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Google's Street View feature on Google Maps is certainly no stranger to privacy concerns. It has attracted lawsuits, but it is still moving right along. Google even dismissed one lawsuit bringer as being "out of touch with the real world."

Apple is everywhere in the news this week, with its big score on the American Customer Satisfaction Index, its MobileMe problems, its iPhone 3G lawsuit, and now issues with the Chinese government. Apple's iTunes store has been blocked in China for pushing a controversial benefit album.

An ActiveX control used to view Microsoft Access report snapshots poses a potential avenue for exploitation.

Overjoyed investors have made Google's stock go up by about 20 percent since the company reported its earnings.  comScore, on the other hand, temporarily lost eight or so percent of its value.

Tell that to Bear Sterns.Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, formerly in charge of Netscape, former owner of Weblogs, Inc. who sold to AOL for a reported $25 million, has the answer for startups worried about getting through economic hard times: lots and lots of money.He's a Fordham alum, so you know where to send your contributions.Not known for his silver tongue, the Brooklyn-native reportedly replied to a small, perhaps slightly inebriated group of SES New York karaoke goers' concerns about the economic disaster the US is headed for with some sage-like advice.

Google and Facebook, sweethearts of the Internet who would never face legal challenges on this

This story reads like the plot line of the type of film the main subject is known to perform in (not known by me, mind you, it's the first I've heard of her). But here goes anyway: Cop pulls over porn star; porn star "talks" him out of citing her; porn star posts pics of the "conversation" on her blog; cop is in deep, deep trouble.

YouTube appears to be out of options in Brazil.