Twitter buys developers of GeoAPI

From CNET News.com: Twitter is usually the subject of steamy acquisition rumors, but chose perhaps the deadest afternoon of the business year to announce that it has made an acquisition of its own.

Twitter has bought Mixer Labs, the company that created the GeoAPI location service...

Hulu Adds Warner Music Videos, Concerts

From DailyTech: Warner Music Group has become the second major record label to sign with online video site Hulu, signaling the popular site's continued growth among copyright holders.

Warner currently has Warner Bros. Records, Rhino Records and Atlantic Records as part of its...

Nortel Accepts $282M Bid for VoIP Unit

From PC World: Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business to Genband for US$282 million, it said on Wednesday.

Just like previous deals for its assets, Nortel has entered into a so-called stalking horse...

Epic Shows off Unreal Engine 3 Running on iPhone

From Tom's Hardware: The Unreal Engine has successfully cracked into the console space in a big way. Now the games engine, once exclusively a PC-based engine, is powering many blockbuster titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Now the Unreal Engine 3 has made its way to the iPhone...

Microsoft yanks Custom XML from Word, offers patch to OEMs

From InfoWorld: Microsoft already has a patch available that strips out XML technology the company is barred from using after Jan. 11, in Word 2007 and Office 2007, according to a Microsoft Web site.

The patch targets large computer makers that factory-install Microsoft Office on...

Comcast settles class-action suit on traffic blocking

From CNET News.com: As we close the book on 2009 and ready for 2010, a legal settlement takes us back to 2007 and 2008, when Comcast got into trouble with customers and the feds for throttling peer-to-peer traffic on its network.

Comcast has agreed to pay $16 million to end to a...

RIM confirms BlackBerry e-mail problems--again

From CNET News.com: For the second time in less than a week, BlackBerry smartphone users across the country and beyond are reporting problems accessing e-mail.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion confirmed Tuesday night that some users of the smartphone in the Americas are...

2009 sales of Netbooks rise, but notebooks fall

From CNET News.com: It's been a hot year for Netbooks, but not so much for the rest of the portable PC market.

Netbook sales are likely to hit $11.4 billion this year, a 72 percent rise from last year, thanks to a 103 percent leap in shipments, according to a new report from...

Vodafone Announces UK iPhone Release Date

From DailyTech: Wireless provider Vodafone will officially become the latest UK phone network to offer the popular Apple iPhone, confirming it will be released on January 14.

The base contract is available for £30 -- including a mandatory 24-month phone contract -- with £35 and £45...

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