CNET News.com Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:50:06 PDT

VeriSign names interim CEO Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week. Week in review: Microhoogle intrigue Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier. Photos: Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh Classic TechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991. At home with the Blue Angels During a visit to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets to see the high-performance pilots up close. Photos: Up close with the Blue Angels News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels. Japanese Shell subsidiary plans solar-panel plant Oil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt. EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStation After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii. Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom. Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updates He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws Free tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities. Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit. News.com Daily Podcast: Should YouTube users worry about privacy?  How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle. Hundreds of Lithuanian Web sites defaced Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols. Mozilla and Opera fix security flaws Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates. EIC Squared: Indexing Flash; Powerset; and Viacom vs. Google On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories. Four security bulletins expected on Patch Tuesday The four, which will be released next week, are considered important, not critical, says Microsoft. Apple cuts price of flash-drive MacBook Air If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500 cheaper, but still expensive. India reveals its first climate change plan Sun-drenched country pushes for solar power, a soaring industry there. LCD making worse for environment than coal? "Missing greenhouse gas" called nitrogen trifluoride, used in production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could accelerate global warming, according to a report. Identi.ca--open-source Twitter? An open-source Twitter might create a true communication utility. Yahoo's top U.S. sites get traffic help from Google search Report finds that most of Yahoo's top 20 Internet properties receive a greater share of traffic from a Google search, rather than a Yahoo search.