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TOKYO (Reuters) - NEC Corp, grappling with a steep drop in mobile phone sales in Japan, said on Monday it could resume overseas sales of cellphones next year, three years after losses forced it to pull out of China and Europe.

What could possibly knock the super-popular Flip Mino off its pedestal? Why, an Apple-made video camera, of course. According to rumors trickling in over the blogosphere, Apple may embed cameras similar to those found in the iPhone 3GS -- therefore capable of capturing video -- into its line-up of iPods.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a critical post about, among other things, of the iPhone’s battery life. Since then, reports have poured in of new iPhone users who are displeased with the device's longevity, indicating that the new 3GS does little to alleviate the problem.

The Bioware guys, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, dropped a few crumbs about Star Wars:

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids."

When Sohu.com, a leading Web portal in China, announced plans last year to spin off its fast-growing online games business, investors balked.

NEW YORK - A New York congressman says in a YouTube video that Michael Jackson was a "pervert."

SHANGHAI (AFP) - Independent information about deadly riots in China's remote northwest filtered out on Twitter, YouTube and other Internet forums on Monday, frustrating government efforts to control the news.

TOKYO - NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator, said Monday it spent $45.5 million to take a 35 percent share in a U.S. company that makes multimedia technology for its mobile phones.

San Francisco - You win some; you lose some. This week China decided its Web censorship filtering software was not quite ready for prime time, while U.S. courts sentenced phone hackers and file swappers to some crime time.

The public beta-test editions of Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 will focus on reputation-based malware detection—a technology that can detect zero-day malware that's never been seen before.

Conficker may not dominate the headlines any longer, but it's still going strong, according to Trend Micro's Malware Blog and stats from the Conficker Working Group.

As was foretold many moons ago, television content from the ABC family of networks has begun to make its way to video-streaming site Hulu. In a blog post on the company’s site, Hulu’s Rebecca Harper announced on Monday that hit series Grey’s Anatomy would be the first ABC show to appear on the site, with five complete episodes.

CCP Games producer Torfi Frans Olafsson recently posted a blog update indicating what kind of changes players can expect in the next evolution of the online game, expected to arrive in August. Among the changes are new epic mission arcs, improvements to rigging and more.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a critical post about, among other things, of the iPhone’s battery life. Since then, reports have poured in of new iPhone users who are displeased with the device's longevity, indicating that the new 3GS does little to alleviate the problem.

San Francisco - Open source SOA software vendor WSO2 this week plans to launch a stand-alone version of Carbon Core,  which has served as the heart of Carbon, the company' componentized SOA framework built on the OSGi  specification.

While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability.

Mozilla is scrambling to fix bugs in its just-released Firefox 3.5 browser. Users are posting complaints about problems across the Web.

The first jailbreak application for Apple's new iPhone 3GS has been made available just two weeks after the iPhone debuted. George Hotz, a 19-year-old Google employee originally from New Jersey, created the application.

BEIJING - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.