is a lot that could go wrong. From what it sounds like, the company wants to replicate cable’s structure on the Internet, providing channel packages via a box, kind of like Roku. In theory that sounds ideal: We love Internet TV! But, this plan has all sorts of holes.

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A University of Maryland student was arrested this week after posting threats to Internet news forum Reddit as well as anonymous voice and video chat site Omegle.com.

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Google linked up Tuesday with Belgian museum, the Mundaneum, which was set up as a 19th-century paper equivalent of the US Internet search giant.

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Google linked up Tuesday with Belgian museum, the Mundaneum, which was set up as a 19th-century paper equivalent of the US Internet search giant.

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The wait for Internet TV could finally be over.

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The wait for Internet TV could finally be over.

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Chipmaking giant Intel has been looking to expand its business beyond the chips that power notebooks, desktops, servers, and a handful of other gizmos, but hasn’t met with much success. Now word comes from The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and other sources that Intel is considering launching its own Internet-based pay-TV business. The idea is that instead of — or perhaps in addition to — buying television service from a cable company or satellite provider, you’d go straight to Intel, paying the company for access to real-time television programming delivered via the Internet.

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The homeless wireless debacle happening at South by Southwest has completed the Internet circle of life, reaching acceptance—the final stage of grief—a mere two days into the outrage it created.

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(Reuters) – CNN is in talks to buy social media news site Mashable for more than $200 million, according to a source familiar with the discussion. Reuters’ blogger Felix Salmon said the deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday, although another person familiar with the matter said it was not likely to be announced this week. Mashable covers and aggregates a wide range of news related to the fast-evolving social media and Internet sector covering companies ranging from start-ups to larger players including Facebook and Twitter. …

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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Jon Stewart thinks traditional reporters are a little annoyed that it took a viral video to make people pay attention to the atrocities of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony. Stewart first took note of the video sensation that has been tweeted by celebrities, endorsed by President Obama, and viewed millions of times. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney saw those numbers and did a quick John Carter re-edit,” Stewart said on Monday’s “Daily Show. …

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Google linked up Tuesday with Belgian museum, the Mundaneum, which was set up as a 19th-century paper equivalent of the US Internet search giant.

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(Reuters) – Dell Inc said it would buy network and data security products maker SonicWall from an investor group, as the world’s No.3 personal computer maker tries to tap the growing demand for online security by large companies. Dell has been trying to boost profit margins by focusing on being an one-stop-shop for business customers and increasing exposure in enterprise solutions offerings and making its presence felt in mobile security and cloud solutions segment. “Dell has been steadily expanding outside its traditional legacy PC markets into storage, networking and now security. …

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(Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc is adding its retail heft to Hollywood’s effort to convince U.S. consumers to buy and store movies on the Internet, as DVD and Blu-ray sales continue their downward spiral. Starting April 16, the top U.S. retailer will offer customers at 3,500 of its stores the option to store their DVDs in digital form on Vudu — its fledgling Internet streaming site — for $2. That fee rises to $5 for high-definition versions. …

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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Christina Gomez has carefully displayed her dream cribs, rockers and mobiles on Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board. Never mind that she doesn’t have a baby. “Ah, Pinterest – where I dress my unborn children and decorate my imaginary mansion,” the San Antonio political consultant said – on Twitter – when asked about the website. Gomez is addicted. And she’s not alone. …

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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Christina Gomez has carefully displayed her dream cribs, rockers and mobiles on Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board. Never mind that she doesn’t have a baby. “Ah, Pinterest – where I dress my unborn children and decorate my imaginary mansion,” the San Antonio political consultant said – on Twitter – when asked about the website. Gomez is addicted. And she’s not alone. …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, the oldest English-language encyclopedia still in print is moving solely into the digital age. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said on Wednesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. The flagship, 32-volume printed edition, available every two years, was sold for $1400. …

