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Appolicious – There was lots of good stuff in the iTunes App Store this week for the iPad. Travel guides, cool games and a great tool for students and academics all make an appearance on the list this week, along with a physics game for your entertainment.

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AFP – Europe’s largest clothing retailer, Spain’s Inditex, is taking its flagship Zara brand online, but it can expect stiff competition from other giants of high-street fashion already well-established in cyberspace.

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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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Mashable – Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone. There’s a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music.

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Macworld.com – Subscribers to The New Yorker have been able to read their issues—as well as archived magazines going back to 1925—online in a Web browser for a while thanks to The New Yorker Digital Edition. Unfortunately, the site was incompatible with Safari running on the iPad, making the feature a lot less useful for people on the go.

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AFP – US regulators have said a public relations firm has agreed to settle charges that it had employees pose as unbiased videogame buyers and post reviews at Apple’s online iTunes store.

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Reuters – The last time El DeBarge released an album, it was 1994. The Internet was starting to come into its own. YouTube, iTunes, Facebook and Twitter weren’t even blips on anyone’s radar. Beyond that, in the intervening years, R&B and its fan base have changed radically.

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PC World – An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic.

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AFP – USA Today on Friday announced a major restructuring that will trim 130 jobs at the national news publication as it reshapes itself to better fit Internet Age lifestyles.

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Reuters – A company linked to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is suing 11 major corporations, including Apple, Google and Facebook, accusing them of infringing on technology patents.

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The Upshot – Here’s our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went golfing on Martha’s Vineyard together today. (The Hill) • Jimmy Carter to the rescue! The former president helped bring back a Boston man who was jailed for seven months in North Korea today. (AP) [...]

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PC World – The co-founder of Microsoft has filed a patent lawsuit against some of the tech industry’s highest fliers. Named as defendants in the litigation are AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and YouTube. Also named in the suit were Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples.

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PC World – Up until Thursday, if you tried to install PayPal’s mobile application for Android phones onto your Motorola Droid X smartphone you would have come up empty. If you used the phone to hunt through the Android Market for “PayPal” you would have found an eBay app, some related utilities, but the PayPal app itself would have been missing in action.

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NewsFactor – If you think social media is just for young people, it’s time to recalibrate. According to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, social-networking use by those 50 years old and up has nearly doubled in the last year.

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NewsFactor – Google moved into Skype territory this week with a new VoIP service that works from the Gmail interface. Now the search giant is throwing down the real-time gauntlet with a new service that hopes to one-up both Bing and Twitter.

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AP – Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is suing nearly a dozen major technology companies, including Google Inc. and Apple Inc., alleging that they infringed on four Web technology patents held by his company Interval Licensing LLC.

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Macworld.com – Indaba Music, a Website that lets musicians collaborate and make music online, has revamped its site to include a number of new services and features, including the ability for artists to sell their music on iTunes.

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PC World – Once the exclusive domain of youngsters, social networks such as Facebook are increasingly catering to an older clientele. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says the number of social networking users ages 50 and older nearly doubled in the past year, continuing a trend of strong growth that was first spotted during the summer of 2009.

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PC World – Once the exclusive domain of youngsters, social networks such as Facebook are increasingly catering to an older clientele. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says the number of social networking users ages 50 and older nearly doubled in the past year, continuing a trend of strong growth that was first spotted during the summer of 2009.

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AP – A blogger is warning people attending Glenn Beck’s rally to avoid certain Washington subway lines. He also says says the nation’s capital is populated by refugees, especially taxi drivers and restaurant servers from African and Arab nations.

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AP – A blogger is warning people attending Glenn Beck’s rally to avoid certain Washington subway lines. He also says says the nation’s capital is populated by refugees, especially taxi drivers and restaurant servers from African and Arab nations.

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Macworld.com – On Friday, Zoho, makers of productivity and collaboration Web apps for businesses, released its first native app for iPhone and iPod touch, called Zoho Docs. Named after its Web app, Zoho Docs allows Zoho users to view their online documents stored in various Zoho services while on-the-go.

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Macworld.com – On Friday, Zoho, makers of productivity and collaboration Web apps for businesses, released its first native app for iPhone and iPod touch, called Zoho Docs. Named after its Web app, Zoho Docs allows Zoho users to view their online documents stored in various Zoho services while on-the-go.

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PC World – Online retailers have started selling netbooks with Intel’s new dual-core Atom processor, ahead of official product announcements from PC makers.

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PC World – Online retailers have started selling netbooks with Intel’s new dual-core Atom processor, ahead of official product announcements from PC makers.

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PC World – Online retailers have started selling netbooks with Intel’s new dual-core Atom processor, ahead of official product announcements from PC makers.

