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Going, going gone: JetBlue auctions flights on Web (AP)

Travelers use ticket kiosks at JetBlue Airways' new Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008 in New York. About 1,000 JetBlue frequent flyers were invited by the airline to put the $743 million terminal through a trial run. The terminal, designed to handle up to 250 flights daily, is scheduled to open Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents.
Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home (AP)

AP - Seventeen-year-old Alexis Corocan spends about $5 a month on clothes, accessories and eyes of various shapes and shades for her online persona on IMVU, a popular Internet hangout.
Advertising group opposes Yahoo-Google pact (AP)

The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is pictured in Sunnyvale, California, May 5, 2008, (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)AP - A group representing big-spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will stifle competition and likely raise prices.
Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old (AP)

In this Aug. 19, 2004 file photo, a photographer photographs the board at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York shortly after shares of the Internet search engine giant started trading. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal (CNET)

CNET - Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the attorney general from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multistate antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal.
Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers (AP)

AP - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.
EIC Squared: Chrome, iPods, and a Dell-Salesforce union (CNET)

CNET - On this week's EIC Squared podcast ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I discuss Google's latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple's product launch event on September 9.
Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Teachers and professors are starting to use cell phones as educational tools in their classrooms, after previously banning them as distractions. Abilene Christian Univ. in Texas is giving two-thirds of its freshmen a smart phone that they're expected to use for receiving handouts in class and brainstorming. About 100 high school freshmen in N.C. are using phones during their math classes in a program sponsored by handset gear maker Qualcomm. They use the phones to play math games, network among themselves on problems and watch animation showing problems being solved.
Chrome Hints Google Aims To Become 'Big Brother' (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - What's behind Google's release of its new Chrome browser? While the software boasts some impressive technology, does Google seriously mean to reopen the browser wars, even against its open-source partner Mozilla?
Adobe sets Genesis mashup pilot (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Adobe Systems in October plans to launch a private pilot program for its "Genesis" mashup technology, which provides a desktop client uniting multiple tasks in a single workspace.
IBM reworks storage strategy to tame flood of data (Reuters)

Reuters - IBM is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous piles of data being created inside their organizations.
EA's Spore aims to create new worlds, businesses (Reuters)

Game designer Will Wright speaks about his latest game SPORE at a promotion event in Singapore August 13, 2008. (Tim Chong/Reuters)Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds -- and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker.
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