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Iowa chosen for next Microsoft data center
Software maker will build its fourth U.S. data center in West Des Moines, which is also the hometown of Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson.

Turn nabs $15 million for search-like ad tech
Amid a hot market for ad technologies, the Palo Alto-based company aims to make display ads more measurable and effective.

Rumored iTunes subscription would be a bargain
According to a tip received by MacDailyNews, Apple's considering an iTunes all-you-can-eat subscription for $129.99 a year--that's cheaper than all other subscription services, and would cement iTunes' absolute dominance.

Will 'Spore' be the greatest game of all time?
We won't know for sure until we can get our hands on the game, but what's your guess? Will it live up to all the hype?

Salesforce.com shares drop on outlook
Shares fall more than $9, or 15 percent, by midday, as analyst expresses concerns about the software-as-a-service company's future revenue.

Survey links CEO approval to stock performance
I tracked the stock performance of companies whose CEOs had the highest approval ratings versus those with the lowest. Guess what I found?

Xbox and Rock the Vote partner to get gamers to the polls
The youth voting group will be promoting its cause on Xbox Live, and Microsoft will be taking the Xbox mission to the major parties' conventions.

Palm Treo Pro: Not digging it
<p>Featured links from the CNET Blog Network</p> <p> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13641_3-10021884-44.html?tag=bnpr">Palm Treo Pro: Not digging it</a>--Underwhelming. That's the word that comes to mind when Adam Richardson looks at the new Palm Treo Pro.</p> <p> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10021182-71.html?tag=bnpr">EA hires engineer who had brain rewired and became an artist</a>--A stroke turned an engineer's life of suffering into a new career in digital art to which <i>Spore</i> players will be privy.</p> <p> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10021569-42.html?tag=bnpr">Swiss secret sauce to power green choppers</a>--Swiss helicopter uses hydrogen peroxide as environmentally friendly fuel.</p> <p> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10020945-27.html?tag=bnpr">Microsoft Surface could be a great jukebox</a>--Matt Rosoff saw Microsoft's Surface touch table "in the wild" for the first time, and after playing with a music application built for Sheraton, thinks it could make a great jukebox.</p>

Q&A: Red Hat's JBoss business hits overdrive
Red Hat's JBoss business spent two years in the doldrums but recently began growing at twice the rate of Red Hat's operating system business.

Photosynthing the nation's capital
CNET News' Ina Fried tries out Microsoft's photo-stitching tool on a couple of D.C. landmarks with mixed results.

Is Generation Y going deaf?
With in-ear headphones cranked to "11," members of the younger generation are doing irreparable harm to their hearing. Maybe they don't even know.

Facebook's 'Engagement Ads' tests the waters
In order to combat disappointing click-through rates, Facebook is encouraging its members to interact with advertisements more and even share them with their friends.

Judge: Copyright owners must consider 'fair use'
Federal judge refuses to throw out a suit involving a YouTube video of a baby dancing to a Prince song, over which Universal Music allegedly abused the DMCA in a takedown notice.

Photobucket, Scrapblog form crafty partnership
News Corp.'s photo-sharing site has signed a deal with the Florida-based start-up to make its scrapbook-creating application available within Photobucket.

Facebook developers to factor in age, location
For legal and licensing reasons--think liquor and game companies--the social network's API now enables developers to restrict access to applications by these parameters.

Swiss secret sauce to power green choppers
Swiss helicopter uses hydrogen peroxide as environmentally friendly fuel.

Green news harvest: Fuel-cell gadget charger, liquor-powered iPod
Shai Agassi's Project Better Place sees the future in electric cars; shareholder resolutions related to climate change grow; Masdar opens solar plant in Germany; Coskata goes through the ringer; John McCain casts doubt on clean tech.

Will Wright on the origins of 'Spore'
The legendary game designer talks about the evolution of his new evolution game and how to "make the creation process fun."

Widget makers get a makeover
For makers of widgets--modest little pieces of software that let people do things like play games, annotate photos, or send "pokes" to each other on Facebook or MySpace--it seems the buzz has turned to a worrisome hush.

Microsoft taps Seinfeld for ad campaign
According to The Wall Street Journal, comedian Jerry Seinfeld will appear with Bill Gates in part of a $300 million marketing project stressing connections and ideas.

Apple sued over iPhone 3G reception issues
Alabama woman seeks class action status in lawsuit that charges Apple's iPhone 3G network is slower than advertised.
 
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