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House Democrat wants better public-private coordination on cybersecurity. A Government Accountability Office report released Monday shows the government and private sector remain far apart when it comes to sharing information and coordinating their response to cybersecurity threats on critical private sector assets like utilities and infrastructure. Private companies complain the government doesn't do enough to share information on risks and cyber-attacks with them, while the government reported some companies are unwilling to share proprietary information on how they secure their systems. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) urged the two sides to work harder on cooperation, noting the potentially disastrous consequences if they fail to do so. http://bit.ly/aOXrqd

Dems pan Google-Verizon net-neutrality deal. Four Democrats urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to write strict Internet service rules rather than expand on the framework put forward by Google and Verizon. In a letter, Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) suggested the proposal might not have consumers in mind. "Rather than expansion upon a proposal by two large communications companies with a vested financial interest in the outcome, formal FCC action is needed," the letter said. Eshoo has Google's headquarters in her district. http://bit.ly/cQ6Dm6

Silicon Valley rep also opposes adopting the agreement. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif): "Unfortunately, their proposal does not protect open access for all who are connecting wirelessly, technology that is key to expanding broadband access to all Americans," he said. 

North Korea joins Twitter and YouTube. North Korea is taking its ongoing war of words with its southern neighbor and the United States to the Web via Twitter and YouTube. The country recently opened accounts on both sites under the name "uriminzok," or “our nation.” According to the New York Times, the YouTube channel mocks American leaders like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and South Korean officials with satirical video clips. The Twitter account is written in Korean and had just short of 3,700 followers at the time of this posting. An official with the Unification Ministry in Seoul characterized the accounts as propaganda. http://nyti.ms/cNxr8Z

Bing overtakes Yahoo in search market share, one metric says. Data released Monday from the ad network Chitika shows that Bing overtook Yahoo as the search engine behind Google. ("Chitika measures how many visitors leave a search site and come to web sites in its network," writes Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, noting that this is different than rating systems such as comScore.) http://selnd.com/bTUo3t

$36 million. The price of Lycos, a search engine, which was just bought by India-based marketing company Ybrant Digital. "The deal shows how far Web portals have slid from the heyday of the tech boom," WSJ says. Comparatively, Lycos sold for $12.5 billion in 2000 and $95 million in 2004. http://bit.ly/9oIKjn

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NAB, RIAA want mandatory FM radio on cell phones. The Recording Industry Association of America and the National Association of Broadcasters will ask Congress to mandate that all cell phones, PDAs and portable electronic devices contain FM radio receivers, according to a report from Ars Technica. The deal is part of a compromise between radio broadcasters and the recording industry over performance rights, the practice of paying artists or labels when playing their music over the air. Under the agreement radio broadcasters would pay $100 million to the industry, but receive a much larger market share from the expanded availability of FM radio. The Consumers Electronics Association, whose members would be directly affected by a mandate, strongly criticized the effort. http://bit.ly/bgBLEk

Despite HP's best efforts, CEO's exit gets messy. A steady stream of reports following last week's resignation by Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has kept the PC maker's name in the headlines despite its best efforts to avoid a scandal. The latest reports indicate that Hurd's conduct was increasingly troubling to the board and his decision to settle a sexual harassment suit from a contractor without their authorization was the last straw leading to his resignation on Aug. 6. Hurd is accused of authorizing $75,000 in travel expenses and payments for former actress Jodie Fisher, as well as falsifying expense reports to cover up an inappropriate relationship with her. http://nyti.ms/cUQEC5

Bill seeks to make electronics accessible to blind, deaf. WaPo takes a close-up look at the accessibility legislation that has passed both chambers, which makes rules so that technology companies must make their products more usable by people with disabilities. Some gaps would still remain in spite of the legislation. Videos "made and shared by users on YouTube and Facebook wouldn't require captioning. Vision-impaired cellphone users will in many cases have to download speech software at an extra cost." http://bit.ly/di1bGs

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"What’s it like to film an episode of Big Bang Theory? I’ll let you know tonight, but not what the episode is about."

—Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak revealing an upcoming TV spot on his Facebook page. http://bit.ly/9xfSaz (LA Times) 

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CULPRIT — Consumer complaints to the FCC on radio and TV broadcasting issues increased more than 1,259 percent in the first quarter of the year over the previous quarter, according to a report released by its consumer bureau on Friday. The numbers surely do not represent a major turnabout in how consumers view television and radio broadcasting. Rather, a single indecency breach appears to have galvanized more than 100,000 calls after the show "American Dad" made a sex joke about horses. Further details here, if you want them. http://bit.ly/94c6an