Viacom, YouTube air dirty laundry in legal battle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet....

Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools
LONDON (AP) -- Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?...

Hollywood and Bollywood join arms to fight piracy
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms Thursday to fight piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets....

Palm's phone sales slump and its stock dives
NEW YORK (AP) -- Palm Inc. reported sales figures Thursday that showed it's having a difficult time getting consumers to pay attention to its phones in a market dominated by iPhones and BlackBerrys. The company's shares plunged in after-hours trading....

Judge: Site must delay copying of broker reports
NEW YORK (AP) -- Settling a copyright dispute closely watched in the financial news industry, a judge on Thursday ordered a Web site to delay disseminating the stock recommendations of financial services firms long enough so that the firms can alert their clients first....

Net produces new generation of China activists
BEIJING (AP) -- Lin Xiuying believes her daughter bled to death after being gang-raped two years ago by a group of thugs that had ties to the police in their southern Chinese town....

Apple director, ex-auto executive York dies
DETROIT (AP) -- Jerome York, an Apple Inc. board member and a financial wizard credited with turning around Chrysler and IBM, died Thursday of a brain aneurysm. He was 71....

Sex.com creditors say domain's too hot for NY sale
NEW YORK (AP) -- The suitors for Sex.com have been put off for now....

Texan accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet
DALLAS (AP) -- A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday....

Parents oppose Philly school webcam spying lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Some suburban Philadelphia parents are seeking to halt a potential class-action lawsuit accusing their school district of using cameras in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home....