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• 06 December 2011

• News: Dutch authorities raid three operators in price-fixing investigation

  The Dutch competition Authority NMa raided the offices of Vodafone, T-Mobile and KPN on Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into price fixing, the authority said.

• News: Carrier IQ downplays 2010 patent request

  A Carrier IQ executive downplays the significance of the company's effort to patent a technology that it said could help wireless carriers undertake 'advertising audience segmentation analysis and content copyright analytics.'

• News: Japan's Gree aims to take on Facebook, Zynga with social gaming platform

  Japanese mobile game provider Gree said Tuesday it would launch a new gaming platform next year as it looks to take on heavyweights like Facebook and Zynga.

• News: HP acquires Hiflex to bolster Web-based printing offerings

  Hewlett-Packard has acquired the German company Hiflex Software to advance its Web-based printing business, it said on Tuesday.

• News: India may overstep its own laws in demanding content filtering

  India's reported plans to ask Internet companies to filter objectionable content may overstep the country's own laws, according to legal experts.

• News: Facebook hires Gowalla team, but will shut the service

  Facebook has hired the team at Gowalla, a mobile location service in Austin, Texas, but the service will be shut down by January, the companies said Monday.

• News: Clearwire plans $300 million stock offering for LTE

  Clearwire plans to raise as much as $345 million in stock transactions to help fund its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network deployment and other activities.

• 05 December 2011

• News: Google plans to seek Books lawsuit dismissal

  After a so-far fruitless three-year effort to settle the case, Google and the plaintiffs suing it for alleged book-related copyright infringement apparently are moving away from seeking a friendly solution.

• News: Raytheon acquires cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks

  Defense and aerospace systems vendor Raytheon has acquired cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks in an effort to add to Raytheon's capabilities to defend against sophisticated threats facing customers in the intelligence, defense and commercial sectors, the companies announced Monday.

• News: Apple employee blogging and social media guidelines revealed

  The guidelines that Apple employees are expected to adhere to when blogging and using social media have been revealed in a leaked document.

• News: Google plans to seek Books lawsuit dismissal

  After a so-far fruitless three-year effort to settle the case, Google and the plaintiffs suing it for alleged book-related copyright infringement apparently are moving away from seeking a friendly solution.

• News: IBM boosts Smarter Cities Initiative with Cúram Software acquisition

  IBM is buying Irish public sector social software company Cúram Software, a long-time partner for an undisclosed sum.

• News: Apple to Samsung: Dont Make Thin or Rectangular Tablets or Smartphones

  Apple proffers design advice on how Samsung could avoid stepping on Apple’s design patent toes, in a legal brief filed as part of its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against its competitor.

• News: Grassley wants worker 'protections' in green card bill

  U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is blocking Senate action on a bill to eliminate per country caps on employment-sponsored green cards because "it does nothing to better protect Americans."

• News: Google's Schmidt meets EU antitrust regulator amid objection rumors

  Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt met with the European Union’s antitrust commissioner on Monday amid rumors that the Internet search giant will be hit with major objections by the European Commission early next year.

• News: U.S. HPC Lead in Danger

  Programs to develop ever-higher performance exascale computing systems are underway around the world -- but the U.S. isn't yet leading the way after dominating high-performance computing development for decades. (Insider, registration required.)

• Opinion: Can I Post Videos that Use Other People's Music on Youtube?

  Spiderowych asked the Answer Line forum if it's legal to post a remix of copyrighted songs on Youtube.

• News: IBM buys Cúram Software for social service program delivery

  IBM is strengthening its hand in public-sector IT, announcing on Monday the purchase of Cúram Software, which makes applications for use by government social programs. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close before the end of December, were not disclosed.

• Video: Video: Facebook sets up New York engineering shop

  Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced the plans in New York on Friday.

• News: WikiLeaks' Assange can take his extradition appeal to UK Supreme Court

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can take his case to the U.K.'s Supreme Court in his continuing fight against extradition to Sweden.

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