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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.
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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.
- AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own. - Macworld.com - For personal organization, Apple has focused on the basics with its Address Book and iCal programs, which are included with Mac OS X. These are fine light-duty programs, but they lack power for anything more than simple contact and calendar management. Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative that will appeal to business and power users for whom Apple's offerings are insufficiently powerful or versatile. - 
Reuters - If "American Idol" and a modern
fairy tale combined to create a video game, you'd get "Boogie
SuperStar" -- Electronic Art's latest game for the Nintendo Wii
system.
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Reuters - Mozilla, developer of open-source Web browser
Firefox, said on Wednesday it set a new Guinness World Record
for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.
- CNET - Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. - USATODAY.com - Sexual predators are using gaming consoles such as the Wii, PlayStation and Xbox to meet children online. - NewsFactor - AT&T on Tuesday announced iPhone 3G pricing for new and existing AT&T customers, several voice and data plans, and tips on how to be "iReady" when Apple's iPhone 3G goes on sale. AT&T retail stores will begin offering the new iPhone at 8 a.m. on Friday, July 11. - USATODAY.com - Forget Isaac Asimov's famous Laws of Robotics. WALL·E's biggest accomplishment may be defying the Laws of Computer Animation. - TechWeb - InformationWeek - The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive. - 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. - AP - In recent days, Chief Executive Michael Dell has bought about $100 million worth of stock in Dell Inc., the shares of which rallied this spring but are still near a five-year low. - PC World - The Eee PC will hit several new markets in Asia in July, including Australia, Japan and South Korea. - PC World - A new undersea cable linking Japan and Russia went into service this week.
