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The great patent race
Washington is taking aim at "junk patents." But can it placate both tech giants and open-source backers?
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eBay's big
bid for Skype
roundup In its biggest purchase ever, the auction giant shells out $2.6 billion to blend Net calling and e-commerce.
Plan lets users be the judge of flaws
Common Vulnerability Scoring System would let companies take their own systems into account in assessing the risk from a security bug.IBM starts shipping latest mainframe computers
System z9 has more than twice the capabilities of its predecessor. Prices start around $1 million apiece.Rings, cameras--now sex is latest phone feature
The pornography industry is eyeing the cell phone as a lucrative new vehicle for distribution.The New York Times
IDG pulls plug on Macworld Boston
Two years after the East Coast version of the Macworld Expo made a controversial move to Boston, sponsor says no more.Game machine makers gear up
roundup Nintendo single-handedly surprises the game community, while Microsoft--no surprise--wants to score big holiday sales.iPod's law: The impossible is possible
Apple's music player lineup includes a new entry, the iPod Nano. How does it fit into the company's pace-setting team?
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For gamers, there's a 'There' there
Members of virtual world There.com gather at publisher's offices for chance to share views with execs and finally meet people behind the avatars.Sony says new Walkman is an iPod killer
Can the Walkman make a comeback against the explosively popular iPod? The Walkman's maker, Sony, is betting that it can.The New York Times
A fuel cell to gas up your MP3 player
Toshiba uses methanol to keep a hard-drive-based audio player running for approximately 60 hours on a single charge.
Photos: Fuel cells for music players
IBM to help employees become teachers
Big Blue pledges financial assistance for employees who want to leave the company to start a teaching career.Week in review: Merger and Microsoft mania
The week kicked off with news of two major mergers, while developers gathered in Los Angeles to hear the latest at Microsoft's annual confab.Semel pitches Yahoo's program for Net TV
Yahoo CEO tells British broadcasters there's money in releasing their archives for the Web.RFID chips used to track dead after Katrina
Relief workers are tagging human cadavers in Mississippi to help coroner identify victims.Microsoft's Vista looks to get tablets on write track
With new desktop Windows, company hopes to solve some Tablet-tech problems, starting with your unintelligible scrawl. Photos: I know that writing
New Oracle brand to wrap up retail buys
Oracle Retail brand name, set for launch at user confab next week, will cover products picked up in acquisitions and existing software.Briefly: Gates on Oracle and Siebel: 'You get deals.'
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Web-based software efforts are on the rise, but Bill Gates tells News.com he's not losing sleep.
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