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Government and information technology industry representatives on Tuesday discussed how to make the public comfortable with the increasingly sophisticated ways the government collects identifiable information.

AP - Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

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Lorien_the_first_one writes 'After years of wrangling, TiVo has won its day in court against Dish Network, formerly known as the EchoStar, when the Supreme Court declined to take up Dish Network's appeal, forcing the satellite television company to pay $104 million in damages. According to the article, 'TiVo originally won a patent infringement case in 2004 against Dish, which was then named EchoStar Communications. It charged that Dish illegally copied its technology, which allows people to pause, rewind, and record live television on digital video recorders.' Despite an injunction, Dish continued distributing its set-top boxes in the belief that the work-around they had implemented avoided infringing TiVo's patents. Now the case goes back to the lower court for review to determine if they did indeed steer clear of those patents.' of this story at Slashdot.

The British technology Awards are out, and Apple managed to snag five. Apple's iTunes Store earned one of the awards, and the other four went to the iphone for Gadget of the Year, Technological Innovation of the Year, Best Mobile technology and Most Stylish technology

NEW YORK (AP) -- Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology....

Eclipse and Java are key components of Android, Google's mobile operating system. While it's an OS meant to challenge the likes of microsoft Windows Mobile and Apple iphone, Android also promises to be an important developmenet platform. - Googles Android is a complete mobile operating system. While the technology is meant to challenge other mobile OSes including Microsofts Windows Mobile and Apples iphone it also promises to be a key development platform.For developers, that means using Java and Eclipse, and understanding the funda...

When Sprint rolls out its XOHM 4G network and Intel ramps up its WiMax technology, both Lenovo and Acer each plan to roll out a number of notebooks for enterprise and small business buyers that come equipped with this new wireless technology. Lenovo plans to offer five ThinkPad laptops with WiMax, while Acer will roll out two Aspire notebooks for small businesses that have the WiMax technology. While Acer and Lenovo are rushing notebooks into the market, HP and Dell are holding back WiMax enabled laptops for now. - While Sprint and Intelare busy setting up the first large-scale WiMax network in the United States, Lenovoand Acer are each rushing a number of notebooks into the market that are nowequipped with the new wireless broadband technology.The first large-scale deployment of WiMax technology ist...

Barence writes 'Mozilla Labs has unveiled a new Add-on that allows Firefox to pinpoint your location based on Wi-Fi signals. The feature, called Geode, is a prototype for the location-tracking technology that will be built into the forthcoming Firefox 3.1. Geode is designed to work with websites that rely on knowing your location, such as mapping and geotagging services. The prospect of Firefox having the ability to track your location raises obvious privacy fears. Mozilla insists users will remain in complete control. 'With Geode, when a website requests your location a notification bar will ask how much information you want to give that site: your exact location, your neighbourhood, your city, or nothing at all,' the Mozilla Labs blog claims.' of this story at Slashdot.

Indian IT professionals are being recruited by terrorist cells to be part of a new 'media wing' aimed at enhancing their potency through use of the latest technology.