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Reuters – Top video game publisher
Electronic Arts Inc issued an annual profit outlook on
Tuesday that fell short of Wall Street forecasts as a drive to
improve quality jacked up costs. Its shares fell 3.7 percent.

AP – Transcript of interview that President Bush gave Tuesday to Politico magazine and the Internet portal Yahoo in the Oval Office, as transcribed by the White House. Some questions were sent to the president from online readers.

Reuters – The Grand Ole Opry and
MTV may be at opposite ends of the music spectrum, but they are
part of a coalition urging federal regulators to stand up to a
frequency grab by Microsoft and Google that could render
wireless microphones useless.

AP – Online classifieds giant Craigslist countersued its minority owner, eBay Inc., on Tuesday, alleging the online auctioneer is violating federal and state antitrust laws.

Reuters – Online classifieds leader
Craigslist.com filed a countersuit on Tuesday against business
rival eBay Inc, alleging eBay used its minority stake in
Craigslist to steal its corporate trade secrets.

AP – The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever.

AP – The 2008 Smart fortwo micro car, the smallest car for sale in the U.S. market, has earned top scores in crash tests conducted by the insurance industry.

AP – LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another Britney Spears fender-bender, another instant online video. Paparazzi had cameras rolling when the pop star’s white Mercedes-Benz coupe rear-ended a red Ford Explorer Tuesday in Beverly Hills.

Macworld.com – Mariner Software on Tuesday announced the release of Montage 1.5, a significant update to their screenwriting software for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users, Montage 1.5 costs $139.95.

Reuters – Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a surprise
quarterly loss as the weak stock market ate into the value of
its securities holdings, but it forecast a bigger-than-expected
profit this year as it boosts sales of digital cameras and flat
TVs.

PC World – Shipments of Sony’s PlayStation 3 games console came in under target at 9.24 million units in the financial year to the end of…

Reuters – Nokia (NOK1V.HE) plans to add
navigation to half of the phones it sells within a few years to
find new revenue streams amid decreasing handset prices, a
senior official at the world’s top cellphone maker said.

AFP – The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out “twitter” text messages while it took place, in what is being touted as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.

AFP – Japan’s Sony Corp. said Wednesday its annual net profit almost tripled to hit a record high as brisk sales of digital cameras and laptop computers offset continued losses from the PlayStation 3.

InfoWorld – If the many business-oriented blog and wiki solutions are starting to look like one big blur, you’re not alone.

Reuters – Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a surprise
quarterly loss on Wednesday after a weak stock market ate into
the value of securities held by its financial arm, but it
forecast a bigger-than-expected profit this year as it boosts
sales of digital cameras and flat TVs.

AP – For nearly three in 10 households, don’t even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.

USATODAY.com – FREMONT, Calif. – The company has helped create a new type of computer – a laptop that’s both small and inexpensive, says tech analyst Bob O’Donnell at researcher IDC.

USATODAY.com – Traditional land-line phones, once the bedrock of communications in the USA, are quickly going the way of eight-track tapes as consumers go wireless or choose Internet-based phone calling.

AP – Sony swung to a profit of $277 million for its fourth fiscal quarter on Wednesday, a reversal from from a year ago as losses dwindled for its struggling PlayStation 3 video game business and it got a lift from property sales.

Reuters – Verizon Wireless said on Wednesday it
joined a consortium working on a Linux-based mobile operating
system expected to rival a mobile system being developed by a
group headed by Google Inc .

Reuters – King Conan wins a bloody final battle
against a menacing mix of barbarians, assassins and sorcerers
in the hills above Oslo before retreating to his virtual home
where a million online gamers await him.

AP – Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the “preferred” software on its network.

Reuters – SK Telecom Co (017670.KS), South Korea’s
top mobile operator, confirmed on Wednesday that it was in
preliminary talks with Virgin Mobile USA about strategic
opportunities for its Helio U.S. arm.

Reuters – Seven NATO nations gave their backing
on Wednesday to a new cyber defense centre in Estonia, the
ex-Soviet state which last year faced weeks of attacks on its
Internet structure after a row with Russia.

Reuters – Improving Internet access in Africa is a
fight on several fronts—building undersea cables, setting up
regional exchanges and bridging the last mile to homes and
businesses—but the continent is making progress.

Reuters – Telefonica’s O2 and Apple

NewsFactor – The competition between the Android and LiMo open-source mobile platforms heated up as Verizon Wireless joined the LiMo Foundation. On Tuesday, Verizon and the foundation announced that wireless carrier was joining as a core member, with a seat on the board of directors.

