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Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry patent appeal — Since its introduction in 1999, the BlackBerry has revolutionized communications, allowing business travelers and government employees to send and receive e-mail outside their offices and away from their stationery computers.
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High court declines to review RIM patent ruling
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Say Hello to Tello — The startup promises to revolutionize business communications. The involvement of four tech veterans lends that grandiose claim some credence — The months after the stock market crash of 2000 were tough ones indeed for tech startups. And for communications startups, things were even worse.
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Say Tello For Presence — Jeff Pulver, wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, telecom banker Michael Price and former Apple CEO John Sculley have teamed together in a new VoIP focussed start-up called Tello, based in San Mateo, California. Doug Renert, a former executive at Oracle Corp heads up the start-up.

Confirming the Copyright Gap — The Toronto Star today featured a lengthy article by Sam Bulte titled Closing the Copyright Gap which explains her views on copyright reform (unfortunately the article is not currently online). The article makes the arguments that observers of this issue would expect …
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Like This? You'll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.) — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 - On Amazon.com, a customer interested in buying the novel "The Life of Pi" is also shown "The Kite Runner" because other Amazon customers - presumably with similar tastes - also purchased that book.

Monday morning catchup in Silicon Valley; lot's happening — Google to miss Q4 earnings? Notable analysis here by a Yahoo employee, Amr Awadallah, who we know from several meetings over the years, about why Google will miss earnings expectations. Google recently increased the font size of the right search ads.

Yahoo's Social Circle — In a bid to challenge search giant Google, the Web's most-used portal is betting on the wisdom of crowds … Yahoo! (YHOO) is on a quiet acquisitions tear. First, it snapped up photo-sharing site Flickr in March. In December, it acquired del.icio.us …

The Search Is Over: Google Wins in 2005 — Global: Google Tops Ranking (view results) — In 2005's results, Google took the lead from Apple in what is shaping up to be a back and forth contest through the years for these two innovative tech companies. Each year one out-does the other, and this time it is Google's turn to shine.

Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio, Too. — Traditional broadcast radio, the last bastion of analog entertainment technology, sees a bright future for itself. Its strategy for success is to become more like one of its main competitors, satellite radio.
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Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind — Wired's "How to Foil Search Engine Snoops" is a nice guide to protecting your search privacy, but it doesn't really go far enough. In particular, anyone who assumes they've protected themselves by using an anonymizing tool …

Rival emerges to Boeing's in-flight broadband — Connexion, the in-flight broadband service on which Boeing has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, is facing a potentially serious competitive threat from a new air-to-ground technology that could provide connectivity to airplanes over North America by mid-2007.
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Anti-scam website forced offline — A website set up to warn UK companies about an international business directory scam has been pulled by hosting company Server Center after legal threats. — Server Centre, and its upstream supplier RapidSwitch, took the decision after a flurry of legal notices.
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Software Notebook: Is Gates' prediction on spam a bust? — It was a prediction that captured the attention of the international media and weary Internet users alike: "Two years from now, spam will be solved," Microsoft's Bill Gates said. — Well, time's up.

Google pips Apple in 2005 brand poll — LONDON (Reuters) - Internet search engine Google (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) has retaken first place in the 2005 global poll of the world's most influential brands, while the eBay-owned (Nasdaq:EBAY - news) web phone service Skype makes its debut at No. 3.
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WiFi sniffer turns your DS into a wardriving tool — Where would webe without the homebrew community, who snaz up our gadgets and humorously frustrate The Man at the same time? Thelatest little tool to emerge from the 'brewers' bag of tricks is a program called DS2Key (for Nintendo DS …