NewsFactor – If Google’s stock price were linked to its reputation among fellow advocates for an open Internet, the search giant would find its market value tanking. On the day after the joint announcement by Google and Verizon Wireless of a proposed policy framework for the wired and wireless Internet, consumer groups, as well as a variety of industry bloggers and some Internet companies, are highly critical of the companies’ vision.

Verizon and Google intended to clear up their positions on network neutrality, but their joint conference call ended up raising a host of questions.

AP – An online whistle-blower’s threat to release more classified Pentagon and State Department documents is raising difficult questions of what the government can or would do, legally, technically or even militarily to stop it.

Reuters – A top executive for Microsoft Corp’s MSN China will leave the joint venture, Microsoft said on Thursday, in a setback as the firm struggles to compete in China’s hotly contested social networking space.

PC World – Nokia and Intel have become allies in a new clash of the operating systems with the joint creation of MeeGo. MeeGo is an operating system that blurs the line between a robust mobile phone OS and a lightweight netbook OS.