CNetNews.com reports that “Google, whose informal motto is ‘Do No Evil,’ tried to browbeat lawmakers in North Carolina into silence while the company sought millions in tax breaks, according to a newspaper in that state.”

ZDNet.com points out that “President Bush’s fiscal 2008 budget includes an information technology budget of $65 billion, up 3 percent from fiscal 2007’s request.”

According to BBC News, “

[a]n EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is ‘seriously misguided’, a House of Lords committee has said.”

In a different story, BBC News writes that “[t]echnology giant Apple has reached a deal with the Beatles to end the dispute over the use of the Apple name.”

Finally, ZDNet.com predicts that Google’s prepping of a “PowerPoint-ish presentation tool” is part of Google’s plan “to eat away at Microsoft’s best business.”