Jury clears way for New York Plaza in Las Vegas: report (Reuters)Reuters - A jury ruled on Monday that the owners of New York's Plaza Hotel could use the Plaza name on a proposed $5 billion resort-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, despite the existence nearby of another Plaza Hotel and Casino, the New York Times said in a report on its Web site. Full text |
Suit against magazine-sharing site settled (CNET)
UK Internet ad spend up 21 percent, overall market down (Reuters)
EBay buys Bill Me Later for $945 million (AP)
A broken link economy? Then fix it (CNET)
Saving Internet Radio (PC Magazine)
Kohl: Google-Yahoo Deal a Possible Antitrust Threat (PC Magazine)
CRB Keeps Music Playing with Unchanged Royalties (NewsFactor)
Google Changes Blog Search To Aggregate Postings (NewsFactor)
People can do more to guard against ID theft, says group (CNET)
Sen. Kohl asks for continued Google, Yahoo monitoring (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc's deal to put some Google Inc ads on its searches may hurt the industry, and warrants monitoring by the U.S. Justice Department even if the agency eventually approves the deal, according to the top lawmaker on the Senate's antitrust panel. Full text
NewsFactor - Netflix has inked an agreement with Starz Entertainment under which Netflix subscribers will gain unlimited access to 2,500 additional movies and other choices from the Starz Play broadband subscription-movie service. Full text
Reuters - Skype, eBay Inc's Web communications unit, admitted on Thursday that TOM-Skype, its China venture with TOM Online Inc, had been monitoring and storing some of its users' text messages without Skype's knowledge. Full text
PC Magazine - Comcast officially launched its bandwidth caps for residential customers Monday, but while some video Web sites expressed concern about Internet restriction in general, none were particularly concerned. Full text
CNET - Two researchers in Sweden have found multiple flaws in the TCP stack that could lead to massive denial of service (DoS) attacks if exploited. At present there is no workaround and no patches available. Full text
CNET - Microsoft's effort to woo Internet searchers with financial incentives strikes one Wall Street analyst as a "desperate move" that will make little headway. Full text
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is opening three research centers in Europe as it steps up efforts to catch market leader Google Inc in the field of Internet searching, the U.S. software group said on Thursday. Full text
Reuters - European taxpayers got the chance on Thursday to scrutinize online how the European Union's executive administration spends another chunk of its vast budget and who gets how much cash in which of the EU's 27 countries. Full text
Reuters - An Internet game in which players roam a school and kill kindergarten students with a shotgun has been pulled from a Finnish children's gaming site one week after the country's worst school shooting. Full text
CNET - SAN FRANCISCO--The United States government has been unable to fix the country's energy problems, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said, but the Internet giant on Wednesday proposed its own 22-year solution. Full text