Google, News Corp Might Be Bidding On Blinkx

A word here, a number there . . . nothing remotely solid has been established, but rumors that Google and/or News Corp bid on video search engine Blinkx were enough to send the company's stock up 53 percent today.

Now There Are Two Net Neutrality House Bills

Congressional Net Neutrality proponents appear to be taking a multi-pronged approach to passing legislation to cement what many call the First Amendment of the Internet, a moniker that may oversimplify it a bit. Two days after Ed Markey's (D-Mass.) Internet Freedom and Preservation Act was debated in the House Energy Committee, Representatives John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) re-introduce the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination…

Google Web Security For Enterprise Launches

Employees can't work well when their computers are infected with various sorts of malware.  Employees won't work well when they're looking at naked people or other not-really-work-related content.  And so the new Google Web Security for Enterprise service aims to fix both issues.