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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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) [...]
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.
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.
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.