In the Android Market terms of service, Google expressly says that it might remotely remove an application from a user's phone.

Google says that if it does remotely remove an application, it will try to get users their money back, a question that iPhone users have wondered about in the case of an iPhone application recall.

Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.

"Labor's plan for cyber-safety will require ISPs to offer a clean feed Internet service to all homes, schools and public Internet points accessible by children," Marshall said.

"Illegal is illegal and if there is infrastructure in place to block it, then it will be required to be blocked -- end of story."

"Once the public has allowed the system to be established, it is much easier to block other material," Clapperton said.

Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers ordered Alaska's attorney general to recover messages contained in a Yahoo email account maintained by Palin.

Friday's court order follows revelations that the Alaska governor has conducted email discussions concerning official state business from a Yahoo email address.

Critics say her use of email accounts outside of the state's official system violate open government laws that require such communications to be available to members of the public.

Members of the Bush administration has also been accused of using private accounts to send emails conducting official White House business.

More recently, Vice President Dick Cheney's office has acknowledged that an entire week's worth of email is missing from White House archives.

The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act establishes within the executive branch the position of intellectual property enforcement coordinator, who will be appointed by the president.

The law also steepens penalties for intellectual-property infringement, and increases resources for the Department of Justice to coordinate for federal and state efforts against counterfeiting and piracy.

Air safety investigators say it is too early to blame passenger laptop computers for causing a Qantas jet to abruptly nose dive on a flight from Singapore to Perth.

The mid-air incident resulted in injuries to 74 people, with 51 of them treated by three hospitals in Perth for fractures, lacerations and suspected spinal injuries.

Laptops could have interfered with the plane's on-board computer system, it has been reported.

The high-resolution color image from GeoEye-1, which was launched on September 6, was of Kutztown University campus in Pennsylvania.

While the fact that the satellite is being used by Google is getting all the attention, GeoEye-1's main client is the US government's mapping arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. GeoEye-1's government client will receive higher resolution photos than commercial clients such as Google.

Kernell, 20, was charged Wednesday with one felony count of accessing a protected computer for allegedly breaking into the private Yahoo e-mail account of Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

The other incident allegedly occurred around 2000, when Kernell was in the seventh grade. Kernell and an accomplice guessed the password to a server used to store teaching materials at the school and were able to log on to the system, McDaniels said.

A month of primary recounts in the election battleground of Palm Beach County, Florida, has twice flipped the winner in a local judicial race and revealed grave problems in the county's election infrastructure, including thousands of misplaced ballots and vote tabulation machines that are literally unable to produce the same results twice.

Google's Gmail Labs has a new experimental featured dubbed "Mail Goggles" which will attempt to prevent you from sending out those ill-advised late night e-mails.

Gmail developer Jon Perlow created Mail Goggles as a kind of e-mail sobriety test. It works by stopping your message when you hit send and then presents a series of simple math problems you need to solve before you really send the e-mail.

The Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC), which is charged with collecting royalties for the big studios, recently wrote to 2,500 kindergartens (or playschools as they are known in Ireland), informing them that it is illegal for the kids there to watch DVDs without an appropriate license.

The MPLC actually failed to register with the Irish Patent Office, and by demanding payments in the way they have, breached the 2000 Copyright Act. A spokesman from the IPO confirmed that an organization that acts in this manner could be fined or have its staff jailed.