The StarPhoenix - Technology

• Craigslist.com blocks access to adult services ads
  Craigslist.com has dropped its "adult services" listings, which have become the target of U.S. state attorneys general who say the much-visited online classified ad site is not doing enough to quash prostitution.
  
  
• Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas
  Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
  
  
• Anti-Google campaign video hits Times Square
  A video cartoon featuring Google's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant.
  
  
• Panasonic aiming for half of Europe's 3D TV market
  Panasonic Corp is aiming to grab a 50 percent share of the European 3D television market this year as demand outstrips expectations and the technology wins converts worldwide, its head of Europe said on Thursday.
  
  
• Apple TV a first step for more ambitious plans?
  Critics hoping for more from Apple Inc's Web-to-TV plans -- a device, say, that would revolutionize living room entertainment the way the iPad changed tablet computing -- may just need to wait a bit longer.
  
  
• Samsung reveals tablet PC: The Galaxy Tab
  Samsung unveiled on Thursday what the South Korean electronics giant hopes will be a major rival to Apple's highly successful iPad tablet PC.
  
  
• Apple makes play for TV market; unveils new iPods
  Apple Inc has introduced a new version of Apple TV that allows audiences to rent series such as "Glee" and "Modern Family" for 99 cents, hoping to extend the popularity of its sleek devices to the living room.
  
  
• CRTC orders phone rebates
  Canada's major telecom companies must rebate phone customers up to $90 each, while spending hundreds of millions of dollars more to expand broadband service into rural communities, the country's telecom regulator ordered Tuesday.
  
  
• N.S. church to bless cellphones, computers
  A Nova Scotia church is offering its congregation a chance to have members' cellphones, laptops and mobile technology blessed — but Rev. Lisa Vaughn isn't promising the power of God will rid the gadgets of viruses and other kinks.
  
  
• Publishers mull last rites for Oxford dictionary
  The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday.