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System update led to BlackBerry outage (AP)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:10:16 GMT

AP - After two days of silence about a lengthy outage in its BlackBerry e-mail service, the company that makes the addictive mobile device issued a jargon-laden update indicating that a minor software upgrade had crashed the system.

Google-DoubleClick deal complaint filed (AP)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:04:48 GMT

AP - A consumer group asked the Federal Trade Commission Friday to investigate and block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. unless the companies improve consumer privacy protections.

PC to leapfrog standalone game consoles (AP)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:09:14 GMT

AP - From the movie-like graphics in the action game "Gears of War" to the nearly photorealistic racer "MotorStorm," video games have come a long way since the bouncing blocks of "Pong."

Napster to power Circuit City music site (AP)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:05:46 GMT

AP - Online music retailer Napster Inc. said Friday it is teaming up with electronics retail chain Circuit City Stores Inc. to launch a new digital music service.

Anheuser-Busch will push Bud.TV (AP)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:17:00 GMT

AP - Cyberspace can be a rough neighborhood, even for the king of beers.

Fed breach leaks Social Security numbers (AP)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:20:35 GMT

AP - The Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received Agriculture Department grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week. Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected.

Music blogs traffic in mainstream MP4 videos (Reuters)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:12:48 GMT

Reuters - By now the practice has become old hat: an eagerly anticipated album gets distributed and devoured by MP3 bloggers before it ever hits stores. But when Columbia Records released Beyonce's "B'Day Anthology Video Album" on April 3, it marked a rare instance of a similar phenomenon happening with a music DVD.

Google exec says innovations coming in mobile (InfoWorld)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:39:04 GMT

InfoWorld - Google is looking beyond text ads as it seeks to make money from the increasing number of people who are turning to their cell phones to find information, an executive said on Friday.

Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0 (NewsFactor)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:08:39 GMT

NewsFactor - Over the past year, Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser has been slowly but steadily nibbling away at the overwhelming dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. According to the Web analyst firm Net Applications, Firefox had 15 percent of the browser market in March 2007, five percentage points more than a year ago. All of the increase has come at the expense of Internet Explorer.

Microsoft hit with patent suit over .Net (InfoWorld)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:00:23 GMT

InfoWorld - Vertical Computer Systems is suing Microsoft for patent infringement related to Microsoft's .Net framework for building Windows-based software.

Apple Issues Megapatch of 25 Fixes (NewsFactor)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:36:08 GMT

NewsFactor - On Thursday, Apple issued a megapatch of bug-fixes for its Mac OS X desktop and OS X server systems. The fixes, 25 in all, are itemized in the company's Security Update 2007-004.

Virginia shooting restarts media blame game (Reuters)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:33:54 GMT

Reuters - In the rush to explain massacres like the one at Virginia Tech, experts including popular TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw dusted off a familiar scapegoat -- violent video games, movies and other media.