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TechWeb - AskEraser will provide Ask users with privacy controls that will prevent their searches from being retained on the company's servers. Link To Original Article

AP - A federal court on Friday dismissed a request by Qualcomm Inc. to delay an import ban on new cell phones containing the company's chips, which were were found to infringe patents held by Broadcom Corp. Link To Original Article

AP - Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years. Link To Original Article

AP - Taiwan's Acer Inc. said Friday it has filed a counterclaim in a U.S. court against a patent infringement lawsuit by Hewlett-Packard Co. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan on Friday outlined a new proposal to keep Dow Jones & Co Inc. out of Rupert Murdoch's hands, saying his plan can help boost its stock price to above $100. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - On Friday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster raised his target price for Apple stock to $205 on the basis of research that indicates that Apple is getting a healthy share of revenue from AT&T for every iPhone contract. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Holding focused meetings, also known as "sprints," over several days to develop, test, and document software is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Earlier this week, Microsoft Windows watcher Winbeta.org posted an e-mail from the software giant's Windows Driver Kit team that ended up launching a media feeding frenzy on news sites around the world. According to Microsoft's e-mail to the site, the release of a beta version of the first service pack for Vista was available for download. Link To Original Article

You'll be able to zip around about 10 feet off the ground at a speed of 50 miles per hour. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Facebook, a social-networking site that has become an open development platform, announced Thursday that it purchased startup Parakey for an undisclosed amount. The company, started by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, has been creating products to unify and integrate desktop applications and the Web. Link To Original Article

Deadline for federal agencies' policies for dealing with data breaches approaches and it's not yet clear whether everyone will be done in time. Link To Original Article

PC World - Shipments of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.'s Eneloop ready-to-use rechargeable battery will soon hit 30 million thanks in part to the popularity of Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii games console. Link To Original Article

AP - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - With lines snaking around Apple stores and hype in overdrive, the iPhone seemed like a good investment � not for keeping but for reselling. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Facebook Inc., the owner of the Internet's second most popular social networking site, said Thursday that it bought Parakey, a startup run by two of the engineers that helped build Firefox's popular Web browser. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Search portal Ask.com plans to make it easier for Web searchers to cover their tracks. The company is introducing a new feature to its Web portal later this year called AskEraser, which will let users perform anonymous searches. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - SEATTLE - Microsoft said Thursday it eked out a gain in net profit despite taking a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles. Link To Original Article

EU data watchdog welcomes Google's announcement of a two-year cookie lifespan but says its major concern is server log data use. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Swedish telecommunication equipment maker Ericsson on Friday reported a gain in second quarter net earnings but its sales performance fell short of market expectations. Link To Original Article

MessageLabs reports a surge in malicious spam aimed at individuals in senior management positions--and their family members. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Facebook Inc., the fast growing Silicon Valley social networking site, said on Thursday it has acquired Internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the co-creators of the popular Web browser, Mozilla Firefox. Link To Original Article

Hackers exploit excitement over Apple's smart phone by sending malicious e-mails claiming that recipients have won their own. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - IBM’s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. Link To Original Article