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PC World – Draft legislation from the U.S. Congress would create a new network neutrality law but would prohibit the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from making its own rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively slowing Web traffic.

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PC World – Hulu continued its push past your PC on Tuesday with two new deals that will bring the online video service right to your living room. TiVo and Roku both announced plans to offer access to Hulu’s fee-based Plus service from their respective set-top boxes.

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NewsFactor – AOL said Tuesday that it has acquired video-content provider 5min Media under undisclosed terms. According to 5min Media, the provider’s delivery platform lets online advertisers reach a targeted audience of tens of millions in specific categories by making a single buy across consistent video content.

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AFP – Amazon unveiled Tuesday a program that allows Kindle electronic books to be sampled in a Web browser.

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PC World – A new law makes it illegal in California to maliciously impersonate someone online.

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AP – AOL Inc. said Tuesday that it will buy technology blog TechCrunch and its sister sites for an undisclosed amount in a bid to expand its news production.

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Reuters – News Corp’s Fox, Walt Disney Co’s ABC, CBS and several other broadcasters on Tuesday sued tiny upstart online subscription service Ivi for offering TV shows on the Internet without permission.

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AFP – A Canadian-Iranian credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison, a media report said Tuesday.

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Appolicious – Is there a thawing of the cold war between Apple and Google?

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Reuters – An Iranian court has sentenced a pioneering Iranian blogger to more than 19 years in prison, a human rights activist told Reuters on Tuesday.

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AFP – The co-founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, on Tuesday slammed whistleblower WikiLeaks over its release of Afghan war documents which he said could “get people killed”.

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AP – The Obama administration is pushing to make it easier for the government to tap into internet and e-mail communications. But the plan has already drawn condemnation from privacy groups and communications firms may be wary of its costs and scope.

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Reuters – Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, is likely to go public sometime after late 2012, a board member said, satisfying investors’ appetite for a slice of one of the Internet’s biggest growth stories.

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Reuters – Tracking web searches for new songs, video games and movies can predict which ones will be big hits, but often not much better than traditional methods, researchers at Yahoo Inc reported on Monday.

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AFP – A digital rights group expressed concern on Monday over reports that the Obama administration is drawing up legislation to make it easier for US intelligence services to eavesdrop on the Internet.

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The Upshot – Here is our roster of stories that managed to avoid the full-on blog treatment: • President Obama urged college students to get involved with the midterm elections, saying he wants everyone to participate and be informed. (CNN) • Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden, evidently playing the bad cop, told Democrats to “stop whining and get [...]

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PC World – If you have a phone running Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) or later, and use the Google Chrome Web browser (or Firefox) on your home computer, Chrome to Phone is a must-have.

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AP – Microsoft Corp. is giving up on its own blog network and, in a new partnership, will start sending new Windows Live users to a competing platform instead.

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NewsFactor – When Twitter announced Promoted Tweets in April, the micro-blogging service hinted that third-party ads would soon follow. According to news reports, Twitter is gearing up to roll out the service on its new design, and prices are running as high as $100,000 for the text ads.

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PC World – Microsoft has partnered with Wordpress to move the millions of blogs hosted on the Windows Live Spaces blog publishing platform, which will be closed, the companies announced Monday.

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PC World – Joining a growing number of enterprise and consumer-facing Web services, Google has added support in Google Apps for the OAuth authorization profile, the company announced Monday.

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Reuters – Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin: the power of the Web to distribute art.

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PC Magazine – Microsoft and WordPress.com announced Monday that WordPress will be the default blogging platform for Windows Live going forward.

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PC World – Whether Research in Motion does, or does not, pull the curtains back on its BlackPad at this week’s BlackBerry developers conference the tablet is likely to steal much of the spotlight. According to the latest reports from the blogosphere RIM may or not officially announce the BlackPad, as it is being called.

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AP – Attorneys for four California men accused of illegally buying more than 1 million concert tickets online are seeking to have the indictment against them thrown out.

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Macworld.com – Internet reports of shipping delays for Apple’s revamped Apple TV turned out to not be worth the virtual paper they were printed on. Customers who’ve ordered Apple’s set-top box have begun receiving e-mail notifications that their devices are on the way.

