Yahoo's CTO offers an aggressive plan for the future of social networking, but Microsoft is moving in fast. 

Centralizing control will make it easier for customers to update information efficiently and share it across many social networking sites. 

Carriers, phone companies get together in anticipation of next-generation phone and Web publishing platform for smart handheld devices. 

Consumer groups ask Federal Trade Commission to create "do not track" list to help limit Internet companies' use of behavioral tracking and advertising techniques.

Google's App Engine is getting all the attention, but Amazon Web Services are already available. One analyst compares the two, while at least one end user says neither company offers enough support.

PubAccess gives publishers control over which ads appear, access to CPM sales, views of ad traffic, and the salesforce of Advertising.com.

Digital publishing is among the specialties benefitting from continuing growth in all but four states heavy with tech-centric employers. 

Record labels are accepting digital business models, but pushing online distributors for fees and royalties beyond what many expected to pay. 

Apple shores up anti-hack features in media player that has been targeted recently. 

Sensitive topics like Tibet and Tiananmen Square still off limits to surfers behind censorware firewalls. 

Media and Web companies flooded the tubes with April Fool's humor, about flying penguins, chairless airline discounts, interplanetary ambitions.

One museum is asking Australians to send in e-mails to help it document the shift in communication methods from analog to digital. 

Documents in the TXTmob case make it clear that ephemeral social-networking content is just as liable to subpoena as any other content. 

Another interoperability forum is needed because, Microsoft says, one company can develop all the technology required by the market.