Another judge has reaffirmed that complaining about a company online doesn't violate its trademark. In a ruling quietly issued late last week, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Cleland in the eastern district of Michigan dismissed a lawsuit brought by a consortium of recruiters called Career Agents Network against the operator of two critical sites.

Lest there be any doubt how badly U.S. residents want better broadband service, consider this news tidbit: Topeka, Kansas has renamed itself "Google," in an attempt to entice the search company to choose the city for a test of its upcoming fiber-to-the-home Web service.

Siding with the record labels, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals court has upped the damages that a college student must pay for sharing 37 music tracks on Limewire from $7,400 to $27,750.