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LG announced the debut of its new Vu handset at CTIA Wireless today in Las Vegas. The device is one of the first two that will support AT&T's Mobile TV service launching in July.

Equipped with a 3-inch touchscreen and "minimalist" scroll bar interface, the Vu is reportedly a not-so-distant cousin of the Korean company's KS20 Prada phone in design. The 3G Vu offers HSDPA support like its designer counterpart, which offers speeds up to 3.6Mbps in Europe, but only 1.4Mbps in the United States.

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No, it's not an April Fool: Despite controversy over whether certain countries' voting members truly represented the wishes of their respective standards delegations, it would appear ODF now has company in the world's library of standards..

A document leaked by the OpenDoc Society to members of its internal mailing list this morning shows what purports to be the final ballot of voting members of Standards Committee 34 of the International Organization for Standardization.

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In an extraordinary move last Thursday, the US federal government placed IBM on an "excluded parties" list after having learned a grand jury issued a subpoena to the company, reportedly regarding a contract with the Environmental Protection Agency on which it had placed a bid.

The list effectively prohibits the company from doing business with any US government agencies for an indefinite period.

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One of the most innovative additions that Google may be making to its applications suite would, in a bygone era, be one of the most basic features: the ability to save locally.

One of the factors that makes Web applications convenient is the fact that you're almost always using the most currently tested version of the software. With Google Apps, the tradeoff has typically been that the user has to be online, which makes operation on a laptop while in the air somewhat inconvenient.

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Shortly after opening to the public, Adobe's Photoshop Express web-based photo editor came under scrutiny for a questionable clause in its Terms of Use.

The passage in question is the following: "Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed."

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Mobile phone maker Nokia is now running into more opposition from the European Commission over proposed plans to buy digital map maker Navteq.

In a written statement on Friday, the manufacturer said that it has decided to open a detailed investigation into the deal, after an initial market investigation "identified serious doubts" about the possible buyout's "compatibility with the Common Market."

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Although MTV already has an on-demand a la carte video service from US mobile providers, but this marks the first time Viacom has allowed MTV content to be shared for free.

MTV Networks has partnered with Mywaves to offer free, ad-supported music videos and other MTV clips that can be viewed using mobile phones, targeted for the 18-34 year old age range.

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Sony Pictures Television has announced that it will provide its own linear movie channel called PIX with the AT&T's mobile TV service launching this May.

AT&T's MediaFLO-based Mobile TV service which was recently announced to be coming in May, will be unveiled with two exclusive content channels, Sony Pictures Television's PiX is one of them. Nonexclusive partner channels include ESPN, NBC, CBS, and Nickelodeon, which all broadcast on Verizon's VCAST TV service as well.

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If you care about this story and think it's important, we invite you to submit its headline to Digg or one of the other many fine aggregators on the Web. But if we care about this story, we may want to submit it to Publish2 instead.

Never one to be outdone in the naval-gazing department, the business of online journalism has been stuck in a quandary recently over who, amid the broader scheme of ebbing and flowing headlines, should get to decide what's important and what's not. News aggregation sites like Digg leave that job to the readers, though recently, the discussion has been about whether readers are rating stories or just their headlines.

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Garmin, makers of popular handheld navigation devices, has announced the availability of Google Local content in its Garmin Mobile software, available on numerous handheld platforms.

Though many of its Nuvi devices are equipped with MSN Direct to provide detailed data such as gas prices and realtime traffic reports, Garmin has recently paired with Google to deliver premium content in its handset navigation sector.

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In its plan to concentrate more of its efforts on improving its status as a portal, Yahoo continues to roll out new properties and products, this week adding "Shine," a new Web site for women.

According to Brandon Holley, Shine's editor-in-chief, Shine will combine content from three main sources: the "best bloggers and writers" from women's magazines and online sites; other Yahoo vehicles, such as Yahoo Food and Yahoo Tech; and thirdly, Shine's readers themselves.

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Small French software developer PointDev is suing Sony BMG saying it uses pirated copies of PointDev's Ideal Migration software.

The application manages Windows domain consolidations and provides migration tools to move networks to Windows 2000 and 2003. Sony is being accused of using this software without a license.

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Is Adobe playing catch-up in the open source development field? Or is the open source community not giving it enough of that valuable feedback it's so well-known for. This morning, Adobe's giving the community an extra chance.

The stated goal of Adobe since 2006 has been to build an operating environment using its Flash technologies, that is truly cross-platform and that can run offline. To accomplish that for real, Adobe needed to embrace more platforms outside the traditional box than just Macintosh; so today, even if the current build isn't ready for prime time, the company released what it's describing as a feature-incomplete version of the AIR platform for Linux.

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The British ISP is set to throw down the gauntlet on those who download music by disconnecting those who fail to heed warnings.

Trade group British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is working with Virgin to implement a "three strikes" policy, which would initially deal with music downloads. However, film and television studios are also being invited to participate, meaning any illicit downloads could be penalized.

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According to at least one Dell official, despite recent debacles with SP1, the business client migration to Windows Vista continues undaunted. A new Dell Client Migration Solution, unveiled this week, includes services and tools designed to ease businesses' migration burden.

Although Windows Vista still isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea, Dell this week rolled out a new set of services and tools "optimized" for organizations moving to the OS that customers who've already made the shift either really like...or really don't.

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