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[/url]Reuters - Spanish-owned mobile phone operator O2 has yet to sign any deal to bring iPhone mobile phones -- Apple Inc.'s latest "must-have" gadget -- to Britain. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Research in Motion has obtained permission from Beijing to sell its popular Blackberry mobile email device in mainland China, the world's biggest cell phone market, media said Wednesday. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Oracle's search for a smoking gun to prove the truth of its allegations that rival SAP stole its software is likely to be long and arduous, making an out-of-court settlement attractive for both parties. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on October 11 in Japan, a country where sales of its game gear trail far behind rival machines from Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. Link To Original Article

AP - The rate of broadband adoption is slowing in the United States, partly because service providers already have grabbed the easiest converts, a study has found. Link To Original Article

AP - A music download site that was the poster child for U.S. anti-piracy crusaders and an obstacle to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has been shut down by Russian authorities, according to the U.S. government. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Apple Inc.'s shares jumped in high-volume trading Tuesday after researchers said the company will reap a gross profit margin in excess of 55 percent on its 8 gigabyte iPhones. Link To Original Article

AP - With Hollywood studios still split over competing formats for high-definition DVDs, Warner Bros. will delay the launch of a dual-format disc until next year. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content. Link To Original Article

Instead of kicking back for the July 4th holiday, Steve Ballmer should be going bat**** crazy right now. If you're Microsoft's CEO, the finding by Evans Data of a falloff in the number of developers writing apps for Windows desktop computers makes for grim reading. The study, which ... Link To Original Article

Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. has won permission to sell its BlackBerry device in China after eight years of effort, the Globe and Mail newspaper said on Wednesday. Link To Original Article

Struggling PlanetOut said Monday that it has struck a deal to raise $26 million in new funds from private investors. The publicly traded company, which runs the PlanetOut and Gay.com Web sites, as well as Out and The Advocate magazines, has seen its revenue drop and its losses widen ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - T-Mobile, the mobile arm of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, has beaten rival Vodafone in the battle to win the marketing rights for Apple's iPhone in Germany, the regional daily Rheinische Post reported on Wednesday. Link To Original Article

Google this week filed a brief to the federal judge overseeing Microsoft's long-running antitrust case, again trying to make its case that it should be allowed to participate in the matter as a "friend of the court." The filing, which was not unexpected, comes after Microsoft filed its opposition ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Autonomy Corp.*is acquiring Zantaz, a provider of e-discovery and content archiving software, for $375 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday. Link To Original Article

While it didn't surprise me that Nintendo games dominated the top 10, I was appalled at what I learned. Check out this and other original content from CNET's blog network. Link To Original Article

Bill Gates is still rich, but he may no longer be the world's richest man. A Mexican online financial Web site estimates that tycoon Carlos Slim has a net worth of $67 billion, which would place his fortune above that of the Microsoft chairman, according to various media reports. ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - The provider of on-demand enterprise-resource planning software has posted strong revenue growth, but until last year sales and marketing costs always exceeded revenue. Link To Original Article

Company says breach last week by hackers likely had no impact on customers, but it continues to investigate the incident. Link To Original Article

Maybe Microsoft's stronghold grip on the desktop is slipping after all. But instead of the Web stealing away Windows users, as people have predicted for years, it's Linux and handheld devices. According to an Evans Data study published on Tuesday, software developers are choosing to write applications for ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - For a law student, Zhao Mengyuan has a peculiar way of making money -- slaying dragons, killing orcs and saving princesses in distress. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Nintendo's Wii video game console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 six to one in June in Japan, a Japanese publishing company said Monday. Link To Original Article

AP - AT&T Inc. announced Monday that subscribers to its higher speed broadband services will have free access to its Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. Link To Original Article

AP - The bidding may not be over for the parent of Bell Canada, which over the weekend agreed to a buyout offer of $35.1 billion from a consortium led by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board in the biggest Canadian takeover ever. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft*has achieved a small victory in its*effort to make Open XML an open technology standard. Massachusetts, the U.S. state that has mandated the use of open technology formats in its government agencies, has put the specification on its list of possible standards that can be used for documents, according to a document on its Web site. Link To Original Article