Around the Web 5.16.08
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LA prosecutors charge the Missouri mom who allegedly created a fake MySpace account and used it to cyber-bully a 13-year-old, who later hanged herself. Scott Glover and P.J. Huffstutter have the story. Experts interviewed by Wired say the case sets a ‘scary precedent.’
Jammie Thomas, a casualty in the recording industry’s legal reign of terror, might get a new trial, Bit Player reports. The judge says he messed up.
Sorry we spaced on this yesterday: Digital is at the center of another Hollywood labor dispute. Actors want to control their Web clips, Richard Verrier reports.
Boeing would have built GPS satellites in El Segundo, but it lost the almost $39-billion U.S. Air Force contract to rival Lockheed Martin, Peter Pae reports.
Take-Two Interactive, maker of Grand Theft Auto IV, faces a deadline today to decide whether to accept Electronic Arts’ $2-billion takeover offer.
Web Scout says TV Guide is offering a Web miniseries featuring... wait for it... Paris and Nicky Hilton. Are they still around?
Microsoft joins the One Laptop Per Child program.
Is there a touch-screen BlackBerry in the works? Meanwhile, the iPhone empire expands to 10 new countries.
Advertisers like CBS’ new pretty young thing, CNET.
Shocker: Online ad revenue still growing.
LA-based Mailroom Fund, backed by William Morris Agency among others, announced its first investment, in a company that analyzes social networking traffic.
-- Chris Gaither