Google’s plans to buy mobile phone marketing company Admob are looked at by the Federal Trade Commission.

PC World – Vonage now offers an unlimited $24.99-a-month international calling plan for iPhone and BlackBerry users, the company said Wednesday. The new “Vonage World Mobile” VoIP service competes with a $12.95-a-month service from Skype.

A video comparing a webcam’s facial recognition response to a white woman and a black man is a YouTube hit.

Reuters – Technology shares rose on Wednesday after solid earnings from Micron Technology and Red Hat, but an unexpected drop in new home sales kept a lid on the broader market’s gains.

PC World – Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week.

InfoWorld – Genuitec released earlier this month version 3.0 of its Pulse software lifecycle management product and is suggesting it as a possible enterprise-level replacement for IBM’s Jazz application lifecycle management technologies.

Macworld.com – We don’t normally report on Apple gossip from rumor Websites, but when heavyweights like The Financial Times report on Apple news—even if it sounds a bit gossipy—we think it merits a mention.

Macworld.com – Last night, I e-mailed my editors at Macworld excitedly: “NES emulator for iPhone! Approved by Apple! Let me write this up!â€�

AFP – Hulu.com, an increasingly popular US-based online video entertainment site, has signed a second major music label: Warner Music Group.

PC World – Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as their DNS provider was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack came as North American consumers rushed to finish online shopping ahead of the end-of-year holiday season.