Reuters - It’s the first time songs
performed on “American Idol” have been made available for
immediate download on iTunes — and the audience’s ability to
make an instant-gratification purchase has paid off handsomely
for winner David Cook.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The syncing software has been overhauled to improve the speed, stability, and features for the latest Mac OS X operating system.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gomez CTO Imad Mouline says Web 2.0 applications are pushing even simple retailers to provide the same level of richness as major Web players to maintain their brand presence.

Reuters - Overstock.com said on Friday it filed
a lawsuit to challenge a New York law requiring Internet
retailers to collect and pay New York state taxes on sales to
New York consumers even if the retailer does not have a
physical presence in New York.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The reason for RIM’s success? It’s been able to broaden the appeal of the BlackBerry to more than just professionals, an IDC report found.

AP - Federal antitrust regulators have cleared activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s purchase of another $1.5 billion of shares of Internet company Yahoo Inc.

NewsFactor - An Android demonstration took center stage this week at the Google I/O event in San Francisco attended by 2,900 developers. The latest version of the mobile platform was introduced amid nearly 100 in-depth technical sessions about Google’s developer products and general Web application development.

AFP - Two Internet sites were banned Friday by a French court from taking online bets in France on matches at the ongoing Roland-Garros tennis championship in Paris.

Reuters - Time Warner Cable Inc plans to offer
subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their
television screens as part of an overall home networking
system, Chief Executive Glenn Britt said on Friday.

NewsFactor - Teenage hackers temporarily hijacked and defaced several Comcast Web sites and redirected user e-mail in an exploit that appears to expose fundamental weaknesses in the Internet’s Domain Name System. The hackers, known as Defiant and EBK, apparently used “social engineering” — persuading insiders to hand over account information — to break into Comcast’s account at domain registrar Network Solutions.