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One deal turned a Swedish software company into Sun Microsystems' property. Another put Sun's cutting-edge microprocessor designs into the curriculum of China's leading universities.

Sun Microsystems executives touted the disparate deals announced Tuesday as serving a common purpose: to enhance the open-source technology development, and Sun's prominence as a movement leader.  read more »

Pakistan has rejected claims that it was responsible for blocking global access to the YouTube video clip site.
YouTube was hard to reach this week following action by Pakistan to block access inside its borders for its hosting of a "blasphemous" video clip.

Analysis suggests the block was taken up by net hardware that routes data effectively cutting off the site.

But a spokeswoman for Pakistan's telecoms authority said the problem was caused by a "malfunction" elsewhere.

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Apple came out with new upgraded models of its MacBook and MacBook Pro line today that are faster and include more storage than earlier models, as well as a feature introduced in the ultra-thin MacBook Air.

The higher end of Apple's notebook line, the MacBook Pro with 15.4-inch widescreen, now runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz processor with 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM standard, expandable to 4GB. The MacBook Pro also includes a 200GB hard drive.  read more »

Actress Angelina Jolie's protruding stomach at the Spirit Awards on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, may have looked suspiciously like a baby bump, but the mother of four still won't address the pregnancy rumors. If Jolie is pregnant, it would mean a fifth Jolie-Pitt child for Hollywood's hottest couple. It would be the second child by birth for Jolie and her partner, actor Brad Pitt.
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In the never-ending battle for exclusive celebrity photos, New York could boast an awfully big catch: exclusive shots of a nude Lindsay Lohan recreating the legendary final photo shoot of the late Marilyn Monroe.  read more »

One hefty debt amounting to nearly $25 million that Michael Jackson has got on his hands could well take the singer’s famous Neverland home off his hands.

FoxNews was first to report that Michael Jackson faces losing his famed Neverland Ranch in California unless he pays a balance estimated at $24.5 million. If he fails to do so, the 2,800-acre ranch will be foreclosed and sold at a public auction on March 19, according to court papers filed Tuesday.  read more »

Are Internet users clicking on fewer Google ads and putting the company’s growth prospects at risk?

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Times Topics: Google Inc.Those questions are weighing on investors, who have cut the value of Google shares by 38 percent since they peaked at $747.24 in early November.

The slide continued Tuesday when Google shares dropped 4.6 percent to close at $464.19, as investors were spooked by a report by the research firm comScore that said clicks on Google ads the United States were flat in January when compared with a year earlier.  read more »

The European Commission said it has fined US software giant Microsoft Corp 899 mln eur for failure to comply with the EU executive's antitrust decision against the company just under four year ago.

The commission said the company charged 'unreasonable prices' for access to interface documentation for work group servers prior to Oct 22 last year.

Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) was required to disclose 'complete and accurate' interoperability information to developers of work group server operating systems on 'reasonable terms', the commission said.  read more »

Os pré-candidatos democratas à Casa Branca, Hillary Clinton e Barack Obama, demonstraram na terça-feira à noite suas divergências em Cleveland, no último debate exibido pela televisão antes das primárias de Texas e Ohio, em uma semana que as pesquisas apontam o favoritismo do senador por Illinois.  read more »

A Tanzanian-born Muslim who dubbed himself "Osama bin London" was found guilty Tuesday of encouraging his followers to murder nonbelievers and of running terrorist training camps in Britain.

Mohammed Hamid, 50, who came to England when he was 5, was convicted along with three followers: Kibley da Costa, 25, Mohammed Figari, 45, and Kader Ahmed, 20, whom the jury found guilty of attending the training camps.

A fifth suspect, Atilla Ahmet, 43, who once boasted of being Al Qaeda's top figure in Europe, at the start of the trial admitted guilt on three charges of soliciting murder.  read more »