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  Google has itself
  'a very good quarter'

  Revenue rises 3 percent to top $4 billion as online ad spending avoids a downward spiral amid an economy still looking for signs of recovery.

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  Nokia sees bottom to mobile market malaise

  Despite taking a beating, both Nokia and Sony Ericsson saw glimmers of hope in their latest results. Could the worst actually be over?

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• Sun shareholders approve Oracle merger

  Investors OK the $7.4 billion deal, but acquisition still faces scrutiny by the Justice Department. Java licensing said to be the sticking point.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Lance Whitney)

• CEOs, other execs disagree on security

  Survey of CEOs and their senior executives show disparity over views of corporate IT security. Disagreements crop up over vulnerability to data breaches and who's responsible for protecting corporate data.

  (Posted in Security by Lance Whitney)

• Intel Core i7 laptops coming--or already here?

  Intel is slated to release its first mobile "Nehalem" processor in the coming months, but benchmark-breaking laptops are already out there with Nehalem chips inside.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Music industry wants cut of Pirate Bay sale

  Music industry's international enforcement arm says it plans to collect money from four Pirate Bay operators. A sale indicates the four have cash.
  • Pirate Bay exec stops comparing RIAA to Stalin

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Collaborating for profits in nanotechnology

  Giant universities and start-up companies are finding they need one another to bring the benefits of nanotechnology to the public.
  (From The New York Times)

• Dell poised to benefit most from PC market recovery

  The PC maker will see improvement when its corporate customers start buying computers again later this year and into 2010.
  • PC market improvement on the horizon

  (Posted in Business Tech by Erica Ogg)

• Google wants to know how you'd change broadband

  Want to fix broadband? Google and the New America Foundation want to know how you'd do it, and are using a community-moderated tool to make it happen.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Another wireless HDMI casualty: Belkin cancels FlyWire

  Long awaited and oft-delayed, the FlyWire wireless HDMI accessory will now never see the light of day.

  (Posted in Crave by John P. Falcone)

• Celebrating creativity through fire and light

  The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival, a fundraiser in its ninth year, celebrates creativity with interactive fire art, performance, and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast.

  (Posted in Full Frame by James Martin)

• Photos: GE's smart grid kitchen of the future

  General Electric is working on networked appliances that work with smart meters to reduce home energy use.
  • Are consumers ready for the smart grid?

• Mozilla gives add-on developers a tip jar

  Creators of add-ons for Firefox now have a way to get paid for their work--at least through Mozilla's add-ons site.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• AC solar panels: One step closer to DIY solar?

  GreenRay Solar gets funding to finish work on a solar panel that puts out household alternating current, which makes installation simpler and improves reliability.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Wal-Mart to label products with eco ratings

  World's largest retailer plans to ask suppliers to provide environmental information on all products, labeling all items with eco ratings for environmental friendliness.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Lance Whitney)
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