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LOS ANGELES - Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players are still buying movies on DVDs. Full Story »

SEATTLE - About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a startup to make his dream computer. It almost worked. Full Story »

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia said Tuesday it would push ahead with a mandatory China-style plan to filter the Internet, despite widespread criticism that it will strangle free speech and is doomed to fail. Full Story »

San Francisco - Talk about stocking stuffers sure to make someone smile: InfoWorld.com has found 10 wacky USB devices that use the USB ports on your computers in ways no sane person would imagine. But fortunately, someone did. Full Story »

A conference on RFID (radio frequency identification) wireless technology opened Tuesday in Taipei promising to open the road to cooperation between China and Taiwan on how the two can further develop the technology and use it in products and services. Full Story »

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The National Governors Association is getting behind Ohio's effort to maintain a tax on the satellite television industry. Full Story »

ALBANY, N.Y. - A new video game designed to help New York students learn to manage their money tries to make the dullness of balancing a checkbook look more like the thrill of driving for a touchdown. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday said strong demand for its new iMac personal computer had it working hard to keep up, and the company apologized for any delays in deliveries to customers. Full Story »

Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company's Reader and Acrobat software. Full Story »

IBM has been disparaging products made by a smaller rival in order to protect its lucrative mainframe business, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. Full Story »

The Obama administration has decided to join United Nations talks on cyberwar and Internet crime. After several years of staying out of talks between the U.N. and other countries, the U.S. will participate in discussions with Russia and the U.N.'s Arms Control Committee, sources told The New York Times. Full Story »

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has brought a copyright lawsuit against 14 consumer electronics companies for allegedly violating GNU General Public License (GPL) in the use of GPL-licensed software in their products. Among those named in the suit are Best Buy, JVC, Western Digital Technologies and Westinghouse. Full Story »

With Mac sales expected to reach as high as 2.9 million this quarter, the last thing Apple needs is bad publicity about its new iMac with 27-inch screen. But YouTube clips of flickering screens on the new units, which went on sale Oct. 20, can't be good news. As of Monday morning there were 45 such clips on the site, with links on Apple user forums. The forums also had links to clips on other video-sharing sites, like gallery.me.com. Full Story »