Reuters – Essentially the first feature-length YouTube video, “The Virginity Hit” updates the horny-teenager movie to the Internet era.
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EBay wins a round in court against Craigslist (AP)
AP – In a skirmish between two Internet heavy hitters with a tangled relationship, eBay Inc. has convinced a court that it was wronged by antitakeover moves adopted by Craigslist after eBay started encroaching on its online classifieds turf in the U.S.
US videogame sales continue downward slide (AFP)
AFP – US videogame sales slid again in August as the industry hoped that hot titles and new motion-sensing controllers due out in coming months would reverse its fortunes.
Apple Relaxes Rules On Software Tools For App Developers (Investor’s Business Daily)
Investor’s Business Daily – Apple (NMS:AAPL) is relaxing restrictions on developers who make apps for the popular iPhone and iPad devices, opening the door for Adobe Systems (NMS:ADBE) and others to make third-party software-creation tools.
Court restores eBay stake in Craigslist (AFP)
AFP – Online auction giant eBay claimed victory on Thursday in a legal tussle with Craigslist over its stake in the popular online classifieds website.
Best Buy to offer Amazon’s Kindle e-reader (AFP)
AFP – Best Buy said Thursday that it will begin selling Amazon’s Kindle electronic reader this year, making the US consumer electronics giant the third brick-and-mortar US store to offer the device.
OmniFocus 1.8 gets better organization, sharing features (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com – The Omni Group has updated OmniFocus, its flexible task and project manager, adding a number of organization, sharing, and sync updates.
Prank Auto-Tune friends with T-Pain Dialer (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com – Smule’s I Am T-Pain app gained immense popularity last year for letting iPhone users emulate rapper T-Pain’s trademark auto-tune vocal styling. Rather than let its popular app fade into obscurity, Smule has updated it with a major new feature: the T-Pain Dialer, which lets you send auto-tune messages to anyone with a phone.
Host company pulls plug on Florida pastor’s website (Reuters)
Reuters – The obscure Christian pastor who plans to mark the ninth anniversary of September 11 attacks by burning copies of the Koran has had his website pulled from the Internet, the hosting company said on Thursday.
Judge rules for eBay over Craigslist rights plan (Reuters)
Reuters – A judge rescinded a protective measure adopted by the board of popular classifieds site Craigslist to block a potential hostile takeover by e-commerce site eBay Inc.

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