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PC World – Municipal broadband networks could help boost the availability of high-speed Internet access and even help to ensure Net…

AFP – Lindsay Lohan has withdrawn from an upcoming movie about convicted murderer Charles Manson, her publicist said Friday, following an Internet report she had been axed from the project.

TechWeb – InformationWeek – It envisions selling “component” services to its big ERP customers beginning next year.

TechWeb – InformationWeek – “The cloud has higher value in business,” says Google CEO Schmidt.

AP – Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.

AP – EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.

InfoWorld – We started the week with Microsoft calling off the Yahoo deal (or maybe not). Then Grand Theft Auto stole the spotlight with its record-breaking sales. Along the way, we have the Webby Awards, big settlements for movie piracy, and candidates seeking to save us from the evils of Second Life. We cover it all in this week’s quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Ready to test your news know-how? Then begin.

Reuters – Dutch authorities intend to crack
down on illegal online casinos and are calling on banks to stop
providing financial services to them, a Justice Ministry
spokeswoman said on Saturday.