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Ben Patterson – Turn on CNN, open the Wall Street Journal or surf on over to Yahoo! News, and there’s a good chance that at least one of the headlines will be about the iPhone, the iPad, iTunes or something else related to Apple. Not news, you say? Maybe so, but some of the statistics in this new journalism study are telling nonetheless.

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PC World – Monday is Google’s twelfth birthday and the search giant is celebrating once again with a new Google Doodle on its homepage. This year’s doodle is a painting by American artist Wayne Thiebaud and features a simple birthday cake with Google’s logo and one candle. Thiebaud, born in 1920, is well known for painting images of cakes, ice cream, candy, and toys.

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Reuters – A computer virus that experts said may have been created by a state did not affect Iran’s nuclear plant or government systems, but did hit computers of staff at the plant and Internet providers, officials said on Sunday.

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AFP – The Obama administration is drawing up legislation to make it easier for US intelligence services to eavesdrop on the Internet, including email exchanges and social networks, The New York Times said Monday.

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Reuters – Pre-orders for Apple Inc’s iPhone 4 in China have exceeded 200,000 units since the handsets went on sale on Saturday, China Unicom said, adding that it has stopped taking online orders because of strong demand.

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Reuters – Democrat Jerry Brown, criticized for a slow start in his campaign for California governor, has opened a narrow lead over Republican nominee and former eBay chief Meg Whitman, according to a poll released on Sunday.

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AFP – Asians are muscling their way into traditionally Western-dominated social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Internet blogs, prompting major players to sit up and take notice.

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AFP – President Hugo Chavez led Internet battles for influence during Venezuela’s key legislative elections Sunday, using his Twitter account to urge voters to the polls.

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AFP – The notoriously fragmented porn industry is uniting to expose Internet Age pirates threatening its survival.

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AFP – The notoriously fragmented porn industry is uniting to expose Internet Age pirates threatening its survival.

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AP – A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran’s first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday.

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AP – A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran’s first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday.

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AP – Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there’s a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to find: tossed off in the comments sections of some of the Internet’s most popular websites, today’s virtual Main Street.

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Mashable – If you’re thinking of buying a Windows Phone 7 device and using it to connect your laptop to the Internet, think again. The company’s new smartphones will not support tethering at all.

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Mashable – If you’re thinking of buying a Windows Phone 7 device and using it to connect your laptop to the Internet, think again. The company’s new smartphones will not support tethering at all.

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AFP – A Paris court has convicted US search engine giant Google and its chief executive Eric Schmidt of defamation over results from its “suggest” function, a French legal affairs website has revealed.

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AFP – Rights groups on Saturday slammed the arrest of a Thai news website editor as she returned from an Internet freedom conference on charges of insulting the monarchy and breaching computer law.

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AFP – Google chief executive Eric Schmidt on Friday said that Microsoft’s Bing search engine was the company’s main threat, not Facebook or Apple.

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Macworld.com – On Friday Apple released iTunes 10.0.1, fixing a few bugs, but above all updating the Ping musical social network introduced in iTunes 10.

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Reuters – A French court has ordered Google Inc to pay 5,000 euros ($6,672) in libel damages to a man who claimed that searches for his name automatically yielded a list of harmful suggestions.

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AFP – Apple on Saturday launched the latest version of its iPhone in China and boosted its presence in the world’s biggest Internet and mobile market by opening another two stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

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AP – Human rights and free speech groups protested Saturday the arrest of a Thai webmaster as she returned from an Internet freedom conference on charges of insulting the monarchy and violating the Computer Crime Act.

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Mashable – Just in time for the second season of the hit TV show Glee, Smule has updated its über-successful iOS app. The app, now known as Glee Karaoke [iTunes link], brings back all the same features of the original and adds a layer of competition to the mix.

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Ben Patterson – ABC and Fox are in as far as Apple’s new 99-cent rentals for TV shows go, while NBC, Viacom, and Warner Brothers are out, for now. On the fence: CBS.

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