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The International Herald Tribune
IHT.com Tech Alert


Paris, Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Rowling wins lawsuit against Potter lexicon
For seven years, a "Harry Potter" fanatic worked on a guidebook to J.K. Rowling's best-selling series, but in the end, his book was too close to the work he admired.

Google to digitize newspaper archives
Google is scanning microfilm from newspaper archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers' own Web sites.
- Google to team with NBC to expand in TV advertising

Nokia turns attention to Internet
Nokia bought Navteq, a U.S. digital maps firm, for $8.1 billion in July and has acquired 10 smaller firms to jump start its Internet services business as the growth in the cellphones market is set to stall.
- Nokia's Ovi is growing with the times

Apple's CEO jokes about his health
Steve Jobs, a cancer survivor, also introduced updates versions of the company's popular music players.

Citi's sports marketing strategy looks to future
Instead of only sponsoring the biggest names in sports, Citigroup is choosing to help rookies and amateurs, who may — or may not — be right on the cusp of hitting it big.

MySpace China says its chief will resign
The departure of Luo Chan is a setback for News Corp., which had licensed the MySpace brand name in China in an effort to expand its media and Internet presence.

Electronic newspaper reader has look of the real thing
A new lightweight screen from Plastic Logic mimics the look - but not the feel - of a printed newspaper.

At VMware, a firing is still reverberating
In the wake of Diane Greene's departure, three other key executives have left, and competitors are readying fresh assaults on VMWare's dominant position in the visualization software market.

Web ushers in age of ambient intimacy
The effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of incessant online contact.

Fox Searchlight wins rights to 'wrestler' film
Fox Searchlight beat out competitors for distribution rights to the film, which stars Mickey Rourke as a retired wrestler looking to make a comeback.

Drawing a bead on the press
Governor Sarah Palin probably had no idea of the media onslaught that was about to hit her. By the time she was done speaking on Wednesday, it was clear the reverse was true as well.



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