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Web networking photos come back to bite defendants
(AP)
AP - Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
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Black market iPhones being sold for $1,200 in Russia
(AP)
AP - In the Soviet days, Russians asked their American friends to bring blue jeans, rock records and other Western goods into the country. Today Russians can buy almost anything they want here — but they are still begging for one item: Apple Inc.'s slick iPhone.
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Big shareholder backs Yahoo board over Icahn
(AP)
AP - One of Yahoo Inc.'s largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company's incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor Carl Icahn.
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GM researches high-tech windshields to aid vision
(AP)
AP - When Coke bottle glasses just won't cut it for safe driving, a futuristic windshield might do the trick.
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Facebook sues German rival
(CNET)
CNET - Social networking giant Facebook has filed a copyright infringement suit against a German counterpart, according to the Financial Times.
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Ebadi rights group warns Iran on Internet crime bill
(AFP)
AFP - The rights group headed by Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Saturday condemned a draft bill on Internet crime, warning that it could boost the number of executions in the Islamic republic.
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zCover ships iSAglove 3G cases for iPhone
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - zCover on Friday announced that it is shipping its iSAglove 3G cover for the iPhone. It costs $29.99 and joins zCover's line of iPhone accessories.
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India's RCom and SAfrica's MTN call off merger talks
(AFP)
AFP - Indian mobile phone group Reliance Communications and Africa's largest cellular firm MTN have called off talks for a tie-up because of "legal and regulatory issues", the companies said.
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Dell Upgrades Linux PCs To Ubuntu's Hardy Heron
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The computer maker has launched two notebooks and a desktop with Hardy Heron, the version of Ubuntu Linux that was released in April.
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European Researchers Developing Touchy-Feely Robots
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Feelix Growing project is developing software, cameras, and sensors that help robots detect facial expressions, voice, proximity, and other parameters to determine a person's emotional state.
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