Now that the world has had a couple days to digest the national broadband plan released by the Federal Communications Commission, the battle lines are taking shape.

• Dell Charges LCD Makers With Price-Fixing
• Senate Cybersecurity Bill Back in Play
• Federal CTO Looks to Crowd-Source Apps
• FTC Raps Weak Privacy in the Cloud, Social Media

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Reports far and wide say that Motorola has shelved its plans to upgrade the Droid smartphone to the 2.1 version of the Android operating system. But why?

• Google Denied Trademark for Nexus One
• Sprint the Latest Nexus One Carrier
• Droid OS Upgrade Could Drop This Week
• RIM Gives Mobile App Developers a Push

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Big Blue is dialing up customer service with a new algorithm-based technology developed with Assurant that aims to improve the quality of customer service at call centers.

• IBM Gains Partners for LotusLive in the Cloud
• Google Fixes Its Browser Before Hacker Test
• Microsoft and Citrix Join in Virtualization Push
• Microsoft Details SP1 for Windows 7, Server 2008

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A new Gartner study suggests that virtualized workloads are being deployed insecurely.

• Google May Be Set to Depart China Soon
• FBI Says Cybercrime Skyrocketing
• What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown
• Core Security Identifies Virtual PC Hole

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Open source vendor Novell is looking to broaden its SUSE Linux footprint with a new partnership with the database vendor Ingres that promises to make life easier for developers.

• CodePlex Launches Network Monitoring Project
• Microsoft Previews IE 9
• Google's Open Source Project-Hosting Milestone
• Open Source Developers Pick Android Over iPhone

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Intel, Google, Sony and Logitech are reportedly partnering on an advanced TV appliance that would bring Internet content and services to TVs.

• Fujitsu Intros new Xeon Cloud Computing Servers
• Cisco Adopts Intel Westmere CPU for UCS Blades
• SGI Joins Xeon Lovefest With Origin Revival
• Dell Readies Low-Maintenance Westmere Servers

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As it looks ahead to an exponential increase in Internet traffic, VeriSign is planning to pump $300 million into upgrading the .com DNS infrastructure through Project Apollo.

• Alcatel-Lucent Update Wireless Network Gear
• Comcast Uses Open Source for IPv6 Deployment
• Cisco Advances Borderless Network Push
• Blue Coat Virtualizes WAN Acceleration

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A new study by Hitwise sees the social networking phenom bypassing the search leader in popularity.

• Looking Back on 25 Years of .Com
• Google Hires XML Co-Creator in Android Push
• Twitter Takes Geo-Location Feature Live
• Awareness Helps Firms Manage Social Networks

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With consumers increasingly used to snappy, responsive Web sites, online sites across all industries face increasing pressure to keep pace with sites like Amazon and Google.

• Google Offers Local Product Availability Search
• Firms Casting a Wide Net for Social Media
• CyberSource, ThreatMetrix Team for ID Security
• Apple's iTunes Hits 10 Billion Download Mark

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The Nielsen Company's latest search numbers show Bing's market share still growing, but is Microsoft finally starting to take a bite out of Google's share of the pie?

• Bing Makes Strides But Momentum Stalls
• Google, Microsoft & Yahoo Tout Real-Time Results
• Ballmer Happy With Bing's Progress
• Google Snaps Up Picnik

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