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• Judge orders Ballmer to testify in Vista suit

  Microsoft's CEO faces a three-hour deposition in next 30 days in a class action lawsuit over the "Vista Capable" logo program.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• MySpace Music to name Courtney Holt chief

  The lengthy CEO search at MySpace Music is finally coming to an end. Now let's see what the new guy can do against Apple.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Q&A: What's ahead for Visual Studio and .Net

  Microsoft's Jason Zander and Matt Carter talk tools and set out the company's manifesto for data democracy.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Adrian Bridgwater)

• The key to innovation: Privately owned fiber?

  A paper released by the New America Foundation proposes encouraging consumers to purchase their own fiber lines.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Facebook exempted from revealing finances for now

  The Securities and Exchange Commission is exempting Facebook from having to make its finances public even though it may soon have more than 500 employees with restricted stock.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• GigaOm drops ad deal with Federated Media for IDG

  Om Malik's tech blog network decides to go with new ad network from tech publisher IDG after three years with Federated Media.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Elinor Mills)

• Palm orders layoffs as Apple and RIM take toll

  The job cuts come as Palm works to get its next-generation operating system ready to compete with Apple, RIM, and the rest of the smartphone market in 2009.

  (Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

• World's largest zeppelin dedicated at NASA facility

  To be called the Eureka, the 246-feet long zeppelin is the pride and joy of a company called Airship Ventures, which will offer the public rides, as well as help NASA do scientific research.

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Report: Huffington Post lands $15 million from VCs

  The site plans to use the proceeds to help fund its expansion, which will include offering local news and investigative journalism.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Intel graphics discontent justified?

  There's a long history of hard feelings about the graphics capabilities of Intel silicon. Some of the criticism is valid--but some of it surely misses the point.

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

• Woman who posed as boy testifies in MySpace case

  Young woman tells federal jury she had posed as a boy in e-mail messages to a 13-year-old girl that ended in the girl's expressing suicidal thoughts and hanging herself.
  (From The New York Times)

• Google crunches numbers on clean-energy policy

  Search giant pressures policy makers with an analysis arguing that government and business can clean the U.S. energy supply while stimulating the economy.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Apple's iPhone 2.2 hits the street

  The latest software update offers several improvements to Google maps as well as wireless downloading for podcasts.
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  (Posted in Apple by Marguerite Reardon)
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