The Macalope Weekly: Familiar territory (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - The iPad is now available for purchase and iPad sales figures are available for loose speculation! Microsoft phone fans find themselves in familiar territory and what’s that Braying sound?

PHOTOS: World Heritage Sites
UNESCO has named new sites deemed worthy of preservation.

Viacom, YouTube air dirty laundry in legal battle (AP)

AP - Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet.

Beware: Malware Attacks Facebook, B-Ball & Gossip Sites (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Cybercriminals have been busy this week running scams that target Facebook users, college basketball fans, and celebrity gossip watchers. Security experts are warning about recent attacks with nasty payloads.

Smartphones not enough for carriers at CTIA (Reuters)
Reuters - Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow.

Facebook News Readers More Loyal Than Googlers (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - First, Facebook dethroned Google as the most trafficked web site in the United States, and now the social networking community has proven to have an extremely loyal following among news readers, potentially threatening the dominant position held by Google News. So says a recent Hitwise survey.