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Today's Technology News: Reports: Apple CEO Steve Jobs had liver transplant Redbox's machines take on Netflix's red envelopes Nortel to sell itself off in pieces Web support pours out for Iran protesters Google tricycle snaps views from Philly campus Big fine could be big trouble in downloading case Variable iTunes pricing a moneymaker for artists Smaller crowds greet new iPhone Telecoms firm Nortel to sell assets to Nokia Streaming music service Spotify basks in praise Activision May Stop Supporting Sony PS3 Steve Jobs received liver transplant: report Windows 7 Hits a New Low iPhone 3G S Early Buyers Face Activation Delays Could Opera Unite Be a Botmaster's Best Friend? CIA's Technology Arm Taps Open Source for Enterprise Search Apple CEO Steve Jobs, at a glance Reports: Apple CEO Steve Jobs had liver transplant Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:46 pm PDT AP - Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, whose recovery from pancreatic cancer appeared less certain when he had to take medical leave in January, received a liver transplant two months ago but is recovering well, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Full Story Top Redbox's machines take on Netflix's red envelopes Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:30 am PDT AP - With more subscribers than ever flocking to its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix Inc. is one of the few companies to prosper during the worst U.S. recession in 70 years. Yet Netflix CEO Reed Hastings still has something to worry about: an even cheaper DVD rental service run by one of his former lieutenants. Full Story Top Nortel to sell itself off in pieces Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:50 pm PDT AP - Nortel Networks, once a technology giant, has decided to sell itself off in pieces rather than attempt to emerge from bankruptcy as a restructured company. Full Story Top Web support pours out for Iran protesters Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:46 pm PDT AP - Google and Facebook have rushed out services in Farsi. Twitter users have changed their home cities to Tehran to provide cover for Internet users there. Others have configured their computers to serve as relay points to bypass Iranian censorship. Full Story Top Google tricycle snaps views from Philly campus Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:39 pm PDT AP - Coming soon to a campus near you — the Google tricycle. Full Story Top Big fine could be big trouble in downloading case Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:21 pm PDT AP - The $1.92 million verdict against a Minnesota woman accused of sharing 24 songs over the Internet could ratchet up the pressure on other defendants to settle with the recording industry — if the big fine can withstand an appeal. Full Story Top Variable iTunes pricing a moneymaker for artists Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:35 pm PDT Reuters - In April, soon after Apple gave labels the ability to set different prices for their songs on iTunes, every track on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was raised to $1.29. Full Story Top Smaller crowds greet new iPhone Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:04 am PDT Reuters - Apple Inc's latest iPhone hit stores on Friday with new features and faster speeds, drawing plenty of fans, if not the crowds that had swarmed the previous iPhone debuts. Full Story Top Telecoms firm Nortel to sell assets to Nokia Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:15 am PDT AFP - Canadian telecommunications firm Nortel, in bankruptcy protection since January, will sell most of its wireless business to Nokia Siemens Networks for 650 million dollars. Full Story Top Streaming music service Spotify basks in praise Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:26 pm PDT Reuters - At first glance, Spotify isn't much different from other on-demand streaming music services. It includes roughly the same library of songs, pays the same per-stream licensing fees for music and contends with the same poor ad-sales environment. Full Story Top Activision May Stop Supporting Sony PS3 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:40 am PDT PC Magazine - Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Bobby Kotick said in a published report on Friday it may stop making video games for Sony's PlayStation 3, the No. 3 console in the United States, due to high costs and poor sales. Full Story Top Steve Jobs received liver transplant: report Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:44 pm PDT Reuters - Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant operation about two months ago and is expected to return to work by the end of June, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Full Story Top Windows 7 Hits a New Low Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:35 pm PDT PC World - I've always wanted to get a modern operating system to work on my graphing calculator. And we're about there, thanks to the efforts of a fellow (or strangly named lady) on The Windows Club forum. A user by the name of "hackerman1" has installed Windows 7 on his PC, which in itself is nothing to write home about. The catch here is that he's gotten a bootable, working installation on no less than a Pentium II system. No, that's not a typo--Pentium Two. The extreme...ly old machine consists of a 266 MHz CPU, a whopping 96 MB of memory, and a next-generation 4 MB graphics card. Full Story Top iPhone 3G S Early Buyers Face Activation Delays Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00 pm PDT PC World - Early iPhone 3G S adopters are reporting difficulty activating their iPhones, reports AppleInsider and MacRumors. In what is practically a carbon copy of last year’s iPhone 3G launch issues, it appears that Apple’s iPhone service activation servers were unprepared to deal with the influx of new registrations from today’s iPhone 3G S launch, leaving the zero-day adopters with a potential two day wait. Full Story Top Could Opera Unite Be a Botmaster's Best Friend? Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:30 pm PDT PC World - Opera has added a lot of cool new features to its upcoming Opera 10 browser, and one of them is almost sure to catch the eye of cyber criminals. Full Story Top CIA's Technology Arm Taps Open Source for Enterprise Search Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:10 am PDT PC World - The company in charge of providing technology to the U.S. intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise-search technology to the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Full Story Top Apple CEO Steve Jobs, at a glance Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:56 pm PDT AP - NAME — Steven Paul Jobs. Full Story Top

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