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Macrovision Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain technology assets from Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI), the San Francisco-based R&D organization focused on solving complex security problems.
Upon closing of the transaction, Macrovision will own the SPDC (Self-Protecting Digital Content) technology, which formed the basis of BD+, a key element of Blu-ray’s [...]

U.S. consumers shelled out $3.2 billion to purchase 38 million cellphones in the third quarter of this year, which is up 47% from the same period one year ago, according to a report released by NPD.
According to NPD, Motorola phones was the most popular brand in Q3, accounting for 31% of all units shipped. [...]

Burst.com announced that Apple has agreed to pay $10 million, settling a patent infringement lawsuit involving almost two years of litigation.
The suit, which alleged that Apple had infringed four patents for compression of compressed audio and video files in iTunes, iLife, QuickTime and the iPod.
Burst.com had also settled a similar case with Microsoft for US$60 [...]

Google expanded its search market share in October, while all of its competitors lost ground. Market research firm Comscore estimates Google’s October core search market share at 58.5%, up from 57.0% in September.
Yahoo maintained its #2 position but dropped 0.8 points to 22.9% and Microsoft lost 0.6 points to 9.7%. Ask.com remained at an estimated [...]

Novell announced a new initiative to increase revenue and profitability for solution providers and consulting partners who specialize in selling Novell technologies.
Among other benefits, Novell will offer enhanced partner education, joint marketing opportunities, and free technical support for those partners demonstrating expertise in selling and supporting Novell software. Novell is also creating a new partner [...]

Opera Mobile, has been recognized as the best mobile browser for both Windows-based Pocket PC and Smartphones at the 2007 Best Software Awards by Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine.
Judges of the Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s 2007 Best Software Awards praised Opera Mobile for its tabbed browsing (Pocket PC), dual viewing modes, page [...]

The family of 13-year-old Megan Meier is seeking justice after their daughter committed suicide over MySpace romance hoax. Ron and Tina Meier say the family they blame for their daughter’s death have not even apologized for their actions that pushed their daughter over the edge.
Megan Meier hanged herself on October 16, 2006 after a cruel [...]

Hewlett-Packard reported a fourth quarter net profits of $2.16 billion dollars, up 28 per cent from the $1.69 billion of the year-ago quarter.
According to the HP statement, the results were bolstered by strong demand for laptop sales and highly profitable printer ink.
Personal Systems Group (PSG) revenue grew 30% year over year to $10.1 billion, [...]

Advocacy group MoveOn.org is targeting Facebook’s ‘Beacon’ ads, saying the new policy to post users’ activity on advertisements to their friends’ news feeds is a violation of users’ privacy. MoveOn has launched a petition to compel Facebook to allow users to either opt in or out of the program.
Beacon is an advertising platform that tracks [...]

Sony Ericsson and Research In Motion (RIM) announced out-of-the-box availability of BlackBerry Connect software v4.0 on the Sony Ericsson P1i in various countries in the Asia Pacific1 region, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
BlackBerry Connect will be pre-loaded on the Sony Ericsson P1i and supports push-based wireless email services, [...]