Two teenagers who posted a malicious "fire in the hole" prank on YouTube were slapped with a court order to post an apology on the same video-sharing site, according to a report in Florida Today.

Youths ordered to apologize on YouTube | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

We all enjoy pulling up a youtube video of a commercial or song. Some look up episodes of their favorite shows. Whatever you do with youtube, you need to keep your eye on the $1 billion lawsuit that Viacom has slapped on Google. Whereas Viacom views it as an obvious case of copyright infringement, Google has responded with it's own statements.

Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the Web, YouTube parent Google said in a legal response to the suit."

Google says Viacom's suit 'threatens' Net || CNET News

Netflix has extended an apology, in the form of a discount, to customers in the wake of an 11-hour site outage.

Netflix says sorry with 5 percent credit | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

It's official. Toshiba just made a statement saying, " it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders."

Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over - Engadget

Remember: your photos can be used without your permission if you post them online.

An Icelandic photographer has for a second time encountered the ugly side of Internet photo sharing, finding photos she published at Yahoo's Flickr site being sold by somebody else through the iStockphoto Web site.

Photographer finds Flickr pics sold on iStockphoto | Underexposed - CNET News.com

Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections.

Wired News - AP News

Mobile advertising is still in its infancy, and already it's despised by some users of wireless devices. Nonetheless, it seems destined to become a major factor in the growth of the mobile Internet.

You may hate them, but mobile ads are coming

If you've ever wanted to travel to Paris, but just never got around to it, you can now use the Google Earth software tool and watch a sunset filmed from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, or view video clips of other popular spots in the City of Lights.

That's because videos from Google Inc.-owned YouTube are now embedded at geographical locations in Google Earth.

YouTube lands on Google Earth

Apple has dropped the price of its iTunes Plus songs that have no digital rights management (DRM) software protection and allow owners to move song files freely from one device to another.

Apple drops price of DRM-free iTunes | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Is all of this Blu-ray Disc versus HD DVD bickering much ado about nothing?

False starts in race to future of DVDs | CNET News.com