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• Psystar Hoped to Sell 12 Million Mac Clones Annually The unauthorized maker of OS X computers that Apple is trying to put out of business shared fantastic sales projections with potential investors.
• Steve Jobs Snubs Fan Hero worship gets a bad rap when the head of Apple brushes off the co-owner of a Mac shareware company.
• European Parliament Adopts Telecom Laws After Bitter Debate UPDATE: After two years of often bitter debate, the European Parliament approved a raft of new telecom laws Tuesday.
• The Justin Bieber Example: Use Twitter or Incite a Riot and Get Arrested A record exec is being called out for not using communications technology that allegedly would have calmed a crowd.
• AT&T's Verizon 'Map' Suit a Risky Necessity, Lawyer Says The false-advertising claim is a "gamble worth taking," says an intellectual property attorney watching the case.
• Teen Jailed for Hacking Scientology Site A New Jersey man was sentenced to a year in prison plus $37,500 fine for his role in a DDoS attack last year.
• Happiness on Facebook Cuts Canadian Woman's Health Care An IBM employee claims her medical leave was cut short based on the insurance company's assessment of her Facebook activities.
• Apple vs. Psystar: What's Left to Fight Over A judge agrees with Apple that the clone-maker violated its copyright, but the case isn't closed.
• Apple Deals Another Blow to Psystar Timeline of the longstanding battle between the clone-maker and the Mac-maker.
• Google, Plaintiffs Submit Revised Book Search Settlement Google, authors and publishers submitted a revised book search settlement late Friday.
• AT&T: Ignore Verizon's Ads and Fix Your Own Woes Analysis: Is Verizon pushing the envelope of truthiness with its holiday ads? Sure -- but AT&T should worry more about its own abysmal coverage, not the competition's commercials.
• World Tech Update: CES Preview in NYC, Hacked iPhones, and More... Intel and AMD settle their legal disputes, New York hosts the annual CES preview, iPhones are hacked, and more...
• AMD Settlement Frees Intel to Address Bigger Threats Intel needs to prop up AMD, but it also has to focus on its real long-term threat, ARM.
• Google, Plaintiffs Blow Book Search Settlement Deadline UPDATE: Judge grants Google, Authors Guild, and publishers more time to revise their Book Search lawsuit settlement deal.
• Finding Your Photos Online Worried about photo theft? See if your photos are posted on the Web.
• A Smartphone Owner's Bill of Rights In a wireless market featuring high prices, limited competition, and sparse regulation, it's time consumers got some protection.
• Verizon Answers AT&T Lawsuit with New Droid Ad AT&T charges that the maps Verizon publishes could confuse consumers into thinking the white spaces on the map represent areas where AT&T lacks coverage.
• BlueBeat Ignores EMI, Still Sells Beatles Catalog Online EMI Group on Tuesday filed a copyright violation suit against an online music site selling MP3s of Beatles albums and individual tracks.
• Barnes & Noble Sued over E-Reader Spring Design claims that the similarity between its Alex e-reader and Barnes & Noble's Nook is too close for comfort — and too close to be legal.
• Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a Break A survey suggests music labels should relax, while a new P2P project self-polices users.
• Ex- CEO Charged in Denial of Service Attack A federal grand jury indicts the former CEO of YouSendIt of trying to sabotage his former company.
• Fat Facebook Fine Won't Ward Off Spam, Analysts Say Analysts expect that this week's federal court decision to fine a spammer $711 million for attacking Facebook will prompt cybercriminals to develop more...
• Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web? ICANN approved new international domain names, but how will this change the Internet and the Web?
• Facebook Dethrones Spam King Facebook wins a $711 million lawsuit against chronic spammer Sanford Wallace.
• Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice, Judge Rules Only the ISP must be served with a search warrant to let law enforcement search your virtual mailbox, a federal judge says.