NewsFactor – Google has gained a victory in its long-standing $1 billion copyright battle with Viacom. A federal judge granted Google’s motion for a summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit involving YouTube. Source:YouTube-Viacom Ruling Is a Victory for Web Providers (NewsFactor)

PC Magazine – McAfee has released the Family Protection app for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Designed to help parents protect their children from inappropriate internet content, it replaces the built-in Safari Web browser with one that includes URL and search filtering to prevent access to unauthorized sites. Source:McAfee Releases 'Family Protection' App for [...]

PC Magazine – The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly holding closed-door meetings with phone and cable companies in the hopes of coming to some sort of arrangement on how the agency regulates broadband Internet service. Source:Report: FCC Meeting with ISPs over Net Neutrality (PC Magazine)

Reuters – When Philip Mould began as a professional art dealer 22 years ago, the buying and selling of high-end artwork was confined to a small group of well-versed art historians who scoured the globe in search of masterpieces. Source:Internet, technology change high-end art dealing (Reuters)

AP – The government and Australia’s largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plans for a superfast national broadband network. Source:Telstra strikes $10B deal for Australia broadband (AP)

PC World – The Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Task Force laid out preliminary ideas on Friday for making frequencies now used for satellite services available for conventional mobile broadband. Source:FCC Group Crafting Plans to Open up Mobile Spectrum (PC World)

PC Magazine – On Friday, Apple announced that a new version of its MobileMe web application suite’s mail client would be coming out of beta. But one of the most anticipated updates to the MobileMe service failed to materialize: making it free, like competing cloud app suites from Google and Microsoft. Source:Apple Updates MobileMe, Adds [...]

NewsFactor – Google on Thursday rolled out the second iteration of its search solution for retailers. Google Commerce Search 2.0 overhauls the original product that aims to help e-commerce players in the United States and United Kingdom prepare for the summer shopping season. Source:Google Improves Commerce Search for Retailers (NewsFactor)

PC World – Over the past year, AT&T has failed Apple iPhone and iPad users multiple times. The latest gaffe was yesterday’s disastrous iPhone 4 pre-ordering process. AT&T’s Web site not only couldn’t handle the thousands of preorders — a barrage that should have been predicted — it managed to split open and expose customers’ [...]

AP – Frontier Communications Corp. is committing $310 million toward broadband deployment, service quality improvements and other capital expenditures in West Virginia. Source:Frontier commits $310M to W.Va. improvements (AP)

NewsFactor – In more embarrassment for AT&T, the Federal Bureau of Investigations is looking into the brute-force attack on Apple iPad users. The FBI contacted Gawker Media and instructed the company to retain any relevant documents related to a possible security breach of AT&T’s web site. Source:FBI Probes 'Public Service' Hacking of iPad Addresses (NewsFactor)

PC Magazine – In what has become a trend for online security and utility companies, Trend Micro said Friday that it has added online backup capabilities by buying Humyo, an English data synchronization company Source:Trend Micro Buys Humyo Online Backup (PC Magazine)

PC World – If slightly fuzzy pictures of a phone looking like a Motorola Droid are anything to go by, a blog called DroidLife claims to have exclusive pictures of an alleged Motorola Droid 2 device. Source:Could This Be The Motorola Droid 2? (PC World)

PC World – Google has changed its traditionally stark white homepage by slapping on a big old picture on it. It didn’t take long for the blogosphere to blow up with questions and complaints. But why, exactly, is everybody so upset and confused? Source:Google's New Look: Why is Everybody So Upset? (PC World)

AP – It’s often joked that more people like to claim that they were at Woodstock in 1969 than were actually there. Source:Bonnaroo spreads the festival experience online (AP)

AFP – BP, facing a tidal wave of bad publicity over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, is buying search terms on Internet search engines to point users to the company’s official website. Source:BP buying search terms to point Web surfers to own site (AFP)

PC World – Thanks to Gizmodo, we know one thing Apple’s Steve Jobs will pull out of his pocket at Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference: a next-gen iPhone. But what else is up Jobs’ sleeve? A cloud-based iTunes, Safari 5, iChat for iPhone, or a Mac OS update? Source:WWDC 2010: 10 Things To Watch For (PC [...]

AFP – Executives from an array of international corporations will gather in San Francisco this month to talk the language of business. Source:GlobalEnglish an Internet coach for language of business (AFP)