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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
(AP)
AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
(AP)
AP - Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said.
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
(AP)
AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs
(AP)
AP - Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages.
iPhone 3G queue forms in Manhattan
(CNET)
CNET - The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday--an entire week before the device goes on sale.
Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal
(CNET)
CNET - Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
Review: SOHO Organizer 7.0.2
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - For personal organization, Apple has focused on the basics with its Address Book and iCal programs, which are included with Mac OS X. These are fine light-duty programs, but they lack power for anything more than simple contact and calendar management. Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative that will appeal to business and power users for whom Apple's offerings are insufficiently powerful or versatile.
Asustek to Offer Eee PC With Built-in 3G Wireless
(PC World)
PC World - Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity.
Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner Smartphone Really Is Open
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone based on the company's open mobile-computing platform. Before you yawn about reading yet another product-introduction story -- especially about a handset that lacks 3G capability -- what sets the Neo FreeRunner apart is that it really is open, literally and figuratively.
'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
Lithuania: Attacks Focused on Hosting Company
(PC World)
PC World - A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to the attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer...
Chipmaker Connects A Wireless World And Makes It Run Faster
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.




