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Analyst: 'big 'bang' to hit PC and handset industry
PC and handset industry will clash on tweener products like Netbooks and smartphones. ... read more

Wikipedia gears up for flood of video and photo files
New hardware needed to support online reference service's push for more media. ... read more

Zune Pass adds 10 permanent downloads per month
Microsoft's subscription music offering just got better. ... read more

IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency. ... read more

Verizon finally has its answer to the iPhone
The new BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale Friday, could be the first phone offered by Verizon Wireless that truly challenges Apple's iPhone offered on AT&T's network. ... read more

Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions
Those who pay for a $14.95 a month Zune Pass will now get to keep 10 songs a month regardless of whether they remain subscribers. ... read more

Filling Yahoo's CEO vacancy
All Things Digital's Kara Swisher talks with CNET's Dan Farber about who she believes will succeed the deposed Jerry Yang as Yahoo CEO. ... read more

Google shutting down 'Lively'
The search giant's virtual world project, launched during the summer, never really got off the ground. Google has decided to shutter the initiative at year's end. ... read more

Guns N' Roses album to debut on MySpace
Members of the social networking site will be able to listen to the band's new album for free on the Web before it goes on sale next week. ... read more

iTunes customers angry over copy protection moves at Apple
Apple forum heats up with Mac users upset that they are having problems watching iTunes content on their external displays. ... read more

Mathematica 7 arrives with built-in human genome
The newest version of the software gets new data sets, image processing abilities, and built-in support for quad-core chips. ... read more

Searchme brings its Coverflow search to iPhone
New iPhone app Searchme brings its desktop sibling's Coverflow-style Web search to the small screen. It's fun and it works great. ... read more

U of Tennessee blocked P2P sites before RIAA law
RIAA didn't need a law to persuade Tennessee, the home of country music, to block P2P sites back in August. ... read more

Obama transition team names tech policy group
Two former Federal Communications Commission staffers and the head of Google.org will help president-elect's transition team write tech policy. ... read more

Security firm Finjan raises $22 million
The company, which sells Web gateway security software to the corporate market, plans to expand its sales and marketing infrastructure with the money. ... read more

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