AFP - The Internet was flooded with electronic tears for Michael Jackson, with micro-blogging site Twitter notching up hundreds of tributes every minute including many from fellow celebrities.

AP - Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' had to be built from the ground up.

AP - News stories from North Korea's official mouthpiece are available on Twitter.

PC World - China Telecom is in talks with Research In Motion (RIM) about offering the BlackBerry in China, as the carrier looks to expand the handset selection for its next-generation mobile network.

Reuters - China on Thursday stepped up accusations that Google is spreading obscene content over the Internet, a day after U.S. officials urged Beijing to abandon plans for controversial filtering software on new computers.

AP - There's something different about a group of fifth-graders graduating this week in New York City.

PC World - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has suspended the majority of a judgment levied against two defendants accused of selling bogus security software to up to a million consumers.

NewsFactor - The iPhone jailbreakers are at it again. Two different outfits are announcing iPhone software hacks that allow consumers to use their phones on networks other than the exclusive carriers.

AP - Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter.

AFP - Too much time spent on the Internet is causing increasing friction between couples in Ireland, a marriage counselling service said Friday.

Macworld.com - Savvy billionaire super-investor Warren Buffett is the latest to chime in on Steve Jobs’s “secret” liver transplant. (Coincidentally, my band, Secret Liver Transplant, is playing tonight in Boston—you should all drop by).

InfoWorld - Google moved to boost its Android mobile device software platform this week by offering developers a kit that enables them to call native code from Android applications.

Reuters - IBM accused its former mergers and acquisitions chief of misusing resources, as part of a lawsuit that seeks to remove him from his new job at rival Dell Inc .

Macworld.com - Aspyr Media has announced the release of Call of Duty Deluxe Edition, a $30 download available through its GameAgent online download service.

Macworld.com - Who’s got time to talk about Steve Jobs’ liver when the iPhone is a harbinger of economic DOOM! Meanwhile, buyers give us the four-two-zero on netbook ownership and porn finally arrives at the App Store! Sort of!

PC World - There was a lot of confusion yesterday regarding the removal of the first porn iPhone app, 'Hottest Girls.' First everyone assumed Apple gasped at its oversight and barred it. Then the developer claimed his servers were crushed by overwhelming demand and he had to retool. Then Apple made a statement published to CNN's site:

AP - Michael Jackson's death has led to skyrocketing sales of his music and videos online.

PC Magazine - Verizon Wireless put Sprint and T-Mobile on notice Thursday with the release of an HTC smartphone that's cheaper and more flexible than devices from its two competitors.

Macworld.com - Repent, ye sinners for—wait, what? This just in: those fearing the imminent collapse of all that is pure and good about the App Store can relax and go back to fearing the imminent collapse of our economic system. The scourge of pornography has been wiped from the App Store.

Reuters - Less than a week before a deadline for PC makers to install censorship software on all computers sold in China, some say they are prepared to implement it even as they quietly continue to lobby against it.

NewsFactor - Apple has confirmed it pulled the controversial Hottest Girls app from its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch because the developer added nude pictures after the app was approved.

Macworld.com - Fred Graver is an unlikely iPhone developer. His background is in comedy, where he’s been both a writer and producer. He has Will Wright’s hair, Steve Martin’s casual wit, and the nerdy excitement of a Trekkie. He has arguably one of the driest Wikipedia pages ever.

PC World - An undisclosed source has apparently told VG247 that Sony's PlayStation 3 is in for a radical interface overhaul in an upcoming pre-holiday firmware update. PS3 Firmware 3.0 (v2.8 was just released--see pic above) will be 'a completely new system,' writes the site, citing its source as calling the update 'a huge overhaul,' comparable to Microsoft's New Xbox Experience 'in some respects.'

PC World - The hack masters at the iPhone Dev Team earlier today announced the iPhone 3GS is officially jailbreakable. The news comes less than a week after Apple released the latest iteration of its wonder gadget featuring new toys like video capability and a digital compass. The Dev Team said that while the iPhone 3GS jailbreak poses some extra technical difficulties, the new phone is susceptible to the same jailbreak and unlock techniques used on earlier iPhone models.

PC Magazine - Despite an initial statement from an iPhone porn app developer that said he had pulled the app from the store himself, Apple on Friday confirmed that it had been the one to remove the app due to a violation of its terms.

PC Magazine - There's been a lot of debate, mostly influenced by AMD, about how Bapco's MobileMark 2007 unjustly represents battery life on laptops. But is that debate justified?

PC World - The .eu TLD (top-level domain name) for Web sites allows non-ASCII characters in its Web addresses, after it opened up the TLD to addresses written in Cyrillic and Greek letters, the European Commission said Friday.

PC Magazine - Nuance has launched their TALKS&ZOOMS 4.0 assistive software for Series 60 smartphones. The app converts any displayed text on a handset into intelligible speech and magnified content for blind or visually impaired mobile consumers.

Macworld.com - Vocal Laboratories has published the results of a study that shows Apple leads other PC makers in telephone-based tech support. The study said that 58 percent of Apple customers reported that they were “very satisfied” with the results of their call, compared to 46 percent of Dell customers and 43 percent of HP customers.

Reuters - A U.S. judge turned down a request from International Business Machines Corp to immediately bar its former head of mergers and acquisitions from working at Dell Inc over allegations that he would disclose trade secrets.

PC World - If you happen to see a too-good-to-be-true offer to watch the latest Harry Potter movie online for free, watch out.

AP - More than a quarter million people are wondering what will happen to their fingerprints, Social Security numbers, home addresses and other personal information now that a company that sped them through airport security is out of business.

AFP - Pop star Michael Jackson's death is being seen as a digital watershed event with a website, TMZ.com, scooping the rest of the world's media and millions around the world finding out about it online.

Macworld.com - Toon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio 5, rebranding and repositioning the animation application as an educational tool for multi-technique animation. The release includes a new stop-motion animation feature, as well as traditional, digital, cut-out, and rotoscoping animation techniques.

AP - Just days after his feud with the Black Eyed Peas, Perez Hilton has found himself on the defensive again, this time for a posting on his Web site about Michael Jackson.

PC Magazine - An Illinois couple has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple for deceptive advertising and breach of contract over iTunes gift cards that advertised 99-cent music downloads despite a price hike to $1.29 on certain songs.

PC World - Less than 24 hours after Michael Jackson's death, fraudsters are exploiting public interest with their attempts to spread spam and malware. Security researchers say they've observed hundreds of cases of malicious messages masquerading as information about Jackson's death. Some of them, they say, popped up within minutes of the news.

InfoWorld - Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon.

PC World - The HTC Hero opens up a whole world of multimedia content with support for Flash 9, intensifying the spotlight on Apple’s lack of cooperation with Adobe in bringing Flash to the iPhone.

AFP - Pop star Michael Jackson's death is being seen as a watershed event for the Internet with a website, TMZ.com, scooping 'old media' and millions around the world finding out about it online.

Investor's Business Daily - Wireless operators made double-digit revenue growth look easy in the boom years before the global recession hit.

PC World - Is the Apple iPhone 3GS having overheating issues? I've seen some reports circulating on the Web today that indicate some handsets might indeed be affected. And I have my own tale to add to fray.

AP - Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for personal computer makers to supply controversial Web filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns.

PC World - A U.S. judge on Friday denied an IBM request that would have barred a former executive from working at Dell over concerns that he would misappropriate trade secrets.