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AP – Indian authorities are scheduled to meet Monday evening to decide whether to ban some BlackBerry services in India, one day ahead of a government-imposed deadline for the device’s maker Research In Motion Ltd. to give security agencies access to encrypted data.
AP – German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG is selling a unit that makes products for wireless telephones to California’s Intel Corp. in a $1.4 billion cash deal, the companies said Monday.
AFP – A Malaysian rapper is being investigated for sedition, police said Monday, after posting a YouTube video which drew allegations he was stirring up ethnic tensions in the multicultural nation.
AFP – North Korea accused The South Monday of blocking its people from accessing online social-networking sites launched by the secretive communist country.
AFP – China’s IT giant Lenovo has said it will launch a video games console this year to vie with Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s XBox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the booming motion-gaming market.
Appolicious – There was lots of good stuff in the iTunes App Store this week for the iPad. Travel guides, cool games and a great tool for students and academics all make an appearance on the list this week, along with a physics game for your entertainment.
AP – Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Cable Inc. said Sunday that they have made “significant progress” in resolving their issues over programming fees with less than a week left to renew a pact that feeds TV channels like ESPN into American households.
AP – Data storage company 3Par Inc. says its board has determined that Hewlett-Packard Co.’s $2 billion, $30-per-share takeover bid is superior to a rival offer from Dell Inc., but Dell said Saturday it was mulling over a higher bid.
AP – If you’re looking for bargains on personal computers, bad news from the industry could be good for your pocketbook.
Ben Patterson – We’ve already got the Captivate for AT&T, the Epic 4G for Sprint, and the Vibrant for T-Mobile — all three of which come armed with eye-popping 4-inch displays, slim profiles, speedy 1GHz processors, and five-megapixel cameras — and now Samsung’s set to finish its lap of the four big U.S. carriers with the Fascinate, due in the coming weeks for Verizon Wireless.
Ben Patterson – Rumors of imminent bankruptcy have been dogging the financially struggling Blockbuster video rental chain for years, and a recent report claims that Blockbuster will finally file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as early as next month. But while the easy-to-hate Blockbuster may be down, it’s probably not out—and that’s a good thing for us movie-loving consumers.