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- Coelho praises Web book versions at Frankfurt fair
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Distributing digital versions of books online for free can boost rather than damage traditional book sales, best-selling author Paulo Coelho said on Tuesday at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
- Bloomberg hires NBC veteran to run TV, online ops
(Reuters)
 Reuters - News and financial data provider Bloomberg LP hired veteran television news executive Andrew Lack to run its expanding television, interactive and radio operations.
- Google, Yahoo seek to avoid antitrust suit: report
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Google Inc and Yahoo Inc are in talks with the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement, The Wall Street Journal said citing lawyers close to the effort.
- Reports: Beckham staff arrested over alleged theft
(AP)
 AP - British newspapers are reporting that two people who worked for David Beckham and his wife were arrested after some of the couple's possessions were spotted on an Internet auction site.
- EA turns to online games to boost Asian presence
(AP)
AP - Electronic Arts Inc. is turning to online games to boost its limited presence in Asia, the regional president of the U.S. video game maker said Tuesday.
- Brightcove upgrades video platform
(CNET)
CNET - Brightcove, the maker of online-video tools, released its new Brightcove 3 video publishing platform on Monday.
- Vaunted Michelin guide adds mobile Internet to its review menu
(AFP)
 AFP - Michelin guides, lauded as roadmaps to the world's finest cuisine, will be delivered to iPhones and other "smart" mobile devices as the century-old publication embraces the Internet age.
- Ringo Starr says he has no time for fan mail
(AFP)
 AFP - Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has told his fans in a bizarre online video message to stop sending him fan mail as he is too busy to sign or read it, and it will only be "tossed".
- Days of rage on the Internet
(CNET)
CNET - Must be the special circumstances regarding current events, but folks again are losing their minds in very public fashion--on the Internet.
- Doctor orders Janet Jackson to postpone tour
(AP)
 AP - The doctor has again ordered Janet Jackson to postpone a return to her "Rock Witchu" tour. Jackson was scheduled to resume her tour Monday night at the Turning Stone Resort in New York after canceling a show over the weekend in Connecticut. A message posted on the resort and casino's Web site stated the show had been canceled at the advice of Jackson's doctor.
- Google to appeal German copyright decisions
(CNET)
CNET - Google lost two copyright cases in Germany on Monday but the search company reportedly plans to appeal.
- FCC Green-Lights Wireless Free Internet
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The Federal Communications Commission has released an engineering report that opens the door for the FCC to apportion a chunk of wireless spectrum for free Internet services across the nation.
- Microsoft set to release Silverlight 2
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft's Silverlight 2 browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications will be generally available on Tuesday along with supportive development tools, the company said during a teleconference on Monday morning.
- Joost relaunching TV site as online shows abound
(AP)
AP - Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Hulu to Joost a site that plans to relaunch Tuesday to make it a more interactive experience.
- Free US wireless network a step closer
(AFP)
 AFP - A free nationwide wireless Internet network has moved one step closer to becoming a reality in the United States following a key finding by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- FCC Approves Free Wireless Broadband Proposal
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday gave a tentative stamp of approval to a free, national broadband service that will block access to porn.
- Twitter Kills IM Support, For Now
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Anxiously awaiting the return of Twitter IM? Don't hold your breath; the micro-blogging site has no plans to restore instant messaging to the site any time soon.
- AT&T to sell U-verse at Wal-Mart, Circuit City
(Reuters)
 Reuters - AT&T Inc plans to sell its U-verse high-speed Internet and video service at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores starting this month, stepping up competition against cable service providers.
- Just A Minute With: Paulo Coelho on digital media
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The promotional power of piracy and artistic merits of blogging are among the themes to be discussed by bestselling author Paulo Coelho in his opening address to the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
- AC/DC turns off iTunes for "Black Ice"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - For those about to rock, AC/DC salutes you. Unless, that is, you want to buy the Australian heavy metal group's newest album, "Black Ice," on iTunes, or anywhere but Wal-Mart when it drops in record stores on October 20.
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