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Reuters – Yahoo Inc chief Jerry Yang signaled a
more open stance towards Microsoft Corp on Monday, saying he
had been seeking common ground when the software maker abruptly
ended deal talks.

AFP – US federal court officials on Monday warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.

PC World – Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.

PC World – Ruckus Wireless has sued Netgear, alleging the networking vendor infringed its patents on technology for improving Wi-Fi…

Reuters – Reports of a possible sale of Sprint
Nextel Corp to Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE) or a Nextel
unit spinoff raised hopes of a reprieve for the embattled
mobile operator, lifting its shares 10 percent.

AP – Yahoo Inc.‘s stock took a beating Monday after Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover bid, but the punishment wasn’t as severe as many analysts anticipated because investors suspect the rivals eventually will renew their mating dance.

AFP – US federal court officials have warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.

Reuters – Stricken with acute laryngitis,
Avril Lavigne has postponed six upcoming U.S. tour dates,
according to a message on the pop-punk musician’s Web site.

AP – Ecuador’s president has agreed to renew the operating concession for the local unit of mobile phone giant America Movil.

AP – Microsoft Corp. said late Monday it will now sell TV shows, including popular NBC series, on the Zune Marketplace, a move that brings its selection of content for the digital media player a step closer to what Apple Inc.‘s iTunes offers for Apple’s much more popular iPod.

AP – Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.

PC World – Starting Tuesday, there will be a few less Web sites popping up in Yahoo searches.

Reuters – Microsoft Corp said it will start
offering television shows for its Zune portable media device,
more than two years after Apple Inc introduced the feature for
its iPod player.

AP – Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice commands to control personal music players and telephones.

AP – Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice commands to control personal music players and telephones.

AFP – Yahoo’s Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang defended his handling of failed takeover negotiations with Microsoft and said he remains open to an offer from the US software giant, in an interview published on Tuesday in the Financial Times.

Reuters – Mobile phone group Vodafone said
on Tuesday it had signed a agreement with Apple Inc to
sell its iPhone in ten countries around the world.

Reuters – Nokia Oyj (NOK1V.HE) will launch a new
phone for telecom operator China Mobile (0941.HK), the world’s
top cell phone maker said on Tuesday.

AFP – British mobile phone giant Vodafone announced Tuesday that it will distribute Apple’s iPhone in 10 new countries including Australia, India and South Africa.

AP – A prominent Malaysian blogger was charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly implying the deputy prime minister was involved in the sensational killing of a young Mongolian woman.

InfoWorld – If I’m not otherwise engaged next Thursday morning, I just might spend my economic stimulus check to enter the PC server business.

InfoWorld – Ah, youth. Ready to take on the world, today’s generation of dynamic, tech-immersed youngsters have grown up alongside the Internet. Firsthand, and sometimes single-handedly, they have advanced some of today’s hottest technology trends, from peer-to-peer networking, to massively multiplayer online games, to social networks and instant messaging. And along the way, a small, sociopathic number of them have behaved very, very badly.

Reuters – Newspapers seeking to compete with the
Internet are likely to become free and place greater emphasis
on comment and opinion in the future, a survey of the world’s
editors showed on Tuesday.

Reuters – Microsoft Corp said it will start
offering television shows for its Zune portable media device,
more than two years after Apple Inc introduced the feature for
its iPod player.

USATODAY.com – A few years ago, organizations from Disney to 7-Eleven to the local pinochle club were jumping into the cellphone business, leveraging their brands to appeal to niches untapped by the big carriers.

USATODAY.com – With one of the summer’s most anticipated blockbusters – the return of Indiana Jones- due in theaters in less than three weeks, you’d expect producer Steven Spielberg to be all about movies right now. But here he is, enthusiastically chatting up another subject dear to his heart: video games.

USATODAY.com – SEATTLE – The prevailing sentiment among Wall Street stock analysts and Internet advertising experts is that Microsoft may yet reel in Yahoo following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s withdrawal of the software giant’s sweetened $47.5 billion offer.

AP – Broadband network company Qwest Communications says its first-quarter profit fell 35 percent on sharply higher tax expenses.

PC World – High Tech Computer announced the HTC Touch Diamond on Tuesday, a smartphone running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional…

BusinessWeek Online – Coupons are making a comeback. In the face of rising food prices and a slowing economy, consumers are clipping coupons once again. Only, they don’t need scissors and a local newspaper so much as a computer, printer, and maybe a mobile phone.

