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Thursday, March 18, 2010

• CNET News Daily Podcast: New revelations in Google-Viacom battle
  Viacom and Google are airing their dirty laundry in court unsealed Thursday, revealing some noteworthy behind-the-scenes information in the copyright battle. That, and other news of the day, including a Kindle app for Mac and a safe touchdown for ISS
  
• Viacom's statement on court fight with Google
  Viacom, parent company of BET, MTV and Paramount Pictures issued a statement Thursday following the release of hundreds of regarding the company's copyright complaint against Google. The full text of the statement is below. Go here for the full story
  
• Aha Radio app streams news, traffic, Facebook, and more
  iPhones can be great driving companions--unless you routinely tweet, text, or otherwise fiddle with the device while behind the wheel. That's a surefire way to get yourself--and possibly others--killed. helps you keep your eyes on the road. The app
  
• Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads
  An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Reuters: 'Google, Inc. accused Viacom, Inc. of secretly uploading its videos to YouTube even as the media conglomerate publicly denounced the online video site for copyright infringement, according to
  
• Google Tests Meeting Rescheduling Tool for Calendar
  if (!self.ord) } write(' Google is now publicly testing a new feature for its Calendar application that auto-suggests a new time and date for a meeting that needs to be rescheduled. Smart Rescheduler is available in the Labs section of Google Calendar,
  
• Group Pushes for More Gov't Documents to Go Online
  if (!self.ord) } write(' The Sunlight Foundation has launched a campaign to pressure all levels of government in the U.S. to put more information online. The foundation, a nonpartisan advocate for open government and transparency, launched the
  
• Twitter's @Anywhere Could Usher in Big Improvements
  if (!self.ord) } write(' Many South by Southwest attendees reportedly walked out halfway through the keynote appearance by Twitter CEO Evan Williams this week citing boredom, but the announcement he made on stage deserves careful attention, according to
  
• Filings in Viacom's Suit Against Google
  Thousands of pages of court filings that are part of Viacom?s copyright infringement suit against Google, the owner of YouTube, were unsealed on Thursday. The filings are the first significant revelations in the three-year-old lawsuit, which Viacom filed
  
• Q&A: Dumping a Facebook Friend
  Do people get a message when you �unfriend� them on Facebook? Facebook does not send a message to the dumped acquaintance when you remove the person from your Friends list. However, once you unfriend someone, you disappear from their Friends list as
  
• Filings in Viacoms Suit Against Google
  Thousands of pages of court filings that are part of Viacoms copyright infringement suit against Google, the owner of YouTube, were unsealed on Thursday. The filings are the first significant revelations in the three-year-old lawsuit, which Viacom filed
  
• Google's fast pipe to Asia almost ready
  Google and a group of telecommunications companies are about ready to turn on a fast Internet cable running under the Pacific Ocean from the U.S. to Japan, increasing bandwidth by about 20 percent and giving Google its own connection to Asia. The Unity
  
• Google TV: Five Burning Questions
  if (!self.ord) } write(' Google, Intel, and Sony are reportedly banding together to produce a called Google TV. The new platform would reportedly be available as a set-top box or as part of a Web-capable television. Google TV would be based on Google's
  
• Viacom, Google air dirty laundry in court docs
  Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman take their copyright fight to the public Thursday. (Credit: Greg Sandoval with CNET/Viacom) Less than a year before Viacom filed a $1 billion copyright claim against Google and YouTube, the parent
  
• Google's statement on YouTube-Viacom court case
  With the release of hundreds of pages of court documents in the legal dispute between Google and Viacom over the presence of copyright material on YouTube, Google has released a statement on the case. It follows below in its entirety. See this CNET story
  
• Filings in Viacom's Suit Against Google Are Released
  Thousands of pages of court filings that are part of Viacom�s copyright infringement suit against Google, the owner of YouTube, were unsealed on Thursday. The filings are the first significant revelations in the three-year-old lawsuit, which Viacom
  
• Facebook Fan Pages Need Security Upgrade, Says Victim
  You don�t have be Britney Spears to attract online imitators and tormentors. Two weeks ago, British security researcher Graham Cluley discovered a fake fan �Page� on Facebook in his name and using his photo. Creepily, it appeared to have been
  
• Report: Google Working With Intel, Sony on TV Project
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) � Google is working with Intel and Sony to develop a new class of internet-enabled televisions and set-top boxes, according to the New York Times . The effort, known as Google TV, has been under way for several months and is
  
• Google ponders leaving China: Failed search
  Extract not available.
  
• Op-Ed: Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize
  This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate � recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize � are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting
  
• Help Us Review Google Maps for Bikes
  We can't possibly rate a tool that covers 150 cities and 12,000 miles of bike trails. We don't have to. We've got you.
  
• Google TV: Google, Sony, Intel Team-Up to Make Television
  Your next TV could be a Google TV, made by Sony and powered by Intel chips. The three companies have teamed up to build what will be called the Google TV, essentially a big-screen living-room computer. The TV project, according to the New York Times,
  
• Facebook warns over password reset scam
  Facebook has taken the unusual step of warning (http://www.facebook.com/security?v=feed&story_fbid=372119944102) users about a bogus password reset scam designed to trick victims into downloading a password-stealing Trojan. Prospective marks are falsely
  
• Google Maps for Android gets improved user interface
  Users with Google's Nexus One phone can now turn the homescreen into a map that constantly updates itself Google has released version 4.1 of Google Maps for Android, adding a constantly updated map wallpaper, tweaking the way search results are displayed
  
• Facebook Users Targeted in Massive Spam Run
  Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee. Thu, March 18, 2010 � IDG News Service �
  
• Facebook users targeted in massive spam run
  The messages, which look legitimate, try to get users to dowload a malicious attachment that is actually a Trojan horse program Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software
  
• Fed skewers Google over Tweetbookish Gmail mod
  The Buzz on private envelope pushing An outgoing commissioner with the US Federal Trade Commission has laid into Google for the privacy-envelope-pushing launch of Google Buzz, that web-based thingy that turned Gmail into a Tweetbookish social networking
  
• Google Working With Intel, Sony on TV Project: Report
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is working with Intel and Sony Corp to develop a new class of Internet-enabled televisions and set top boxes, according to the New York Times . The effort, known as Google TV, has been under way for several months
  
• Amazon Brings Kindle App to Mac
  After months of anticipation, Amazon on Wednesday night released a beta of Kindle for Mac, software that lets you read Kindle e-books without the need for any special hardware (say, a Kindle). The free app for OS X 10.5 or later is available now in more
  
• Online piracy could cost ,240bn and 1.2 million jobs by 2015
  Extract not available.
  
• Amazon Brings Kindle App to the Mac
  After months of anticipation, Amazon on Wednesday night released a beta of , software that lets you read Kindle e-books without the need for any special hardware (say, a Kindle). The free app for OS X 10.5 or later is available now in more than 100
  

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