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  The gap in Apple's MacBook lineup

  After Monday's announcements, there are no longer any unibody MacBooks, only MacBook Pro models. It raises questions about the future of the company's laptop lineup.

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  $700 for Nokia's new phone. Are they nuts?

  The N97 smartphone hits U.S. shores Tuesday with a whopping $700 price tag. That doesn't bode well against the likes of the Pre and the iPhone.
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• Reports: DOJ steps up probe of Google Books deal

  Justice Department sends formal requests for information to publishers involved in the settlement, in what may signal Justice Department's opposition.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Venture capitalists pin growth hopes on green tech

  The flurry of activity in green technologies has been funded in large part by venture capitalists who now face a contracting, more global industry, according to a survey.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Google releases Quick Search Box for Mac

  Billed as an extension to Google Desktop, the Quick Search Box lets you launch applications from the search results, in addition to finding documents and Web sites.

  (Posted in Webware by Tom Krazit)

• Facebook vanity URLs coming this weekend

  Let the land grab begin: At midnight Eastern time on Saturday, Facebook members will be given the option to customize the URLs to their profiles.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google's Schmidt dings Bing

  Despite calling an executive committee meeting on Microsoft's new search engine, Google CEO shows no signs he's worried about Bing competition.

  (Posted in Webware by Tom Krazit)

• Microsoft spins out software protection tech

  The software maker, which already licenses out its product activation and licensing technology to other firms, is now creating a separate company to handle the task.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Google: Escape Exchange via Outlook plug-in

  As part of its quest to get business customers to move their e-mail services to Google, the company has come up with a way to sync Outlook clients and Gmail servers.

  (Posted in Webware by Tom Krazit)

• T-Mobile: Network wasn't hacked or breached

  Data posted by someone claiming to have hacked into T-Mobile's network is real but is not customer data, the phone company says.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• TI chips power Palm Pre, sales growth

  Texas Instruments raised its outlook for the second quarter. Sales are being driven, in part, by growth for high-end smartphones like the Palm Pre.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• GM names former AT&T; chief as chairman

  Edward E. Whitacre Jr. will head a recast board to oversee the "New GM" that will emerge from bankruptcy.
  (From The New York Times)

• Best upgrade: Mac OS X vs. Windows 7?

  Apple and Microsoft are both going to release major operating systems this year, but who offers the best upgrade.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Spam shrinks after Pricewert shutdown

  Botnets appear to have suffered a big blow with the shutdown of Pricewert, resulting in the reduction of spam activities by 15 percent globally.

  (Posted in Security by Dong Ngo)

• Cisco, Silver Spring land smart-grid deals

  Duke Energy picks Cisco to supply networking gear and home energy management systems, while Chicago-based utility ComEd picks Silverspring Networks and GE.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)
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