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[/url]AP - Research In Motion announced a new BlackBerry model Tuesday that will provide wireless voice and data access over both cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Link To Original Article

AP - Microsoft, long stuck in third place behind Google and Yahoo in the search wars, suddenly boosted its share of the market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - Yahoo's second-quarter profit slipped slightly while revenue growth remained lackluster, extending a malaise that prompted the Internet icon to replace its chief executive recently. Link To Original Article

AP - The European Commission said Wednesday it had dropped its antitrust investigation into mobile phone roaming prices charged by operators in Britain and Germany after new EU rules forcing telecom companies to cut the cost of using mobile phones abroad. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - The European Commission backed a Nokia-led mobile television broadcasting standard on Wednesday in a move that could spur growth in the fledgling but potentially lucrative sector. Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Microsoft says software that's licensed under GPLv3 isn't covered by the patent protection deal it recently signed with desktop Linux distributor Linspire. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - Microsoft's video game division is taking a one-two punch. Earlier this month came news that the software giant was taking a charge of more than $1 billion to pay for costs related to extending the Xbox 360 warranty to three years. Now Peter Moore, the company's Xbox standard-bearer for the last four years is resigning to join EA Sports as its president. Replacing Moore at Microsoft as senior vice president of interactive entertainment business (Xbox and Games for Windows) is Don Mattrick, who was once EA's president of its worldwide studios. Link To Original Article

Hopefully, a shift in Intel's marketing strategy will put the Core 2 Duo dancers on hiatus later this year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday. After Intel realized its fortunes had begun to turn last year, the company immediately began a marketing blitz called "Multiply," based almost exclusively around ... Link To Original Article

Microsoft's Jeff Bell and Reggie Bush at E3 (Credit: Dan Ackerman/CNET Networks)By now, the news has hit the wires (and the blogs) that Peter Moore, corporate vice president of interactive entertainment at Microsoft, is leaving Redmond to be president of the sports division at game publisher Electronic ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Intel is making samples of its*Penryn server chips*widely available to computer makers ahead of a planned product launch during the fourth quarter, a company executive said Wednesday. Link To Original Article

Intel CEO Paul Otellini's 2006 cost cuts, painful as they were for Intel employees, paid off Tuesday as the company's second-quarter profits rebounded compared with last year. The chipmaker posted a 47 percent increase in net income during its second quarter, up to $1.3 billion or 22 ... Link To Original Article

The back-to-school season is always one of Apple's most important quarters of the year. Buzz is building that the company won't let the season pass by without a new iMac. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

Note: an update to this blog includes official comment from Microsoft and comments from a Microsoft employee who attended this same meeting. A committee formed to devise the United States' position on Microsoft's Open XML document format voted against recommending it as an ISO standard on Friday, according to ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Sales of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console surpassed one million units in Japan in about eight months after its launch, more than four times as long as it took Nintendo's hot-selling Wii to reach the same mark. Link To Original Article

AP - Internet phone service provider SunRocket, which had as many as 200,000 customers nationwide, has ceased operations without warning. Link To Original Article

AP - Internet radio broadcasters and the music industry appeared to be moving closer Monday to resolving a dispute over a new system mandating higher royalty fees for streaming music online. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - An Iranian hard-line student group unveiled a new video game Monday that simulates an attempt to rescue two Iranian nuclear experts kidnapped by the U.S. military and held in Iraq and Israel. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - The Dell Latitude D630 laptop contains mercury, a heavy metal that can damage the human nervous system. Not one of its many parts is made of recycled, post-consumer plastics or plant-based plastics. It's packaged in a box made of largely unrecycled materials. Yet it may be the most environmentally friendly mainstream laptop on the planet. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - The company behind the BlackBerry, the wireless email service many Americans now cannot live without, unveiled Tuesday plans for a new version of the device for workaholic Japan. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - JBoss is announcing Monday a faster version of JBoss Rules, the company's open source business rules engine. Link To Original Article

Will companies that make antispyware software detect key loggers implanted by federal agents? We survey 13 companies and include their answers verbatim. Link To Original Article

Microsoft's adManager beta search advertising service currently enables small businesses to buy keywords on Microsoft Live Search and MSN. Now, adManager will also allow customers to buy keywords on Ask.com and manage the pay-per-click ad campaigns through one interface. AdManager is an upgrade service that's part of ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - A European Union court will rule Sept. 17 on Microsoft's challenge to an order that that imposed hundreds of millions of dollars of fines on the world's biggest software company for what the regulators said was anti-competitive activity, the court said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

A recent court case dealing with key loggers installed by the feds invites the question: will security companies put the interests of their customers first? Link To Original Article