Judge orders YouTube to expose user viewing habits and history
A federal judge has ordered Google's YouTube business to turn over its logging database to Viacom as part of the latter's $1 billion lawsuit against the video-sharing Web site. Read more...

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Report: Angry Australian sellers confront eBay over PayPal-only policy

Yahoo reveals more on Microsoft talks, defends board

Gates says Yahoo deal not likely

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Opinion: Is Google News scapegoating technology?
Google cited a technical problem in its delay of posting news about journalist Tim Russert's death, but the completely automated Google News site seems to consistently lag behind other media sites in reporting breaking news, columnist says.

Elgan: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster
The cell phone advertising disaster is coming, and there's not much any of us can do about it.

Opinion: What will rule the 'new' Internet?
With many young people generating their own content on evolving video and social networking sites and sharing it with tools like BitTorrent, the Web of the future may resemble its very beginning, when most resources and content distribution were created by individuals and not large conglomerates.

Q&A: Networking veteran launches unique auction site
The frustrating search for a high-def TV prompted Mukesh Chatter, who has founded two other companies, to develop a start-up auction site in which sellers bid for the business of buyers.

The many uses of enterprise wikis
CIO sat down with Scott Johnston, senior product manager of Google Sites (and former vice president of products at Jotspot) to talk about Google Sites and what types of use cases for the product have emerged since it launched.

IDC: U.S. Internet ad spending to boom
Spending in U.S. online advertising will reach $51.1 billion in 2012, says IDC.

Opinion: Better than locks: A security approach to 'free'
Kevin Kelly's "Better Than Free" essay has been burning up the Internet for months as readers debate which concepts hold value online (and how to monetize those values). Geoff Leeming tackles the question from the security point of view... and comes up remarkably optimistic.

Opinion: Top 10 Google flubs, flops and failures
Among all the success stories of the huge and unorthodox Internet company are some that are, uh, not so much.

6 factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight
Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.

Opinion: What's a blogger, anyway?
The media should stop stereotyping bloggers. Every kind of person blogs. Some of them reflect insightfully on media reports, and some don't. And some die of heart attacks.

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