by Mike Krumboltz Jennifer Aniston's track record for starring in quality films is spotty at best. Does her latest, "The Bounty Hunter," co-starring alpha-male Gerard Butler, buck the trend? Also opening this weekend: satirical sci-fi flick " Repo Men ," starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," based on the best-selling series of kid's books. What do those lucky sons-a-guns who are paid to watch movies, aka the critics, think?

An undersea cable that Google helped finance is almost finished, according to a new report. Indeed, the completion of the Unity fiber optic cable, which will connect the U.S. to Japan, is supposed to be announced next week, and then Google and the company's Asia-based users should start seeing the benefits soon after. Tom Krazit wrote this afternoon, "[T]he Pacific undertaking will allow the company to link its data centers in the U.S.

There are many ways to market your business through Facebook. Some are obvious, and others not so much. One thing you can pretty much count on is that there are incredible masses of people on the social network that you can potentially reach, and in ways that will allow them not only to engage with your brand in a comfortable setting, but with other Facebook ecosystems they are already engaging with.

As expected, when the legal documents were unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom lawsuit, the charges and counter charges made for juicy reading. Click to read the rest of this post.

Almost exactly three years ago, Viacom sued YouTube for copyright infringement, and since then, neither side has been able to say much in public. But today, 108 pages' worth of court documents were released, and YouTube also issued a more comprehensible, 865-word statement. In the statement (which was posted on the YouTube Blog ), Zahavah Levine, YouTube Chief Counsel, raised several interesting points. One group of claims made Viacom sound like an absolute villain, too.

Google has used its search ranking algorithms to create a gadget for Google Calendar that helps busy users track and reschedule meetings and appointments. When any of the 25 million Google Apps users install the Smart Rescheduler gadget from Google Calendar Labs , they can select the event they want to reschedule and click the "Find a New Time" link in the gadget: The schedule search algorithm will retrieve a set of the best dates and times for users,

I sat in on the Future of Music Delivery Keynote interview with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and author Eliot Van Buskirk on the last day of SXSW Interactive. Buskirk's covered the digital media industry for ten years in various publications. This keynote was not nearly as crowded as the Evan Williams one was at the beginning, but definitely kept a lot more people hanging around through its entirety. The first part of the keynote was essentially a product demo for Spotify,

The move expands Yahoo!'s partnership with Telefónica's global presence. Click to read the rest of this post.

Scheduling meetings is tough, but rescheduling is even harder. We all know how frustrating it can be to try to find just the right time that accommodates everyone's availability and preferred working hours. Throw in different time zones and conference rooms and it goes from painful to excruciating. We'd rather schedule dental appointments. On the Google Calendar team,

Explore space from your laptop. Click to read the rest of this post.