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(AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news177020567.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:23:33 EST news177020567 Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut. http://www.physorg.com/news177009760.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:50:03 EST news177009760 Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013. http://www.physorg.com/news177009881.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:48 EST news177009881 (AP) -- Electronic Arts plans to cut its work force by 17 percent as it tries to align its business with a transforming video game industry. http://www.physorg.com/news177009393.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:17:12 EST news177009393 If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born? http://www.physorg.com/news177000797.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:20:03 EST news177000797 (PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is finding commercial applications. http://www.physorg.com/news177001844.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:11:44 EST news177001844 A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development of the next generation of super efficient solar cells. http://www.physorg.com/news176999193.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:40:02 EST news176999193 (AP) -- The social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after an attorney general alleged that the Web site essentially stole the identities of some 60 million Internet users. http://www.physorg.com/news176996623.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:10:14 EST news176996623 (AP) -- As its packaged video games business lags, Electronic Arts Inc. has snapped up Playfish Inc., the creator of popular social networking games such as "Who Has the Biggest Brain" and "Pet Society," for $275 million in cash. http://www.physorg.com/news176995904.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:50:03 EST news176995904 (AP) -- Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. http://www.physorg.com/news176996016.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:33:54 EST news176996016 (AP) -- Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the Web on phones. http://www.physorg.com/news176995839.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:31:19 EST news176995839 (PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers from Denmark have designed an LED lamp that runs on solar cells, which costs less than one-quarter of the annual cost of using kerosene lighting. The solar-LED lamps are expected to last at least a year, making them an affordable alternative to kerosene. http://www.physorg.com/news176991580.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:20:34 EST news176991580 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tesla is becoming synonymous with high performance electric cars. Indeed, the Tesla car company has been making efforts to create a brand of sports car that runs on electricity, and does so in a way that is convenient to motorists. In an effort to prove that it can be done, a Tesla Roadster has gone 313 miles on one charge. This is a new world record -- one that breaks the previous record of 241 miles, set by another Tesla Roadster. http://www.physorg.com/news176990887.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:11:26 EST news176990887 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor in MIT`s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has exported those techniques to game theory, a branch of mathematics with applications in economics, traffic management -- on both the Internet and the interstate -- and biology, among other things. By showing that some common game-theoretical problems are so hard that they`d take the lifetime of the universe to solve, Daskalakis is suggesting that they can`t accurately represent what happens in the real world. http://www.physorg.com/news176978473.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:20:01 EST news176978473 Home builder Lance Schmidt hears it all the time: Green building costs more. But he and his colleagues are out to prove otherwise. http://www.physorg.com/news176975204.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:47:14 EST news176975204 (AP) -- Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. http://www.physorg.com/news176909257.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:04 EST news176909257 (AP) -- In a bid to sell living room electronics and spur buzz for "Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs," Sony Corp. is offering the movie for free to U.S. buyers of its Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players starting Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news176909112.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:25:56 EST news176909112 Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice. http://www.physorg.com/news176879023.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:20:01 EST news176879023 It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. http://www.physorg.com/news176879161.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:50:01 EST news176879161 (AP) -- With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software. http://www.physorg.com/news176878623.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:57:46 EST news176878623 US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. http://www.physorg.com/news176810199.html Technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news176810199 Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties. http://www.physorg.com/news176809758.html Technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:00:01 EST news176809758 Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news176810339.html Technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:59:44 EST news176810339 The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they? http://www.physorg.com/news176749865.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:11:37 EST news176749865 A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. http://www.physorg.com/news176749751.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:09:54 EST news176749751 Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history. http://www.physorg.com/news176738669.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:50:01 EST news176738669 (AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news176736799.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:38:11 EST news176736799 NEC Corp. says it has developed the country's first software that automatically controls power consumption by personal computers in accordance with the patterns of its user's PC activity. http://www.physorg.com/news176731923.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:01 EST news176731923 (PhysOrg.com) -- Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally threaten the dominance of email as the world's premier collaboration tool. http://www.physorg.com/news176731593.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:07:11 EST news176731593 (AP) -- This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year's record $155 million opening weekend for "The Dark Knight." http://www.physorg.com/news176729732.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:36:24 EST news176729732