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AP – Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world’s biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99.

PC World – China has unveiled plans to restructure the country’s telecommunications operators, a final step towards the release of 3G…

PC World – UK-based Tranquil PC is taking orders for two home servers based on Intel’s upcoming Diamondville version of the Atom…

AFP – Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s largest computer chip maker, said Monday it has developed a new solid-state drive which is expected to replace hard disk drives in laptop computers.

AFP – India’s Reliance Communications said on Monday that it had entered into exclusive talks with South African mobile firm MTN after top cellular company Bharti Airtel pulled out of merger negotiations.

PC World – IBM has set up a center for language translation services in India.

Reuters – LG Electronics (066570.KS), the world’s
No.4 handset maker, is closely watching rival Nokia (NOK1V.HE)
amid talk the top-ranked mobile phone maker may cut its prices
and re-enter the South Korean market later this year.

Reuters – When Jane Coloccia set out to find her
soul mate online she had no idea that eight years and 200 dates
later she would end up an expert on the topic, writing a book
and setting up a course to teach the pitfalls of Web love.

PC World – RIM says its technology does not allow giving access to Indian government to e-mails and other information on the BlackBerry…

Reuters – A court in Moscow suspended the main
opposition website in the troubled south Russian region of
Ingushetia on Monday while prosecutors investigate regional
government’s accusations it spreads extremist material.

AFP – A Japanese government panel called on parents and schools Monday to help limit the use of mobile phones by children to prevent them from accessing “harmful” information on websites.

TechWeb – InformationWeek – LG Electronics, the world’s No.4
handset maker, is closely watching rival Nokia amid talk the
top-ranked mobile phone maker may cut its prices and re-enter
the South Korean market

AP – A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube’s ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.