Google goes glossy

Links from Thursday's episode of Loaded:

• Yahoo launches Search Direct to compete with Google Instant

• Google launches an online quarterly magazine

• Apple pulls an app that offended many people by claiming it could "cure" homosexuality

• The new Ford Focus will use AT&T Wireless to send and receive car data

• The New York Times asks Twitter to remove an account that gives a free feed of its articles in preparation for its paywall

• The music from the upcoming British royal wedding will be available for download just hours after the ceremony

• Research In Motion agrees to disallow any apps that help drivers avoid DUI checkpoints

• A hacker is sentenced to 110 months in federal prison after admitting to his crime on YouTube