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InfoWorld - The day after announcing that 4,000 employees will be laid off, Motorola CEO Ed Zander told investors that he plans to boost profits with a wide range of multimedia handsets instead of relying on a single blockbuster product like the Razr cell phone.

AP - The government moved Thursday to force the portable telephone industry to do a better job helping police and firefighters locate people who call 911 on cellular and Internet-based phones.

AP - National Public Radio is teaming up with online radio broadcasters to appeal new music royalties that they say would put smaller operators out of business and force others to sharply scale back their online music offerings.

NewsFactor - With a few final security patches before its departure, Firefox 1.5 is heading to Browser Heaven to make room for its 2.0 successor. On Wednesday, the Mozilla Foundation released the final update for 1.5.0.12, and officially released 2.0.0.4.

Reuters - The popular online dating service eHarmony was sued on Thursday for refusing to offer its services to gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

InfoWorld - Google Inc. is hosting events for software developers in 10 cities around the world on Thursday, promoting the use of its tools and services to build Web-based applications.

NewsFactor - On Wednesday, mobile device maker Palm demonstrated the fruits of a secret project that one of Palm's founders, Jeff Hawkins, had been working on. Palm's new Foleo is a Linux-powered, laptop-like device that serves as a companion to smartphones. Analysts and observers have started to weigh in with their opinions, and many are less than raves.

AFP - Motorola will cut an additional 4,000 jobs as the mobile phone maker tries to cope with tough global competition.

PC World - American soldiers in South Korea face a tough call on using Internet telephony in the country.

Reuters - Leading mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it would introduce three new phone models to its line-up, two of them mid-range and one at the higher end of the market.

NewsFactor - A vulnerability that McAfee Avert Labs first warned about last week is now being exploited in the wild, according to VeriSign's iDefense. At issue are embedded objects in Rich Text Format (RTF) files.

AP - Five companies — AT&T, Level 3 Communications Inc., Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon — on Thursday were awarded a federal telecommunications contract worth up to $20 billion over 10 years.

AP - The worldwide semiconductor industry is expected to grow by 2.5 percent in 2007, lower than past expectations, said market research firm Gartner Inc.

InfoWorld - After a dozen years serving as the chief executive of VeriSign, Stratton Sclavos resigned on May 29, leaving some onlookers wondering why, even as longtime critics on Wall St. openly praised his departure.

Reuters - Average U.S. home prices rose 0.5 percent in the first quarter from the prior quarter and 4.3 percent from a year earlier, but price appreciation was the slowest in a decade, a federal regulatory agency reported on Thursday.

USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Apple has launched its new premium service called iTune Plus. It sells music online without copyright protection for a dollar, 29 cents a track. So-called DRM, or digital rights management code, is meant to bar certain types of illegal use of content.

PC World - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has squeezed 4G bytes of storage into a mobile phone chipset that the manufacturer believes could eliminate the need for external memory card slots.

AP - A Japanese robot twists and rolls to music from an iPod in an intricate dance based on complex mathematics, a technology developers say will enable robots to move about spontaneously instead of following preprogrammed motions.

InfoWorld - Dell inaugurated Thursday a new research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore, India, that can house up to 1,000 staff. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans to make India a hub for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage, and software.

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InfoWorld - The TurboLinux Wizpy, a multimedia player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system, will go on sale worldwide in June.

BusinessWeek Online - On the surface, IBM seems to be cruising. Its stock is trading near a six-year high, at almost $106, and its overall financial performance has been improving steadily for more than a year. On May 29, the company raised this year's per-share earnings forecast after stepping up a stock repurchase plan.

AP - Lindsay Lohan's estranged father says she suffers from multiple addictions, including alcohol and the painkiller OxyContin, the Web site E! Online reported Wednesday.

Reuters - The summer video game doldrums are almost here, but a small flurry of new titles over the next couple of weeks may help tide gamers over until the fall bounty.

InfoWorld - If you curse your "tier-one" IT management solution as too cumbersome, too complex, and too expensive, you're not alone. In arecent Gartner study that declares the "Big Four" -- BMC, CA, HP, and IBM -- increasingly vulnerable to SaaS (software as a service) and open source alternatives, surveyed users gave their vendors mostly C's and D's, and a good number of incompletes.