Daily News Links

• A court is set to decide on a row between operator T-Mobile and wi-fi phone firm Truphone. Truphone has accused T-Mobile of hindering its service by blocking calls made to numbers owned by the fledgling mobile operator. To rectify the situation, Truphone has applied for an injunction to force T-Mobile to put the calls through.  Read more here (from BBC News).
• Intel and OLPC have officially announced that they have buried the hatchet. The two will partner to serve the world's poor, but competition between the two will remain.  Read more here (from Ars Technica).
• LinkedIn traffic has increased 323% in the past year, according to Hitwise, and a correlation has been found with Gmail users and the social network’s growth.  Read more here (from Mashable).
• A Pennsylvania thief uses a default master passcode to get extra cash from a grocery store ATM machine. Police are baffled but Threat Level readers have an idea.  Read more here (from Wired).
• Calls to make the BBC's on demand TV service work on all computer operating systems are to get a fresh look. The BBC Trust has offered to meet with open source advocates who argue that the corporation has a duty to make the download service platform agnostic. When the BBC iPlayer, as it is known, launches on 27 July it will only work with PCs running Microsoft Windows XP.  Read more here (from BBC News).
• Google’s Sergey Brin told CNBC that he wouldn’t make the first move on Facebook. Brin told USA Today “If they come to us, we’d certainly be open to talking,” Brin said. “But I think they’re building a great company of their own.”  Read more here (from Lost Remote).
• Whole Foods exec faces investigation over chatty comments on Yahoo financial sites under a fake name.  Read more here (from PC World).
• Consumer advocates are turning their attention to scam artists who market computers to people with low incomes or bad credit.  Read more here (from the New York Times).
• Referring to Viacom's $1 billion suit filed against YouTube, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says: "Viacom is a company built from lawsuits."  Read more here (from ZDNet News).
• A Hotornot.com profile saying man was gay and used crack led to "constant" ribbing from coworkers--and a suit claiming the prank led to post-traumatic stress disorder.  Read more here (from CNET News.com).
• SoundExchange has decided not to enforce the Copyright Royalty Board's new Internet radio royalty scheme, choosing instead to try and hammer out an agreement with webcasters large and small.  Read more here (from Ars Technica).
• A new beta version of World of Warcraft for Mac OS X and Windows sports myriad enhancements.  Read more here (from PC World).
• A new study shows that this well-intentioned advice is not sufficient to protect children from unwanted sexual solicitation and harassment.  Read more here (from CNET News.com).
• People have long been the weakest link when it comes to protecting computers. The same applies to mobile phones, a security expert says.  Read more here (from ZDNet News).
• Using high tech know-how and old fashioned police work, net detectives are cleaning up the web.  Read more here (from BBC News).
• Sony Computer Entertainment's CEO and president Kaz Hirai has confirmed that the PS3 price cut isn't going to last.  Read more here (from CNET News.com).
• The death of the mega OS release has been greatly exaggerated, Microsoft's chief operating office said this week.  Read more here (from PC World).
• Tiscali has acquired rival Pipex's broadband and telephony operation in a deal worth £210m.  Read more here (from Media Guardian).
• Beijing Guge Science and Technology says search engine's name in China is too much like company's, creating disruption, confusion.  Read more here (from ZDNet News).
• Tokyo Metropolitan Television (Tokyo MX), has partnered with YouTube to broadcast its content on a branded channel. This is a progressing step for Tokyo MX, which first began broadcasting content with YouTube last August.  Read more here (from Mashable).
• A new patent pledge issued by IBM grants developers the ability to implement technologies relating to over 150 individual open standards without having to acquire a patent license from the company.  Read more here (from Ars Technica).
• Business news channel CNBC is hedging its bets — by working out a plan in which it could replace The Wall Street Journal with the Financial Times as the heavyweight partner to bolster its shows. The move emerged from earlier talks for a partnership on a much larger scale, involving the parent companies of the FT and CNBC.  Read more here (from the New York Post).