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  Hackers create tools
  for disaster relief

  At the first-ever Random Hacks of Kindness event, developers work on technology tools that emergency relief workers can use in disasters.
  • Photos: Random Hack of Kindness

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  With $1.25 billion, can AMD finally compete?

  After settling with Intel, AMD must now compete with Intel on its merits. Some experts weigh in on how it will do.
  • What Intel bought: Less risk
  • Intel hires antitrust expert
  • No big change for consumers

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• Nvidia calls Intel's tactics 'aggressive'

  Company is complaining loudly about Intel's bundling strategies in the graphics chip market.

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

• Judge rules for Apple in Psystar case

  Summary judgment states that Psystar's creation of Mac clones that run Mac OS X violate "Apple's exclusive reproduction right, distribution right, and right to create derivative works."

  (Posted in Apple by Natalie Weinstein)

• Verizon sends antipiracy notes for Hollywood, too

  Long considered disinterested in playing copyright cop, Verizon apparently has a change of heart. The company is now forwarding violation notices on behalf of NBC Universal--as well as the RIAA.
  • Verizon sends RIAA notices

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Apple relents on Mad artist's caricature app

  Company apparently has a change of heart about the Bobble Rep app, which features caricatures of congressional politicians and provides contact information.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Natalie Weinstein)

• Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of share

  Smartphones that use Apple's, Research In Motion's, and Google's operating systems are draining Microsoft's mobile market share.

  (Posted in Wireless by David Meyer)

• Running a contest on Facebook? That'll cost you

  The social network tightened its rules for companies running contests on its platform last week, and sources say those companies will be required to buy ad space too.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google Books settlement sets limits

  Revised settlement allows the scanning of out-of-print works from only English-speaking countries, restricts future business for Google, and gives copyright holders more rights.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Elinor Mills)

• Man allegedly steals bus, posts YouTube video

  A tour bus is stolen in Vermont. A former employee is apprehended for allegedly taking it on a joyride. Now it appears that he made a video of the alleged theft and posted it to YouTube.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Amazon Kindle, HTC Droid Eris and Canon PowerShot S90.
  • Week in review: Pre-holiday buying spree

• NASA confirms water ice deposits on moon

  Deliberate crash of an empty rocket stage in a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole last month kicked up definitive signs of water ice, scientists say.

  (Posted in The Space Shot by William Harwood)

• Microsoft: Windows 7 tool used GPL code

  Microsoft confirms that a tool intended to allow Netbooks to more easily move to the new operating system was based in part, and unintentionally, on open-source code.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Microsoft patching zero-day Windows 7 SMB hole

  Company warns customers that exploit code for the Server Message Block hole is available and suggests a workaround until a patch is ready.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• AT&T: Verizon ads are 'blatantly false'

  The wireless provider, which has been taking a beating in a series of parody ads over its 3G coverage, adds heat to its lawsuit. No word on what the misfit toys think.

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)
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