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  A new set of rules
  for social games

  Playfish's $300 million sale to Electronic Arts seems to spell good news for other makers of social-network games, but this is a fast-growing and messy niche filled with one plot twist after another.
  • EA snags Playfish, cuts jobs

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  Music industry bows to point-and-shoot camera

  As cheap, powerful automatic cameras and camera phones proliferate, the music industry--and its sports counterpart--have had to realize they can't control fans' ability to take pictures.

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• Hundreds of Facebook groups hijacked

  Facebook groups that have lost administrators are being hijacked by a group called Control Your Info that insists it wants only to teach users a lesson about social media.

  (Posted in Webware by Don Reisinger)

• Rutger Hauer to Hollywood: Don't fear tech

  q&a The "Blade Runner" star is backing a company that wants to open up bandwidth and says technology will help improve filmmaking.

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Justice Dept. asked for news site's visitor lists

  Gag order instructed independent news site not to disclose subpoena demanding copies of "all IP traffic."

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Twitter, LinkedIn team up for self-promotion fest

  Partnership means that status messages can be interchangeable between the two: great for all those marketers who use the two to broadcast their own brands.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Initial Motorola Droid sales look good

  Analysts believe that sales of the new Motorola Droid on Verizon Wireless' network have been strong and steady through the first weekend the device was on sale.

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)

• Apple updates Mac OS X Snow Leopard

  Apple fixes a number of issues in Snow Leopard, including a bug that caused the loss of data when logged in as a guest.
  • Apple plugs holes for domain spoofing, other attacks

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• EC formally objects to Oracle buying Sun

  European regulators have formally objected to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Oracle vows to fight the conclusion.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• More time needed for revised Google Books deal

  After a meeting late last week with the Justice Department, the parties realize they need more time. Monday was to be the deadline for a revised settlement.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Judge bans Twitter from court

  Federal judge in Georgia says criminal procedure rule should be interpreted to ban Twitter updates during a trial.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Declan McCullagh)

• With AdMob, Google seeks mobile-ad advantage

  The most dominant online advertising company has long had its sights set on the mobile market, and its $750 million purchase of AdMob gives it a strong position.
  • Google to acquire AdMob

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Winner declared in space elevator race

  LaserMotive wins $900,000 in NASA's Space Elevator challenge, where teams compete to see who could drive their space elevator the fastest.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Lance Whitney)

• How your cell phone can diagnose disease

  An engineer at UCLA combines cell phones and $10 worth of hardware with software he developed to create next-gen microscopes that are affordable and portable.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)

• Report: Clearwire gets more cash from investors

  All of Clearwire's major investors, with the exception of Google, are pumping in more cash to the company to help it build its nationwide WiMax network.

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)
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