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Google and Yahoo! are in the middle of trying to convince the federal government (namely the Justice Department) that their search advertising deal is not an antitrust issue. This has been going on for months as they've tried to convince the entire world of the same.

Don't be surprised if Google starts to get a lot of positive press overseas.  A man who's something of a media expert - for four years, he served as editor of the BBC show Newsnight - will be joining the search giant as its head of communications and public affairs for the UK, Ireland, and Benelux regions.

Antitrust regulators will take a closer look at the potential implications of an advertising deal made by Google and Yahoo last month.

The Department of Justice took long enough to make up its mind; both "no" and "yes" are pretty short words.  But in regards to the XM-Sirius merger, the DoJ finally landed on a drawn-out version of the latter.

Companies continue throwing money at IT projects and accept a pathetic 30% success rate. The IT field is filled with complexity and the fast pace seems overwhelming at times, yet we as professionals should adapt to the changing environment and use available best practices to increase the success rate of IT projects.

Your Web activity may be scrutinized a little more closely in coming days, and records of it are going to stick around for longer than in the past. The U.S. Justice Department has asked giants AOL, Google, and Microsoft to hold onto accounts of their users' online actions for up to two years. The information is intended to help with investigations into terrorism and child pornography.

A legal brief filed with the US District Court in San Jose by Google's attorneys criticized the Department of Justice prosecutors involved in the federal government's grab for Google's search records.

The Global Internet Freedom Task Force formed by the US State Department will focus on forming a foreign policy response to governmental threats to Internet freedom.