A week-old ban preventing IBM from getting federal contracts is rescinded. The company has to drop a protest against a lost EPA contract to get the deal.

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If you get nostalgic for your commute during the dull weekend hours, here’s a little gadget to stave off withdrawal. There’s something oddly exhilarating about driving through an empty city with googleDrive (not to be confused with gDrive or gDrive). It’s just a little toy that lets you control a car speeding through the Google [...]

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Rumors have been floating that eBay is about to sell its VoIP division, Skype, to Google. But the deal doesn’t make sense to Silicon Valley insiders.

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Apple has updated Aperture, the company’s professional image workflow software, to include a new plugin architecture for outside developers looking to add functionality.
For the launch Apple has created a new Dodge & Burn plugin, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten), burn (darken), contrast, saturation, sharpen and blur. But the real potential for the plugin [...]

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The apple logo for a New York environmental-awareness campaign provokes the ire of Apple, which says it infringes on the iPod maker’s trademarks.

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