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An image from Six Days in Fallujah, a game from Konami and Atomic Games. Credit: Atomic Games — Six Days in Fallujah, the controversial video game about the battle in Iraq, is rumored to have been canceled because of public outcry. Asahi via Guardian — Qualcomm agreed to pay Broadcom $861 million to put to bed a long-standing dispute over chip technology. The deal means that innovations in cellphones could now move faster. VentureBeat — Apple and Verizon Wireless are reportedly talking about bringing the iPhone to the can-you-hear-me-now network. MocoNews — Heirs of author John Steinbeck are joining other…

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Socialcast is a closed social networking service for business clients. Companies get their own private Twitter-like channel to exchange information.

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In Tuesday’s New York Times, op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd launched a snarky assault on Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams. The column led to speculation over whether is the Twitter account, @maureendowd, is hers.

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Napster creator Shawn Fanning talks about his latest venture, Rupture, a social networking site for gamers set to go live this summer.

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Geocities was only a few hipsters away from a kitschy revival, but Yahoo is no longer accepting new accounts. Credit: screenshot via Yahoo Geocities — In 1999, Yahoo paid $3 billion for GeoCities, a free homepage hosting service. Yahoo will close it down later this year. Bloomberg News via LAT — RealNetworks wants to release software that allows easy ripping of DVDs but Hollywood studios are taking the company to court. NYT — A study by LexisNexis shows the technology gap between generations in the workplace. ReadWriteWeb — YouTube launched a real-time feature which lets users see what friends are…

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This week Google unveiled an odd but interesting new feature of its image search capabilities. Similar images lets the user look for images that are visually close to a target image without being exactly the same.

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By the time voting closed today at noon pacific time, only 0.32% of Facebook’s users had weighed in on the question of whether the site’s lengthy new policy documents were better than the lengthy old ones. Why did Facebook so grossly overestimate interest in its experiment with online government?

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In Tuesday’s New York Times, op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd launched a snarky assault on Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams. The column led to speculation over whether is the Twitter account, @maureendowd, is hers.

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MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolf exits the social networking site Credit: Robert Scoblevia Flickr. — MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolf is leaving the company before his contract is up, signaling News Corp.’s plans for a management overhaul. LAT — Microsoft is testing MSN homepages that are based on one topic, starting with entertainment. paidContent — Two guys in Philadelphia attempt to the break world record for most messages sent in a month. After 217,000 texts, one got an unexpected $26,000 bill. AP via Yahoo — Despite obvious economic difficulties, Apple posted a 15.2% rise in profit. Shares jumped this morning….

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Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker app, made by a third party-developer.

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The news that a House committee was reopening its investigation into security risks posed by file-sharing software reminded me of something one of my pals in the computer-security field once told me. The biggest vulnerabilities aren’t caused by deficiencies in machines or their software; they’re caused by the humans who use them.

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The Baby Shaker app riled critics and was promptly yanked from the app store.

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iPhone Apps to make your Earth Day greener.

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Hulu loves TVs — ads, that is.

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In Wednesday’s New York Times, op-ed columnist Maureen Bowd launched a snarky assault on Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams. The Twitter account, @maureendowd, isn’t hers, despite claims to the contrary.

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Foreign Cyber-attacks in the U.S. are on the rise — or at least the Pentagon’s detection of them. Credit: randomduck via Flickr — Google has two new creations: a similar-images finder and a time-line version of Google News. BBC — Adobe is developing a new version of Flash in HD that would work on Internet-capable TVs — without a browser. Comcast, Disney and Netflix have already signed on to support it. ArsTechnica — Using Facebook Connect to harvest users’ information, Facebook is rumored to have plans for an ad network. Silicon Alley Insider — Spies have hacked the Pentagon’s Joint…

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The news that a House committee was reopening its investigation into security risks posed by file-sharing software reminded me of something one of my pals in the computer-security field once told me. The biggest vulnerabilities aren’t caused by deficiencies in machines or their software; they’re caused by the humans who use them.

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Gavin Newsom wants to be governor. Credit: Josh Thompson via Flickr. — AT&T first-quarter profit slips, but it activates 1.6 million iPhones and beats analyst expectations. AppleInsider — Photo-sharing site Flickr introduces a facial recognition service. CNet — Yahoo posts a drop in profit and plans to cut jobs. Again. LAT — Wouldn’t opera be better if it was compressed into 140 characters? A Twitter contest to sum up great works takes the idea and runs with it. Culture Monster — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom throws his hat into the gubernatorial ring. LAT — Why Hollywood doesn’t have an…

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At the National Assn. of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas today, Sensio Technologies showed off live 3D video streaming through the Internet. It was yet another illustration of how 3D technology is moving from the theater to the home, albeit with some nontrivial hurdles yet to cross.

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The L.A. Times News Reader and Sports Reader are two new iPhone apps available for download on Apple’s App Store.

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Genius Product’s game, Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, is at the center of a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard. Credit: Genius Products. The publishers of Scratch: the Ultimate DJ, an upcoming video game, said today that it had won a temporary restraining order that forces Activision Blizzard Inc. to return software code and custom-made DJ controllers. Genius Products, the Santa Monica distributor of movies and television shows on DVD, filed a lawsuit last week alleging that Activision, which is developing its own title called DJ Hero, conspired to “sabotage” Genius by, among other things, withholding code and other assets Genius needed to…

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Woodland Hills company ReachLocal launched an ad exchange today that lets advertisers buy spots on more sites.

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Credit: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. — Oracle’s Larry Ellison steals Sun-shine from IBM. LAT — Online video website Metacafe renovates, separates the pros from the amateurs. paidContent — Fox teams up with MySpace to launch citizen journalism website, uReport. TechCrunch — Physicist Stephen Hawking “very ill.” Reuters — Hulu rumored to hit iPhone. SiliconAlleyInsider — How to make (or collect) money from social networking. LightspeedVentures — Opposition to Google’s book settlement grows as the Internet Archives files to intervene. NYT — Alex Pham

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A Google search page allows users to easily search for pirated download files. But does that really make Google the next Pirate Bay?

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AT&T is testing the potential of doubling its 3G speeds, according to a report.

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