AP - In the middle of the biggest-ever “Cyber Storm” war game to test the nation’s hacker defenses, someone quietly targeted the very computers used to conduct the exercise.

Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on
Thursday it reached a deal to buy digital audio books provider
Audible Inc for about $300 million, aiming to bolster its audio
download offerings.

AFP - Damage to undersea Internet cables hit business across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call centre industry, prompting appeals for people to limit their surfing.

PC World - An online advertiser that drove traffic to its Web sites by sending out spam with misleading subject lines has agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Communications Commission complaint charging that it failed to tell consumers they had to spend money to receive so-called free products, the FTC announced Wednesday.

NewsFactor - On Thursday, Amazon.com said it inked a deal to acquire Audible, the leading online digital audio bookstore.

PC World - Google is firing back at enterprise search vendor Autonomy, saying the company recently distributed a white paper that contains “significant inaccuracies” about Google’s Search Appliance.

Reuters - Egypt had less than half its Internet
capacity available on Thursday because of breaks in two
undersea cables that have also affected the Gulf region and
south Asia.

InfoWorld - Google is firing back at enterprise search vendor Autonomy, saying the company recently distributed a white paper that contains “significant inaccuracies” about Google’s Search Appliance.

Reuters - Russian fixed-line operator Comstar UTS
(CMSTq.L) said on Thursday it had started to build a mobile
broadband network using WiMAX technology in Armenia.

PC World - Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.