1. Prince plans to sue YouTube, alleging the video site doesn’t do enough to keep illegal copies of his music from being posted. He further alleges that, despite the evidence on YouTube, he has made music since 1992.
2. A European court rejected Microsoft’s appeal of a $689 million judgment rendered against the software firm because it allegedly used Windows to squeeze out other companies and services. This one could be tricky because Microsoft only keeps about $520 million in petty cash.
3. Impressed by the success of MySpace, Yahoo is testing a new social networking service called Mash. It boasts a very strict entrance criterion: If you’ve heard of the TV show of that name, you’re not allowed to join.
4. Meanwhile, Viacom’s new site offering a form of social networking will be called Flux. And in the time it’s taking you to read this item, the third baseman on your kid’s Little League team, his 2nd-grade teacher and your grandmother also opened social networking sites.
5. More and more people are taking advantage of free Wi-Fi connections to turn coffee shops into their offices. These will be the people to blame three years from now, when coffee-shop owners have stopped offering free Wi-Fi.
