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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:40:37 +0100

.::Viacom, YouTube air dirty laundry in legal battle (AP) ::.

AP - Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:51:17 +0100

.::Hollywood and Bollywood join arms to fight piracy (AP) ::.

AP - Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms Thursday to fight piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets.

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:35:53 +0100

.::Palm's phone sales slump and its stock dives (AP) ::.

AP - Palm Inc. reported sales figures Thursday that showed it's having a difficult time getting consumers to pay attention to its phones in a market dominated by iPhones and BlackBerrys. The company's shares plunged in after-hours trading.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:46 +0100

.::Net produces new generation of China activists (AP) ::.

AP - Lin Xiuying believes her daughter bled to death after being gang-raped two years ago by a group of thugs that had ties to the police in their southern Chinese town.

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:35:24 +0100

.::Apple director, ex-auto executive York dies (AP) ::.

AP - Jerome York, an Apple Inc. board member and a financial wizard credited with turning around Chrysler and IBM, died Thursday of a brain aneurysm. He was 71.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:18:38 +0100

.::Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools (AP) ::.

AP - Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:39:01 +0100

.::Review site Yelp under fire in business' lawsuits (AP) ::.

AP - Yelp, one of the most popular Web sites that let people post opinions about restaurants, shops and local services, is being sued by several small businesses that claim they've been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:01:39 +0100

.::Palm's survival questioned (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Shares of mobile phone maker Palm tumbled on Friday on questions over its ability to survive in a tough market dominated by Apple, Google and Research in Motion.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0100

.::Tech Equipment Tax Deduction Tips (PC World) ::.

PC World - Your computers, your cell phone, Internet services, Web hosting--your business depends on technology to run, so at tax time it's natural to want to deduct all your tech expenditures.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:04 +0100

.::Producer files $30M suit against Lady Gaga in NYC (AP) ::.

AP - Lady Gaga's spokesman is declining to comment on a music producer's lawsuit.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:18:12 +0100

.::Jamie Foxx to star in "Kane & Lynch" (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Jamie Foxx is in negotiations to star opposite Bruce Willis in "Kane & Lynch," a video-game adaptation that veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Simon Crane is helming.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:15:00 +0100

.::BugMe brings sticky notes to your home screen (Macworld.com) ::.

Macworld.com - Electric Pocket, the maker of apps such as MailTones and PhoneFace, has brought its note-taking application BugMe to the iPhone. Already available for the Android and BlackBerry platforms, the app lets iPhone and iPod touch users create digital sticky notes with their fingers.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:40:30 +0100

.::Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash (InfoWorld) ::.

InfoWorld - The HTML5 specification could be a game-changer in the rich Internet application realm, but representatives of Microsoft and Adobe Systems, both of which have proprietary plug-ins for Web applications, remained confident Thursday in their companies' Web strategies.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:40:11 +0100

.::Pramati Aims to Integrate Social Networking and Business (PC World) ::.

PC World - Indian product design and software company Pramati Technologies has developed a social networking environment that is integrated with enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management, a company executive said on Thursday.

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:18 +0100

.::Facebook Users Targeted in Massive Spam Run (PC World) ::.

PC World - Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:11:02 +0100

.::Microsoft says its contentious relationship with open source is changing (InfoWorld) ::.

InfoWorld - Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the company's embrace of the open source paradigm, even if it was not necessarily for altruistic purposes.

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:00 +0100

.::Windows Phone 7 Mirrors iPhone with Missing Features (PC World) ::.

PC World - As more details emerge regarding the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series, it seems to be defined more by the features and functions it lacks than the ones it delivers. Microsoft did throw out the playbook and start over with Windows Phone 7--but the new playbook may have been stolen from Apple's locker room.