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PC World – Mobile Web surfers in the U.S. spend more time on classifed-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site.

Reuters – Singapore has banned access to two
pornographic websites in a “symbolic statement” of the
country’s societal values, its media regulator said on Friday.

Macworld.com – Other World Computing (OWC) on Thursday began shipping its new line of internal CD- and DVD-burning SuperDrives. The new drives are capable of 20X burn speeds for DVDs and 48X speeds for CDs.

PC World – MSI will launch its Wind low-cost laptop in the U.S. this June, with the XP version at $549.

AP – Yahoo Inc. on Thursday postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defense — or negotiate a sale to Microsoft Corp. that would cause activist investor Carl Icahn to call off the mutiny.

TechWeb – Red Hat’s just delivered the 5.2 version of their venerable Red Hat Enterprise Linux, right on the heels of the version 9 release of the equally-venerable Fedora. I took some time out to talk with Daniel Riek, Product Manager for RHEL, about what was new. The best new stuff all involves the “V”-word: virtualization.

Reuters – Goldman Sachs added Apple Inc to its
Americas conviction buy list, saying shares will likely benefit
from the launch of the company’s third-generation iPhone next
month, as well as from the sharply higher projections of iPhone
sales for the second-half of the year.

Macworld.com – Aero Quartet has released version 3.7 of SimpleMovieX, software the company describes as a “lightweight Mac OS X movie editor with a feature set roughly similar to QuickTime Pro.”

PC World – Symantec is developing a Web-based service that will let parents control almost all aspects of their child’s Internet activity…

PC Magazine – The HomePlug Powerline Alliance said Friday that it plans to release a specification for a next-generation “HomePlug AV II” home networking specification later this year, with first silicon sampling in 2009.

AP – China’s biggest mobile phone company will take over a smaller fixed-line carrier, a state news agency said Friday, in what was expected to be the start of a sweeping industry restructuring.

NewsFactor – On Thursday, Google co-founder Larry Page visited Washington, D.C. to talk up his company’s proposal for a new generation of wireless devices that can run on “white spaces.”

NewsFactor – Just days after Microsoft announced it would directly support a range of standards-based document formats in a future update to its Office suite, New York’s chief information officer issued a report calling for the state to embrace an open document policy.

NewsFactor – If you’ve taken lots of camera photos with your iPhone and later wondered where they were taken, the new iPhone software could solve that problem. According to news reports, the iPhone Software 2.0 update will offer location-based photo-tagging which the user can turn on and off.

AP – The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Friday he wants to regulate fees charged to cell phone users who cancel their wireless contracts early.

AP – Google Inc.‘s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy.

AP – Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you’ll have to rebuild your profile from scratch.

PC World – IBM will repay $13 million to Massachusetts due to a software procurement deal state officials concluded was flawed.

PC World – Microsoft’s plan to include ODF support in its Office suite next year reflects continued challenges for the OOXML file format…

PC World – In a move that plays up both the promise of online business services, the New York Times puts an archive of its papers online.

Reuters – One of the top U.S. wireless
carriers is trying to forge a deal with consumer groups and
regulators that would reduce the fees customers are charged
when they cancel their cell phone service early.

PC World – Ken Hubbard worries that broadband speeds in the U.S. aren’t adequate for the next wave of Web content.

AP – Comcast Corp. is trying to sell 46 smaller cable systems serving 400,000 to 500,000 subscribers as it seeks to improve efficiency by shedding disparate operations.

InfoWorld – At its Google I/O developer conference next week, Google will shed light on technologies such as Google App Engine, for building and hosting Web applications, and OpenSocial, the Google-backed API for social networking.

Reuters – Games like “Rock Band” and “Guitar
Hero III” have proved their ability to breathe new life into
classic rock sales. But can they do the same for new music?