AP – Stephen Colbert’s use of the Internet to connect with fans earned the Comedy Central host special recognition as recipients of the annual Webby awards for Web sites and online achievements were announced Tuesday.

AFP – Microsoft China broke ground Tuesday on a 280-million-dollar research facility in the middle of Beijing’s “Silicon Valley”, the software giant said in a statement.

AP – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

NewsFactor – If being away from your television leaves you nervous about missing the latest wisdom from Anderson Cooper or SpongeBob SquarePants, AT&T has some reassuring news for you. Its AT&T Mobile TV will provide round-the-clock access to popular TV fare on your cell phone.

AP – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that “key decisions” following the company’s withdrawal of a $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo will be made by CEO Steve Ballmer.

InfoWorld – Nokia and Ikivo are partnering to build tools that enable collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers in the development of Java applications for mobile devices.

NewsFactor – Apple’s iPhone got new competition Tuesday as HTC unveiled the 3G Touch Diamond. The new smartphone will be HTC’s flagship model as it vies to grab market share from touchscreen competitors.

Reuters – Stephen Colbert, whose U.S.
presidential campaign was cut short, came out a winner on
Tuesday when he walked away with a Webby award as the
Internet’s “Person of the Year.”

Reuters – Investors in Yahoo Inc
latched onto hopes the company could resume talks with
Microsoft Corp , though an executive at the software
maker cast doubt on Tuesday about any return to a deal.

Reuters – A Web security firm said on Tuesday it
had tipped off international banks and police after finding a
huge trove of stolen business and personal data amassed on a
server in the space of just three weeks.

PC World – While Yahoo would have given Microsoft’s Internet business an immediate boost, Microsoft has closed that chapter and is…

AFP – India’s top mobile phone Bharti Airtel denied on Tuesday a media report that it had made a 19-billion-dollar offer to take control of South Africa’s flagship MTN telecom operator.

AP – Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs’ capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.

PC World – Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.

Reuters – Barnes & Noble Inc, the world’s
largest bookseller, said on Tuesday it will sell digital and
print magazine subscriptions though its online segment, BN.com.

PC World – Executives from IBM and SAP said the two companies won’t fall out even though they now compete head-on in the market for BI…

AP – The collapse of Microsoft Corp.‘s pursuit of Yahoo Inc. is leaving advertisers pining for other ways to reach mass audiences on the Web and to counteract Google Inc.‘s dominance of the online ad market.

AFP – Microsoft began making television shows available for viewing on its Zune MP3 players on Tuesday as it continues a campaign to wrest market share from Apple’s globally popular iPods.

PC World – A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child’s commitment to open-source software has…

InfoWorld – Meet this year’s JavaOne spotlight technology, the same as last year’s JavaOne spotlight technology.

PC World – Microsoft Tuesday released the third service pack for Windows XP to the Web after last week delaying its scheduled release…

AP – Cisco says its fiscal third-quarter profit declined, but the networking gear maker’s adjusted earnings and revenue topped Wall Street’s expectations.

Reuters – Sprint Nextel and Clearwire Corp are
close to announcing a $12 billion joint venture for ultra-fast
wireless Internet access for mobile phones and laptop
computers, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on
Tuesday.

NewsFactor – Google has asked the Federal Communications Commission to verify Verizon’s intent to fully honor the FCC’s open-access rule before issuing licenses to the wireless carrier for its winning auction bids in the C block of the 700-MHz spectrum. Failure to do so now will only foster uncertainty and delay, rather than innovation and investment, Google’s petition warns.

NewsFactor – On Tuesday, Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership to make the Yahoo Search experience safer. Launched in beta, the new SearchScan feature, powered by McAfee SiteAdvisor technology, offers always-on alerts for sites with security concerns involving spyware, adware and other malicious software. McAfee SiteAdvisor tests and rates nearly every trafficked site on the Internet.

NewsFactor – The march of Apple’s iPhone around the world is picking up steam. Vodafone announced Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with the Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to sell the device in 10 markets.

AP – Cisco Systems Inc.‘s profit fell 5 percent in its fiscal third quarter but beat Wall Street’s expectations, a sign the turbulent U.S. economy didn’t rattle the world’s largest networking equipment maker as hard as expected.

PC World – WabiSabiLabi, the company best known for building an online marketplace for security flaws, is getting into the hardware…