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TechWeb - Hyperic, Zenoss, GroundWork, and Qlusters are expanding what they can do. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Software group Satyam has become FIFA's first major sponsor from India after being appointed as their official IT services provider for the next seven years. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - More than a year ago, in October 2006, a 13-year-old school girl named Megan Meier hanged herself in her home in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri. An investigation initially revealed that Meier, who had long battled depression, committed suicide after receiving some cruel messages on the MySpace.com social networking site. The messages were supposedly from a 16-year-old acquaintance named Josh Evans. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Not a cash register is in sight. The electronics on display are all powered up and ready for use. Personal trainers, specialists and newly minted concierges in aqua blue shirts make the Apple Store feel part salon, part Internet cafe — just without the espresso. Link To Original Article

AP - Chip maker Broadcom Corp. said Friday it would try to stop rival Qualcomm Inc. from making, using, selling or developing cellular chips based on contested patents. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - A promotion in which a customer buying a $188 computer in the U.S. and Canada automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year's end, organizers said Thursday. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Saudis should do more to help the government monitor use of the Internet to help fight Islamic militancy, intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz said on Saturday. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile has bowed to the demands of a German court. On Monday, the court had ordered the company to change its marketing campaign for Apple's iPhone and issued a restraining order prohibiting the company from selling the Mac-maker's handset. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - A federal judge affirmed a jury verdict that wireless chip developer Qualcomm Inc infringed Broadcom Corp patents but removed an award of double damages for Broadcom, the companies said on Friday. Link To Original Article

PC World - Young people are compromising their career prospects and opening the door to online fraud by posting personal information on social networking sites without thinking about the consequences, a U.K. privacy watchdog warned Friday. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - The nation's shoppers — who have been hibernating in recent months because of worries about rising gas prices and falling home values — jammed malls and stores for pre-dawn discounts on everything from TVs to toys on the official start of Christmas shopping. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Media mogul Barry Diller said Friday his Internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, will invest $100 million to expand in China by creating services designed for local users. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - Unwanted commercial e-mail touting Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes and more is growing by electronic leaps and bounds: an Internet-buckling 60 billion to 150 billion messages a day. Link To Original Article

Macworld.com - Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 have been given a boost in North America since it cut the price of the console and introduced a cheaper version at the beginning of November. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Naguib Sawiris, the billionaire head of Egyptian cell phone group Orascom Telecom, has approached Vivendi about a possible telecoms tie-up but the pair failed to agree on price, Les Echos said on Friday. Link To Original Article

Reuters - German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on Thursday. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Small Finnish handset maker Benefon, which has changed its business name to GeoSentric, said Nokia has picked its social networking application for the Nokia GPS handsets N95 and 6110. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Making a successful reader for electronic books is one of the toughest tasks in consumer electronics. Many have tried and all have failed, defeated by something that's thousands of years old — the book. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Hitachi's new toddler-like robot rolled around and waved for reporters Wednesday, only to crash into a desk and demonstrate the challenge of turning automatons into everyday helpers. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - You can always spot the novices in the virtual reality world of "Second Life": Their online characters — or avatars — stumble around awkwardly and walk into objects, as their real-world users fumble with the keyboard controls. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Google Inc enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on Wednesday. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - As folks in the U.S. begin to enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend, there seems to be almost as much buzz about the Amazon Kindle as there was about the Apple iPhone being the next great thing. Well, almost. Link To Original Article

Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Qualcomm Inc won a round in its patent battles with wireless phone maker Nokia(NOK1V.HE) on Wednesday as a U.S. trade court tossed out a lawsuit asking for Qualcomm's chips to be barred from the United States. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Mozilla launched a new beta of Firefox this week, essentially a developer preview of the features and functions promised in the third major point release of the popular open-source browser. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available for testing so Mozilla can gain feedback before the software advances to the next stage in the release process. Link To Original Article