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Gateway Uses Woodcrest in New Servers (PC World)
PC World - Three midrange servers featuring the new chip will be shown at Intel Developer Forum.

IBM recalls 526,000 Sony laptop batteries (AP)
AP - IBM Corp. is recalling 526,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp., the latest in a series of problems with Sony batteries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.

Apple, mobile firms agree UK deal on music royalties (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple's iTunes and European mobile operators including Vodafone on Thursday agreed on royalty rates to pay song writers and music publishers for digital downloads in Britain to partly resolve a dispute.

Lawmakers urge House vote to ban pretexting (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday demanded Republican leaders allow a floor vote on legislation that would ban the use of deceptive means to obtain private telephone records.

PayPal in settlement deal with 28 states (Reuters)
Reuters - EBay Inc.'s online payments unit, PayPal, has signed an agreement with attorneys general from 28 U.S. states to clarify how it notifies consumers of the measures it takes to protect their financial data, the company said on Thursday.

Q & A with Woz
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, talks to Reuters about his new book, iWoz , which was published this week:

Wozniak tells his side of the story
Meet Steve Wozniak, "the other Steve" in the duo behind Apple Computer, the self-effacing engineer to Steve Jobs' brash marketing whiz.

Cha-Ching targets personal finance with ease-of-use (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Macintosh software developer Juan Alvarez set out on a mission a couple of months ago to develop a software application that would take the headache out of personal finance. The result is Cha-Ching, a distinctly Mac OS X application Alvarez said is designed to make things simple.

LG Philips unveils "world's thinnest" mobile phone display panel (AFP)

AFP - South Korea's LG Philips LCD unveiled what it claims to be the world's thinnest liquid crystal display (LCD) for use in mobile phones.

US judge rules against Morpheus file-sharing (Reuters)
Reuters - In a victory for the entertainment industry, a federal judge has ruled that the Morpheus file-sharing software encourages millions of users to share music, movies and other works without authorization.

Lenovo, IBM to recall 526,000 notebook batteries (Reuters)

Reuters - Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK) and International Business Machines Corp. are recalling about 526,000 Sony Corp. (6758.T) batteries made for ThinkPad notebook PCs after a computer caught fire at Los Angeles International Airport, Lenovo and U.S. safety officials said on Thursday.