The mainstream media smelled the blood in the water and rushed to cover the now-public battle between the Department of Justice and Google over giving the government access to reams of search data.

$1.99 downloads of recent episodes of shows like “The Office,” “Lost,” and “Desperate Housewives” may have led to ratings gains for all three programs.

Only Fox hasn’t made a full-length episode of a broadcast TV show available in some manner online, now that CBS has plans to do so with ‘Threshold’.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced “one more thing” would be the video iPod with ABC content available through iTunes 6.

Apple launched the video iPod, and Disney CEO Bob Iger has agreed to sell episodes of some ABC and Disney programming through iTunes.

ABC News and the Washington Post have embraced blogging as a way to better connect with their online readers.

Apparently, Google’s satellite mapping technology is working a little too well for the comfort of the South Korean leadership structure.

Sunnyvale perennial portal power Yahoo announced on Monday its collaboration with CNN.com and ABC news to provide video news feeds for Yahoo’s news page starting in September.

News feeds from the two news media companies will be featured on Yahoo’s web site in two forms.

Are your sales people burnt out? You may want to check. Have they clocked too many twelve hour days? Do they have enough frequent flier miles to charter a jet to Mars? Are their faces permanently skewed into perpetual smiles from chatting with hundreds of thousands of trade show attendees?

Major news network offers downloadable news and information to PlayStation Portable users.

With the recent reports of Google’s massive surge in profits ($369million) for the first quarter of 2005 I can’t help but wonder how much of it is due to bloggers like us.

The Russian Rocket Soyuz arrived at the International Space Station early on Sunday morning, bringing fresh supplies and scientific equipment and the promise of a trip home for the two-man ISS crew.

Yesterday a Russian rocket carrying a 3-man international crew was launched from Kazakhstan.

Earlier this morning, a Russian rocket was launched from Kazakhstan carrying a 3-man international crew. The rocket’s destination is the International Space Station and its mission is to relieve the current ISS crew.

Oil prices rose for the first day in six with speculation of an increase in demand limting increases in gasoline inventories.

Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel with inventories in the U.S. increasing and gasoline futures falling.

No, the Google Video search tool is not for finding naughty videos-use Yahoo Video for that (please, if you have kids, set on it’s filter). Google Video, on the other hand, is a product of Google Labs and it enables you to search their growing archive of televised content, by looking for words in the transcript.

Talk of increased production from OPEC has had a roller-coaster effect on oil prices recently. Yesterday, when talk of the increase was introduced, oil prices increased. Today, however, has seen the opposite occur.

Skepticism concerning OPEC and their ability to increase daily oil output is causing oil prices to continue their price increase per barrel.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner is stepping down a year early and Robert Iger will be taking his place.