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The International Herald Tribune
IHT.com Tech Alert


Paris, Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Shareholders withhold 42 percent of their vote for New York Times Co. board
The vote was a gesture of protest against the company's investment practices and strategies.

EU sets 2nd meeting to press for roaming-fee limits
But participants at the three-hour meeting in Strasbourg said they were still confident of resolving the dispute before summer.

Ex-officers of Apple await suit
The suit over the company's backdating of employee stock options would be the first fruit of separate investigations into Apple's options practices by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department.

Kleiner Perkins opening offices in Shanghai and Beijing
The move, underscoring U.S. venture capitalists' interest in China, marks the first time the technology investment firm has had partners working out of an overseas office.

Yahoo's China unit is ordered to pay music companies for copyright violations
A Beijing court said the Web site must delete links to 229 songs on nonaffiliated sites and pay 210,000 yuan to music companies.

A commercial radio station in Texas, KZPS, is getting rid of the ads
Facing increasing competition from satellite radio and iPods, Clear Channel Communications is trying something radically different at a commercial radio station in Dallas.

Microsoft defends royalties in bid to avoid EU fine
The company filed documents with competition officials in an effort to avoid another multimillion-euro fine in its antitrust battle with the European Commission.

Research In Motion offers applications for non-BlackBerry devices
A non-BlackBerry device would be able to connect with BlackBerry servers for e-mail, calendar, address book and other applications written for the platform by RIM and third-party developers.

Online publishers expand green content
Online publishers are strapping on their Birkenstocks, hoping to attract readership and advertising revenues from companies that are walking the earth-friendly path.

Wikipedia serves as Internet news source on the Virginia Tech shootings
From 2,074 contributors, at last count, the site created a polished, detailed article on the massacre, with more than 140 separate footnotes, as well as sidebars that profiled the shooter.

Wireless: Case of the disappearing bees creates a buzz about cellphones
It was a good story for sure, except that the study in question had nothing to do with mobile phones and was actually investigating the influence of electromagnetic fields, especially those used by cordless phones that work on fixed-line networks, on the learning ability of bees.



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