Iran's space agency is trying to snap up technology from abroad as fast as possible for its satellite program, fearing the West will seek to impose restrictions like those put on the Iranian nuclear program.

Iran has major ambitions in space, looking to show off its technological abilities, monitor its neighborhood � where the United States has hundreds of thousands of troops � and establish itself as a regional superpower.

Iran Plans to Boost Space Program

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The Supreme Court accepted an appeal by eBay Inc. in a closely watched patent case on Monday and agreed to revisit the rules under which courts grant injunctions against a company found to be infringing another's patent.

A federal court jury in Norfolk, Va., found in 2003 that eBay, the online auction house, was violating three patents owned by MercExchange, a small company in Great Falls, Va. The jury assessed more than $25 million in damages.

But Judge Jerome B. Friedman of Federal Disrict Court, noting that MercExchange "exists solely to license its patents or sue to enforce its patents, and not to develop or commercialize them," refused to issue an injunction that would have barred eBay from continuing to use the patented methods in its Web operations.

Justices Agree to Consider EBay Appeal in Patent Case

Despite more than a decade's worth of research showing that taking too much of a popular pain reliever can ruin the liver, the number of severe, unintentional poisonings from the drug is on the rise, a new study reports. The drug, acetaminophen, is best known under the brand name Tylenol. But many consumers don't realize that it is also found in widely varying doses in several hundred common cold remedies and combination pain relievers.

Poisonings From a Popular Pain Reliever Are on the Rise

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Mr. Denson, who works for Verizon Communications, and Mr. York, his counterpart at AT&T, are playing starring roles in their companies' risky forays into the TV business. In the latest twist in an accelerating technological free-for-all, the Baby Bells are trying to shore up their flagging fortunes by muscling their way into what was until just a decade ago the bailiwick of cable companies. Rarely competitors in the past, cable operators and telephone companies are now scrambling to be the one-stop shop that will gladly accept your monthly payments to watch television, use the phone and have high-speed Internet access.

aka data, data and data.

Apparently ATT (SBC) is rolling out Microsoft's IPTV platform. Ick. Apparently in early trials, they needed a server per every 10 users for channel changing to be sufficiently responsive.

And this is a case where you control the whole network and can provision bandwidth so IP multicast could actually work...

Calling Out the Cable Guy

"What fresh hell is this?"

According to literary legend, that's the way Dorothy Parker used to greet phone callers, and while I haven't dialed up any music biz execs lately, I wouldn't be at all surprised by a similar greeting if I did.

Music Biz Blues

But few people used it, and the CueCat became the target of almost universal derision.

Now it's back -- in German mobile phones.

The German branch of Coca-Cola is promoting its CokeFridge portal by encouraging readers of teen magazines Yam!, Starflash and M�edchen, to take pictures of a special logo with their camera phones.

The CueCat Is Back

A private space firm with orbital aspirations has revamped its plans for a crew-carrying spacecraft.

Poway, California-based aerospace firm SpaceDev has a new design for its Dream Chaser vehicle and hopes to offer suborbital rides within two years, with orbital flights to follow.

Private Spacecraft Developer Settles on New Design

But Crotty said the big winner in the video game wars is IBM, since its microprocessors power all three of the new consoles from the industry's heavy hitters.

Little wonder IBM wasn't about to bend over backwards to keep Apple on board...

Microsoft loses money on each Xbox; IBM chip key