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AFP – A video of a girl tossing half-a-dozen puppies into a river has sparked outrage online with chat forums and Facebook pages calling for her to be tracked down and punished.

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NewsFactor – Google has moved on from bringing the Gmail world free Voice over Internet Protocol calling to tackling another challenge: E-mail overload. Google is moving to de-clutter the Gmail inbox with a new system that prioritizes e-mail.

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PC World – About a third of Internet users will abandon slow-loading websites within five seconds, and users of mobile devices expect website performance to be as good as it is on wired computers, according to a new survey that may have implications for the network neutrality debate in the U.S.

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AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Aug. 30, 2010:

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AFP – Google rolled out a new tool late Monday to help users of its free Web-based email service avoid drowning in the floods of digital messages that have become part of modern life.

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AP – Microsoft is raising subscription prices for its popular Xbox Live Gold online gaming service in the U.S. and three other countries.

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Appolicious – Microsoft is edging in on Android’s territory in any way the company can, with a new search app for Bing. The app is limited to Verizon customers, and is available for (nearly) all Android users via a partnership with Verizon, which is becoming increasingly common for these types of app launches.

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PC World – As businesses turn to cloud computing and Web conferencing to save money, online meeting service provider Dimdim looks to capitalize on both movements with its latest product upgrade.

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Reuters – Canada’s established telecom carriers must allow smaller Internet providers access to their high-speed fiber networks at the same speed they offer to their own customers, the telecom and broadcast regulator ruled on Monday, but it said they can charge a 10 percent mark-up for doing so.

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AP – Antoine Dodson’s angry, head-shaking TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister in her bed has turned into a chart-topping iTunes song and YouTube hit and made the 24-year-old Alabama college student an Internet sensation.

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PC Magazine – Lending more credence to the rumor that Google is zeroing in on social networking, the search engine giant this week purchased social gaming company SocialDeck – its fifth acquisition this month.

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Mashable – This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

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AP – Google Inc. can sift through more than a trillion Web links in a matter of seconds, but can the Internet search leader help people wade through their overflowing e-mailboxes?

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Mashable – Are you frustrated by the fact that song samples on iTunes are only 30 seconds in length, which is often hardly enough time to get a true taste of the song?

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AP – Google Inc. has retained the right to publish content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal that thaws the sometimes-frosty relationship between the two companies.

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AFP – Microsoft on Monday announced it is raising the price of admission to its Xbox Live online community where people can play videogames or watch movies using Xbox 360 consoles.

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The Upshot – Here’s our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • Hurricane Earl is now a Category 4 storm and is projected to head up the Eastern seaboard this week. (National Hurricane Center) • CNN’s Rick Sanchez apologized for calling Obama the “cotton-picking president.” (Mediaite) • A new report finds that the Bush White [...]

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AP – NEW CONTENT CONTRACT: Google Inc. will be able to continue publishing content from The Associated Press on Google’s website under a new licensing agreement.

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PC World – Verizon customers with Android phones looking for an alternative to Google can now turn to Bing. In an exclusive deal announced Monday between Verizon and Microsoft, a Bing search app will be offered free from the Big V’s Wireless Android Marketplace to users of mobiles running Google’s operating system. What’s more, the app will be pre-installed on all new Android phones sold by Verizon.

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PC World – Cisco has fixed a bug in its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) router software that contributed to a brief Internet blackout last week, thought to have affected about 1 percent of the Internet.

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AFP – Google and the Associated Press announced on Monday they have reached a licensing agreement that will allow the search giant to continue hosting content from the US news agency.

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AP – TIMES TWO: West Africa is getting a new connection to the Internet in the form of a second cable snaking along the West African coastline, ending in Lagos, Nigeria. It has more than five times the capacity of the old one.

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PC World – Sometimes Microsoft gets it right, but sometimes it gets it head-smacking wrong. Charging $100 for a wireless adapter would be the latter, while charging $300 for an souped-up Xbox 360 with integrated wireless may by contrast induce jaw-on-the-floor-itis. Charging $50 a year to access premium content is fine. Charging $50 a year to play online against other gamers isn’t.

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PC World – Sometimes Microsoft gets it right, but sometimes it gets it head-smacking wrong. Charging $100 for a wireless adapter would be the latter, while charging $300 for an souped-up Xbox 360 with integrated wireless may by contrast induce jaw-on-the-floor-itis. Charging $50 a year to access premium content is fine. Charging $50 a year to play online against other gamers isn’t.

