Viddler

Amazon to offer DRM-free mp3s. No specs yet on prices but EMI has jumped in, look for other labels to follow. Threat to iTunes? Not really. Jobs has made it clear that they intend to follow suit and have even outlined the specifics including $1.29 per download and expects that half the songs will be available in this format.

Schmidt faced

Sex is more expensive than porn? the domain names at least. Last year sex.com sold for a hot and heavy $11 mill while porn.com could only manage a flacid $9.5 million last week.

Google is making some changes to their SERPS, merging videos, news, local, images, books etc.
Google Analytics gets a makeover.

Around the World Wide Web

Estonia is under cyber attack after removing a Soviet statue from Tallin to a quieter location. Reports reveal that the initial attacks on banks, newspapers and schools came from Russia but the latest wave was from all over indicating that they were most likely copycat attacks.

International listeners are being blocked from Pandora.com after they've been struggling to pay the outrageous royalty fees imposed by the Copyright Royalty Board

Iris on the Virus

Tech it Out

Sergey Brin marries his longtime sweetheart in the bahamas.

Clearing a major hurdle, the FCC has approved the iPhone.

Geek Psychic prediction: apple will be rolling out a notebook featuring a flash based data storage instead of a hard drive. Flash drives offers improved reliability, better shock resistance and lower power consumption in addition to increased performance compared to HDDs.

Skype looking at getting into gaming.