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Reuters - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will give the Indian government access to encrypted data from September 1, while the Indian home ministry wants BlackBerry, Google and Skype to set up servers in India, a government source familiar with the matter said Monday.

Ben Patterson - Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube.

AP - Intel Corp. is buying the wireless communications unit of Germany's Infineon Technologies AG for $1.4 billion in cash, the second deal in as many weeks that allows the chipmaker to expand beyond the struggling personal computer market.

Reuters - Socialite, celebrity TV and Web site favorite Paris Hilton has been released by Las Vegas police after her arrest for possessing cocaine on Friday night, her lawyer said on Saturday.

We don’t know exactly what to call the online collaboration between Arcade Fire and Google that launched Monday morning, but it sure is neat. If music videos were invented for the web they might have looked something like this: The project uses the web browser itself as an artistic medium, showing off the HTML5’s potential for interaction and multi-paned viewing rather than just using the browser as a frame for a plain, television-style video.

AP - India withdrew a threat Monday to ban BlackBerry services for at least two more months after the device's maker, Research In Motion Ltd., said it would give security agencies greater access to corporate e-mail and instant messaging.

Appolicious - In its September issue, Wired provocatively declares: “The Web is dead.” It was a take off of Time 1966 magazine cover: “Is God dead?”

Appolicious - The screen size of an iPod Touch or iPhone might not measure up to that of iPad, but at least those without an iPad don’t have to have Netflix envy any longer. The streaming movie and DVD rental service has released a version of its popular app that works on iPod Touch and iPhone, too.

Macworld.com - Second Gear has released Today 2.5, an upgrade to its minimalist iCal interface software. Today shows your upcoming events and tasks in a narrow window that conserves screen real estate far better than the monitor-gobbling iCal.

PC World - Foursquare hit the three million user mark over the weekend, less than two months after the location-based service passed the two million users mark in July.

PC World - Australian mobile network operator Telstra has become the first operator to launch a mobile broadband service using HSPA+ at 42M bps (bits per second), it said on Monday.

Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast, has spent the last eight years acquiring 583 calculators of 128 brands made in the 1970s, analyzing the technology and posting it all to his website.

It's that time of year again when kids load their backpacks with rented textbooks, school-sanctioned laptops and iPhones crammed with podcasts of English Lit lectures. When your kid heads back to school, chances are they’ll need a way to get there.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, ushering in a civilian nuclear-power program in the United States.

Acer has long been the go-to bargain laptop. But what happens when the price gets high and performance stays flat?

Mashable - Playing popular strategy game Starcraft 2 using an iPhone or even an iPad sounds like a usability nightmare, but developer Daniel Hellerman is planning to make it happen regardless of the potential issues.

PC Magazine - Google is reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios to launch a pay-per-view streaming movie service on YouTube by year's end.

There may not be quite as many bombs falling from the sky. But everything else about the air war over Afghanistan is way up — from spy flights to resupply missions. But so far, none of it has altered the course of the war.

AP - Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Cable Inc. said Sunday that they have made "significant progress" in resolving their issues over programming fees with less than a week left to renew a pact that feeds TV channels like ESPN into American households.

AFP - Jordan on Sunday approved a temporary law on cyber crimes after amending it to appease the fury of journalists who said the legislation was a means to control local news websites.