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Judge Slashes $1 bn Samsung-Apple Penalty in Half

A judge on Friday cut $450 million from a $1 billion award to be paid by Samsung in a landmark patent lawsuit from Apple, saying a jury had wrongly calculated the damages.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh affirmed the remainder of the award, amounting to $598.9 million, in the patent infringement case, while denying Apple's request for a bigger penalty.

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Video Games Zap Their Way into Top New York Museum

Pac-Man and other legends from the video game world became the latest and perhaps most unlikely additions to the Museum of Modern Art's illustrious collections in New York on Friday.

Fourteen games were displayed in the elegant contemporary design gallery on the third floor as part of a wider exhibition called "Applied Design," which celebrates trends in contemporary design.

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U.S. Film, Music Industries Roll out Anti-Piracy Program

A new "copyright alert" system has begun rolling out this week in the United States in an effort to curb online piracy.

The system, informally known as "six strikes," is a voluntary effort of the music and film industries, with the largest Internet service providers participating.

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Companies Struggle to Popularize Mobile Money

Mobile money may seem like a hot concept, but consumers aren't warming to it.

At the world's largest cellphone trade show, in Barcelona this week, the 70,000 attendees are encouraged to use their cellphones —instead their keycards— to get past the turnstiles at the door. But very few people took the chance to do that. The process of setting up the phone to act as a keycard proved too much of a hassle.

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Kim Dotcom Suffers Legal Setback

A New Zealand court on Friday overturned an order that U.S. authorities must disclose all of the evidence they have against Kim Dotcom if they want to extradite him for alleged online piracy.

A court made the ruling last year after Dotcom's legal team argued they could not effectively fight the extradition battle without full disclosure of evidence held on the founder of the now-defunct Megaupload file-sharing website.

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U.N.: Mobile Phones to Match Globe's Population in 2014

The number of mobile telephones worldwide is set to catch up to the globe's population next year, the United Nations' telecommunications agency said Thursday.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said mobile subscriber numbers looked set to top seven billion in 2014.

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The Next Big Smartphone Accessory: Your Car

Automobile giants at the world's biggest mobile fair are showing off a new technology that turns a car into a smartphone accessory, allowing a driver to use cutting-edge apps without veering off the road.

Called MirrorLink, and adopted by 85 big manufacturers from Ford to General Motors, Chrysler, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, VW, Fiat or Renault, it connects a smartphone and car entertainment system with a two-way audio, video and data link.

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Smart 'Stickers' Let you Find Things by Phone

Jimmy Buchheim is behaving oddly.

On the floor of the world's largest cellphone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, he's looking at the screen of his iPod Touch, taking a few steps, and then looking again. Now and then he backtracks or turns, and looks again. Slowly, he confines his movements to a smaller and smaller area. Then he drops to his knees, and checks the screen again. He scrabbles forward.

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Smart Watches Gain Interest and Popularity

On a sunny day at a picnic table in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky glanced down at his wristwatch. He wasn't checking the time, he was checking his email. Glancing up, he grinned. The message was from yet another journalist.

In this corner of a world obsessed with the latest tech gadget, Migicovsky is this week's hotshot as his start-up company rolls out its new, high-tech Pebble smart watches. The $150, postage stamp-sized computer on a band is tethered wirelessly to a wearer's Android or iPhone.

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Japan Court Rejects Samsung Claim against Apple

A Japanese court Thursday rejected a claim by Samsung that Apple stole its technology, in the latest round of a global legal battle between the smartphone giants over patents.

The Tokyo District Court ruled that Samsung has no rights over data transmission technology used in some of Apple's iPhone smartphones, said a spokesman for Samsung's Tokyo office.

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