YouTube Partners With Pulitzer Center For Contest

Poor video quality, the pointlessness of many clips, and the fact that the site isn't profitable have all kept YouTube from earning much respect.  But a new contest called Project: Report may go a ways towards changing that.

CBS Says It Will Pass On NFL Licensing Fees

CBS Sports has filed a lawsuit against the NFL Players Association in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis over the use of NFL players statistics for fantasy football league.The lawsuit says that CBS Interactive, a division of CBSSports.com, is seeking a declaratory judgment that it has the rights to fantasy football statistics that are publicly available.

Google Drops Some History On You

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." It's a statement you're probably very familiar with at this point. It is also a statement that Google is still making good on as the latest project in line with this mission is digitally archiving the newspapers of history in a searchable way.

Smartphone Sales Increase 71 Percent

Sales of smartphones to U.S. customers hit 9 million units from January through July 2008 compared to the same time period last year, representing an 84 percent increase.Overall handset sales and revenues dipped in the U.S., but smartphone revenue increased 71 percent hitting almost $4.7 billion. With the launch of Apple's iPhone in July, Apple took the second spot in smartphone sales, behind RIM.