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  Viacom, Google air dirty laundry in court docs

  The copyright confrontation gets fierce. Also: Viacom says YouTube founders always intended to build video version of Napster and looked for ways "to avoid the copyright bastards."
  • Images: Excerpts of court docs
  • Google's statement
  • Viacom's statement

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  InVisage aims to remake camera sensor market

  A Silicon Valley start-up believes its image sensor technology will dramatically improve smartphone cameras by gathering light more efficiently.

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• Chinese media slam Google as 'politicized'

  Apparent coordinated attack accusing the Web giant of "abandoning its business principles" comes days before the company may announce its withdrawal from that country.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Group formed to sell consumers on smart grid

  Launching Tuesday, Smart Grid Consumer Coalition aims to promote the benefits of the smart grid to consumers in the wake of smart-meter backlash.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• ThickButtons reduces fat-fingering

  New keyboard tech re-sizes buttons on the fly.

  (Posted in Rafe's Radar by Rafe Needleman)

• Novell rejects Elliot takeover bid as 'inadequate'

  But company says it's committed to enhancing value for stockholders and will explore options including a stock repurchase, joint ventures, and a sale.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Leslie Katz)

• What does Google really know about advertising?

  Whether you consider Nexus One a success or failure, the fact is that Google has never successfully launched anything that required advertising. Does the company know how to do it?

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• At long last, the Plastiki sets sail

  photos After much anticipation, banking heir David de Rothschild's boat, made buoyant by 12,000 discarded soda bottles, sets sail from Northern California on its way to Australia.

• Top-rated reviews of the week

  photos Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the X-Mini Happy Speaker MP3 player, LG BD590 Blu-ray player, and the Origin Genesis gaming PC.

• Reasons to care about Viacom v. Google

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

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Desperate times for Palm

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

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Engineering a massive cleanup of toxic waterways

  photos Boats, barges, and buildings dumped in a San Francisco Bay Area delta are leaching toxic chemicals into local drinking water, but a huge effort to clean it up is under way.
  • Full Frame: Barge-scale cleanup in a California delta

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
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