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Innovation on display at Games Conference (AP) - 03/13/2010 11:21 AM

AP - Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.

Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus (AP) - 03/12/2010 11:43 PM

AP - Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.

Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision (AP) - 03/12/2010 10:11 PM

AP - A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies.

No .xxx yet: Internet agency delays porn decision (AP) - 03/12/2010 06:47 PM

AP - Porn Web sites can't park themselves at a ".xxx" address quite yet.

Chinese minister insists Google obey the law (AP) - 03/12/2010 08:32 PM

AP - China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.

Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest (AP) - 03/13/2010 01:01 AM

AP - DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers.

Google "99.9 pct" sure to shut China search engine: report (Reuters) - 03/13/2010 11:34 AM

Reuters - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.

Xbox 360 Outsold Wii in February, Says NPD (PC World) - 03/13/2010 01:23 AM

PC World - Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo's Wii in February to claim the top spot in the U.S. monthly sales ranking for the first time in more than two years, analyst group NPD said Thursday. Overall the industry had a poor month with total sales down 15 percent from February last year.

iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format (NewsFactor) - 03/12/2010 11:00 PM

NewsFactor - Eager to be the first on your block with an iPad? Apple started taking orders for the tablets on Friday. Wi-Fi models running from $499 to $699 will be available on April 3; 3G models, costing $629 to $829, won't be available until late April.

Summary Box: Court OKs cable TV access rules (AP) - 03/12/2010 10:44 PM

AP - THE DISPUTE: Cable TV providers challenged a five-year extension of federal regulations requiring them to make channels they own available to rivals such as satellite TV.

Microsoft Xbox 360 Leads Gaming Sales in February (NewsFactor) - 03/12/2010 11:02 PM

NewsFactor - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video-game console moved to the top of the U.S. market in February. The software giant's console had been number two behind the Nintendo Wii for nearly three years.

Mac news briefs: 3D and animation (Macworld.com) - 03/13/2010 02:00 AM

Macworld.com - Toon Boom Animate 2 announced

QAD shares slide after 4th-quarter revenue drops (AP) - 03/12/2010 11:39 PM

AP - Shares of QAD Inc. sank Friday after the business software provider reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenue and predicted another drop for the first quarter.

RadiSys acquires Pactolus; terms not disclosed (AP) - 03/11/2010 10:47 PM

AP - RadiSys Corp., a maker of servers that support wireless phone networks, said Thursday it acquired privately held Pactolus Communications Software Co. Terms were not disclosed.

Troyak Takedown, Security Blues, ICANN Meets (PC World) - 03/12/2010 11:30 PM

PC World - The Troyak ISP, which has been linked to the Zeus botnet, was briefly taken down this week. The takedown occurred on the heels of the RSA Conference last week, where there was much talk about the "cat-and-mouse" game of trying to squelch cybercrime. Otherwise, things got a little testy at the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, and iPad pre-orders got rolling. Oh, and the Internet was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously.

Prototype $200 Tablet Runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux (PC World) - 03/11/2010 04:16 AM

PC World - $200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didnât last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo. If what Freescale showed off at Mobile World Congress becomes reality, though, the dream may finally come true.

Electric Bat Interactive previews free browser-based games (Macworld.com) - 03/13/2010 01:01 AM

Macworld.com - Typically, players in a game battle for fantastical lands, important landmarks, or some other pre-determined acre of game territory. But what if the land you played for wasnât a mere kingdom or country, but the entire Internet?