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Science Britian’s high court sides with famed British rock band and tells EMI no more selling individual song downloads without Pink Floyd’s permission.
Next week’s event could finally clear up questions over Google’s Android strategy, with expectations that it will use the occasion to launch the Nexus One phone.
Movie-rental outfit has done a fine job improving its sales by expanding its offering of $1-per-day films. But a new report suggests games aren’t that far away for Redbox.
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Science The cross-platform graphics interface adds support for tesselation and better general-purpose computation.
Customers suffering shipping and technical issues with the new Android phone now have more resources than online support forums.
HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables.
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Science Microsoft’s Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.
Green Plug and WiPower are seeking to eliminate wires from the charging process by creating a pad that wirelessly transmits power to portable devices.
Opera releases its most recent mobile browser–complete with Speed Dial and a new tabbed browsing design–for Windows Mobile phones.
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Science Google’s phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.
The software maker says Friday that it’s ending the latest in a series of efforts to rival Intuit in the business accounting software.
All Internet Explorer’s rivals gained overall, but the IE 8 version did increase in popularity in usage. Firefox gained the most from August to September.
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Science One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can “tag” with anything.
More than 1,000 staff at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in the U.K. took part in a one-day strike on Friday as the result of a dispute over pay and job losses.
Called the “Gross National Happiness” index, the company’s data team releases what it can dig up when it analyzes certain words in status messages.
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Science Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding.
Apple top-level exec Phil Schiller defends the company’s role as application gatekeeper for the App Store, saying it ensures a good experience for customers.
A resolution in Microsoft’s long antitrust battle with the European Commission, Intel gets sued by the FTC, and an arrest is made in the copyright infringement case of the “Wolverine” movie.
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Science The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application
The touch-screen Oregon 450 and 450t navigation devices give hikers an updated interface and improved track navigation, the GPS device maker says.
Mario Queiroz, Google’s vice president of product management, introduces the Nexus One, which is the company’s first foray into direct-to-consumer product sales.
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Science Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup.
Chinese military sees information dominance as key to future victories, with the U.S. government and private industry likely targets, according to a report.
Apple increased its Mac shipments 23.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving it a 7.5 percent market share, according to market research firm Gartner.
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Science The co-author of a study on cyberbullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth says more than half of LGBT youth had experienced cyberbulling within the past 30 days.
The acquisition, which was originally announced in July, was worth about $850 million in a mix of cash and stock.
CNET’s reviewers give the low-down on the Palm Pre Plus, HP Mini 5102, Aliph Jawbone Icon, and more.
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Science Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.
The tech giant is reportedly considering reuniting the units, which were combined and then separated in 2005 under two different chief executives.
The retail and deals start-up has been turning a profit since June, the CEO said, but added that it has some new technology on the way that will require extra backing.