Steven Musil / CNET News:
Baidu hacking lawsuit allowed to proceed — Baidu, China’s leading Internet search company, has a “plausible” case against its U.S.-based domain registry for allegedly allowing a hacking attack that left the site disabled and defaced, a U.S. judge ruled Thursday.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
G4 Channel to Become 4G in a Week of Sprint Promotion — NEXT week the cable channel G4 will morph into 4G. — In a letter-swapping promotion for Sprint Nextel’s next-generation wireless Internet service, the name of the channel will change for seven days, affecting all its logos and shows.
Scott Merrill / CrunchGear:
New business version of PogoPlug coming soon — The plucky little PogoPlug, which I reviewed last December, has seen a number of modest updates in the months since. All of these updates are rolled out automatically, so unless you’re following the PogoPlug blog you might never know about them.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Meet the Web Database Company Google Just Bought (Hint: Not Metaweb) — Google is in the process of acquiring ITA Software, an airfare information provider that brings the company into the realm of vertical travel search. It also creates potentially awkward competition with ITA customers like Kayak and Bing.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs — After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform …
Computerworld:
DNS gains added measure of security starting today — Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World (US) — The 13 globally distributed server clusters — known within Internet engineering circles as the Root Zone – will begin cryptographically signing DNS look-ups today.
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
“Millions” Of Home Routers Vulnerable To Web Hack — The upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas offers an annual parade of security researchers revealing new ways to break various elements of the Internet. But few of the talks have titles quite as alarming as one on this year’s schedule …