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Microsoft is continuing its rounds of the software singles scene after Yahoo!'s rejection of its overtures.

LifeLock, which I wrote about earlier, and not in a positive manner, has been sued again, this time by a competitor.

On Wednesday NAMESAFE sued LifeLock over search ads that it said were purchased by LifeLock, which used the NAMESAFE trademark yet directed users to LifeLock's web site.

23-year-old Kelly Gray was just hoping to defray some of the costs of her wedding when she decided to auction off a bridesmaid spot in her wedding on eBay. But she got far more than she bargained for.

Firefox 3 has just barely gotten out the door and Mozilla is already readying the alpha release of the next version, 3.1. Of course, as a point-release, it will be a much less ambitious project than the leap from 2 -> 3.

Thursday in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) completed its 32nd International Public Meeting. The biggest decision made at the meeting was increasing the flexibility of top-level domain names, and this could be a huge change for users of the Web.

Defense lawyers in a Florida obscenity trial plan to use the popular search engine Google to show their client is no less mainstream than a lot of other people.

Evernote is probably the first information organizer that has not only nailed cross-platform support, but provides rich ubiquitous access with a full-featured web UI.

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Search engine operator Google Inc. said Wednesday it named Patrick Pichette as its new chief financial officer to replace former CFO George Reyes, who retired in December.

Pichette most recently served as president of operations at telecommunications company Bell Canada.

He has nearly 20 years of experience in the telecom sector and previously was a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said Pichette will start Aug. 1 and will become CFO Aug. 12.

The death of Tim Russert of NBC News this month quickly became a top article on the nation's biggest news sites.

China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to flog its wares.

This evening Google is expected to unveil an ad-planning tool, targeted to media buyers and agencies, reports The New York Times.

Yahoo Inc.'s steadily sinking stock pulled out of its descent Tuesday on reports that the Internet pioneer is reconsidering its recent decision to fall into the arms of online search leader Google Inc.

This year's Summer Olympics is in Beijing, which is 12 hours ahead of EDT. Yep, that means many events will take place while Americans are sleeping. Of course, this isn't a new problem; it's happened many times before when the Olympics was held in locales with such a time differential.

In the super-fast world of the Internet, if a story breaks, you can expect the Wikipedia entry for that subject to be updated faster than you can blink. In the case of Tim Russert's sad death on June 13th, NBC contacted other networks and media outlets in an attempt to hold back the news long enough to notify his family vacationing in Italy. Before they knew it, however, it was already updated on Wikipedia.

You get some positive news, such as the Amicus brief filed by the EFF and others in the Jammie Thomas case, which could net her a new trial. But also on Friday, the MPAA filed its own brief, one which basically says it feels evidence isn't necessary in the case of one of its copyright infringement trials.

You might remember Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who lost a court case over music sharing and was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for copyright violations related to sharing songs. She was convicted of sharing the songs from her PC, despite the fact that they never proved that anyone had in fact downloaded anything from her PC.

Since its unveiling in May of 2007, Google's Street View has hit a few bumps in the road, including being told to "keep out" of an entire town, to being sued over privacy by a Pennsylvania couple, to being told to stay out of military bases. This particular incident is more humorous than anything else.

You recall that in February, Flickr and the Library of Congress announced "The Commons," a public photo collection which they hoped would

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