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Apple has been particularly aggressive in setting standards and showing leadership with the iPhone and new MacBooks. They’ve removed FireWire from the MacBook, to many people’s alarm, moved to DisplayPort video technology, and, on the iPhone side, completely disrupted an industry that was asleep at the wheel. And yet when it comes to the digital living room, Apple has shown very little leadership. From time to time, we’ve heard rumors about all kinds of neat ideas for Apple to seize the initiative in casual home theater.

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Apple TV’s Unrealized Potential

Nearly 10 months after making an aggressive move to acquire struggling Internet portal Yahoo, Microsoft no longer has any interest in buying the company. At the software giant’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft is “done with all acquisition discussions” with Yahoo. Ballmer did, however, say the maker of the ubiquitous Windows operating system is open to a partnership of some kind around the two companies’ search businesses: Windows Live Search and Yahoo Search.

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Yang’s Exit Not Likely to Soften Microsoft’s Anti-Acquisition Stance

In a move that could threaten the livelihoods of security software makers Symantec and McAfee, Microsoft has announced it will offer free antivirus software some time in the second half of 2009. The free software, codenamed “Morro,” will replace Microsoft’s current security offering, Windows Live OneCare, a suite of services that costs consumers about $50 per year. Morro will be designed to protect PCs against viruses, malware and spyware.

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Microsoft’s Morro Could Mean No Tomorrow for Symantec, McAfee

HP shares soared 14 percent Tuesday, leading a tech sector rally, after the No. 1 PC maker announced better-than-expected earnings six days early. However, technology analysts warned that the industry still might be slipping into its worst downturn since the dot-com bust of 2001. “Things are tough out there,” says equity analyst Brent Bracelin at Pacific Crest Securities. Cisco, Intel and Sun are among big tech suppliers who have trimmed revenue and earnings projections in anticipation of major cuts in corporate spending on tech infrastructure.

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Tech Firms and the Economic Storm: Nowhere to Hide

If Dreamworks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is right, you’ll soon be out shopping for the latest in designer glasses. 3-D glasses that is. Hollywood studios such as Dreamworks, Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox are betting 3-D will finally become the next big thing in film, luring moviegoers to the theater with advancements in a technology that first caught viewers’ attention in the 1950s. “In five to seven years, all movies will be made in 3-D,” Katzenberg said Wednesday at the start of an inaugural four-day 3-D festival in Singapore.

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The New Dawn of the 3-D Film Era