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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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  Google's fast pipe
  to Asia almost ready

  An undersea cable built by a group including Google and telecom companies is set to start carrying traffic at any point, with Google to get as much as 20 percent of the capacity.

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• Report: Google to leave China on April 10

  A Beijing-based newspaper quotes an unidentified sales associate who works with the company as saying an announcement regarding Google's future in the country could be made on Monday.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Google aims for easier 3D Web on Windows

  A project called ANGLE aims to make the accelerated 3D graphics standard called WebGL easier to use on Windows computers without hardware support.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Microsoft: Only minor tweaks in Windows 7 SP1

  In its first comments on what will be in the first service pack for Windows 7, Microsoft says it will include only minor updates. No ETA given.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Palm issues disappointing earnings

  For its third fiscal quarter, the smartphone maker reports a loss of 61 cents per share, but that's less than in the year-ago period.

  (Posted in Wireless by Sam Diaz)

• Report: 'Hundreds of thousands' of iPad preorders

  The Wall Street Journal says sales of Apple's newest device on pace to beat original iPhone in first three months.

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• Toshiba says good-bye to incandescent era

  Japanese manufacturer's 120-year relationship with incandescent lighting ended this week in favor of LEDs.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Candace Lombardi)

• Apple to join the geolocation craze?

  A patent filed for a social-networking service called iGroups would allow iPhone and other mobile-device users to stay in touch and share location updates.
  • In geolocation wars, SXSWi is mere skirmish
  • Mashup mocks SXSWi's 'geo' obsession, gender imbalance
  • Video: The future of in-car computing technology

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• Report: T-Moblie in talks with Clearwire, cable

  T-Mobile USA's CEO says the company has talked with Clearwire and cable companies about teaming up.

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)

• Google Calendar gets 'smart' rescheduling

  Google Calendar users who want a non-third-party solution for finding the best times to reschedule a meeting now have an official option by Google.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Report: USB mass storage coming to Xbox 360

  The Xbox 360 memory card may soon be a thing of the past. Screenshots of what's said to be an upcoming software update show that users will be able to use USB sticks and hard drives to save system files.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• GE places solar bets on thin-film cells

  Working with start-up PrimeStar Solar, General Electric is developing solar modules that use low-cost, cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Microsoft nixes barrier to Windows 7's 'XP mode'

  Windows 7 users will no longer need their PC's processor to support hardware virtualization to run the new and old operating systems together.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Apple director Jerry York, 71, dies

  The former CFO of IBM and Chrysler was hospitalized Tuesday night after collapsing at his home. He sat on Apple's board for 13 years.

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)
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