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  Google edges toward Rosetta Stone status

  Wonder what the French really think? The search giant offers a native-language view of the Web through translated search results. Also new: a dictionary service.

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  Solar Impulse aircraft flies, ever so briefly

  photos It didn't go very high or very far this time, but the prototype is designed eventually to fly night and day, and around the world.
  • Solar plan's first test flight

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• Apple grabs top U.S. retail sales spots in October

  Apple secures 2 out of the top 3 desktop spots, in terms of retail sales, and 4 out of the top 10 notebook spots for computer sales in October, according to NPD Group's Stephen Baker.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Google adds streaming news to Google Finance

  Google is betting that real-time news (or something closely resembling it) will attract more financially oriented visitors to its Google Finance pages.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Video site Vevo close to signing EMI

  Vevo, a site scheduled to launch Tuesday that hopes to become the MTV for the next generation, continues to sign licensing deals with the top labels.

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Cisco works percentages toward Tandberg takeover

  Just shy of 90 percent of Tandberg shares as it passes a self-imposed drop-dead deadline, Cisco says its acquisition plan is still very much alive.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Lance Whitney)

• Apple updates Mac Pro with 3.33GHz chip option

  Apple updates its Mac Pro line of desktop computers with an option to add the quad-core Intel Xeon. This would add $1,200 to the price of the base configuration, currently priced at $2,499.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Coke eyes climate-friendlier vending machines

  The soft-drink company plans to replace hydrofluorocarbon, a contributor to greenhouse gases, in its new vending machines and coolers by 2015.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Reuters)

• Hardware for Gmail: The 'Gboard' keyboard

  Gmail's got desktop hardware now, though not from Google. The Gboard is a new Gmail-centric keyboard with colored shortcut keys that let you zip around your in-box.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Can Comcast-NBC play nice with Hulu?

  With the advent of the media joint venture, Hulu's development may have just hit a wall. Plus, Netflix and iTunes could be competing with a major supplier.
  • Comcast, NBC Universal forge $37 billion venture

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Behind last night's Bing outage

  Microsoft says that a change that was being tested was mistakenly moved onto the live site, causing Thursday night's sitewide outage.
  • Microsoft's Bing goes down

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Viewers to explore 360 degrees of MTV Woodies

  On Friday night, MTV will be showing its 2009 Woodie Awards online, utilizing a new spherical-video platform developed by Calgary, Alberta-based Immersive Media.

  (Posted in The Web Services Report by Harrison Hoffman)

• Defense Dept. pulls software over privacy issues

  EPIC complaint alleging privacy issues with Echometrix parental control software prompts Defense Department online store to pull the product.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Sony unveils online plan for recovery

  The company says it will create an online network that pipes its films, music, games and other content to its TVs, Walkmans, and PlayStation game machines.
  (From The New York Times)

• The FTC is talking to Nvidia about Intel

  The Federal Trade Commission's probe of the chipmaker's business practices has extended to Nvidia.

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