"Microsoft Corp. said today that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site tonight."

  Google announces a new way of handling the dreaded Supplemental Index: "...we're coming to the next major milestone in the elimination of the artificial difference between indices: rather than searching some part of our index in more depth for obscure queries, we're now searching the whole index for every query."

  "The infected machine's browser then reads advertisements from a server at the replacement address rather than from Google."

  "Qualcomm Inc., MetroPCS Wireless Inc. and US Cellular Corp. were others among 266 applicants potentially seeking to bid in a list released last night by the Federal Communications Commission."

  Google is now supporting an XML sitemap of video assets for your site - one that that includes lots of extra information, including title, content location, player location, thumbnail location, whether family friendly, description, and duration.

  "So, I've got a store with thousands of products. Those products can be accessed through various paths within the site. For example, I may have a What's New, Clearance, Specials, etc. that all contain "another"access point for that content. What can I do to prevent those multiple access points from being indexed? "(-subscription required)

  "Viacom ramped up its offensive against Google yesterday, saying that it would not back down from its $1 billion lawsuit against the internet search engine."

  "...despite the CAPTCHA registration, I keep getting spam registered users."

  "The United States has reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada to keep its Internet gambling market closed to foreign companies, but is continuing talks with India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and Costa Rica, U.S. trade officials said on Monday."

  "At Microsoft, Mr. Schmidt's remarks are fighting words. Traditional software installed on personal computers is where Microsoft makes its living, and its executives see the prospect of 90 percent of computing tasks migrating to the Web-based cloud as a fantasy."

  "WebmasterWorld members discuss the eternal problem of combatting large volumes of trash and spam e-mails"(-subscription required)

  "The software, called Hyper-V, is available for customers to download..."

  "A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read."

  Cool new feature in Webmaster Tools - you can go into Diagnostics and Content Analysis, and it will now tell you if you have issues with duplicate titles or meta descriptions, or non-indexable content.