Bluebeat to battle EMI over Beatles songs (AFP) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:20 GMT The Beatles perform in 1964 at the Olympia in Paris. US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.(AFP/File)

PC World Podcast 52: Moto Droid Invades, AT&T Sues Verizon, and BlueBeat Rips Off the Beatles (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT PC World - This week on the PC World Podcast, Hassle-Free PC blogger Rick Broida joins PC World editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, and Mark Sullivan for a half-hour discussion of the week's biggest tech stories.

Judge stops 2 Web sites from selling Beatles songs (AP) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:56:10 GMT AP - A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece.

Microsoft websites top spots in September: comScore (AFP) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:26:22 GMT A view of the Microsoft cffices in Herndon, Virginia. Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)

Sales Boycott over Modern Warfare 2 with Steam 'Trojan Horse' (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:06:00 GMT PC World - Steam, it seems, may finally have tromped across the proverbial bridge too far. The online PC games storefront with the sales leverage of a lion but the transparency of a two-way mirror reportedly signed a deal with Activision to load its Steamworks technology into retail and digitally distributed PC copies of Modern Warfare 2, and online sales competitors are bristling.

Internet, Cell Phones Don't Increase Isolation, Study Says (NewsFactor) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:33 GMT NewsFactor - If you're worried that your employees or children are disengaging from the world by using the Internet and cell phones, relax. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that these technologies have not increased social isolation in the U.S.

EMI Wins Beatles Music Injunction Against BlueBeat.com (NewsFactor) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:00 GMT NewsFactor - On Friday, EMI won an injunction against BlueBeat.com, forcing the web site to stop selling Beatles songs without permission. The London-based record label alleged that the music site was breaching its copyrights.

Is Google Dashboard Really Transparent or a PR Stunt? (NewsFactor) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:06:46 GMT NewsFactor - A new product that gives users a new level of insight into what the world's biggest search engine knows about them was launched Thursday. Google Dashboard lets users see reports on the data Google has collected on them.

Mass. receives money for broadband mapping (AP) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:37:26 GMT AP - Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years.

US Lawmakers Propose Changes in Telecom Subsidies (PC World) Internet News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:30:14 GMT PC World - Two U.S. lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow money from a huge fund that subsidizes telephone and mobile service to parts of the U.S. to also go for broadband deployment.