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook’s efforts to make its social network a friendlier place for businesses and popular brands are off to a strong start, the company said. Eight million brands, from carmakers to rock bands, switched to Facebook’s new Web page format 10 days after the revamped pages were introduced at a splashy launch event in New York last month, according to Facebook. Some businesses say new advertising offerings that take advantage of Facebook’s latest Web page capabilities are helping them reach a broader audience on the 845-million-member social network. …

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(Reuters) – A U.S. judge scheduled a trial between Oracle Corp and Google Inc for April 16, 2012, over claims Google violated Oracle’s intellectual property rights relating to the Java programming language, according to a ruling on Tuesday. The trial is set to take place in a San Francisco federal court. Oracle sued Google in 2010, alleging the Web search leader’s Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle’s Java patents. In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also leveled copyright infringement claims against Google. …

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There’s no denying the visualization of the Web. While print has suffered at the hands of the Internet, now words are also losing their grip: blogging has been replaced by pinning, emailing with 140-character Twitter direct messages, and these days a YouTube video is probably worth something like 750k words. Make no mistake about it: Internet content and graphics go hand in hand. And no one knows that better than Visual.ly.

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If you’re reading this on a PC, it’s probably on Google Chrome or Firefox — the two most popular browsers on Windows that Mashable readers use. It’s a telling example about how most tech-savvy Windows users don’t use the default browser on their machines, Internet Explorer. But how’s that going to change when Windows 8 launches later this year?

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Global media watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders has released its annual list of “Enemies of the Internet,” highlighting countries that restrict online freedom of expression.

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Internet companies look to old television formulas as they create original content for the Web. As streaming television tries to compete with cable companies and television networks, companies like YouTube, Netflix and Hulu have commissioned original, Internet-only shows, hoping to add some unique value to their offerings.

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Pinterest, el portal de moda en internet, atrae a una multitud de personas que buscan organizar el caos producido por el exceso informativo de la era de la internet.

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In what has become a highly controversial move, advertising agency BBH transformed some of Austin’s homeless people into mobile hotspots during SXSW Interactive. Thirteen homeless from Austin’s Front Steps shelter donning an “I’m a 4G hotspot” T-shirt and armed with a MiFi were strategically placed throughout SXSW and offered internet access around their personal location to attendees.

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HOT NEW SITE: Pinterest attracts people who need to organize the chaos of Internet-age information overload. It serves as an online scrapbook of images they find on the Web, a place to post fashion inspirations, decorating aspirations and more.

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The hive mind of the Internet, when tactfully influenced, is a domineering force no one wants to oppose.

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In 2012, Internet giant Google seems to have been going out of its way to alienate its core users. At the beginning of the year, the company introduced the new “Search plus your world“ initiative that pushes content from Google+ to the top of users’ search results listings. Soon after, it announced a comprehensive revamp to its privacy policies so the company could collate information about users across all its services — search, YouTube, Gmail, Google+, Blogger, and more — and use it to target advertising everywhere. …

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Chipmaker Intel Corp is developing an Internet-based TV service for consumers and has been promoting it with media companies, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the effort. The world’s top chipmaker plans to create a “virtual cable operator” that would offer media companies’ TV channels in a bundle over the Internet, the WSJ said. An Intel spokeswoman declined to comment on the story. …

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In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.

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Along with religion, politics can be a touchy subject for polite conversation in the real world, and new research shows our online social lives mirror our real world behaviors – politics and social networking sites have an uneasy relationship, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project.

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Rihanna has overtaken Shakira on Twitter to become the fourth most popular person on the microblogging site behind Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.

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(Reuters) – CNN is in talks to buy social media news site Mashable for more than $200 million, according to a source familiar with the discussion. Reuters’ blogger Felix Salmon said the deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday, although another person familiar with the matter said it was not likely to be announced this week. Mashable covers and aggregates a wide range of news related to the fast-evolving social media and Internet sector covering companies ranging from start-ups to larger players including Facebook and Twitter. …

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