The last-week-unsealed court filings in the biggest-ever copyright infringement lawsuit – between Viacom and YouTube, for $1 billion – reveal that both Viacom and Google have been involved in some reprehensible acts in the past.

A recent blog post by Amy Chang, Google Analytics’ group product manager, has revealed that the Internet search giant is working on a browser plug-in that will enable users to block the collection of their browsing data by the company’s analytics and marketing tool.

The well-formed, almost six-year-old Nintendo DS – which has thus far boasted brain training games, dictionaries, classic literature, translation tools, flash cards, and cookbooks – is apparently on its way to become an educational tool in the elementary and junior high schools in Japan!

In an attempt to make ‘remote medicine’ a reality, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s National Broadband Plan includes a 25-page section on health care; wherein the Department of Health and Human Services has been urged to give “top priority” to e-care projects.

The fact that Google’s Internet presence has virtually ‘exploded’ over the years has been recently substantiated by a blog analysis of the search giant’s activities by Arbor Network’s Craig Labovitz, who has reported that the enormity of Google’s growth currently has a considerable effect on Internet traffic flows.

British Airways and striking cabin crews both are revealed to claim the upper hand yesterday, on the first of three days of industrial action.
Despite having to drop hundreds of flights, the airline revealed that 52 per cent of its Heathrow cabin crew had joined the work, and 97 per cent of its Gatwick crew, and that a full long-haul service was operating.