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AFP – A hacker broke into Chile’s government sites mining data from six million people which he then posted on the Internet on two popular servers for several hours, the El Mercurio daily have said.

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PC World – Research in Motion’s sleek new BlackBerry Bold 9000 will support 3G networks worldwide, as well as Wi-Fi and GPS. Will it be able to withstand a 3G iPhone challenge?

AP – Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company’s desire to make tools for both work and play.

Reuters – A pall hangs over the word “print”
these days, but the editors of a new magazine bet that
discerning readers want news analysis on paper and don’t mind
getting it just four times a year.

Reuters – Research In Motion Ltd
is launching a new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at
its core base of business users, but it hopes the sleek device
will also catch on in the broad retail market.

Reuters – Singapore Telecommunications Ltd

PC World – Taiwanese hardware maker Micro-Star International’s upcoming Wind laptop can be preordered starting from US$560.

Reuters – Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools
for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing
instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to
established Web search services such as Google.

PC World – An earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale knocked out mobile phone service in the western Chinese city of Chengdu…

InfoWorld – One of the joys of being a Web programmer is heading to a dinner party, a haircut, or a reunion and fielding the pitches for everyone’s dream for a brilliant Web application. Everyone is always happy to cut you in for 5, 10, maybe even 15 percent of the equity if you just build out the Web site that’s sort of like a combination of Twitter, AltaVista, Eliza, TurboTax, and the corner pharmacy, but cooler.

InfoWorld – Sun Microsystems is trying to rejuvenate Java, using the JavaOne conference last week to position the 13-year-old Java platform as a foundation for next-generation technologies in such spaces as rich Internet applications and cloud-based services.

PC World – Apple’s iPhone will be available from more than one mobile operator in Australia and India later this year, further signs that…

PC World – A software glitch that crept into a massive system integration project at Japan’s Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ left thousands…

AP – Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel says it had a larger first-quarter loss as it continued to lose valuable monthly subscribers and had to pay for severance charges and other costs.

USATODAY.com – When Jim DeBello launched his technology career two decades ago, a mentor told him that on top of getting an education, he’d also get bloodied and bruised.

USATODAY.com – SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites have been the rage of the tech industry for more than a year. Following investments by Microsoft and News Corp., the companies are valued in the billions of dollars and are considered blueprints for how to build a website. Yet a deeper question lingers: How are they going to consistently produce profits to match their soaring valuations?

Reuters – Perhaps no single device has had more
impact on mobile music than Apple’s iPhone. While only 6.7
percent of overall mobile customers use their phone to listen
to music, rising to 27.9 percent for smartphone users, a full
74.1 percent of iPhone owners reported using the device as an
MP3 player, according to M:Metrics.

Reuters – Sprint Nextel Corp , the No. 3
U.S. wireless service provider, reported a wider quarterly loss
on Monday on steep customer defections, and forecast only
marginal improvements in the current quarter.

Reuters – A pall hangs over the word “print”
these days, but the editors of a new magazine bet that
discerning readers want news analysis on paper and don’t mind
getting it just four times a year.

Reuters – Research In Motion Ltd is launching a
new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base
of business users, but it hopes the sleek device will also
catch on in the broad retail market.

NewsFactor – Salesforce.com previewed its 26th-generation release, Salesforce Summer ‘08, at Dreamforce Europe, its European conference for users and developers. The release includes a host of new CRM features, but it focuses most sharply on new collaboration capabilities.

PC World – Google plans to release on Monday a preview version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social…

AFP – Research in Motion unveiled Monday its latest BlackBerry smartphone with new styling and technology that aims to bite into Apple’s juicy iPhone sales.

Reuters – Time Warner Inc’s HBO cable network is
expected to start selling shows on Apple Inc’s iTunes digital
entertainment service, with flexible pricing, a source familiar
with the discussions said on Monday.

NewsFactor – Advanced Micro Devices has taken the wraps off its first energy-efficient x86 server chips featuring four processing cores and a low 55-watt thermal envelope. The five new Opteron HE processors for blade and rack systems are all targeted at the enterprise data center, noted Randy Allen, AMD’s server and workstation division manager.

AP – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says Microsoft Corp. executive Jeff Raikes will be its next CEO.

AP – Apple Inc. says its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device’s next generation that will feature faster Internet surfing speeds.

AP – What do you want your cell phone to be able to do?

AP – Personal computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard reportedly is nearing a deal to buy information technology services provider Electronic Data Systems for between $12 billion and $13 billion.

AP – The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd.

AP – An affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp., iPCS Inc., said Monday it is seeking to block Sprint from forming a wireless broadband company with Clearwire Corp.

NewsFactor – Social networks provide powerful mechanisms for connecting people and information, but their benefits are limited to those who sign up with one service or another. For example, a Facebook user can’t use her content or friends on LinkedIn or any other network.

NewsFactor – A webcam and Apple’s .Mac subscription service resulted in the arrest of two thieves and the recovery of Kait Dupalga’s Mac laptop. Dupalga, an employee at the Apple Store in White Plains, N.Y., lost her Mac when thieves broke into an apartment she shares with two roommates. The thieves took the computer along with televisions, DVDs, iPods, a box of liquor, and even a set of car rims.

NewsFactor – Users who thought the Windows XP operating system would be more reliable than its younger sibling Vista are being buffeted by reports that the latest update for XP, Service Pack 3, has its own problems.

Reuters – Talks are underway to settle a dispute
over financing the $20 billion leveraged buyout of U.S. radio
operator Clear Channel Communications Inc, the company said in
a statement on Monday.

AP – For hardcore gamers, controlling a video-game character is second nature. You use one joystick to run, use another stick to look around, press the right trigger to shoot and use various buttons to open doors, take cover or talk to other characters.

Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co is in talks
to buy technology outsourcing company Electronic Data Systems
Corp for $12 billion to $13 billion, seeking to better
compete with the top computer services company, IBM.

PC World – It may not have been the greatest hack ever, but police say the malicious software sneaked onto restaurant chain Dave &...

AP – Dish Network reported a 65 percent increase in first-quarter net income even though new subscribers to its satellite TV service plunged.

Investor’s Business Daily – Shares of Research In Motion hit an all-time high on Monday as the company unveiled a new cell phone it hopes will dissuade business customers from buying Apple’s upgraded iPhone.

InfoWorld – Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microsoft official said in a blog.

PC World – While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company’s nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family…

Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co

AP – A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet.