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Feb 11 2009 5:40pm EDT

Last Bytes: Google, Palm, Netbooks, iTunes

Google will pay authors and publishers $60 per scanned online book under terms of the $125 million settlement it reached with the Authors Guild. [Techcrunch]

Palm's new bet-the-company operating system, web OS, is intended as a replacement for, not an alternative to, its embarrassingly antiquated Palm OS. [AllThingsD]

As the PC market continues to implode, those tiny netbooks could be a blessing or a curse. Companies like Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia reported double-digit revenue declines in recent weeks. And yet Intel's Atom processor, which slots into netbooks, is doing rather well. [Bits]

Do you wish you could stream movies from iTunes straight from your iPhone? Rumor has it you'll be able to with iTunes 8. [Ars Technica]

By Joan R. Magee


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