After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii.

News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.

He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.

Free tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities.

On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit.

How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle.

Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols.

Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates.

On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories.

The four, which will be released next week, are considered important, not critical, says Microsoft.

If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500 cheaper, but still expensive.

Sun-drenched country pushes for solar power, a soaring industry there.

"Missing greenhouse gas" called nitrogen trifluoride, used in production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could accelerate global warming, according to a report.

An open-source Twitter might create a true communication utility.

Report finds that most of Yahoo's top 20 Internet properties receive a greater share of traffic from a Google search, rather than a Yahoo search.

E-voting activist Avi Rubin says voting systems around the U.S. have improved since the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, noting that more states are using paper records as a backup to electronic voting systems.

Logitech's WiLife provides a working video surveillance system at a relatively low price, although it does have limitations compared to professional setups.

An in-house tool for testing Web-apps security at Google is now available for free download under the Apache 2.0 software license.

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Acceding to various requests, Google will blur the faces of people caught on camera by the French edition of its StreetView service, which so far follows only the route of the upcoming Tour de France.

The upcoming Patch Tuesday collection has no critical-level entries, according to Microsoft information released Thursday afternoon.

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The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive.

As a precautionary measure, the company is offering to enroll affected employees in Kroll's IDTheftSmart identity and credit protection program for a year.

Microsoft is working with Circuit City to offer a consumer software subscription service that includes its Office, Windows Live OneCare, Messenger, and Photo Gallery applications and services.

With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.

Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.

Using speech analytics, the technology identifies and masks credit card numbers and other sensitive information in audio recordings.

Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP.

In a case that could shut down RIM's network, the judge has granted a stay until the disputed patents are fully reviewed.

Michael Robertson says Microsoft's imposing lead in the desktop market means Linux should look to next-gen devices for growth.

Some 4.2 million high-speed Internet users received fiber in the first quarter of 2008 versus 2.5 million who received cable, Point Topic analysts said.

The International Organization for Standardization will assume responsibility for publishing specs for the current version, and for updating and developing future versions.

Investors reacted negatively to the graphics chipmaker's revised earnings estimate and the news that it would take up to a $200 million charge for products that failed in notebooks.

In order to accommodate the restrictions that Apple placed on iPhone apps to conserve system resources, this version of Google Talk shuts down if you launch another application.

The Nokia 6220 classic design includes 3G connectivity, compatibility with Microsoft Office applications, Bluetooth capabilities, and a 5-megapixel camera.

The owner of YouTube has to turn over user login IDs, records showing when users watched videos, their IP addresses, and numbers that identify the videos.

AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

AP - Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages.

AP - A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.

CNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.

AFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.

PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not...

NewsFactor - The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are suing the Department of Justice to obtain official records concerning the U.S. government's possible use of cell-phone-tracking technology to spy on individuals without first obtaining a court order based on probable cause.

NewsFactor - Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone based on the company's open mobile-computing platform. Before you yawn about reading yet another product-introduction story -- especially about a handset that lacks 3G capability -- what sets the Neo FreeRunner apart is that it really is open, literally and figuratively.

NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.

Reuters - The deteriorating U.S. economy and slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week.

Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.