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Palm has issued sales projections that are much worse than expected — even though expectations were already low — sending its shares plummeting by 27 percent and prompting discussions about whether the company has any future at all. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, Palm’s total revenue on a GAAP basis was $349.9 million. Though it was a 286 percent increase from the same quarter the previous year, analysts were not impressed. When the year-ago figures were reported, Palm had not yet shipped its Pre — the device expected to save the company.

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Palm Beats Itself to a Pulp

Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google’s YouTube took a nasty turn Thursday as a series of documents were released to the public. “Fostering and countenancing piracy were central to YouTube’s economic business model,” Viacom’s filings charge. Viacom “overtly and covertly uploaded to YouTube a vast array of their own video clips for marketing purposes,” Google wrote. While Viacom now portrays YouTube as a pirate site, it thought highly enough of it to try to buy it before it was acquired by Google, the filings claim.

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Viacom v. YouTube: Finger-Pointing Turns to Mud-Slinging

The Nexus One smartphone is now compatible with AT&T’s 3G network in the United States. Though the unlocked device can be used with SIM cards from most GSM operators worldwide, frequency differences meant its 3G compatibility was previously limited to T-Mobile’s network in the U.S. The Android-based device also now runs on Rogers Wireless’ 3G network in Canada. News of the expanded compatibility will certainly provide additional options for users of the well-hyped smartphone and help level out the playing field with Apple’s iPhone, which also runs on AT&T.

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AT&T 3G May Not Be Enough to Save Nexus One

It now appears almost certain that Google and the Chinese government will not reach an accord over Internet censorship policies and that Google will begin pulling out of the country in the near future. Among the increasing number of signs pointing in that direction are warnings the Chinese government gave to Google’s Web partners that they must comply with Chinese law, even if Google does not. Also, Google reportedly has drawn up detailed plans to shut down its search engine operations there, with an insider saying it is “99.99 percent” certain it will pull out.

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Google Poised to Make Good on Its China Threat

The Federal Communications Commission is set to deliver a much-anticipated report to the U.S. Congress on Thursday. Among other things, “The National Broadband Plan” proposes to have an additional 100 million households connected to high-speed Internet service within the next 10 years. An Executive Summary of the plan released Monday points to a series of goals the FCC is setting for itself, for legislators, and for the executive branch of government. Some are measurable, like making an additional 500 MHz of airwave spectrum available for licensed and unlicensed use.

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FCC Begins Long Climb Toward Broadband for All