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Investor's Business Daily - After 96 years and with more than $100 billion in sales this year, IBM wouldn't be considered a growth stock by some investors. They'd be wrong, say IBM executives -- and the numbers of late. View the full article

AP - In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material. View the full article

Investor's Business Daily - Wireless service providers are starting to explore whether fuel cells could be the answer to a tough question. How can providers get good backup power to the rising number of cellular towers perched on hilltops, high-rises, church steeples and elsewhere? View the full article

AP - Three college students who discovered a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards and add hundreds of dollars in value to them were ordered again Thursday to keep details of their findings secret. View the full article

NewsFactor - Commercial software developers, listen up: If you think open source is a free toolkit from which you can borrow at will, look a good look at Wednesday's legal ruling. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in New York City, where many intellectual-property cases are heard, overturned a Northern California court decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer, a pivotal case in open-source and Creative Commons law. View the full article

AP - Netflix Inc. said Thursday that major technical problems over the past three days have severely limited the number of DVDs it could send out. View the full article

AP - The new BlackBerry model should be coming to North America within a month now that Research In Motion Ltd. has started selling it in Germany and Chile. View the full article

AP - Online music thieves can't interfere with the hundreds of songwriters Hanna Rochelle Schmieder has on her payroll. View the full article

Reuters - An Infineon chip could be at the root of complaints from around the world that Apple Inc's new iPhone drops calls and has unpredictable Internet links, according to a research report from Nomura. View the full article

Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the holder of a copyright to a computer programming code made available for free public download can enforce an "open-source" copyright license to control future use of the work. View the full article

CNET - digg_url = 'http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10017102-36.html'; A couple of hunters in northern Georgia (the state, not the country) claim to have found a carcass of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot (or Sasquatch, if you prefer). View the full article

Reuters - Electronic Arts, one of the world's top two video game publishers, expects industry revenue to grow by at least 20 percent this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a top executive told Reuters. View the full article

Macworld.com - Cynical Peak Software on Thursday announced the release of Rivet 1.2, an update to its application that helps Mac users stream content to an Xbox 360 video game console on the same network. A free update for registered users, Rivet 1.2 costs $18.95. View the full article

USATODAY.com - Many cameras record video in a format that has become the new high-def standard, AVCHD, but it's not yet compatible with popular video-editing programs such as Adobe Premiere Elements, Windows Movie Maker or Roxio's Easy Media Creator 10. You probably can't even get the clips to play on your computer because Windows Media Player and QuickTime Player can't handle it, either. What to do? View the full article

Reuters - Is the tech-savvy fashionista ready to shop by mobile phone? Polo Ralph Lauren Corp hopes so. View the full article

AP - About half of the people who are using mobile phones to pull down video or information about the Olympics have been trying out that technology for the first time, NBC said on Wednesday. View the full article

Reuters - Take a group of scientists and a video game designer and what do you get? Spore, a game that can help teach players some evolutionary biology. View the full article

AFP - Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine. View the full article

CNET - Intel has developed technology that allows users to remotely power up their computers and retrieve files across an Internet connection, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's Web site Wednesday. View the full article

AP - Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet. View the full article

PC Magazine - Enter Wuala, a new service that pairs online storage with social networking, with a little bit of Java and grid computing mixed in. View the full article

Reuters - The University of Toronto and IBM Corp are building Canada's most powerful supercomputer, a mammoth machine that will need its own building for storage and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second. View the full article

AP - The Pentagon this week delayed and may kill the Air Force's nascent Cyberspace Command, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. This comes as Russia used a major computer network attack to begin its assault on Georgia. View the full article

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AP - Hospital software maker MedAssets Inc. said Wednesday it was narrowing its 2008 earnings-per-share outlook and raising revenue projections to include the impact of a recently acquired private software company. View the full article