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As RIM struggles, talk of a change at top surfaces

TORONTO (Reuters) - The two men who made BlackBerry a household name may not have the luxury of time to fix Research In Motion's flagging fortunes. More »As RIM struggles, talk of a change at top surfaces

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  • Sony is once again dealing with an online security breach after the company said Wednesday that 2,000 customers of its Sony Ericsson venture in Canada may have had their information taken.

  • No internet in 1/5 Canadian homes CBC - Wed, 25 May, 2011

    About a fifth of Canadian households still had no internet access in 2010, including nearly half the households with annual incomes of $30,000 or less.

  • Blind people who navigate using clicks and echoes, like bats and dolphins do, recruit the part of the brain used by sighted people to see, a new study has found.

  • A drug that seems to dampen bad memories, while leaving other memories intact, may one day be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • Homeowners who hire companies advertising ecologically safe lawn care should be sure they're getting what they ask for, a Winnipeg woman learns the hard way.

  • Eight articles questioning a controversial study that claimed some bacteria can use arsenic to build DNA have been published in the journal Science.

  • Students from Laurentian University have won NASA's Lunabotics competition, beating out rivals from 40 other universities around the world.

  • A employee is seen at the Ushi Office in Shanghai

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - In a country where being connected is seen as crucial, Ushi, China's answer to LinkedIn, expects explosive growth over the next few years in the world's largest Internet market.

  • Peregrine falcons are nesting in open pit mines and an abandoned ore plant near Sudbury, Ont.

  • TAIPEI, Taiwan - Computer manufacturers of all sizes and descriptions have been pushing to get a piece of the ever-expanding tablet market created by the launch of Apple's iPad in April 2010.

  • TAIPEI (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM Holdings Plc, which licenses its chip technology to other makers, will take any plan by Intel Corp to make chips for rivals "very seriously," a top executive said on Monday.

  • Three men aged between 25 and 30 were arrested and charged with organised counterfeiting

    Police have closed down one of France's most popular websites for downloading pirated content and arrested three men who ran it, an officer said Saturday.

  • Internet technology will blend with coveted vintages next week with an online charity wine auction

    Internet technology will blend with coveted vintages next week to open a premier Napa Valley wine country charity auction to the world.

  • Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo

    US President Barack Obama named Twitter's chief and a high-ranking Microsoft executive among a handful of technology veterans to be appointed as telecommunications security advisors.

  • FCC asks AT&T; about spectrum claims Reuters - Fri, 27 May, 2011
    Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal telecommunications regulators have asked AT&T; Inc for more information on its planned merger with T-Mobile USA, including claims on spectrum shortages, coverage overlaps and plans to close facilities.

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