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Today's Technology News: Japanese astronaut tests endurance — of his undies Yahoo comes full circle with retreat from search Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next? Anti-theft software could create security hole U r pwned: text messaging paves way for hacking Microsoft CEO tries to sell analysts on Yahoo deal Legal Spat Pushes Ebay to Develop New Base for Skype LG Introduces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs Motorola Q2 Sales Down Across the Board YouTube wedding video sends Chris Brown to charts G.I. Joystick: New Video Games Train Today's Troops Foxconn suicide turns spotlight on China counterfeiting EBay says no changes to Skype IPO plans Former Google VP Suggests User-Based Security at Black Hat iPhone vulnerable to hacker attacks: researchers Motorola Pledges Cheaper Android Phones WriteRoom notetaking app adds Web syncing Japanese astronaut tests endurance — of his undies Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:54 pm PDT AP - In what might embarrass less adventurous souls, astronaut Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth with the underwear he kept on for a solid month during his space station stay and scientists will check them out. Full Story Top Yahoo comes full circle with retreat from search Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:16 am PDT AP - Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company's co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s. Full Story Top Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next? Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:13 pm PDT AP - Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one since last fall, when they picked up "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." Full Story Top Anti-theft software could create security hole Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:50 pm PDT AP - A piece of anti-theft software built into many laptops at the factory opens a serious security hole, according to research presented Thursday. Full Story Top U r pwned: text messaging paves way for hacking Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:40 pm PDT AP - Getting a text message is akin to someone sliding a piece of mail under your door: You may not have asked for it, you can't stop its delivery and you have to deal with it whether you want to or not. Full Story Top Microsoft CEO tries to sell analysts on Yahoo deal Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:40 pm PDT AP - Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to improve the bad feeling Yahoo Inc. investors have about the companies' search-advertising partnership. Full Story Top Legal Spat Pushes Ebay to Develop New Base for Skype Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:10 pm PDT PC World - Ebay has begun developing an alternative to the P2P technology used by Skype as a licensing dispute drags on and threatens to close the popular IP telephony service. Full Story Top LG Introduces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:15 pm PDT PC World - At LG’s fifth annual summer line show in New York City, the company introduced two new HDTV lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my attention for their attention to design. Full Story Top Motorola Q2 Sales Down Across the Board Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:00 pm PDT PC World - Sales fell at all three divisions of Motorola in the second quarter, though the ailing communications company posted a profit based on special accounting items. Full Story Top YouTube wedding video sends Chris Brown to charts Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:16 pm PDT Reuters - In the same week that Chris Brown went to YouTube to apologize for assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna, a viral videoclip of a wedding party dancing down the aisle to Brown's song "Forever" returned him to the charts. Full Story Top G.I. Joystick: New Video Games Train Today's Troops Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:00 pm PDT PC World - War isn't a game, but it's beginning to look like one. Full Story Top Foxconn suicide turns spotlight on China counterfeiting Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:31 pm PDT Reuters - One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing a carefully guarded Apple iPhone prototype, one question remains unanswered: what happened to the missing phone? Full Story Top EBay says no changes to Skype IPO plans Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:24 pm PDT Reuters - EBay Inc shrugged off speculation on Thursday that its planned spinoff of Skype could be in danger, given an ongoing dispute over the technology used in the online telephone unit and new plans to develop proprietary software. Full Story Top Former Google VP Suggests User-Based Security at Black Hat Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:46 am PDT PC World - At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, former Google VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill gave the opening keynote presentation, and it wasn't a traditional security industry talk. The takeaway: Let users dictate enterprise security needs. Full Story Top iPhone vulnerable to hacker attacks: researchers Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:00 pm PDT Reuters - Security experts have uncovered flaws in Apple Inc's iPhone that they said hackers can exploit to take control of the popular device, using the tactic for identity theft and other crimes. Full Story Top Motorola Pledges Cheaper Android Phones Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:17 am PDT PC Magazine - Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said in an analyst call Thursday that many of next year's Motorola phones will run the Google Android OS, continuing a big bet on the Linux-based system. Full Story Top WriteRoom notetaking app adds Web syncing Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:15 pm PDT Macworld.com - Hog Bay Software on Thursday released WriteRoom 2.0 for iPhone, an update to its $5 iPhone note-taking utility that adds improved web-syncing features. Full Story Top

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