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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 Sent 112 times

    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 Sent 64 times

    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 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 Sent 21 times

    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.

  4. 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 - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago Sent 4 times

    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.

  5. An advertisement for the 'Grand Theft Auto 4' video game sits on display at a store in New York April 28, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
    U.S. game sales jump 47 percent in April on GTA4 Reuters - Thu May 15, 8:41 PM ET Sent 3 times

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc's "Grand Theft Auto 4" and Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console stole the show.

  6. Online maps reveal noise levels across England Reuters - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago Sent 3 times

    LONDON (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.

  7. 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 - 43 minutes ago Sent 3 times

    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.

  8. 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 Sent 3 times

    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.

  9. Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked AP - Thu May 15, 4:42 PM ET Sent 3 times

    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.

  10. More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP InfoWorld - Fri May 16, 6:30 AM ET Sent 2 times

    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.

  11. Major Crypto Bug Cripples Ubuntu Linux Security PC Magazine - Thu May 15, 8:39 AM ET Sent 2 times

    A major problem has been revealed in Debian Linux and derivative packages, such as Ubuntu. Debian revealed the other day that a fix they made back in September 2006 had the unintended consequence of crippling the strength of their OpenSSL distribution.

  12. Crazy Raspberry Ants Menace Electronics In Houston TechWeb - Thu May 15, 6:08 PM ET Sent 2 times

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

  13. Key events in the Megan Meier case AP - Thu May 15, 6:18 PM ET Sent 2 times

    Timeline of events in the Megan Meier Internet suicide case:

  14. Panasonic's Car Navi Reaches Home While Away From Home PC World - Fri May 16, 3:00 AM ET Sent 2 times

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

  15. On tap in space: Urine will not go to waste USATODAY.com - Thu May 15, 8:21 AM ET Sent 1 times

    WASHINGTON - NASA has spent decades perfecting a system to transform urine into water that can be used in space for drinking, food preparation and washing. Agency officials say the water from the system will be cleaner than U.S. tap water.

  16. CNet Networks workers at CNet headquarters in San Francisco, May 15, 2008. Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in its latest bid to expand its reach on the Internet, the companies announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
    CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet AP - Thu May 15, 7:31 PM ET Sent 1 times

    NEW YORK - CBS Corp. is acquiring a big online reach with its acquisition of CNet Networks Inc. but also a company that's faced heavy criticism from investors. Those concerns as well as the hefty $1.8 billion price tag helped send CBS's shares down after the deal was announced Thursday.

  17. Verizon's Decision a Setback for Google's Android Plans NewsFactor - Thu May 15, 4:43 PM ET Sent 1 times

    Verizon Wireless' decision to join Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile as members of a Linux-based mobile initiative appears to have dealt a setback to Google's ambitions for its Android mobile platform. A Verizon spokesperson told the Chicago Tribune that the company joined the rival LiMo Foundation because "of LiMo's approach to providing a truly open OS that isn't simply an extension of a for-profit company's business model."

  18. New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux TechWeb - Wed May 14, 6:28 PM ET Sent 1 times

    InformationWeek - The conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007, and the open source operating system is now powering the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems.

  19. Agile project management set for small teams InfoWorld - Thu May 15, 4:10 PM ET Sent 1 times

    San Francisco - VersionOne launched an agile project management platform for small teams of developers this week and is sprucing up its enterprise-level product next week.

  20. RIAA Setback: Making Music Available May Not Be Copyright Infringement TechWeb - Thu May 15, 4:40 PM ET Sent 1 times

    InformationWeek - A district judge may order a new trial in a music file-sharing suit that won record companies $222,000 for copyright infringement.

  21. The sign for the Verizon Wireless store is seen in Lakewood, Colorado September 11, 2007. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
    Verizon and AT&T win Homeland Security contracts Reuters - Wed May 14, 10:28 PM ET Sent 1 times

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Business, a unit of No. 2 U.S. telephone service provider Verizon Communications Inc , said on Wednesday it has won a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security worth around $678.5 million over 10 years.

  22. Samsung to Unveil 'Blue Phase' 240Hz LCD Panel PC World - Fri May 16, 4:50 AM ET Sent 1 times

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

  23. 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 Sent 1 times

    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.

  24. Hearts Turn to Rainbows in Quake's Wake PC World - Fri May 16, 2:10 AM ET Sent 1 times

    Internet users in China have begun expressing solidarity with the victims of Monday's earthquake via their instant messaging...

  25. Comcast Restricted Bandwidth To BitTorrent Users 24/7, Study Charges TechWeb - Thu May 15, 4:20 PM ET Sent 1 times

    InformationWeek - The Max Planck Institute released a study showing that Comcast has engaged in routine blocking or throttling of BitTorrent files at all hours of the day.