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• VeriSign to spend more than $300M on tech upgrades (AP)

  AP - VeriSign Inc. — whose technology is key to allowing Internet users to access Web sites — says it plans to pour more than $300 million over the next decade into upgrading its infrastructure.

• OnLive Plans On-Demand Streaming of Video Games (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - In a move to shake up the online gaming industry, OnLive has announced PC and Mac versions of its on-demand, instant-play games will roll out in June during the E3 2010 show. Here's the rub: Gamers don't have to buy a console, and they can get broadband speeds.

• Summary Box: Report on online censorship (AP)

  AP - THE INTERNET'S `ENEMIES': A dozen countries were deemed by Reporters Without Borders to be the most repressive at censorship.

• Glance: Countries in Internet censorship report (AP)

  AP - Reporters Without Borders issued its annual report on countries least tolerant of Internet freedoms:

• Rights group puts Australia on Internet watchlist (AFP)

  AFP - A top media rights watchdog listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report published Friday on countries that pose a threat of Internet censorship.

  
  

• Report finds online censorship more sophisticated (AP)

  AP - Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday.

  
  

• Google honours Iranian women bloggers (AFP)

  AFP - Internet giant Google on Thursday joined a top journalists' rights group in rewarding a collective of Iranian women bloggers for their reporting on last year's post-election unrest.

  
  

• Why the FCC National Broadband Plan Should Include Public Wi-Fi (PC World)

  PC World - As the FCC prepares to release its National Broadband Plan next week, I hope it will address expanding Wi-Fi as part of improving mobile data access. It appears no amount of repurposed radio spectrum is likely to meet the expanding wireless data demand for very long.

• FCC Launches Broadband Test Site for Consumers (PC World)

  PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has added tools to the Broadband.gov Web site to help users measure their broadband speeds or to report that they do not have broadband available.

• OnLive taking videogames into the Internet "cloud" (AFP)

  AFP - California startup OnLive plans a June 17 launch for a service that streams videogames over the Internet, meaning players can avoid buying expensive consoles or packaged software.

  
  

• Google Tests New Blogger Layout Design Tool (PC World)

  PC World - Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.

• Pink Floyd wins UK court battle with EMI label (Reuters)

  Reuters - British rock band Pink Floyd won its court battle with EMI on Thursday with a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the Internet from the group's concept albums.

• British Conservatives promise superfast Internet (Reuters)

  Reuters - Investing in a high-speed Internet network would open up a new global trade route for Britain, boosting economic recovery and creating thousands of jobs, the opposition Conservative party said on Thursday.

• Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

  AP - Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.

  
  

• Faraway Iditarod fans feed race habit online (AP)

  AP - Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she'll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of Nome.

  
  

• China lawmakers test out microblogging (AFP)

  AFP - Mao Zedong may have used paintbrush and ink to write classic poems in calligraphy, but his grandson is firmly in the 21st century -- micro-blogging by laptop from China's annual session of parliament.

  
  

• Google says talks with China ongoing (AFP)

  AFP - Google said Thursday that it was in talks with China on the future of the US Internet giant in the Asian nation, after the firm threatened to leave over cyberattacks and state web censorship.

  
  

• Summary Box: Huge 'botnet' only slowed by takedown (AP)

  AP - BOTNET AMPUTATED: An Internet provider thought to be helping spread malicious software was taken down, apparently cutting criminals off from millions of personal computers under their control.

• Hands On: Google Reader Play - A Beta Browsing Tool (PC World)

  PC World - Google launched an experimental Web browsing tool called Google Reader Play Wednesday that allows you to browse content associated with a Google Reader news feed. Google Reader is a Web-based content aggregator that assembles RSS news feeds for online or offline reading. To use Google Reader Play you do not need a Google Reader account, but if you do Google will be able to personalize the experience with your RSS preferences.

• Comcast Defends NBC Deal (PC Magazine)

  PC Magazine - Comcast again defended its proposed merger with NBC Universal Thursday, telling the Senate Commerce Committee that while the success of the deal is "not a sure thing," it will not adversely affect competition, cable rates, or the availability of Internet-based TV.