Online Ads:

• New Google policy bans scammers for life.
• More about Google taking action against scammers.

Media Strategies:

• 'YouTube Direct' aimed at citizen journalists.
• Mobile social networking grows; top 10 mobile socnets.

Word of Mouth Strategies:

• Fox turns to TypePad bloggers to hype 'Avatar' movie.

Search:

• Google, Bing take bigger bites of search market; Yahoo slips.
• Google upgrades analytics with smarter alerts.
• Google image search enhanced with 'Swirl.'

Online Payments:

• American Express buys Revolution Money for $300 million.

Operating Systems:

• Google to show more Chrome tomorrow?

Smartphone:

• Google-branded 'super' phone expected in 2010.
• T-Mobile resumes Sidekick sales.

Security:

• RIM security chief sees smartphone attacks on horizon.
• Era of superpower cyber warfare is arriving.

Legal/Regulatory:

• Court to decide fate of AT&T-Verizon ad dispute.