TechWeb - InformationWeek - Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly. -- read full article
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. -- read full article
TechWeb - Vint Cerf said this week that he never intended to seriously propose that the U.S. government should nationalize the Internet. But he does think the Internet is seriously broken, with an economic system that discourages competition and innovation and encourages harmful monopolistic practices. He argued that the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which governs Internet service providers, is obsolete and needs to be revised. -- read full article
PC World - Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - As a precautionary measure, the company is offering to enroll affected employees in Kroll's IDTheftSmart identity and credit protection program for a year. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive. -- read full article
AFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.
AFP - A blonde hair extension that British supermodel Kate Moss reputedly lost in Berlin has been auctioned on eBay for 805 euros (1,264 dollars), Bild newspaper said on Friday.
AFP - A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates.
PC Magazine - Blizzard fans must be feeling spoiled right now. The blaze set by Blizzard's Diablo 3 announcement is still guttering, but it seems that vice president Rob Pardo couldn't resist kicking the Internet rumor mill into high gear one more time by confirming yet another unannounced project. -- read full article
PC World - Google has made public a beta version of one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications. -- read full article
Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Thursday it had signed a cooperation agreement with
Norwegian telcom group Telenor for its "Ovi" Internet services
platform.
AP - The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write. -- read full article
AP - A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro — $1.59 — as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said Thursday. -- read full article
