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<p>AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
AP - Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages.
<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.nyol56707030533.broadband_study_nyol567.jpg?x=61&y=130&q=85&sig=kzdVQR.hfL04e915goe4jA--" align="left" height="130" width="61" alt="Graphic shows results of poll on Internet connectivity method; 1c x 4 1/4 inches; 46.5 mm x 108 mm" border="0" />AP - A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.
CNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.
AFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.
PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not...
PC World - Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity.
NewsFactor - Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone based on the company's open mobile-computing platform. Before you yawn about reading yet another product-introduction story -- especially about a handset that lacks 3G capability -- what sets the Neo FreeRunner apart is that it really is open, literally and figuratively.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Using speech analytics, the technology identifies and masks credit card numbers and other sensitive information in audio recordings.
Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.
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