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  With Cliq, Motorola sounds off on Android

  For all the features it packs, the Cliq isn't so different from other smartphones. Will its Motoblur service click with the social network set?
  • Minute by minute with Motorola
  • Video: Motoblur and Cliq debut
  • Photos: the Motorola Cliq

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  Facebook Lite is here. Verdict: Better

  New slimmed-down social site is faster, easier, stronger, cleaner. Among other things, it pushes those noisy old-school Facebook applications off a cliff.
  • Facebook 'status tagging' live
  • Facebook open-sources real-time FriendFeed facet

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• Japan launches new cargo craft to space station

  Successful launch of new unmanned cargo craft on space station resupply mission Thursday is major milestone for the international program as shuttle retirement looms.
  • ATK successfully test fires Ares 1 booster

  (Posted in The Space Shot by William Harwood)

• Snow Leopard update fixes Adobe Flash issue

  The first update for Apple's new operating system, a relatively minor one, includes a new version of Adobe's Flash Player plug-in and some compatibility improvements.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Ning officially launches apps platform

  Build-your-own-social-network service makes public a platform that lets users embed more than 90 apps and widgets for things like donation collections or ticket sales.

  (Posted in Webware by Michelle Meyers)

• Yahoo Mail picks up Dropio for big attachments

  Social-storage service Dropio has used its open API to deliver a default application for Yahoo Mail users who want to attach up to 100MB to an e-mail message.

  (Posted in Webware by Don Reisinger)

• Lithium: An energy source in the desert

  As Americans look for greener energy, demand for lightweight metal for batteries is about to soar.

  (Posted in Wireless by CBS Interactive staff)

• Google offers rivals a place in e-books program

  The search giant offers competitors an ability to resell e-books that Google alone could get rights to. But Amazon spurns the offer.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Rhapsody approved for iPhone

  If you live in the United States and want all-you-can-play subscription music for your iPhone, you now have a solution from an industry pioneer.

  (Posted in Digital Noise: Music and Tech by Matt Rosoff)

• Phones at Burning Man: Can you hear me now?

  Organizers and participants bemoan the arrival of cell phones into their desert utopia, but others say the mobile communication can be helpful and discreet.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• World's smallest neurostimulator gets green light

  The Brio, which treats the symptoms of Parkinson's, gets European approval and is implanted in a 67-year-old man, though it is yet to be approved for use in the U.S.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)

• Top boxer threatens Facebook over hate groups

  WBA World light-welterweight champion Amir Khan says the social-networking company has failed to remove "racist" hate speech against him on the site.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Google's green efforts increasingly homegrown

  A dearth of investment opportunities has pushed the company to develop its own solar-electricity technology, its green-energy chief explains.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Candace Lombardi)

• Dell service to help hospitals with digital records

  The new offering--a combination of hardware, software, and support--is aimed at helping medical professionals move to and share electronic medical records.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Lance Whitney)

• Google planning micropayments for newspapers

  Is it an olive branch for the beleaguered (and Google-bashing) publishing industry, a move to encroach upon Facebook's turf in the micropayment wars, or a bit of both?
  • Recurring problems with Google Checkout

  (Posted in Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy)
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