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AFP – A South Korean cable television company said it launched a service on the Internet on Tuesday allowing viewers to access their favourite shows anywhere.

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AP – South Korea broadened efforts Monday to convince the world and its own public that North Korea sank one of its warships, sharing evidence with Russian torpedo experts and preparing a special briefing for influential bloggers and Twitter personalities.

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AP – Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology official said.

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AFP – Pakistan restored access to Facebook on Monday, nearly two weeks after closing the popular networking site in a storm of controversy about blasphemy, but still restricted hundreds of online links.

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PC World – The Lahore High Court in Pakistan on Monday ordered Facebook to be unblocked in the country, after the government said that the web site had promised to make material considered derogatory inaccessible to users in Pakistan.

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Reuters – Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman recovered a wide lead over her rival for the Republican nomination in California’s governor race after the pair stepped up their costly television campaigns accusing each other of being too liberal, a poll showed on Sunday.

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AFP – More than 10,000 people have signed up for Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo’s paid news application for the Internet since it was launched at the beginning of March, the company said Sunday.

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NewsFactor – In what may go down in Internet history as the Facebook Privacy Scandal, the leading social-networking site over the past week took the covers off a simplified privacy policy. But some privacy advocates say it’s not enough. And some analysts expect more privacy changes to come.

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AFP – Bidders around the world are vying online for tastes of Napa Valley wine country.

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PC World – Social networking, and the broader concept of online privacy, have been under some rather intense scrutiny over the past couple of weeks.

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AFP – Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

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AP – For the past week, a political burlesque has provided a mix of frustration and titillation for observers of the South Carolina governor’s race.

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NewsFactor – Google gave its online advertising clients a new tool Thursday that gives them the ability to restrict their online marketing campaigns to the world’s top 1,000 web domains from Facebook on down, based on unique visitor numbers. Google said it launched the new Ad Planner 1000 filter in response to feedback from a number of customers running branding campaigns.

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InfoWorld – ThoughtWorks unveiled this week an online community focused on exchange of ideas and best practices related to agile software development.

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NewsFactor – Six months and a federal investigation later, Google has finally sealed the AdMob deal. On Thursday, Google announced that its acquisition of the mobile advertising company is complete.

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Reuters – The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org http://www.hbr.org. Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters.

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AP – A South Korean couple were convicted Friday of abandoning their newborn daughter, who starved to death while they addictively played an online game raising a virtual child.

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AFP – Austria has placed a temporary ban on Google Street View cars while it probes concerns that the Internet company used the vehicles to collect private data, a statement said Friday.

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AFP – US auction site eBay announced a partnership Friday with China Post and the US Postal Service in a new bid to re-establish itself in China, where the market is dominated by homegrown rival Taobao.com.

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PC Magazine – Microsoft announced on its official blog that after 18 months, its mobile barcode technology, Tag, is coming out of beta.

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PC World – Google has publicly released a list of the top 1000 websites in the world, raking the Facebook social networking site as the leading Web property by unique users.

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PC World – Microsoft’s mobile barcode technology, Tag, has exited the beta testing phase, and a final release is available for download, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.

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PC Magazine – Matias Duarte, who led Palm’s webOS UI design, has left Palm and joined Google as its User Experience Director for the Android operating system.

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PC World – BlackBerry Partners Fund, which invests in applications for the BlackBerry and other mobile devices, has come together with China Broadband Capital Partners to set up a US$100 million fund, called BlackBerry Partners Fund China, that will invest in mobile Internet and mobile cloud technologies in China.

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Reuters – Opera Software said its Internet browser for Apple’s iPhone was downloaded more than 2.6 million times in April after the Norwegian company got access to iPhone as the first rival browser.

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PC World – Using a four-digit PIN to lock your iPhone doesn’t really protect your data, security and IT blogger Bernd Marienfeldt has discovered. In an article describing the iPhone’s business security framework, Marienfeldt has found a “data protection vulnerability” in Apple’s iPhone 3GS.

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PC World – The continuing saga of Google’s wireless snooping and the maelstrom it’s generated won’t end anytime soon. Peeved government officials in both Europe and the U.S. are pressing Google for more details on how the search company’s Street View cars managed to cull personal data from Wi-Fi networks that weren’t password-protected.

