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Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes (AP)
AP - Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.
Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident (AP)

In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.


EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire (AP)

In this April 15, 2008 file photo, a sign outside eBay headquarters in San Jose, Calif. is seen. EBay is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect in June 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.


Retailers can use DNA tracing to track meat (AP)

IdentiGEN president Donald Marvin looks over his facility in Lawrence, Kan., Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The Ireland-based company that uses DNA technology to test and track meat to the original animal is now targeting U.S. retailers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Meat retailers can now trace their wares from the ranch to the refrigerator case using DNA analysis.


Gates: Microsoft to go its own way (AP)

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks with The Associated Press Friday May 9, 2008, in Jakarta, Indonesia.   The Gates Foundation has donated US$3 million for emergency relief efforts in Myanmar and will provide software to help reunite family members separated in the cyclone, Gates said Friday. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)AP - Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday.


Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership (AP)
AP - An online advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent.
Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Softpress Systems on Thursday announced the release of Freeway 5.1, a new version of its Web design software for Mac OS X. A free update for 5.0 users, Freeway is available in Express and Pro versions for $79 or $249 respectively.
Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor (AP)

In this Sept. 22, 2005 file photo, rapper Foxy Brown exits  Manhattan criminal court in New York. Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)AP - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.


Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.
Microsoft appeals against EU fine (Reuters)

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivers a speech in Jakarta. Microsoft on Friday lodged an appeal at a European court against the record 899 million euro (1.39 billion dollar) fine imposed on it by the EU Commission for defying a landmark anti-trust ruling.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)Reuters - Microsoft said on Friday it was appealing against a record 899 million euro ($1.39 billion) fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices to discourage software competition.


MySpace Makes Data Portable to Other Web Sites (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project.
"Pirates" maker to turn "BioShock" game into film (Reuters)
Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong.

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Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Softpress Systems on Thursday announced the release of Freeway 5.1, a new version of its Web design software for Mac OS X. A free update for 5.0 users, Freeway is available in Express and Pro versions for $79 or $249 respectively.
Paper is passe for tech-savvy South Koreans (Reuters)

A mobile phone user shows off a coupon in Seoul April 29, 2008. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)Reuters - Young, tech-savvy South Koreans are making coupon clipping a thing of the past and turning to their mobile phones instead.


Orb Claims It Can Stream Live TV to iPods (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Orb Networks claims to have "the world's first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod Touch."
NEC to Expand Rugged Laptop Sales Worldwide (PC World)
PC World - Spray them with water, subject them to extreme temperatures or drop them on the ground, NEC's rugged ShieldPro laptops are...
Free Wi-Fi Expands with AT&T, Cablevision (PC World)
PC World - Two giant offers for free Wi-Fi extended, one from AT&T to iPhone users, and another from Cablevision for its millions of home territory broadband subscribers.
Apple Reportedly Offers $44 Credit To Canadian iPod Owners (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The reward is based on a class-action lawsuit complaining some of the rechargeable batteries in devices bought before June 2004 died after three hours of use.
Ultra Low-Cost Notebooks Destined As Second Computers (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The most compelling reason to own the small device is to avoid carrying around a heavier and bulkier regular notebook, IDC analysts found.
Analysis: Why Hyundai Turned to Microsoft for Help (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - When it comes to TVs, DVD players, and other consumer electronics, South Korea can go head to head with the best from Japan, China, and the rest of the world. When it comes to car cockpit technology, however, South Korea takes a back seat to everyone else. And that's why Hyundai partnered with Microsoft.
Panasonic Intros New Home Theater in a Box, Blu-ray Player (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Panasonic has introduced the latest version of its home theater in a box (HTiB) system, the first such unit to include an integrated Blu-ray player.
Best Buy Buys Half of Carphone Warehouse for $2.1B (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Best Buy is heading across the pond to form a new company with British consumer electronics leader, Carphone Warehouse.
Nokia Says To Sell 35 Million GPS Phones In 2008 (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, expects to sell 35 million Global Positioning System equipped phones this year, its chief executive said on Thursday.
Microsoft to Increase Focus on Handsets for Poor (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft will increase its focus on making mobile phones part of its strategy to spread IT to people in developing nations...
Toshiba Makes MacBook Air Look Like a Brick (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Toshiba Portégé laptop sports a 12-inch screen, a full-size keyboard, and yet weighs only 1.7 pounds -- about half the weight of the MacBook Air and ThinkPad X300.
Academic says gadgets threaten Internet's future (Reuters)
Reuters - The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.
Tethered gadgets threaten Internet future: academic (Reuters)

Steven Levy, a journalist from Newsweek magazine, holds the Apple iPhone outside the Apple store on New York's 5th Avenue, June 29, 2007. (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - The rise of gadgets such as the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation which helped to build the Internet, a leading Oxford academic has warned in a new book.


Nintendo Wii makes Yamauchi Japan's richest: Forbes (Reuters)

Nintendo Co's Wii game console is displayed as a woman looks at a game software title for Wii at at a Sofmap store in Tokyo's Akihabara district April 24, 2008. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)Reuters - Soaring sales of Nintendo's Wii game machine have made former Nintendo (7974.OS) chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi Japan's richest man, worth $7.8 billion, Forbes magazine said in its annual rankings.


Japan Eyes Adding Copyright Fee to IPod Price (PC World)
PC World - Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency has proposed adding a fee to the price of Apple iPods and other digital music and video...
Apple inks Latin American deal for iPhone (AP)
AP - In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries starting later this year.
HTC's Touch Diamond Won't Touch iPhone 2.0 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Consumers wanting a touch-screen, Web-browsing, 3G-capable phone don't have to wait for the rumored 3G iPhone. HTC's new Touch Diamond matches -- some would say "copies" -- the features on Apple's breakthrough device while offering the speedy connections of 3G networks.
Microsoft Adds Sociability to its Zune Brand (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft placed a bigger bet on Zune this week, as it announced enhancements it hopes will solidify Zune as "the company's all-in-one digital entertainment brand." The Zune brand includes digital audio players, software, and an online music store.

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