Reuters – The growing availability of popular TV shows on the Web is at the heart of ongoing contentious programing fee negotiations between Walt Disney Co and Time Warner Cable Inc, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Reuters – Google Inc has acquired Angstro, a startup that sorts news and information across social networks like Facebook, a spokesman for the leading Web search provider said on Sunday.

AFP – The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website was brought down by hackers.

Mashable – Apple has reduced the estimated shipping time for all six of its iPad models (Wi-Fi 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, and Wi-Fi + 3G 16GB, 32GB and 64GB) to “within 24hrs” on its online store.

AFP – Europe’s largest clothing retailer, Spain’s Inditex, is taking its flagship Zara brand online, but it can expect stiff competition from other giants of high-street fashion already well-established in cyberspace.

Reuters – Socialite, celebrity TV and Web site favorite Paris Hilton has been released by Las Vegas police after her arrest for possessing cocaine on Friday night, her lawyer said on Saturday.

Mashable – Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t need to spend extra money to …

Macworld.com – Subscribers to The New Yorker have been able to read their issues—as well as archived magazines going back to 1925—online in a Web browser for a while thanks to The New Yorker Digital Edition. Unfortunately, the site was in…

AFP – US regulators have said a public relations firm has agreed to settle charges that it had employees pose as unbiased videogame buyers and post reviews at Apple’s online iTunes store.

Reuters – The last time El DeBarge released an album, it was 1994. The Internet was starting to come into its own. YouTube, iTunes, Facebook and Twitter weren’t even blips on anyone’s radar. Beyond that, in the intervening years, R&B and its fan base h…

PC World – An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic.

AFP – USA Today on Friday announced a major restructuring that will trim 130 jobs at the national news publication as it reshapes itself to better fit Internet Age lifestyles.

The Upshot – Here’s our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went golfing on Martha’s Vineyard together today. (The Hill) • Jimmy Carter to the rescue! The former…

PC World – The co-founder of Microsoft has filed a patent lawsuit against some of the tech industry’s highest fliers. Named as defendants in the litigation are AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and YouTube. Also named in the suit were …

PC World – Up until Thursday, if you tried to install PayPal’s mobile application for Android phones onto your Motorola Droid X smartphone you would have come up empty. If you used the phone to hunt through the Android Market for “PayPal” you would hav…

NewsFactor – If you think social media is just for young people, it’s time to recalibrate. According to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, social-networking use by those 50 years old and up has nearly doubled…

NewsFactor – Google moved into Skype territory this week with a new VoIP service that works from the Gmail interface. Now the search giant is throwing down the real-time gauntlet with a new service that hopes to one-up both Bing and Twitter.

Mashable – “Dead simple” blogging platform Posterous — which has built up a loyal following of users by allowing them to quickly and efficiently e-mail in their blog posts, no formatting required — has released a redesign highlighting the many ways u…

PC World – Google has acquired Like.com, which offers a visual search engine for retail products, a deal aimed at boosting Google’s shopping search capabilities and services like its Products engine.

Macworld.com – If there’s an overused word in our online lexicon, it’s “fail.â€� Fail, fail, fail, everything is fail. It’s so overused that people need to use the adjective “EPICâ€� so you know they’re…

AP – An online whistle-blower’s threat to release more classified Pentagon and State Department documents is raising difficult questions of what the government can or would do, legally, technically or even militarily to stop it.

AP – The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents.

AFP – BlackBerry has “virtually” sealed a deal with Saudi Arabia on its encrypted messenger services to avert a ban on the smartphone, a Saudi telecoms company official told AFP on Saturday.