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InfoWorld – A company that was just awarded more than $140 million from Microsoft in a patent-infringement suit has sued the software giant again, this time for alleged infringements in Windows Vista and Office 2007.
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Dead seabirds wash up on shores; scientists blame red tide of marine algae.
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NewsFactor – It's 10:00 p.m. Do you know what your teen is doing online? Hopefully, the answer is not "attracting the unwelcome interest of the FBI for operating an international botnet ring that infected millions of computers and stole approximately $25 million from the bank accounts of unsuspecting victims."
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As Facebook reaches for more investors and pushes hard (then backs off) on its advertising plans, it may want to look at the equally ambitious, but slower paced, style of Google.
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Google could use the frequencies to offer nationwide wireless broadband access, competing with DSL and cable.
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Google could use the frequencies to offer nationwide wireless broadband access, competing with DSL and cable.
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AP – Monthly sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 in Japan topped the Nintendo Wii for the first time since the gaming consoles debuted late last year, according to a November survey.
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AP – A former executive at chip maker Broadcom Corp. will plead guilty to obstruction of justice in a federal probe of company stock option grants, the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday.
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AFP – Motorola said Friday its chief executive Ed Zander was stepping down, prompting speculation the embattled US mobile phone giant is facing deepening financial woes amid stiff global competition.

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Motorola said Edward J. Zander would be succeeded by Greg Brown, the company’s chief operating officer.
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AP – Golf club manufacturers have long placed ads in printed golf magazines. Movie studios tend to run television spots before a weekend rather than after.
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AP – Based on the weather reports and restaurant listings you check out online, Yahoo Inc. has a good idea where you live. Based on searches you’ve done, the Web portal might also know where you want to go.
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AP – European Union governments agreed Friday to jointly complete the development of the much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation project after mollifying Spain, which had demanded a bigger stake in the venture.
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AP – Computers outranked peace and happiness for the most desired gift this year in an annual U.S. survey by the consumer electronics industry’s largest trade organization.
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PC World – Google intends to bid on wireless spectrum in the 700MHz band when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission begins auctioning that resource in late January, the company announced Friday.
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AFP – Motorola said Friday its chief executive Ed Zander was stepping down as the US mobile phone maker faces shrinking market share amid stiff global competition.

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AFP – Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console finally outsold Nintendo's Wii in Japan in November, helped by a price cut and a stronger line-up of games, a survey showed Friday.

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Iran says it has developed 1,200-mile range Ashura ballistic missile.
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NewsFactor – In its second big announcement this week, Verizon Wireless said that it would develop its fourth generation mobile broadband network using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. This means that the company, co-owned by Verizon and by European carrier Vodafone, will move to the GSM camp from its current residence in the CDMA crowd.
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Google covets the “C Block” of the spectrum, which carries a reserve price of $4.6 billion.
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