Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has worked against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand’s candidacy but never said why.

AFP – The adult entertainment industry is going to have to wait a while longer to see whether it gets its .XXX domain name.

The police have a suspect in custody in the brutal assault and attempted rape on Thursday of a woman in the bathroom of the Social bar in Midtown. They say he is the same man caught on a surveillance video leaving the bar.

AP – DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers.

Macworld.com – Typically, players in a game battle for fantastical lands, important landmarks, or some other pre-determined acre of game territory. But what if the land you played for wasn’t a mere kingdom or country, but the entire Internet?

Many bank customers are having to decide whether to ask for overdraft protection. Most should say no.

AP – Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for “outstanding performance” running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.

AP – Shares of QAD Inc. sank Friday after the business software provider reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenue and predicted another drop for the first quarter.

NewsFactor – Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video-game console moved to the top of the U.S. market in February. The software giant’s console had been number two behind the Nintendo Wii for nearly three years.

NewsFactor – Eager to be the first on your block with an iPad? Apple started taking orders for the tablets on Friday. Wi-Fi models running from $499 to $699 will be available on April 3; 3G models, costing $629 to $829, won’t be available until late April.

AP – THE DISPUTE: Cable TV providers challenged a five-year extension of federal regulations requiring them to make channels they own available to rivals such as satellite TV.

AP – A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies.

AP – China’s top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or “pay the consequences,” giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.

PC World – Some of you World of Warcraft addicts may be familiar with Blizzard’s Armory app for iPhone that lets you keep track of your character and guild, and generally blurs the line between your online and offline world. Running with that same concept is AFK Interactive, which has created a mobile development platform that will bring similar functionality to all kinds of mobile phones, including “dumb” ones.

AP – Porn Web sites can’t park themselves at a “.xxx” address quite yet.

AP – Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.

AP – A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said “Elton John must die” has been arrested for making terroristic threats.

AP – SkillSoft PLC, an education software company that has agreed to be taken private, said Thursday its fourth-quarter net income fell 16 percent from a year earlier, when it benefited from a tax windfall.

NewsFactor – Version 4.0 of the operating system for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and the forthcoming iPad will represent a major overhaul of the software and will feature a “full-on solution” to one long-standing gripe about Apple’s devices — their inability to multitask.

Macworld.com – Whether you’re a fan of Apple’s Web browser, or just having some problems with its competition, there’s now a new Safari update available just for you. Well, you and everybody else—you wouldn’t want them to feel left out, would you?

PC World – A security researcher has published exploit code for the latest Internet Explorer zero-day flaw on the Web and Microsoft is warning that more attacks against the unpatched vulnerability can be expected in-the-wild. One thing seems to be more apparent with each passing Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability: its time to upgrade the Web browser.

NewsFactor – In a move to shake up the online gaming industry, OnLive has announced PC and Mac versions of its on-demand, instant-play games will roll out in June during the E3 2010 show. Here’s the rub: Gamers don’t have to buy a console, and they can get broadband speeds.

AP – RadiSys Corp., a maker of servers that support wireless phone networks, said Thursday it acquired privately held Pactolus Communications Software Co. Terms were not disclosed.

PC World – $200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didn’t last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo. If what Freescale showed off at Mobile World Congress becomes reality, though, the dream may finally come true.

AP – Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters.

An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large- scale showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.

AP – Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.

AFP – MySpace on Wednesday began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.

InfoWorld – By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond.

AP – Technology management software company CA Inc. said Wednesday that it’s buying Nimsoft Inc. for $350 million in cash.

The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.

PC World – The results are in from comScore for the most recent quarter for smartphone usage in the United States. With smartphone use up 18 percent over the previous quarter, topping 42 million users, Google’s Android mobile operating system stands out as the dominant winner for this quarter.

PC World – A scrum of reporters pressed against Brad and Ashley as they shuffled up to the counter at a Best Buy store in Manhattan. Cameras flashed and elbows flew. Was it the end of Brangelina? Some new reality show?

In the London Evening Standard this week Winnie Mandikizela-Mandela described her former husband as a figurehead who had made a bad deal with South Africa’s former white rulers.

PC World – Buy.com has a Sony VAIO W Series netbook in cocoa brown on sale for $443.75 with free shipping. The sleek little netbook has a 10.1-inch backlit LCD panel, which has great picture quality with minimal glare, rich colors, and sharp contrast. The VAIO W Series also features 720p high-definition support and plays 720p video stutter-free. The unit on sale boasts a 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi. Like any good netbook, it also has a built-in Webcam and microphone and two USB ports–who needs an iPad when you can get this netbook for $50 less?

AP – The most recent showdown left millions of Cablevision Systems Corp. customers around New York without an ABC station at the start of the Academy Awards.

AP – First lady Michelle Obama challenged software and video game designers Wednesday to develop games and tools that get kids, especially 9- to 12-year-olds, excited about eating better and exercising more.

AP – In an industry first, a new gaming service will start allowing people to “stream” popular high-end games such as “Assassin’s Creed II” over the Internet in June, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online.

Macworld.com – The perils of malware and viruses are everywhere, and Mac users shouldn’t be complacent, especially if they’re also running Windows via Boot Camp or other virtualization software. To those ends, Intego has released VirusBarrier X6 Dual Protection, which offers all the features of its X6 product for both Mac and Windows operating systems running on your machine.

AP – A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a “.xxx” domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers.

AP – Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users’ posts to the other social networking sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.

AP – Google said Wednesday it will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence, including works by astronomer Galileo Galilei, in what’s being described as the first deal of its kind.

Reuters – LG Electronics Inc, the world’s No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.

Reuters – The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.

St. John’s buried the Huskies’ last hopes for reaching the N.C.A.A. tournament by winning the first round matchup in the Big East Tournament.

AP – A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to get microchips and take out insurance for their pets.

NewsFactor – Facebook may join other Internet companies in offering location-based services. The social-networking site plans to let its users to share their location and see the locations of friends, according to published reports.

Haisong Jiang, who prompted an evacuation of a terminal at Newark airport in January, pleaded
guilty to defiant trespass on Tuesday.

NewsFactor – With the stakes high in Microsoft’s bid to add its search engine to the iPhone, a few words of praise by the software giant’s CEO have drawn a considerable amount of attention.

PC World – Sentilla has released an update to its data-center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units for the energy they use.