Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You
By ANNE EISENBERG
Tired of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too.(NYT)+++

Thinking Outside the Company’s Box
By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
More businesses are learning how to buy the great ideas of others.(NYT)+++

City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
The creator of a mass text-messaging system used to aid protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention is resisting releasing information on its users.(NYT)+++

A Google Friend Is Now Facebook’s
By ELIZABETH OLSON, ANDREW E. KRAMER, MICHELLE LEDER and PATRICK McGEEHAN
Google’s status as the coolest place to work may be waning. The company has lost another high-ranking employee to the social networking site Facebook.(NYT)+++

Barry Diller Wins as Court Allows His 5-Way Division of IAC
By TIM ARANGO
A Delaware court ruled in favor of IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Barry Diller in his dispute with Liberty Media’s chairman John Malone, paving the way for IAC to proceed with its planned spin-off of four units.(NYT)+++

Rethinking Real Estate
By DAN MITCHELL
In more than 300 cities and counties across the United States, residential developers are asked — or forced — to include a certain amount of affordable housing in their projects.(NYT)+++

China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo
By JOHN MARKOFF
In August, a Chinese antimonopoly law takes effect that will extend the nation’s economic influence far beyond its borders.(NYT)+++

Low-Income Residents Get High-Speed Access
By KATIE HAFNER
Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, helped provide high-speed — and it really is high-speed — Internet access to low-income housing developments in San Francisco.(NYT)+++

Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic
By BRAD STONE
Comcast said that instead of interfering with specific online applications, it will manage traffic by slowing the Internet speeds of its most bandwidth-hogging users when traffic is busiest.(NYT)+++

PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging’s Future
By SAUL HANSELL
There’s no love lost between Rafat Ali, the founder of PaidContent, and Michael Arrington, who runs TechCrunch.(NYT)+++

Chaos Reigns a Second Day at Heathrow
By ALAN COWELL
British Airways again canceled dozens of flights at Heathrow’s new Terminal Five as its staff struggled with new technology meant to hasten check-in procedures.(NYT)+++

Malware Cited in Supermarket Data Breach
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in Hannaford supermarkets enabled a data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards.(NYT)+++

NTT DoCoMo Takes a Step Toward Bio-Sensing Cellphones
By IDG NEWS SERVICE
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated one part of an envisaged molecular level system that might one day enable cellphones to keep a regular watch on their owners’ health.(NYT)+++

Quarterly Earnings Rise 7% at Red Hat
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The distributor of open-source software said higher expenses related to sales and marketing offset a jump in revenue. (NYT)+++

Before ’73 Coup, Chile Tried to Find the Right Software for Socialism
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Cybersyn, a project that included a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machines, was in the early 1970s a part of an experiment to help manage Chile’s economy.(NYT)+++

E.U. to Probe Nokia-Navteq Deal
By REUTERS
European regulators opened an investigation into Nokia’s plans to buy the U.S.-based digital map supplier Navteq for $8.1 billion.(NYT)+++

Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac Gets Hacked First in Contest
By IDG NEWS SERVICE
Charlie Miller took the first of three laptop computers and a $10,000 cash prize after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s hacking contest.(NYT)+++

Pressured, Motorola Splits in Two
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Under pressure from investor Carl C. Icahn, Motorola spun off its mobile phone unit, as it struggled to come up with new products to replace the highly successful Razr. (NYT)+++

A JUDGE RULED AGAINST Liberty Media in its effort to block IAC Chairman Barry Diller from advancing a plan to split the company into separate businesses.(WSJ)+++

EU regulators opened an investigation into Nokia’s $8.1 billion deal for digital-mapping company Navteq.(WSJ)+++

Samsung cut its sales forecast for this year, citing global economic woes, but said its profit will exceed last year’s, helped by earnings growth in key areas such as chips, flat-panels and handsets.(WSJ)+++

The Cuban government said it will allow its citizens to have cellphones, a luxury previously reserved for foreigners and government officials.(WSJ)+++

Turkey restored access to Google’s YouTube after the video-sharing Web site removed several clips that had prompted Turkish authorities to block access to the site.(WSJ)+++

Barzil’s Oi is close to making a formal bid to take control of Brasil Telecom after shareholders reached agreement on key points of the proposal.(WSJ)+++

Google’s number of paid clicks fell last month, data show. Analysts are split about the reasons for the drop.(WSJ)+++

Tech firms, which traditionally shunned debt, are seeing earnings dented by auction-rate securities.(WSJ)+++

