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  1. A woman looks at the MySpace website. A US judge has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about 230 million dollars in what was being billed Wednesday as a record-setting punishment for such Internet abuses.(AFP/File/Nicolas Kamm)
    Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case AP - Fri May 16, 4:26 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES - A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.

  2. Software engineer Rex Jameson, wearing a robotic soldier suit being made for the U.S. Army by Raytheon, poses next to a mockup statue of a future soldier on Monday, April 14, 2008, in Salt Lake City. The suit can multiply its wearer's strength and endurance as many as 20 times, with relatively little loss of agility, by sensing and almost instantly amplifying every movement the wearer makes. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
    Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era AP - Thu May 15, 1:44 PM ET

    Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds — that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.

  3. In this Oct. 11, 2007 file photo, private equity investor Carl Icahn speaks at the World Business Forum in New York.  Icahn on Thursday, May 15, 2008 officially launched a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s board, writing in a letter to Chairman Roy Bostock 'the board of directors of Yahoo has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders' and Microsoft Corp. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
    Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave AP - Fri May 16, 5:27 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.

  4. In this Dec. 12, 2007 file photo, Renzo, 8, reads on his 'XO' laptop in Arahuay, an Andean hilltop village in Peru.  Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project on Thursday, May 15, 2008 announced that the nonprofit's green-and-white 'XO' computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system. That had been anticipated for months, but it amounts to a major shift. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, file)
    '$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft AP - Fri May 16, 6:53 AM ET

    BOSTON - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.

  5. Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates speaks during a news conference in Tokyo May 7, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
    Icahn's Yahoo fight puts Microsoft in driver's seat Reuters - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Two weeks after Microsoft Corp abandoned its pursuit of Yahoo Inc , a proxy fight launched by activist investor Carl Icahn has put Microsoft in the driver's seat.

  6. In this Sept. 6, 2007 file photo, the Apple iPhone shown on display at an Apple Store in Los Gatos, Calif..  Apple Inc. says its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation that will feature faster Internet surfing speeds.  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
    France's Orange signs new iPhone deal with Apple AP - Fri May 16, 7:23 AM ET

    PARIS - French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries.

  7. Crazy Raspberry Ants Menace Electronics In Houston TechWeb - Thu May 15, 6:08 PM ET

    InformationWeek - Local exterminators say the insects get into electrical outlets and boxes and are known to short out computer systems.

  8. RocketRAID 3522 card update supports Mac Pro booting Macworld.com - Fri May 16, 6:30 AM ET

    HighPoint Technologies has introduced a new firmware update for its RocketRAID 3522 host controller card to support booting on the Mac Pro and Xserve.

  9. The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is shown in Sunnyvale, California May 5, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
    Yahoo, WPP form multiyear ad-trading partnership Reuters - Fri May 16, 3:21 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Embattled Yahoo Inc has struck an advertising partnership deal with WPP Group that will let WPP buy ads on Yahoo's online ad exchange, the companies said late on Thursday.

  10. Panasonic's Car Navi Reaches Home While Away From Home PC World - Fri May 16, 3:00 AM ET

    With all the time spent on the road, most drivers consider their cars to be their second homes. Reaching their primary home...

  11. Samsung to Unveil 'Blue Phase' 240Hz LCD Panel PC World - Fri May 16, 4:50 AM ET

    Samsung Electronics will unveil this weekend the first prototype of a new LCD (liquid crystal display) technology that won't...

  12. More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP InfoWorld - Fri May 16, 6:30 AM ET

    San Francisco - In the four months since InfoWorld asked businesses and individuals to sign a petition at SaveXP.com asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP for sale beyond the planned June 30 general end-of-sales date, more than 200,000 have signed up to add their voices. As of May 15, the count was 200,805 signatures, excluding duplicates and fake signups.

  13. CEO Envi case debuts for MacBook Air Macworld.com - 2 hours, 32 minutes ago

    Marware on Thursday introduces a new case for the MacBook Air called the CEO Envi. It costs $89.99.

  14. Splashtop Pre-Boot Shell Added to More Mobos PC Magazine - Wed May 14, 11:42 AM ET

    DeviceVM said Wednesday that the company has signed a contract with Asus to place its Splashtop Linux multimedia shell onto four more Asus motherboards.

  15. Seeing Is Believing With High-definition Train Simulator PC World - Fri May 16, 7:10 AM ET

    A new train simulator codeveloped by Fujitsu offers unparalleled realism thanks to high-definition video shot on actual train...

  16. In this photo of a screen grab released by Nintendo, the Coconut Mall racing course of the video game 'Mario Kart Wii' is shown. (AP Photo/Nintendo)
    Nintendo hit with $21 million patent infringement AP - Thu May 15, 5:17 AM ET

    LUFKIN, Texas - Nintendo of America Inc. was ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million Wednesday for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems.

  17. Yahoo, Google Talks Reportedly Still On TechWeb - Thu May 15, 7:45 PM ET

    InformationWeek - The two Internet companies began discussing an advertising partnership after Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo.

  18. Text of Carl Icahn's Letter to Roy Bostock PC World - Thu May 15, 10:40 AM ET

    Carl Icahn released his letter to the Yahoo board Thursday. Here is the full text of the letter:

  19. Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked AP - Thu May 15, 4:42 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and is at the center of calls for "Net Neutrality" laws, but another U.S. cable company appears to be doing the same thing without drawing scrutiny.

  20. Online maps reveal noise levels across England Reuters - 2 hours, 53 minutes ago

    LONDON, May 16 (Reuters Life!) - Maps showing noise levels in towns across England were published on Friday in an attempt to reduce the disruption caused by factories, planes, trains and cars, the British government said.

  21. Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates speaks during a news conference in Tokyo May 7, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
    Windows to run on One Laptop Per Child computer Reuters - Thu May 15, 9:08 PM ET

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday.

  22. Review: HP Photosmart Pro B885 Macworld.com - Fri May 16, 7:00 AM ET

    The entry level of the archival-quality photo printer market is heating up right now, with the simultaneous release of Epson’s Stylus Photo R1900 () and HP’s Photosmart Pro B8850. HP’s entry is a lower-priced version of the Photosmart Pro B9180 (), offering that model’s very good print quality and strong features (with a few intelligent omissions) at a lower price.

  23. Missouri Mom Indicted In MySpace Cyber-Bullying, Suicide Case TechWeb - Thu May 15, 5:49 PM ET

    InformationWeek - The social networking site cooperated with authorities and is named as a victim in the case.