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AP - Apple’s iTunes has sold its 10 billionth tune.

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AP - British politicians were among those caught up Friday in the latest Twitter-based scam which hijacks users’ accounts to send out sexually explicit messages to friends and followers.

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InfoWorld - Open source database provider Ingres hopes to move the Ingres VectorWise database performance technology to a beta release phase during the next month, Ingres President/CEO Roger Burkhardt said this week.

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AP - European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company’s legal worries in Europe.

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Reuters - Record company EMI will appeal against a court ruling that Australian Grammy-award winning band Men at Work stole a section of the famous 1980s hit, “Down Under,” from a popular folk song.

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PC World - New low-cost smartphones running Google’s Android software have been launched in Taiwan recently and the good news is they should start showing up just about everywhere soon.

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AFP - Nintendo will next month launch its DSi XL hand-held game console in Europe and the United States, hoping to win over older users with its bigger screens, web access and electronic book reader.

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PC World - Microsoft moved the battle against spam-distributing botnets from cyberspace to the court room, winning a temporary restraining order shutting down nearly 300 domains thought to make up the command and control structure for the vast Waledac botnet.

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NewsFactor - Apple is sitting on $40 billion in cash, which it will use not for revenues but to make “big, bold moves,” CEO Steve Jobs announced at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. He said the company will be aggressive in coming years and its big barrel of cash will provide an important buffer.

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AP - Novatel Wireless Inc. posted a profit in the fourth quarter on better sales of its modems and wireless networking gear. But the stock fell on weaker-than-expected guidance.

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