AP – The chief financial officer of telephone company Embarq Corp. says the company may hand its wireless customers to another carrier next year.

AP – Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.

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.

Reuters – IBM said on Wednesday it has started
selling software that lets customers access its Cognos business
intelligence software via BlackBerry mobile devices.

AP – Switzerland’s leading telecommunications company has signed with Apple Inc. to carry the iPhone later this year, making the multimedia gadget available in one more country as Apple prepares a new version with a speedier Internet connection.

AP – Drivers in Japan can check on their pets, turn lights and air conditioning on and off and lock their front doors — all from inside their cars — with a new navigation system from Panasonic.

AP – Drivers in Japan can check on their pets, turn lights and air conditioning on and off and lock their front doors — all from inside their cars — with a new navigation system from Panasonic.

PC World – Classified-advertising site Craigslist is countersuing eBay, accusing the online auction company of using its stake in…

PC World – Classified-advertising site Craigslist is countersuing eBay, accusing the online auction company of using its stake in…

AFP – Software piracy increased last year in the Asia-Pacific region, boosted by China’s growing use of personal computers, an industry group said on Wednesday.

AFP – Software piracy increased last year in the Asia-Pacific region, boosted by China’s growing use of personal computers, an industry group said on Wednesday.

Reuters – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Wednesday it would sell its line fit automotive
business to Germany’s Novero GmbH.

Reuters – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Wednesday it would sell its line fit automotive
business to Germany’s Novero GmbH.

AFP – Wireless telecommunications group Virgin Mobile USA, Inc., said Wednesday it was holding “strategic” talks with SK Telecom, South Korea’s biggest mobile phone group.

AP – Federal officials on Wednesday charged Broadcom Corp. co-founders Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli with falsifying the company’s reported income by illegally backdating stock options for five years.

PC World – A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems’ routers, a development that has placed…

AP – Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the United States, according to comScore Inc.’s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors.

Reuters – Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday its Xbox 360 game machine beat Nintendo Co Ltd’s
(7974.OS) Wii and Sony Corp’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 to reach
10 million units in U.S. sales.

AFP – NATO launched Wednesday a new cyber-defence training centre in Tallinn to defend against attacks over the Internet, a year after Estonia fell victim to a “cyber-war” blamed on Russian hackers.

AP – NEW YORK — A wireless memory card for digital cameras now comes with an added twist: Besides making it easier to store and share photos, the latest version of the Eye-Fi card also helps sort images by location.

NewsFactor – Apple’s announcement Tuesday that CEO Steve Jobs will keynote the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference is fueling speculation that Apple will announce a 3G version of the iPhone. Jobs will speak on Monday, June 9, at 10 a.m. The conference runs June 9-13 in San Francisco.

NewsFactor – Analysts are still assessing Hewlett-Packard’s announcement Tuesday that it will acquire Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion. Together, HP and EDS will be a tech-services behemoth with 210,000 employees worldwide in 80 countries and revenues of more than $38 billion. That figure more than doubles HP’s service revenues.

AP – Virgin Mobile USA Inc. said Wednesday it is in preliminary talks with South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. about possible “strategic options,” a phrase that usually suggests a buyout or major investment.

NewsFactor – EarthLink has notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that the broadband service provider will soon be terminating its metropolitan Wi-Fi service in the city. The company, which stopped accepting new customers to the network in early May, said it would provide its Philly customers with a 30-day grace period through June 12 to transfer to another provider.

AP – After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however.

AFP – Google said Wednesday it is blurring the faces of people in street scenes pictured at its free online mapping service.

AP – Samsung Electronics is combining efforts with fellow Korean electronics maker LG Electronics to develop a new standard for mobile TV broadcasts, the companies announced Wednesday.

AP – The company that runs many of the Internet’s core directory systems has won a patent for its controversial service that helps Internet users find sites even when they mistype addresses.

TechWeb – InformationWeek – The conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007, and the open source operating system is now powering the NYSE’s mission-critical trading systems.

Investor’s Business Daily – Out of work or stuck in a dead-end job? It’s time to learn—or relearn—the art of networking.

AP – Comcast Corp. is buying contact management company Plaxo Inc. and plans to incorporate into all its offerings features intended to help people synchronize their address books and connect socially online.

PC World – The city of Philadelphia is moving on after its brief municipal Wi-Fi relationship with EarthLink, no longer trying to find a…