New copy-protection technology added to Apple’s new MacBooks was incorrectly preventing standard-definition iTunes movies from playing on older projectors.

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The company’s shared search service now can provide some subject-specific results to some partners. Later it’ll be publicly available.

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Corn ethanol firms speak merger, clean-tech researcher predicts a shift to quality in investments, and Calgary researchers develop a CO2 “air scrubber.”

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The software giant’s new Webmaster malware detection tools aim to find malware on indexed sites and alert users before they click on a link.

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Warner Music Group has rediscovered the value in music discovery, and its business is thriving as a result. It’s highly reminiscent of how open-source software works.

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Faced with a 20 percent revenue drop and mounting losses, Lycos Europe plans to shut down a large portion of its business and seek a buyer for other parts.

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In two months, Google’s Chrome rose from nothing to 3.6 percent of browsers used to view CNET News. It’s less common in the mainstream though.

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Spam message on Orkut is disguised as an official e-mail from the social-networking site, but the links in the message lead to Trojans, Websense states.

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A story tip leads us on a chase for answers about the intersection of Yahoo Messenger 9.0 with Yahoo Open Strategy.

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Spamhaus.org says it’s been telling Microsoft its sites are rife with spam, but nothing has been done and Redmond is now ranked No. 5 on the list of Top 10 worst spam service ISPs.

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