Online Advertising:

• Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers.

Online Payments:

• More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout.

Media Strategies:

• Comcast expands online local sports staffs to compete with ESPN.
• Alchemy ad manager launches using Facebook Ads API.
• Start-up Glyde aims to simplify online sales of used media.

Smartphones:

• Palm takes on giants in smartphones.
• Samsung introduces Galaxy Spica Android phone, but with no US launch date.
• First impressions of the T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Search:

• Ask.com gives details about its Q&A algorithm.

TV Everywhere:

• Sezmi start-up pilots a new kind of TV service in California.

Web Domains:

• First Arabic web domain launched in Egypt.

Security:

• Microsoft issues advisory on Windows 7 security bug.

Mobile computing:

• Samsung to debut Go Netbook with Windows 7 on AT&T.

Legal/Regulatory:

• New Google book pact unlikely to end flap.