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Google Chief Defends Android in Court

Google co-founder Larry Page stuck to his guns in a San Francisco court on Wednesday, testifying that the Internet giant did nothing wrong when it built the Android platform for mobile gadgets.

Page returned to the stand to field questions in a trial over accusations by business software titan Oracle that Google opted to infringe on Java program copyright and patents instead of licensing code from Sun Microsystems.

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UK Police Refer 11 Phone-Hacking Suspects to Prosecutors

British police probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's newspapers have given prosecutors files on 11 suspects after an investigation lasting more than a year, the chief prosecutor said Wednesday.

Four journalists, one police officer and six other people feature in the files that are now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges, director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer said.

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Inventions Go On Display at Geneva Fair

A thousand inventions have gone on display at the world's biggest fair for new gadgets, where even the ribbon-cutting was done by a humanoid robot.

Offerings at the fair that opened Wednesday in Geneva included a ball to protect against household electromagnetic waves and a high-tech screen to play simulated golf.

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Yahoo! Dumping Products and Workers in Turn-Around Plan

Yahoo! is dumping products along with workers in a quest to return the faded Internet star to glory.

Yahoo! boss Scott Thompson announced the move on Tuesday while mapping out the company's turnaround on the heels of an unusually upbeat quarter in which profit climbed 28 percent.

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Operator: Tokyo Sky Tree Safe from Quakes

The operator of Tokyo Sky Tree on Tuesday explained how the world's second-highest building will survive the strong earthquakes that regularly shake Japan when it opens to the public next month.

"The Tokyo Sky Tree was constructed with state-of-the-art Japanese technology. It will not fall," said Yoshihito Imamura, deputy manager of Tokyo Sky Tree Town.

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FCC Drops Google 'Street View' Investigation

U.S. government telecom regulators have ended an investigation into Google's "Street View" online mapping service gathering data from private wireless hotspots.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) enforcement bureau on Friday called for Google to pay a $25,000 penalty for stalling the probe but said that it could not accuse the Internet giant of breaking U.S. law.

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Patent Wars Plague Internet Age

The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation.

From the makers of computer chips to creators of smartphones and designers of videogames, rivalries have spread from marketplaces to courtrooms with combatants warring over rights to use technology.

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Concept Artist Turns Loose Change Into Electrochemical Arbitrage

Fascinated by the virtual nature of modern finance and currency swings, the California-based artist decided to meditate on monetary instability by exploring different physical characteristics of competing coins.

The result is the "Electrochemical Currency Exchange Co," an exhibition that opened Thursday and runs through the end of next week under New York's famous Rockefeller Plaza, named for American tycoon John D. Rockefeller.

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Yahoo CEO to Outline his Strategy with 1Q Results

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is expected to elaborate on his turnaround plans when the beleaguered Internet Company releases its first-quarter results.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR: The report, scheduled to be released after the stock market closes Tuesday, is expected to show Yahoo Inc. remains in a malaise that has been hobbling its stock for years.

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Biggest Environment Satellite, Enivast, Goes Silent

The European Space Agency said Thursday it had lost contact with Envisat, the biggest Earth-monitoring satellite in history.

Designed to operate for only five years, Envisat was launched in March 2002, carrying 10 instruments to monitor the planet's oceans, ice, land and atmosphere.

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