The social networking site wins damages against noted spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding its users with junk mail. A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the Web site with junk messages. “We won another battle in the fight against spam,” said Facebook, which announced the Oct. 29 ruling on its Web site on Friday. Wallace, who has also been called the “Spam King,” accessed Facebook members’ accounts... 

Who knew there was so much fight in those dusty books? When Google announced plans in 2004 to scan millions of tomes tucked into library stacks across the country, admirers embraced the ambitious project as a digital undertaking as visionary as Magellan’s setting sail around the world. The project would throw open musty archives everywhere, putting hidden works on the Internet for all to use. How things change. The library project is now embroiled in a ferocious legal free-for-all spanning...