TechWeb - InformationWeek - The case stems from a 1992 licensing agreement in which Nokia obtained certain rights to Qualcomm patents. -- read full article
AP - People planning for retirement got a new tool this week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The politically oriented DDoS attack seems to have originated from Russian hackers, according to a volunteer security watchdog organization. -- read full article
NewsFactor - According to an online community, the latest iPhone operating system 2.0 has been hacked less than a week after its release. The iPhone Dev Team, a portal for iPhone hacks, cracks and comments, announced in a blog entry that it had broken the code. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Led by Sega's "Super Monkey Ball," seven of the top 10 paid applications from Apple's App Store are video games. -- read full article
AP - American Airlines has dropped its lawsuit against Google Inc. over its search engine directing some users to advertisements for the airline's competitors. -- read full article
Reuters - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist
investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board,
defusing a proxy battle showdown and making an immediate deal
with Microsoft Corp less likely.
AFP - Facebook is asking a US court to shut down German website StudiVZ on the grounds it is an illegal "knockoff" of the online social networking superstar.
AP - Brocade Communications Systems Inc., dominant in an obscure corner of the data storage market, wants a piece of a bigger pie: Cisco Systems Inc.'s cash cow business of networking equipment that shuttles Internet traffic. -- read full article
CNET - Customers affected by Sunday's outage of Amazon's Simple Storage Service, an online data storage plan, won't have to do anything to get credit for the hours-long glitch. -- read full article
CNET - TiVo--a company well-known for helping TV viewers skip commercials--is teaming up with Amazon.com to make it easier for consumers to purchase products they see advertised and promoted on television commercials and talk shows, according to a report Monday on The New York Times Web site. -- read full article