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Macworld.com – The iPhone and iPod touch have a wealth of options for sharing files online, whether you need a collaborative service like Box.net or a Twitter app to broadcast photos. If you want a more centralized and integrated service for sharing and managing files, Cloud2go, a new CloudApp client from Phaps, might be worth a look.

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Macworld.com – The iPhone and iPod touch have a wealth of options for sharing files online, whether you need a collaborative service like Box.net or a Twitter app to broadcast photos. If you want a more centralized and integrated service for sharing and managing files, Cloud2go, a new CloudApp client from Phaps, might be worth a look.

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AP – Google Inc.’s acquisition of startup Angstro shows the online search leader is working to boost its social network offerings as it tries to compete with Facebook Inc. in that market.

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AP – Google Inc.’s acquisition of startup Angstro shows the online search leader is working to boost its social network offerings as it tries to compete with Facebook Inc. in that market.

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AP – For a decade, West Africa’s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.

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Macworld.com – Customers have had to deal with extended shipping wait times for the iPad pretty much since the Wi-Fi iPad began shipping on April 3, but Apple’s production appears to have recently caught up to demand. The company is now saying that it will ship the tablet within 24 hours of ordering from its online store.

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AFP – US networking giant Cisco has made an offer to acquire Internet communications firm Skype, technology blog TechCrunch said Monday.

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Ben Patterson – Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube.

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Ben Patterson – Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube.

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PC World – Sierra Wireless on Monday announced the AirPrime MC8801, a module that will allow makers of laptops, netbooks and tablets to integrate mobile broadband using HSPA+ (High-Speed Packet Access) at download speeds up to 42M bps (bits per second) into their products.

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Reuters – Socialite, celebrity TV and Web site favorite Paris Hilton has been released by Las Vegas police after her arrest for possessing cocaine on Friday night, her lawyer said on Saturday.

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Reuters – Socialite, celebrity TV and Web site favorite Paris Hilton has been released by Las Vegas police after her arrest for possessing cocaine on Friday night, her lawyer said on Saturday.

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Appolicious – The VEVO iPhone app has lots of music and lots of music videos, but little to distinguish it from other music-related apps and web sites and podcasts.

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Appolicious – The VEVO iPhone app has lots of music and lots of music videos, but little to distinguish it from other music-related apps and web sites and podcasts.

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AP – Earlier this summer, Michael Ian Black took to his blog to defend himself against those appalled that the comedian was — gasp! — inserting rare advertisements to his popular Twitter feed.

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AP – Earlier this summer, Michael Ian Black took to his blog to defend himself against those appalled that the comedian was — gasp! — inserting rare advertisements to his popular Twitter feed.

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PC World – Online iPad shoppers used to be forced to wait up to a week for their tablet orders to ship. But now orders ship within 24 hours as Apple has apparently solved a nagging iPad supply problem. According to Apple’s online store all six versions of Apple’s iPad ship in just 24 hours from the time of purchase — down from up to seven days in recent weeks.

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PC World – Online iPad shoppers used to be forced to wait up to a week for their tablet orders to ship. But now orders ship within 24 hours as Apple has apparently solved a nagging iPad supply problem. According to Apple’s online store all six versions of Apple’s iPad ship in just 24 hours from the time of purchase — down from up to seven days in recent weeks.

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PC Magazine – Clearwire on Monday unveiled Rover, a pay-as-you-go 4G mobile broadband service aimed at tech-savvy “digitally addicted” customers looking for high-speed mobile broadband without a contract.

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PC Magazine – Clearwire on Monday unveiled Rover, a pay-as-you-go 4G mobile broadband service aimed at tech-savvy “digitally addicted” customers looking for high-speed mobile broadband without a contract.

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PC World – Australian mobile network operator Telstra has become the first operator to launch a mobile broadband service using HSPA+ at 42M bps (bits per second), it said on Monday.

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PC Magazine – The publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary is reportedly mulling a switch to an online-only version of the 126-year-old book.

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PC Magazine – Verizon is now offering two new Web-based services that enable small businesses to design and set up their own company Web sites with just a few clicks and drags of the mouse.

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PC Magazine – Verizon is now offering two new Web-based services that enable small businesses to design and set up their own company Web sites with just a few clicks and drags of the mouse.

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AFP – North Korea accused The South Monday of blocking its people from accessing online social-networking sites launched by the secretive communist country.

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AFP – North Korea accused The South Monday of blocking its people from accessing online social-networking sites launched by the secretive communist country.

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