YouTube suit called threat to online communication

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

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GameStop to stop selling Zunes

Microsoft is in for more bad news regarding its Zune personal music players, as GameStop on Thursday announced it decided to stop selling the flash-memory digital music player in its stores. The video-game retailer said lack of consumer demand and the device's ill fit with its existing offerings prompted the decision, whi

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Apple to release special multi touch keyboard for Apple TV

Apple is rumored to release a new, wireless keyboard specifically for Apple TV, with multi touch capabilities.

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Multitouch Goodness: Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here

It's not from Apple, but it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from the Cupertino company: a band of developers called the NUI Group have developed Lux, a platform that shows the power of a free open framework that will enable true multitouch interaction in Mac OS X.

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Software Notebook: Apple blossoms with growing cash balance

The biggest cash pile in the technology industry has historically belonged to Microsoft Corp., but now it has some company, and it's a familiar name: Apple Inc

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Why Apple is now worth four Dells

But Micheal is worth 3.01 Steve's.

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Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo

Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price.The breakdown followed a meeting in Seattle on Saturday morning between Microsoft C.E.O. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, and Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder and chief executive.

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Blu-ray sales tank

Who cares quality and much, much higher prices. Just wait 'til downloads start to bite...

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Microsoft-Yahoo merger said to be underway

Microsoft and Yahoo are in genuine talks to agree on a merger, the New York Times says. The report claims to know people involved in the negotiations who say that Microsoft has agreed to raise its $31 per share bid by "several" dollars, in effect overcoming resistance by Yahoo to a deal.

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Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ -- that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices

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