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  Reasons to care about Viacom v. Google

  It may sound like two big companies fighting over who gets what. But there's plenty at stake in this case for other content creators and Web site operators.

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  Desperate times
  for Palm

  With sales of the Pre smartphone sagging amid fierce competition, financial analysts are starting wonder when, not if, Palm will be forced to give up.

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• Trial of human retinal implants quite successful

  German company Retinal Implant unveils the results of its first human clinical trial, which involved retinal implants of 11 patients since 2005.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)

• Report: Memory card exposed 3,000 phones to virus

  Malware found in HTC Magic phones has been traced back to memory cards that shipped in about 3,000 phones, according to report citing Vodafone.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Firm denies hacking, stock manipulation charges

  BroCo Investments says the account at the heart of an SEC complaint was opened on behalf of a client and that it is cooperating with authorities to clear its name.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Nestle mess shows sticky side of Facebook pages

  Food company's Facebook fan page became a lesson in how not to deal with social-media backlash this week, when a company rep snapped back at environmentally motivated critics.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Microsoft bolsters Web-accessible data plan

  OData got a shot in the arm from its prime promoter this week as Microsoft announced programming tools and a standardization plan. The W3C would like to oversee the standard.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• iPad ad goes viral

  Apple's launch ad for its "magical and revolutionary" product succeeds in attracting 2.4 million views online, making it the second-most-watched online ad.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Former MySQL chief lands at Eucalyptus

  Marten Mickos has opted to run another high-flier in the open-source software world.
  (From The New York Times)

• VirnetX files second lawsuit against Microsoft

  Hot on the heels of one legal victory against Microsoft, VirnetX files a second lawsuit against the company, claiming patent violations in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

  (Posted in Microsoft by Lance Whitney)

• Microsoft pulls Bing iPhone app outside U.S.

  Redmond says the application was always meant to be only for the United States and that it is in the process of pulling the app from international iTunes stores.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Survey: Consumers intrigued by electric cars

  Consumers Reports finds about one quarter of adults will consider a plug-in when shopping for new cars, even though there are few available.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Week in review: Tech goes to court

  Google and Viacom take off the gloves in copyright case, while iPad sales skyrocket. Also: FCC's National Broadband Plan.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• Apple's legal skirmishes through the years

  Its cases against phone maker HTC and clone maker Psystar are hardly the only times that Apple has used the law to try to get its way.
  • HTC fires back at Apple patent complaint

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• Collider takes a step closer to full power

  Large Hadron Collider circulates beams at 3.5 tera-electron-volts, bringing it closer to CERN's goal of conducting research into fundamental physics.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Tom Espiner)
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