AP - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. -- read full article
PC World - An appeals court strikes down COPA, a U.S. law requiring Web sites with adult material to keep those sites from minors. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - There were an additional seven patches for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards applications, seven for the recently acquired BEA product suite, and six for Oracle E-Business Suite. -- read full article
Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew
Cuomo, who has pressured Internet service providers to block
access to child pornography, on Monday said his office would
pursue legal action against Comcast Cable Communications LLC if
it did not quickly agree to reforms. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The case stems from a 1992 licensing agreement in which Nokia obtained certain rights to Qualcomm patents. -- read full article
AP - People planning for retirement got a new tool this week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The politically oriented DDoS attack seems to have originated from Russian hackers, according to a volunteer security watchdog organization. -- read full article
NewsFactor - According to an online community, the latest iPhone operating system 2.0 has been hacked less than a week after its release. The iPhone Dev Team, a portal for iPhone hacks, cracks and comments, announced in a blog entry that it had broken the code. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Led by Sega's "Super Monkey Ball," seven of the top 10 paid applications from Apple's App Store are video games. -- read full article
AP - American Airlines has dropped its lawsuit against Google Inc. over its search engine directing some users to advertisements for the airline's competitors. -- read full article
Reuters - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist
investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board,
defusing a proxy battle showdown and making an immediate deal
with Microsoft Corp less likely.
