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Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle
Palm is trying to revive itself as business users have embraced the BlackBerry and consumers have fell in love with the iPhone.


Advertising: A Small Empire Built on Cuddly and Fuzzy Branches Out From the Web
Given all the nastiness on the Internet — blog trolls, flame wars, vicious gossip, pornography, snark and spam — what better antidote is there than looking at pictures of cute animals?


EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model
The move is just one of the changes eBay has made in the last few months aimed at reducing its dependence on its auction business, which is growing more slowly than fixed-price sales.


Hewlett’s Printing Business Struggles
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest technology company, continues to roll along financially — except in one traditional core business — its printing business.


Bits: Lighting the Big Apple with L.E.D.'s
New York City has contracted with the Office for Visual Interaction, a lighting design group, to install and test L.E.D. street lighting.


Bits: I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services
I.B.M. is spending $300 million to build 13 data centers around the world, dedicated to helping corporate customers keep their businesses up and running despite calamity.


Bits: Four Reasons Our Printers Are Getting Dusty
Consumer printer sales are flat. Are home printers just not as necessary any more?


Verizon’s FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake?
As Verizon begins to roll out FiOS in its hometown, New York, the company argues that the service is proving to be more successful than it promised when it started the project.


Bits: Gartner Tech Forecast: Cloudy and Getting Cloudier
In its latest report on information technology spending, Gartner projects a massive switch by companies to cloud computing.


Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site
The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks.


Dot Earth: Google to Invest in Geothermal
Google.org, the public-spirited division of Google.com, is using the backdrop of the National Clean Energy Summit to announce a new round of clean energy financing.


Game Maker Retracts Bid for a Rival
Electronic Arts said that it has withdrawn its $2 billion tender offer to purchase its smaller rival, ending a six-month-long hostile takeover bid.


Bits: Reading a Tea Leaf in the Take-Two Saga
Electronic Arts has hired Joele Frank, a specialist in public relations for mergers and acquisitions. But it’s unclear what her hiring means for the prospects of a deal between EA and Take-Two Interactive.


Bits: Has the iPhone 3G Been Fixed?
Several hours ago, Apple shipped its second software update for the new iPhone 3G. Software version 2.02 “fixes bugs,” according to the documentation accompanying the software patch.


Old Sewer Mapping System Undergoes a Welcome Update
City workers and contractors have digitized the antiquated maps of the city’s water mains and sewers.