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   Apple’s Steve Jobs maintains $1 salary AP - Mon Apr 16, 4:59 PM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs received a salary of $1 last year, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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   Adobe player frees viewers to watch video offline Reuters - Mon Apr 16, 1:02 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc. unveiled on Sunday video-player software that lets consumers play back video online or offline, a move that could help reshape an acrimonious debate over video-sharing.

3. Judges reject appeals from webcasters AP - Mon Apr 16, 8:25 PM ET LAS VEGAS - Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.

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   Pieces of Titanic transformed into luxury watches Reuters - Fri Apr 13, 8:44 AM ET BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary oceanliner which sank in 1912.

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   Vonage message mixed on technology patch AP - Mon Apr 16, 3:26 PM ET NEW YORK - Vonage Holdings Corp. is delivering conflicting messages on its ability to deploy a substitute technology should the Internet phone provider lose its bid to overturn a jury’s verdict that it infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.’s patents.

6. Microsoft, Adobe competition heats up AP - Mon Apr 16, 6:02 PM ET SEATTLE - It has not escaped Microsoft’s attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web — YouTube and MySpace included — get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc.

7. New DVD Restrictions Loom PC World - Mon Apr 16, 12:00 PM ET Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won’t play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology.

8. NAB: Microsoft shows off rival to Flash, QuickTime Macworld.com - Mon Apr 16, 3:12 PM ET Microsoft on Monday showed video pros at NAB Silverlight, a new Mac and PC-compatible Web browser plug-in that provides interactive Web capabilities similar to how Adobe Flash works with streaming video capabilities superior to QuickTime, according to the company.

9. Vonage Admits it has no Workaround PC World - Mon Apr 16, 5:00 PM ET Vonage Holdings Corp. has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications Inc. patents and does not know if one is feasible.

10. Intel Says Penryn Chip Will Push PC Speeds PC World - Mon Apr 16, 9:00 PM ET Intel Corp.’s Penryn processors will push desktop PCs to run 40 percent faster for gaming than the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme chip, a company executive said Monday, giving details on the new chip design planned to reach markets in the second half of 2007.

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    Nokia to start selling WiMAX phones in early ‘08 Reuters - Mon Apr 16, 10:52 AM ET HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) expects to start selling mobile devices using WiMAX Internet technology in early 2008, the world’s top handset maker said on Monday.

12. Rivals Complain About Google-DoubleClick Deal PC World - Mon Apr 16, 6:00 PM ET The planned merger of two online advertising giants, Google Inc. and DoubleClick Inc., has some rivals calling for regulatory intervention– but for customers, trust may be of greater concern than antitrust.

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    Yesterday’s T. Rex is today’s chicken USATODAY.com - Fri Apr 13, 6:43 AM ET The discovery of traces of flesh in a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone ties the King of the Dinosaurs to modern-day species and, scientists say, heralds a “milestone” shift in paleontology.

14. P2P worms get their turn InfoWorld - Mon Apr 16, 2:18 PM ET San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Massive networks of infected computers controlled by attackers worldwide will serve as a powerful engine for the new breed of so-called P2P worm that is currently echoing across cyberspace.

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    Hackers upgrading Apple TV’s capabilities USATODAY.com - Mon Apr 16, 7:14 AM ET Weeks after Apple released its newest media device, Apple TV, rogue programmers have unlocked features the computer maker didn’t include. Unveiled in January, Apple TV wirelessly connects video and music from a computer’s iTunes library to the bigger screen and better speakers of new widescreen TVs.

16. Adobe offers Premiere Pro, After Effects betas Macworld.com - Mon Apr 16, 1:02 AM ET In addition to shipping Creative Suite 3 and showing off its first Apollo application, Adobe has released public betas of Premiere Pro and After Effects for Windows and Mac users.

17. VMware Releases Virtualization Benchmark Software PC World - Mon Apr 16, 8:00 PM ET VMware has released the first public beta of a VM benchmarking tool VMark. Until now, VMware has refused to allow anyone, via its licensing terms, to benchmark its products. But here’s the first concrete evidence that it’s being forced by market pressure into changing its policy. The company’s plans to produce it were first revealed last year just before VMworld, the company’s annual developer/user conference.

18. Nokia One-Ups Apple With $750 Smartphone TechWeb - Sat Apr 14, 12:01 AM ET ‘All-in-one multimedia computer’ is packed with features, but will a critical mass of consumers buy into the ultra-high end?

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    Yahoo expands newspaper partnership AP - Mon Apr 16, 7:51 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO - The publishers of more than 260 U.S. newspapers are hitching their online aspirations to Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. in an expanded partnership that underscores the battle lines being drawn as the media grapple for ad revenue shifting to the Web.

20. Microsoft Warns of New DNS Exploits NewsFactor - Mon Apr 16, 11:21 AM ET In what has become a string of vulnerabilities in recent weeks, Microsoft has confirmed limited, targeted attacks against its Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) service.

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    EA, Endemol to merge virtual reality and reality TV Reuters - Mon Apr 16, 4:57 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. and Endemol , creator of the “Big Brother” television show, said on Monday they are partnering on a new project that will combine reality television and online virtual reality like the Second Life virtual world.

22. IRS Warns of Tax Phishing Scheme PC World - Mon Apr 16, 6:00 PM ET The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be wary of e-mail messages that provide links to supposedly free tax-filing services endorsed by the agency.

23. Ubuntu Speeds VMware Support PC World - 2 hours, 14 minutes ago Ubuntu Linux’s next release will appear on Thursday, sporting fresh virtualization features and installation management tools, project sponsor Canonical said on Monday.

24. Citigroup Cost Cutting Puts A Bull’s-Eye On IT TechWeb - Sat Apr 14, 12:05 AM ET It’ll bear much of the cost-cutting brunt. But it’ll also be part of creating platforms for greater efficiency

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