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PC World – Black Duck Software plans to announce Monday that it has purchased the assets of Koders, maker of a code search engine and…

AP – Miley Cyrus is taking issue with a photo of herself that’s going around, and it’s not another amateur, truth-or-dare Internet snapshot — it’s the handiwork of Annie Leibovitz.

Reuters – Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world’s top cell
phone maker, unveiled three new phone models on Monday,
targeting the highly competitive market for mid-priced phones.

InfoWorld – Microsoft and China battle for dominance in this week’s quiz, while Yahoo crows about its profits and PETA gets into the meat space. Along the way we touch on the OLPC, iPhone, and the Ramones. How’s that for a wild mix? Correct answers are worth 10 points, and no text messaging your friends for the answers. Ready? Then proceed.

InfoWorld – Everyone knows that server virtualization shaves hardware clutter in the datacenter, boosts workloads, brings disaster recovery flexibility, slashes costs and basically saves the planet from nasty carbon emissions. But here’s the dirty little secret: Many pitfalls await server virtualization adopters, and a stumble can ruin all your virtual dreams.

Macworld.com – Qdea has released Synchronize Pro X version 6.0, an upgrade to its file synchronization and backup software for Mac OS X. It costs $99.95 for a two-year license.

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Reuters – Verizon Communications on
Monday reported a rise in quarterly profit and
stronger-than-expected growth in wireless subscribers, showing
resilience in the face of a U.S. economic slowdown.

PC World – Despite recent efforts to clamp down on electronic payments fraud, the crime is still rife and is undermining citizens’...

AP – Microsoft Corp. is no closer to buying Yahoo Inc. than when it made its $44.6 billion bid nearly three months ago, leaving the software maker in a quandary over whether the deal is still worth pursuing.

AP – There’s no Burger King tie-in or special flavor of Mountain Dew. No commercial directed by Peter Jackson, or even an action figure.

Reuters – U.S. newspaper circulation fell 3.6
percent in the latest set of figures released by an industry
group on Monday, reflecting a migration of readers to the
Internet and publishers’ efforts to streamline their
businesses.

PC World – Verizon Communications posted net income of US$4.3 billion in the first quarter of 2008, up 14.1 percent from a year earlier…

NewsFactor – If mashups sound like the kind of Web 2.0 application best used for checking traffic jams on Google Maps, think again: Mashups within the enterprise environment are becoming common for functions such as integrating social-networking information into CRM tools. And as they get easier to make, they’ll continue to grow in popularity and usefulness.

InfoWorld – Last week we at InfoWorld almost broke out the champagne. At an event in Belgium on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company might reconsider its decision to stop selling Windows XP on June 30. An Associated Press report quoted him as saying: “If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter.”

AP – Japanese electronics maker Matsushita’s profit more than doubled in the January-March quarter, buoyed by strong sales of cell phones, flat-panel TVs and DVD players, the company said Monday.

Reuters – The transcript from Oscar Wilde’s trial
for gross indecency at London’s Old Bailey Court went online
for the first time on Monday alongside a raft of murder,
robbery and abduction cases.

NewsFactor – Nokia announced Monday three new cell phones for the mid-priced market. The world’s biggest phone maker, based in Finland, described the Nokia 6600 fold, the 6600 slide, and the 3600 slide as balancing “stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality.”

PC World – Ironically, Lee Loree loses sleep over his invention, the Sleeptracker.

AP – Federal researchers say they’ve developed a human identification test that’s faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing.

AP – Several Web sites of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been attacked, the broadcaster said Monday, suggesting the Belarus government could be responsible.

AP – Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday reported steady earnings in a stormy economy.

AP – Intel Corp. is ratcheting up the competition with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by teaming up with supercomputer maker Cray Inc., which for the past six years has used only AMD chips in its high-performance machines.

Reuters – Criminal action video game “Grand
Theft Auto 4” won near-perfect praise in early reviews on
Monday, boosting the shares of publisher Take-Two Interactive
Software Inc as much as 3.4 percent ahead of the
game’s midnight launch.

AP – Warner Bros. says it’s launching two Web sites to capture new ad revenue and a younger generation of viewers.

AP – The top executives at Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. haven’t held any recent discussions to break an impasse that threatens to turn Microsoft’s 3-month-old takeover bid into a slugfest.

AP – LOS ANGELES — An agile, young agent from the Counter-Terrorist Unit slyly infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel to free a captured colleague, aided by images from tiny “marshmallow cams” and graphics sent to his cell phone. There’s the familiar ticking clock, windows showing what every character is doing, and lots of people saying “Copy that.”

NewsFactor – Apple’s iPhone has dramatically shaken up the smartphone market — especially the leader, Research in Motion. In just the last three months of 2007, smartphone shipments shot up 60 percent from a year ago, according to industry research firm IDC. And RIM doubled sales of the Blackberry, adding 6.5 million subscribers in its last fiscal year, double the previous year.

NewsFactor – At midnight Monday around the world, rabid video-game players will finally be able to exchange $60 for the fourth installment of the wildly popular series from Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto. There is widespread expectation that GTA IV will sell more than six million copies in the first week, adding to its status as one of the gaming industry’s most successful franchises.

Reuters – Criminal action video game “Grand
Theft Auto 4” won near-perfect praise in early reviews on
Monday, boosting the shares of publisher Take-Two Interactive
Software Inc as much as 3.4 percent ahead of the
game’s midnight launch.

AP – Electronic Arts Inc. co-founder William “Bing” Gordon plans to help one of the nation’s top venture capital firms find promising investment opportunities in digital entertainment.

Reuters – The Warner Bros. Television Group will
relaunch its defunct WB network as an online video site
offering original programming and reruns of shows such as
“Friends” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” aimed at a new
generation of viewers.

NewsFactor – If a picture is worth a thousand words, how valuable is the ability to find the perfect image of an object from the entire Web? According to a paper delivered by two Google researchers at the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last weekend, the search-engine giant may be one step closer to answering that question.

TechWeb – Former Fast CEO John Markus Lervik will lead the enterprise search effort, which will include bolstering Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server.

AP – You’re sitting at home online and suddenly you get an irresistible urge. You absolutely have to belt out R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” and share it with the world.