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  Judge keeps RealDVD
  off the market

  update A U.S. district judge has ordered that a temporary restraining order stay in place until she can hear further testimony on what, exactly, the DVD-copying software does.

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  Google launches AdSense for Games

  More than a year after its $23 million purchase of AdScape Media, the search giant finally gets into the crowded in-game advertising field.

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• Yahoo has high hopes for calendar makeover

  The Internet pioneer will revamp its online calendar starting Wednesday. New: subscriptions, sharing, and targeted advertisements for events.

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Verizon officially debuts RIM BlackBerry Storm

  Research In Motion and Verizon Wireless officially announce the first touch-screen BlackBerry, and CNET gets a hands-on look.

  (Posted in Crave by Bonnie Cha)

• Click-to-buy links for songs, games added to YouTube

  YouTube is adding links to Amazon.com and the iTunes Store from the pages of thousands of its videos, making it easier for people to buy an MP3 they hear or a video game that looks good.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Jennifer Guevin)

• Bank savers run at the click of a mouse

  Online banking may spare banks the damage of customers physically flooding branches, but it makes withdrawing money en masse, or silent runs, even easier.
  (From Reuters)

• CEA: Economy down, TV sales up

  Despite widespread financial woes, sales of flat-panel TVs and game hardware should do fine during the holidays, the Consumer Electronics Association says during an industry Webcast.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• No escape from the perfect financial storm

  After this perfect storm, brewed out of years of habit and taken down by mortgages for the masses, consumers and businesses will be far more conservative in their spending habits.

  (Posted in Outside the Lines by Dan Farber)

• Video: Mission to Mercury

  video CNET's Kara Tsuboi talks to a NASA scientist about the tiny planet and what researchers hope to glean from a new batch of info and images.
  • Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury

• Another iPhone bug?

  Security conscious 12-year-old discovers new security hole in iPhone that allows people to see incoming text messages even when the passcode lock is enabled.

  (Posted in Apple by Elinor Mills)

• MIT prof sees no free ride to cleaner cars

  Q&A John Heywood of MIT says policies that encourage consumers to buy "green" are the only way to truly transform the nation's fleet.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Tech stocks tumble for a second straight day

  The Dow Jones industrial average takes another wild ride, marking a second consecutive day it has ended the session below 10,000.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Firefox Geode: Web sites know where you are

  The Internet is international, but increasingly local, too: Mozilla Labs' new Firefox plug-in lets Web sites know where you are.

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Microsoft search results land inside Facebook

  As part of a deal announced in July that resulted from an investment, users can now do Web searches using Microsoft's engine without leaving the social-networking site.

  (Posted in Microsoft by Ina Fried)

• EU directive could change iPhone battery design

  Regulators are considering a directive that would force cell phone makers to offer batteries that are "readily replaceable," which is not the case with Apple's iPhone.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)
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