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Green building, Carbon IT, Food technology, Solar, which will be next.

San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum teams up with NASA to deliver a Webcast of the upcoming total solar eclipse to the 3D virtual world and other online viewers.

Two years ago, Google invested $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in AOL. Now it can get out, if it chooses.

Gateway announced thee lines of notebook PCs while Circuit City leaked images of upcoming Sony notebooks.

There are some signs that the company could be preparing to change the name of its photo-sharing Web site.

Island nation none too pleased that Microsoft is using the name. Will it be mollified knowing it is just a code name for a Windows Media Center update?

Nokia now has three of the top four largest recording companies.

Once a favorite of spammers, Google Calendar is now being targeted by phishers using e-mail referencing a legitimate event that asks for user name and password.

Yamaha's YSP-3050 is nearly identical to the YSP-3000 Digital Sound Projector, but it offers analog-to-HDMI video conversion not found on the earlier model.

Electronic device offers code that account holders can use as optional security measure when logging on to thwart account hijacking attempts.

The average lifecycle of the Coreflood Trojan bot is about 66 days, according to research.

In Nashville, News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets a rare look inside the factory that crafts unique guitars for rockers--and Microsoft employees.

With the release of a new version of Mac OS X Leopard comes security updates for that operating system and earlier versions.

The latest version of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is ready for installation, with fixes to applications like iCal and a few security-related updates.

There's no conflict of interest with his own social-networking start-up Ning, both companies say. Veteran entrepreneur Marc Andreessen will provide some guidance to Mark Zuckerberg and his largely young team.

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Close to 637,000 laptops are reported lost at 106 U.S. airports each year, according to a survey by the Ponemon Institute.

Q&A: Get Satisfaction CEO Thor Muller explains the philosophy behind his Web site that lets users complain about a company's products or services -- and provides an opportunity for the company to respond.

By studying its own telework program, Sun Microsystems has found that workers use about half as much energy in a home office as they do when they come into the office.

Researcher iSuppli says that global sales of PC hardware continued to be strong in the first quarter despite a sagging U.S. economy.

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The IdeaCentre K210 release followed Lenovo's launch this year of IdeaPad consumer notebooks outside of China.

EDS is scheduled to hold a shareholder meeting July 31 to get clearance from its investors to seal the deal.

Microsoft retorts that Yahoo's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is, "simply revisionist history."

T.J. Rodgers predicts Cypress will have 8,000 customers for its PSoC products by end of the current quarter.

The VoIP provider has been negotiating with the unidentified financier to finalize the deal, which is needed to refinance $253 million in convertible debt redeemable in mid-December.

Cisco, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Ericsson, and Verizon Communications are among those hoping to reduce their exposure to lawsuits.

Digital Experience, a safari jungle-themed consumer electronics showcase in New York, featured the Blackberry Bold, Eye-Fi's wireless memory cards, several GPS devices, and digital cameras from Canon.

Nine of the 25 vulnerabilities addressed affect the Tomcat 4.1.36, which comes bundled with Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems.

Retailer J.C. Penney has forced the withdrawal of the so-called "Speed Dressing" ad that won a prestigious advertising award at Cannes, France, earlier this month.

The flaw focuses on IE's inline frames, often used for serving ads, which typically come from a different domain than content that appears on the same Web page.

Wesley Capital Management brings business continuity online by outsourcing disaster recovery to a specialty IT provider.

The follow-up to 2001's Diablo II features a 3-D graphics engine that renders environments that are interactive and destructible, allowing players to create traps and obstacles.

Google has struck a deal to help finance and distribute on the Internet an animated series from Seth MacFarlane, creator of "The Family Guy" television series.

Expects to create new software more quickly with a richer interface

The Wyoming resort community's network is based on the WiMax Forum-approved Alvarion base station.

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AP - A French court ordered eBay Inc. to pay more than $61 million to a high-end fashion company Monday because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.



AP - Yahoo Inc. began pressing a case to major shareholders Monday that its board and management deserve a chance to prove they made the right move when they rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.



AP - A public outcry against Sweden's eavesdropping law reached new heights Monday with protesters sending more than 1 million e-mails to lawmakers, parliamentary officials said.

AP - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.



CNET - Warner Music Group, the third largest music label, will license music to Nokia's Comes With Music service, a Warner Music spokeswoman confirmed Monday.

Reuters - A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.

Reuters - The makers of video game "Rock Band 2" said on Monday the sequel to last year's best-selling predecessor "Rock Band" will be released for the Xbox in September, months ahead of key rival "Guitar Hero."

NewsFactor - Google has expanded its licensing agreement with digital map provider Tele Atlas under undisclosed financial terms. The new license covers the entire range of Google's map-related services, from Google Maps and Google Earth services to newer applications that are expected to play lead roles on Google's Android mobile platform.

PC Magazine - On Monday, Netgear announced the WGR614L, what might be the world's first native open-source consumer router.

NewsFactor - In a move to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony is set to release the PlayStation 3 software update 2.40 on Wednesday.

PC World - A new Web site focuses on social networking for government audiences.

CNET - The makers of World of Warcraft are offering players of the online role-playing game an optional layer of security in the form of an electronic token device called Blizzard Authenticator designed to prevent unauthorized access to an account.

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