Google’s In The Spying Game
When U.S. intelligence agencies wanted a computer network to share information, they turned to a big tech name. (SFC)+++

EA Extends Take-Two Bid
Video game maker Electronic Arts extended its hostile $2 billion bid for rival Take-Two Interactive Software by a week. (SFC)+++

First Known Sound Recording
The voice of an unknown woman singing in a lamp-lit Paris laboratory nearly 150 years ago came to life Friday. (SFC)+++

San Quentin Visitor Data Lost
A memory drive containing info on more than 3,500 people who either volunteered or visited has been lost. (SFC)+++

Comcast’s About Face
ISP that’s under probe for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, says it will now treat all Net traffic equally. (SFC)+++

Man Indicted In Ad Scam
Former area man accused of using pop-up ads to dupe consumers into buying pirated software in a $13 million scam. (SFC)+++

Automakers Turn To Plug-ins
They say they’re working on hybrids that could help meet California’s global warming goals. (SFC)+++

Adobe’s new Photoshop Express sets new Webware standard
With the release this week of a free online version of the very expensive Adobe Photoshop photo editing program, the use of browser-run applications over the Internet took a giant leap forward this week that eventually may see them rival or replace traditional boxed software as we know it.(DFP)+++

Microsoft broadband device shuts down during FCC test
A Microsoft device that federal regulators are testing to see if it will safely transmit high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves “unexpectedly shut down,” the company said Friday.(TST)+++

Start-ups lose their sizzle
A slumping stock market has stalled the Silicon Valley public offering assembly line that produced almost two dozen of them last year, and that slowdown will probably slow the creation of new start-ups over the next year or two. (SJM)+++

Vindu’s View: Our love-hate relationship with Comcast
When everything works properly, Comcast is quite impressive. In February, for example, the nation’s largest cable provider launched Internet service of 16 megabits per second in the Bay Area – double its previous top speed and almost triple what its nearest competitor, AT&T, offers.(SJM)+++

Craigslist introduces Web sites in four additional languages
Craigslist, the Web site that helps users find apartments, jobs and dates, added pages in French, German, Portuguese and Italian. (SJM)+++

Apple gains after Bank of America’s iPhone forecast
Apple shares rose after Bank of America said forecasts for iPhone sales may be too low because the company is about to start building a version of the device that uses a faster Internet connection. (SJM)+++

Tech-savvy rally for access to Net
Bearing video cameras, laptops and cell phones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest. (SJM)+++

So where’s that Web video shakeout?
The ranks of video start-ups were supposed to have been trimmed by now. Are they just tardy or is there really gold in the sector? (CNET)+++

Dave Stewart, Nokia envision brave new mobile world
Eurythmics musician talks about Nokia’s new Artist Advisory Council, created to foster an artist-friendly climate within the company.(CNET)+++

Open XML appears to clear ISO standard vote
Amid complaints over Microsoft’s influence at national standards bodies, tallies from official and unofficial sources show that Office Open XML will pass as ISO standard.(CNET)+++

Microhoo: When will the mating dance end?
CNET News.com editor in chief expects the parties to wed this year. The honeymoon will be short, and Jerry Yang can go back to being chief Yahoo and not chief executive. (CNET)+++

New York City subpoenas creator of text messaging code
Creator of mass text messaging system used to aid protesters during 2004 Republican National Convention is resisting releasing data on its users. (CNET)+++

Report: Complaints trigger rewrite of Photoshop Express terms
It appears Adobe is responding to concerns about a surprising clause in its terms of service that basically gives it the right to do anything it wants with users’ photos. (CNET)+++

Flash flaw leads to Vista laptop’s fall
The last day of the Pwn to Own contest at the CanSecWest conference saw a Windows Vista laptop taken down by hackers who exploited a newly discovered flaw in Adobe’s Flash.(CNET)+++

Google goes dark for Earth Hour
Search giant makes an environmental gesture by turning the lights out on the U.S. version of its search page. (CNET)+++

Malware to blame in supermarket data breach
Malicious software somehow found its way onto grocery chain’s servers, which led to the security breach announced earlier this month compromising up to 4.2 million credit cards.(CNET)+++

Backlash over ISP music tax idea
Fans don’t trust record companies, which is why a Warner exec should have been more careful in broaching a plan to collect music fees from them.(CNET)+++

Attackers booby-trap searches at top Web sites
Growing number of sites are affected including USAToday.com, Target.com, Walmart.com, and several sites owned by CNET Networks, the publisher of News.com. (CNET)+++