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 - Intel to partner with Google
 Intel Corp and Google Inc launched a development partnership on Tuesday, the latest effort by the world's dominant maker of PC microprocessors to break into the booming smartphone market. The two companies will work together to optimise future versions of Google's Android mobile software for Intel's "Atom" processors, hoping to speed the development and time-to-market of future Intel-powered smartphones.
- Facebook to organise friends in 'smart lists'
 It's a modern-day dilemma: You really want your Facebook friends to see that wild party photo of you wearing bunny ears. But you're not so keen on explaining it to your mother-in-law.
- Free tablets to stir Windows 8 interest
 Microsoft Corp handed out sleek new tablet computers with a test version of Windows 8 at its annual developer conference, to spark excitement over its new operating system.
- 8.429 GHz AMD processor is the world's fastest
 US chipmaker giant AMD has announced that it has achieved the Guinness World Record for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor," by engineering the upcoming 8-core AMD FX desktop processor.
- HP extends $11.2 billion Autonomy offer
 Hewlett-Packard has extended the deadline for its $11.2 billion takeover of British software company Autonomy, with analysts predicting the US firm is on course to succeed. HP has extended the deadline for the offer to October 3 after gaining acceptances from 41.6 per cent of shareholders.
- Nintendo faces end of era after 3DS flop
 Nintendo's attempt to rescue its failed 3DS handheld games gadget failed to dispel market gloom, triggering a 5 per cent share slide and stoking deep worries for an iconic brand desperate to win back users.
- Measuring Wi-Fi attacks can combat cyber crimes
 Scientists have developed a way to gauge how badly a Wi-Fi network can be damaged by cyber attacks. This can ensure stronger security systems.
- Google India invites entries for Doodle4Google 2011
 Inviting children to doodle their dreams on its India home page, Google has announced the launch of its third Doodle4Google competition 2011 in India. The winning doodle will be featured on Google's India home page on Children's Day, November 14.
- Smartphones may play key role in US elections
 Smartphones may play a significant role in future US elections by enabling online voting, new research claims. The study was conducted by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), a non-profit association with more than 4,600 members globaly.
- IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance
 IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorise treatments.
- Dolby lawsuit against RIM dropped
 Dolby Laboratories says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker. As a result, Dolby Laboratories Inc. said Monday it has dropped its patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd.
- Broadcom to acquire NetLogic for about $3.7 bn
 Broadcom Corp said Monday it is buying NetLogic Microsystems Inc., another chip maker, for about $3.7 billion in cash. Broadcom designs chips that are used in products ranging from cable boxes to cell phones. It says NetLogic will extend its product line with a number of new processors.
- Gamestop to carry tablets in stores
 The largest US video game retailer GameStop Corp will sell Android tablets this holiday for the first time in a bid to grab a slice of the growing market of people who play games on the go.
- DoCoMo to make smartphone chips with Samsung
 NTT DoCoMo Inc and other Japanese firms will partner South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co to develop key chips for next-generation smartphones to reduce the reliance on Qualcomm Inc, the Nikkei business daily reported.
- TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington leaves blog
 Michael Arrington, founder of the popular technology blog TechCrunch, is leaving the blog and its owner, AOL, to work on the venture capital fund he recently started.
- App lets people create a 'time machine'
 For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape - the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the US Grand Canyon - and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you.
- Tokyo Game Show to highlight rise of social games
 In a world of booming smartphones and tablets, social game providers will take the spotlight at the Tokyo Game Show this week, while champion Nintendo, criticised for being too centred on hardware, struggles to win back fans.
- Carol Bartz resigns from Yahoo board
 Carol Bartz, who was fired as chief executive of Yahoo Inc last week, has resigned from the company's board of directors.
- Hackers hit Russia's embassy in UK website
 Russia's embassy in London said on Sunday its website crashed in a suspected hacking attack just before Prime Minister David Cameron begins the first visit by a British leader to Moscow since the 2006 killing in London of a Kremlin critic.
- Amazon in talks to launch digital book library
 Amazon.com Inc is in talks with book publishers about launching a media library service similar to Netflix Inc for tablets and other digital books, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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The company joins Google in protesting cyber attacks and censorship in China.
Chat-Roulette has emerged as the hottest thing on the Internet.
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Seoul topped the list the of cities from which spam was being sent.
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The company stopped censoring its Chinese search results.
Snow-capped ranges may turn into barren spots in a few decades.
Non-binding deal for combating global warming has US stamp.
Obama hails non-binding agreement, but poor nations unimpressed.
Manmohan, Obama speak for developing and developed world.
BASIC countries agree that the Kyoto Protocol will have to stay. 
He also stressed that India will play a positive and constructive role on climate.
Leaders from 28 countries met overnight to hammer out the draft. 
India says there is 75 per cent agreement in climate talks with the US.
US blamed others of backing away from scrutiny of their climate actions.
Frustration growing over the lack of progress in talks.