CNET - Update 7:59 a.m. PDT: Added link to Carl Icahn’s blog about his thoughts on the Yahoo shareholder meeting.

Reuters - Australian medical authorities are
warning employees against using an online company that is
planning to sell fake doctors’ sick notes that would allow
Australians and New Zealanders to take more time off.

PC World - Readers try out a search engine named Cuil, debate whether Vista deserves a second chance, and mull over Guitar Hero’s song list.

Reuters - Waiting for a company to reply to your
online query? You could be waiting a long time, with an
Australian survey finding nearly 60 percent of large companies
don’t respond to customer’s enquiries.

CNET - On this week’s EIC Squared podcast ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I discuss Dell’s ambitions to get into the crowded music player industry, Microsoft’s interesting focus group with Vista and how the broadband wars are shaking out.

AP - Music fans unable to attend the Newport folk and jazz festivals will be able to listen to some concerts online.

Reuters - Video-sharing websites like YouTube must
do more to protect people from the Internet’s “dark side” such
as pornography or images of child abuse or bullying, an
influential group of British parliamentarians said on Thursday.

PC World - Microsoft has launched a redesign of its Live.com Web site.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Dell launched a line of MP3 music players in 2003, but poor sales prompted the company to pull the plug in 2006.

CNET - Internet service provider EarthLink could be interested in buying AOL’s dial-up business, its CEO told The Wall Street Journal in a story published Wednesday.