Viacom, YouTube air dirty laundry in legal battle
(AP)
- 2010-03-19T13:40:37
 AP - Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet.
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Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools
(AP)
- 2010-03-19T17:50:03
 AP - Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?
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Hollywood and Bollywood join arms to fight piracy
(AP)
- 2010-03-19T10:51:17
 AP - Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms Thursday to fight piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets.
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Palm's phone sales slump and its stock dives
(AP)
- 2010-03-18T22:35:53
 AP - Palm Inc. reported sales figures Thursday that showed it's having a difficult time getting consumers to pay attention to its phones in a market dominated by iPhones and BlackBerrys. The company's shares plunged in after-hours trading.
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Judge: Site must delay copying of broker reports
(AP)
- 2010-03-19T15:55:10
AP - Settling a copyright dispute closely watched in the financial news industry, a judge on Thursday ordered a Web site to delay disseminating the stock recommendations of financial services firms long enough so that the firms can alert their clients first.
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Net produces new generation of China activists
(AP)
- 2010-03-19T15:15:46
 AP - Lin Xiuying believes her daughter bled to death after being gang-raped two years ago by a group of thugs that had ties to the police in their southern Chinese town.
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Google Reconsiders Privacy Practices
(PC World)
- 2010-03-20T21:56:00
PC World - Google isn't exactly known for its respect for privacy, but a recent blog post shows the search giant may be attempting to turn a new leaf on what has been called an "irresponsible" stance on user privacy. Maybe.
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'iPad Killer' May be Palm's Last Hope
(PC World)
- 2010-03-20T13:29:00
PC World - The Apple iPad has captured the imagination--and a fair share of the news headlines for the past few months. Palm has been in the headlines as well, but for entirely different reasons. Perhaps, Palm could reverse its fortunes and regain its former glory if it went back to its PDA roots and developed a tablet PC to compete with the iPad?
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Smartphones not enough for carriers at CTIA
(Reuters)
- 2010-03-19T21:46:03
Reuters - Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow.
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Music biz insiders say Sony-Jackson deal makes sense
(Reuters)
- 2010-03-20T00:39:04
Reuters - The magnitude of Sony Music Entertainment's landmark recording contract with the estate of Michael Jackson raises an inevitable question: Is it a smart deal for the label?
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The Great Nintendo DS School Invasion
(PC World)
- 2010-03-19T18:24:00
PC World - Could Nintendo's Mario and Luigi be headed for blackboards and pop-top desks after decades battling bob-ombs, chain chomps, hammer bros, and koopa troopas? Mario creator and Nintendo R&D guru Shigeru Miyamoto certainly hopes so.
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The Macalope Weekly: Familiar territory
(Macworld.com)
- 2010-03-20T14:00:00
Macworld.com - The iPad is now available for purchase and iPad sales figures are available for loose speculation! Microsoft phone fans find themselves in familiar territory and whatâs that Braying sound?
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Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs
(PC World)
- 2010-03-20T23:30:12
PC World - Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working.
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Facebook News Readers More Loyal Than Googlers
(NewsFactor)
- 2010-03-20T21:34:52
NewsFactor - First, Facebook dethroned Google as the most trafficked web site in the United States, and now the social networking community has proven to have an extremely loyal following among news readers, potentially threatening the dominant position held by Google News. So says a recent Hitwise survey.
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Basketball, Facebook and Gossip Are Malware Targets
(NewsFactor)
- 2010-03-19T20:55:29
NewsFactor - Cybercriminals have been busy this week running scams that target Facebook users, college basketball fans, and celebrity gossip watchers. Security experts are warning about recent attacks with nasty payloads.
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Ex-MySQL Chief Marten Mickos Lands New CEO Job
(PC World)
- 2010-03-19T22:00:15
PC World - Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday.
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Special Guests, Android Updates, and the iPad on PCWorld Podcast 69
(PC World)
- 2010-03-19T21:00:00
PC World - This week on the podcast, Wired's Dylan Tweney and Brian X. Chen visit the PCWorld podcast studio for some verbal jousting over Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPad.
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