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InfoWorld – Mono 2.0, an open-source runtime enabling .Net-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix, is being released Monday, featuring capabilities for a number of .Net technologies.

Reuters – EBay Inc plans to cut its workforce by 10 percent and expects to exceed its third-quarter earnings forecast, the online auction Web site said on Monday as its shares rose nearly 2 percent in pre-market trading.

InfoWorld – HP on Monday is updating its SOA governance software, HP Systinet 3.00, which assists with discovering and reusing services in composite applications and business processes.

CNET – A judge has ordered RealNetworks to suspend the sale of RealDVD, the controversial software that hands users the ability to copy and store films to a hard drive, according to a report published by NewTeeVee.com, a technology-news blog.

AP – Verizon Wireless says it is moving forward with plans to acquire Alltel Corp. for $28.1 billion, although the country’s financial climate has worsened since the companies reached an agreement four months ago.

AP – Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.

CNET – Seth Weintraub of 9to5Mac, a blogger with good sources within the Macintosh community, is reporting that Apple has invented a new manufacturing process for MacBooks.

AFP – Roaming fees for mobile phone users in Southeast Asia making calls outside their own country may be cut by half early next year, according to report Sunday citing a Malaysian minister.

CNET – Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin are both winners when it comes to spam.

AFP – Europe’s leading telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, admitted Saturday that it has lost confidential data belonging to 17 million T-mobile clients.