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While Google remained the top Web search engine in the U.S. in June, Microsoft's share rose nearly 3 percent from the previous month as a result of a Microsoft program that offers rewards to people for using the Live Search site. Microsoft's search share rose from 10.... Link To Original Article

Reuters - NBC Universal will be introducing social networking tools on its Web site later this year along with streaming episodes of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," NBC Digital Entertainment said Monday. Link To Original Article

GameSpot got to spend some quality time with the newly redesigned PSP at last week's E3 show. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

Right on schedule, Microsoft announced that its Windows Home Server software is off to the presses. This clears the way for HP, Gateway, LaCie, Medion, and now Iomega and Fujitsu Siemens, (both also announced today, the latter in Europe only) to begin selling their Home Server-powered hardware later this quarter.... Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - Video-game announcements for Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 dominated most of the news from last week's E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica, Calif. But there'll still be plenty for computer gamers to get excited about in the coming months. Link To Original Article

AP - The online video site Grouper, which Sony Corp. bought last year for $65 million, is exiting the crowded and risky user-generated video business and focusing on finding professional talent for Sony's film and TV studios. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - As automakers race to inject as many safety, security, navigation and entertainment features as possible into their vehicles, they ought to keep Mark Evangelista in mind. Link To Original Article

AP - Four race cars barrel down a virtual track, jostling for position. Announcers shout their commentary over growling engines until a winner speeds past a checkered flag. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Chinese sport fans have embraced an online lottery for tickets to the*2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - British-based mobile phone group Vodafone said on Monday it had no plans to bid for U.S. group Verizon Communications Inc , denying a media report. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Symantec declared its*compensation offer*for Chinese users who saw their computers damaged by a bad software update a success Sunday, but declined to say how many users had accepted the deal. Link To Original Article

Mobile gaming just got sweeter: Today Intel announced the Core 2 Extreme X7800, its first laptop CPU under the Extreme Edition brand. The 2.6GHz dual-core processor features 4MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, making it the highest-end chip in Intel's mobile lineup. Of greater interest ... Link To Original Article

PC Magazine - The result is Enterprise 2.0, where productivity is increased, solutions are more flexible and the user is empowered. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system. Link To Original Article

AP - A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to child neglect. Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Acquisition will let search vendor expand offerings of low-cost alternatives to Microsoft. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Canon Inc. (7751.T) will invest about 55 billion yen ($451 million) to build a new factory in Japan to double its production capacity of image sensors used in digital cameras. Link To Original Article

PC World - Microsoft Corp. hopes to better meet the back-office needs of smaller businesses with a new take on enterprise resource planning (ERP) software called Dynamics Entrepreneur Solution. Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Lagging Salesforce and others in the hosted CRM market, Microsoft will try to win customers with lower pricing. Link To Original Article

PC World - Just days after Microsoft Corp. took a more than US$1 billion earnings charge to fix hardware problems in Xbox 360 consoles, a class-action suit says that the consoles also damage game discs. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside? Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto knows when his grand vision of video games for the masses has arrived. Link To Original Article

AP - The focus of this year's E3 Media and Business Summit was the hundreds of video games that will be debuting in the coming months and years. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - As Nicholas Negroponte stormed the developing world trying to drum up buyers for the innovative $175 computers designed by his One Laptop Per Child education nonprofit, he encountered a persistent obstacle: competition from Intel Corp. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - It looks like VH1 is getting into business with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. Link To Original Article