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BERLIN: Several European phone companies this week plan to announce major expansions of Internet protocol television, or IPTV, led by Deutsche Telekom, which is spending €3 billion and so far has wired 15 million German households, or roughly 4 in 10, for broadband TV.

The moves will put Europe, which some analysts say already leads the globe in Internet TV, further ahead of the United States and Asia in this field.

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LONDON: NBC Universal said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy a group of international pay television outlets, including 18 versions of the Hallmark channel outside the United States, as it moved to increase its exposure to fast-growing TV markets in Asia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

NBC Universal, which is controlled by General Electric, agreed to buy Sparrowhawk Holdings, which owns the channels, from the private equity firms 3i and Providence Equity Partners, and from David Elstein, a British television executive.

The companies declined to specify a price, though reports in Britain have put it at about £175 million, or $350 million.

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MOSCOW: The owners of the Russian music site AllofMP3.com have announced plans to reopen barely two months after they were forced to close the site amid allegations they were running an illegal online music store.

“The service will be resumed in the foreseeable future,” said a statement on the site Tuesday, inexplicably dated Aug. 31.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. - The millions of acres scorched by wildfires and left susceptible to mudslides could be shored up by spreading inexpensive granules that a lawn care entrepreneur says will keep soil in place when the rainy season arrives. ADVERTISEMENT

U.S. Forest Service scientists have been testing a product that bonds the clay inside soil to form a “net” to help vegetation recover.

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BEIJING - A Chinese government-sponsored online game that allows players to battle corrupt officials and their bikini-clad mistresses has been overwhelmed by user demand, state media reported Tuesday. (Read content ‘Chinese anti-graft game proves popular (AP)’…)

Did Yahoo break U.S. law by supplying confidential information about dissidents that led to their imprisonment and torture by the Chinese government? On Monday, the Internet giant asked a federal judge in Oakland, California to dismiss a lawsuit that claims it did. (Read content ‘Yahoo Seeks Dismissal of Human Rights Lawsuit (NewsFactor)’…)

San Francisco (IDGNS) - The rancorous world of wireless is heating up yet again, with two subsidiaries of Motorola suing Aruba Networks, alleging the wireless LAN company infringed four patents. ADVERTISEMENT

Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications charge that Aruba is knowingly using their patented WLAN switch technologies and techniques for designing and managing WLANs.

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An angry legal battle has broken out after an IBM server worth US$1.5 million was wrecked falling off a fork-lift truck being used to move it. ADVERTISEMENT

T.R. Systems, a U.S. federal contractor, is suing IBM saying the Big Blue failed to package the server properly. IBM says it did.

The accident happened in October, 2006.

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