M&C writes that “

[a] U.S. appeals court in Ohio has ruled that e-mail messages stored on Internet servers are protected by the Constitution as are telephone conversations and that a federal law permitting warrantless secret searches of e-mail violates the Fourth Amendment.”

Yahoo!News reports that “EU regulators on Thursday cleared media companies NBC Universal and News Corp. to launch an Internet broadcaster that aims to rival Google Inc.’s YouTube.”

The Mercury News has an interesting article on the “Cold War” between “the superpowers of personal computer chips: Intel, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.”  The publication predicts that “[e]ventually, [the Cold War] will be a hot war. Wednesday, Intel touted technologies at its research day that it hopes will eventually assume the processing tasks currently done by Nvidia’s graphics chips. And Nvidia, at its analyst day in Santa Clara, unveiled new chips that would displace a lot of Intel microprocessors in scientific computing machines.”

According to Reuters, “[t]op telecommunications executives attending an industry conference this week forecast wireless, video and Internet services would increasingly converge, bolstering demand for Internet network capacity.”

In a different article, Reuters points out that, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’  newly released Global Entertainment and Media Outlook, “Internet advertising and access spending by U.S. consumers will rise each year by double digits on average through 2011, fuelled by high-speed connections and social networking and entertainment sites.”