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TAIPEI — The Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple, alleging infringement of two of its touch screen patents, an Elan spokesman said Wednesday.
The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Dennis Liu, an Elan spokesman, said by telephone from the headquarters of the chip design company in [...]

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Texas Instruments has sued Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Bank of New York Mellon, accusing the banks of misleading the company into buying $524 million of auction-rate securities that have become illiquid.
In a complaint filed Wednesday in a Texas state court in Dallas County, Texas Instruments said the banks falsely marketed the securities, which [...]

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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:DISCA) says the Kindle electronic book readers from Amazon.com Inc. violate a patent that Discovery registered in 2007. Discovery sued Amazon in Delaware on Tuesday.
Discovery spokeswoman Michelle Russo said the company is seeking “fair compensation” through damages, future royalty payments and legal [...]

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BERLIN — As European lawmakers debate how to keep access to the Internet free and equal — so-called network neutrality — they are inundated, not unsurprisingly, by lobbyists.
But the corporate envoys roaming the halls of Brussels trying to make their case, more often than not, do not represent the Continent’s myriad telecommunications and Internet [...]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles computer security consultant has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for using malicious software that turned thousands of computers into ”zombies” so he could steal private information.
Prosecutors say 27-year-old John Schiefer was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty last April to computer fraud.
Prosecutors [...]

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TOKYO — The Sony Corporation said Friday that Howard Stringer, its chief executive, would succeed Ryoji Chubachi as president in a move that would give the chief a freer hand in restructuring the electronics giant.
Sony will also reorganize its electronics and games divisions to better integrate the company’s sprawling businesses.
The changes will enable Sony to [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The co-CEOs and two other executives at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ:RIMM) have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with tampering with stock options to enrich themselves and other workers.
The charges, filed Tuesday by the SEC in U.S. District Court for the District [...]

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MySpace provided two state attorneys general the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders it had banned from its site in response to a subpoena.
The figure is 40,000 more than the amount previously acknowledged by MySpace, according to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who along with Attorney General Roy Cooper of North Carolina [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Amid the din of naysayers who insist that newspapers are on the verge of death, a new company wants to start dozens of new ones — with a twist.
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Joshua Karp, publisher of The Printed Blog, at his office. On Tuesday, [...]

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HYDERABAD, India — The brothers who founded the outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services have been interrogated and jailed, and Srinivas Vadlamani, who resigned as chief financial officer after a huge fraud was disclosed there, was detained Saturday night.
Mr. Vadlamani stepped down soon after one of the founders, B. Ramalinga Raju, resigned as chairman in a [...]

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