AFP – 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.

AP – ArcSight Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit tripled as the cybersecurity software and services company’s sales jumped 39 percent.
AP – The showdown over 3Par Inc. that ended Thursday was a puzzling spectacle.

NewsFactor – Samsung on Thursday introduced the Galaxy Tab, a tablet PC aimed at the heart of Apple’s iPad, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany. Samsung presented the tablet with a pun that cites a “new galaxy of possibilities.”
Reuters – Samsung Electronics’ first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, turning up the heat on Apple Inc’s iPad.