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  Why baseball benched Microsoft Silverlight

  q&a The head of Major League Baseball's tech unit talks about putting streaming video of games online and why Adobe Flash made this year's stream team.

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  Lunar lessons for moonbuggy makers

  photos NASA's annual Great Moonbuggy Race brings out the creative and competitive sides of aspiring engineers. Can they handle the terrain?

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• Windows 7 will allow downgrades too

  Software maker will let users of certain editions go back to Windows Vista or even Windows XP if they wish. The company says it's expanding Vista downgrade rights program a bit too.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Sun stands by its man

  Speculation has swirled that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz was on the outs following the collapse of merger talks with IBM, but the company has issued a statement of support.
  • Sun shares plummet on reports of IBM withdrawal

  (Posted in Business Tech by Tom Krazit)

• Comcast looks into claims of lost e-mail

  Cable giant, whose free residential e-mail service suffered an outage much of Saturday, says it is tackling an "e-mail counter issue" and addressing claims.

  (Posted in Wireless by Zoë Slocum)

• Is Time Warner finally going to unload AOL?

  It's been one of digital media's foremost will-it-or-won't-it-happen stories. But with a new CEO and Time Warner execs seeking to remove debt from the division, this could actually happen.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google Health expands deal with CVS

  Customers of CVS' pharmacy will now be able to import their prescription records into Google Health.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Ina Fried)

• Amazon finds niche in iTunes-dominant market

  Research firm NPD says Amazon MP3 is gaining popularity among older music buyers. The online retailer is faring better than previous iTunes challengers.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Fusion-io, HP claim extreme solid-state drive speeds

  Fusion-io says it has achieved extremely high data transfer speeds on an HP server packing an array of solid-state drives.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Dell aims to grab more health care dollars

  The hardware maker announced it is partnering with Perot Systems and Sam's Club to be a bigger player in the digitization of medical records.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• FCC to begin broadband policy overhaul

  The agency will begin hearings Wednesday to detail a road map for improving U.S. broadband access using federal stimulus money and future taxpayer dollars.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Skype's temporary iPhone vanishing act

  Now you see Skype for iPhone, now you don't. Company says the app was down for a few hours, but the issue is being fixed.

  (Posted in Wireless by Jessica Dolcourt)

• Yahoo Music opening pages to YouTube, others

  On Tuesday, Yahoo plans to launch a revamped version of its Artist Pages that can incorporate content from iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, and others.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Stephen Shankland)

• Microsoft puts finger on better gestures

  At a conference this week, Microsoft is showcasing what might make for more natural multitouch gestures.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• YouTube in talks with Sony for feature films

  The Google video site continues to pursue full-length content from major motion-picture studios and TV networks. Sony Pictures' Crackle wants a big audience.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)
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