Lawyers for former newspaper titan Conrad Black appealed his case Friday, saying there was not adequate evidence he hid documents or defrauded anyone, the Associated Press reported.

A federal Jury convicted Black last July of three counts of fraud and one count of obstruction, but acquitted him on nine charges.

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Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport has launched English language coverage on its Web site for the first time, Press Business reported Thursday.

RCS MediaGroup announced an English-language Web site within the existing Italian-language site, La Gazzetta dello Sport.it International, will offer content entirely in English.

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The World Association of Newspapers has once again called on Google to make use of Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) technology, which allows the terms and conditions of Web sites to be placed in machine-readable format that allow publishers to control how aggregators and search engines use their content.

Ron Jonas, head of media and publishing partnerships for Google in Europe, rejected ACAP once again on Wednesday.

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It's becoming a little easier to predict UK newspaper sales, and publishers are becoming increasingly anxious due to fragile consumer confidence about the predictions for advertising revenues over the coming months, the Guardian reported earlier this week.

After a difficult 2007, ABC volumes have fallen to a stable -3.4 percent year-on-year average for the last three months.

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News and comedy are the top two most popular video categories in the United States, with over 30 percent of online video viewers having ever watched them, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project Tracking Survey.

Educational videos and music are also quite popular, with over 20 percent having watched it in the past.

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