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AFP – A lawsuit filed Friday says Facebook should require teenagers to get parental permission before hitting a “Like” button endorsing online advertising at the social networking website.

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AFP – A lawsuit filed Friday says Facebook should require teenagers to get parental permission before hitting a “Like” button endorsing online advertising at the social networking website.

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AFP – A lawsuit filed Friday says Facebook should require teenagers to get parental permission before hitting a “Like” button endorsing online advertising at the social networking website.

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PC World – A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that social networking is maturing–or at least its audience is. As Baby Boomers flock to Facebook and other social networking sites, it shifts the marketing demographics and makes social networking an even more critical forum for engaging consumers.

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PC World – A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that social networking is maturing–or at least its audience is. As Baby Boomers flock to Facebook and other social networking sites, it shifts the marketing demographics and makes social networking an even more critical forum for engaging consumers.

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PC World – A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that social networking is maturing–or at least its audience is. As Baby Boomers flock to Facebook and other social networking sites, it shifts the marketing demographics and makes social networking an even more critical forum for engaging consumers.

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NewsFactor – The Federal Trade Commission has started enforcing false advertising rules against “astroturfing.” On Friday, the agency announced a settlement with a public-relations firm that had been posting fake, favorable online reviews for a client. The settlement is the first enforcement under new FTC guidelines.

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NewsFactor – The Federal Trade Commission has started enforcing false advertising rules against “astroturfing.” On Friday, the agency announced a settlement with a public-relations firm that had been posting fake, favorable online reviews for a client. The settlement is the first enforcement under new FTC guidelines.

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NewsFactor – The Federal Trade Commission has started enforcing false advertising rules against “astroturfing.” On Friday, the agency announced a settlement with a public-relations firm that had been posting fake, favorable online reviews for a client. The settlement is the first enforcement under new FTC guidelines.

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PC Magazine – The Department of Justice has asked Google for more information about its proposed acquisition of travel software firm ITA, the search engine giant said Friday.

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PC Magazine – The Department of Justice has asked Google for more information about its proposed acquisition of travel software firm ITA, the search engine giant said Friday.

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PC Magazine – The Department of Justice has asked Google for more information about its proposed acquisition of travel software firm ITA, the search engine giant said Friday.

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AFP – Australian publishing giant Fairfax Media Friday indicated it would begin charging for online content in the increasingly cut-throat newspaper environment as it reported a return to profit.

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AFP – China Unicom is likely to start selling Apple’s iPad tablet computer in the world’s largest Internet market in mid to late-September, state-run media said Friday.

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PC World – The battle for the future of Web video has been nothing if not confusing, and it isn’t over yet. MPEG-LA, the industry group responsible for various audio and video formats, announced that it’ll keep H.264 video royalty-free–for online video that is free to end-users, anyway.

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AFP – Internet telephone capabilities added to Google’s free Web-based email service in the United States appeared to have been successful, with more than a million calls logged in the 24 hours after its launch.

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Reuters – Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Co. have teamed up in a new legal effort to choke off the air supply of various web sites that post and index links to pirated movies.

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Macworld.com – Seems like scams are all the rage lately, with one offering a free iPad—in exchange for personal information, naturally—on the loose in social networks, more mysterious iTunes account hacks, and there’s a patent suit against Apple and a bunch of other companies. Not that that’s a scam, of course. Ahem. Fortunately, the remainders for Thursday, August 26, 2010 come with a guaranteed genuine seal of approval.

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Reuters – Bundle.com, an online personal finance site that counts Citigroup Inc among its backers, is unveiling new features to compete in a growing market for Internet banking and budgeting advice, its chief executive said on Thursday.

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NewsFactor – Internet infrastructure giant Cisco Systems will acquire a small content-management firm in a bid to help clients stream video to multiple screens. “Today, we are pleased to welcome ExtendMedia to the Cisco family,” wrote John Earnhardt, Cisco’s social-media director on the company’s blog Thursday.

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PC World – Searching for status updates is not Twitter’s forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.

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PC World – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled a complaint it made against a public relations firm accused of using employees to pose as ordinary customers to post reviews of video games on Apple’s iTunes store, the agency said Thursday.

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NewsFactor – Even as rumors about a 99-cent iTunes TV rental service swirl, Netflix is moving onto Apple’s hardware with a free application that will let its members watch television episodes and movies on the iPhone and iPod touch. On Thursday, Netflix rolled out the Netflix App for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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AFP – Google on Thursday further embraced the world of tweets, status updates, and on-the-fly posts with a website devoted to finding “real-time” content as it hits the Internet.

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