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Christopher Null – Reader Paul Stokes writes: “I read with interest your article ‘Massive GPS upgrade under way.’ I am in a brand-new subdivision and cannot be found on any of the map sites such as Google Maps. While it would seem that this could be a good thing, it turns out that it isn’t. When I want any work done at my house or deliveries made, I have to give directions over the phone. I have contacted Google about this but no response yet. Who can I contact to get my house added to GPS systems and to show up in online maps? At least the U.S. Post Office now recognizes my address.”

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AFP – Google on Thursday said it has completed its purchase of mobile advertising network AdMob and is eagerly integrating its technology into the Internet giant’s services.

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AFP – Three men have been indicted in connection with a Ukraine-based fraud scheme which tricked Internet users into believing their computers were infected and collected some 100 million dollars, officials said Thursday.

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PC Magazine – A U.S. court has ordered Google to turn over two copies of wireless data scooped up by the company’s Street View cars as they photographed neighborhoods, part of an escalating legal and public relations problem for the search engine giant.

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PC World – Symantec announced Norton Everywhere today–a new approach to security that abandons the traditional PC-centric model and takes a more holistic approach to delivering security across all Internet-enabled devices. Norton DNS, a component of Norton Everywhere, provides alternative DNS servers that can be used by any Internet-connected device for a faster and more secure surfing experience.

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AFP – Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Vietnam of mounting a sophisticated and sustained attack against online dissent, including detaining and intimidating anti-government bloggers.

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PC Magazine – A study released Thursday by the NPD Group showed that consumers who purchase software online feel comfortable downloading it for their own use, rather than ordering a physical disc. But of those customers that shy away, most cite spam as a result.

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Appolicious – Google is first and foremost an Internet company. While the Android Marketplace now offers a robust 50,000 apps, the company this week opened the Chrome Web App Store to market its online applications. And so Google, doing what it does best, has streamlined many of their Web services for mobile browsers, giving everyone with access to an Internet-enabled handset a way to use their favorite Google applications without having to download a single thing to their phone.

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PC Magazine – Contrary to popular belief, younger Internet users are actually more vigilant about protecting the information they share online than their older counterparts, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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PC World – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are retaining detailed search engine data for too long and not making it sufficiently anonymous later, in violation of European law, the European Union’s data protection advisory body has warned.

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Reuters – Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch an e-reader and online content distribution service in Japan by year-end, taking on rival Apple Inc whose iPad hits shelves in the country on Friday.

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AFP – Pakistan restored access to popular video website YouTube, but Facebook and 1,200 web pages remained blocked Thursday as a row about “blasphemous” content on the Internet rumbled into a second week.

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PC World – Mozilla is working on an iPhone application called Home that will let users access their desktop Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the tabs from their most recent browser session, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday

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Appolicious – Engadget has made it’s way to Android phones. There’s never been a more appropriate way to view a tech blog. View the latest in mobile and other technology news in an interface created for users on the go. Everything from video to the most recent photos are available at the tap of a finger.

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AP – What’s that? A young college grad lecturing her elders about online privacy?

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AP – A Chinese novelist’s lawsuit against Google over its online library is going ahead in court after settlement talks failed.

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AP – YOUNG WISDOM: A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project adds to the evidence that young people might be more cautious than their elders when it comes to managing their reputation and privacy on social networking sites.

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AFP – A non-profit news organization with an Internet Age vision for covering stories launched a website devoted to community service journalism in the San Francisco area.

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Reuters – Yahoo Inc said it could return to double-digit revenue growth in the next few years, as the Internet pioneer revamps its network of websites to attract users and advertisers in a shifting Internet industry.

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AP – Yahoo Inc. raised its financial target Wednesday, reflecting expectations that the Internet company will attract more online advertisers as it reaps savings from an upcoming search partnership with Microsoft Corp.

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AFP – Online retailer Amazon said Wednesday it had reached agreement with publisher Penguin on pricing of electronic books for the Kindle e-reader.

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Reuters – A senator who oversees antitrust issues said on Wednesday he wants Comcast Corp to divest its 32 percent stake in online video site Hulu.com if its plan to buy a controlling interest in NBC Universal wins regulatory approval.

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The Newsroom – Welcome to a new Yahoo! News blog: The Topic.

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