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EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
(AP)
 AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.
Facebook to let users carry profiles with them
(AP)
AP - Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites.
Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
(AP)
 AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
Apple agrees to settle iPod lawsuit
(AP)
AP - Apple Inc. has agreed to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device.
Microsoft appeals $1.4B EU antitrust fine
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has appealed a $1.39 billion fine imposed in February by the European Commission for the company's failure to comply with a 2004 antitrust order.
Dutch want banks help to fight illegal Web casinos
(Reuters)
Reuters - Dutch authorities intend to crack
down on illegal online casinos and are calling on banks to stop
providing financial services to them, a Justice Ministry
spokeswoman said on Saturday.
Apple Reportedly Agrees To Refunds In Mac-User Suit
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The payout was based on user complaints that led to Apple recalling 570,000 power adapters and offering replacements at no charge.
Virgin Mobile USA and Korea's SK in talks: source
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA
Inc and South Korea's SK Telecom Co, which controls U.S. mobile
service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar
with the discussions said on Friday.
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.
Microsoft To Release Office 2007 SP1 Via Automatic Update In June
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The strategy of rolling out service packs in phases gives the market plenty of time to evaluate the software.
70 people sickened during San Francisco conference
(AP)
AP - It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc.
Trends & Innovations - Friday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - U.S. retailers are getting better at blocking underage teens from buying M-rated video games, says an FTC survey using undercover 13- to 16-year-old shoppers. Just 20% of the undercover teens were able to buy M-rated games, vs. 42% in '06. Retailer GameStop was the best at blocking underage sales of video games, stopping 94% of them. Less-diligent retailers included Hollywood Video, which blocked 60%. ...
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