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Microsoft says Google acts raise antitrust issues SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc <GOOG.O> on Friday, calling its Internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. The broadside comes days after a Microsoft-owned business, along with two other small online companies, complained to European Union regulators about Google's operations there. Microsoft is also fighting a plan by Google to digitize millions of books, currently under scrutiny by the Department of Justice. Military allows Twitter, other social media WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called "Web 2.0" sites across the U.S. military, saying the benefits of social media outweighed security concerns. The decision, which comes at a time of growing concern over cyber-security, applies only to the military's non-classified network. EU privacy body wants changes to Google Street View BRUSSELS - EU data protection authorities have urged Internet search giant Google <GOOG.O> to shorten the period it stores images from its controversial Street View Web service because of privacy concerns. Launched in San Francisco in 2007, Street View allows users to navigate around a 360-degree view of city streets, buildings, traffic and people, using pictures taken by Google's camera vehicles. Cute baby video wins battle against music label LOS ANGELES - How much should a copyright owner pay for improperly telling a website to remove content? Stephanie Lenz got into trouble with Universal Music Group in 2007 after she posted a YouTube video of her toddler dancing to the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy." The label fired off a letter demanding removal of the clip and YouTube complied. Pixi discounts seen hurting Palm profits NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp <S.N> started offering a 50 percent discount on Palm Inc's <PALM.O> Pixi phone on the same day the handset maker cut its revenue target, raising profitability concerns. Palm shares fell 4 percent on Friday, following a 19 percent drop on Thursday when the company issued its warning for current-quarter and full-year revenue [ID:nN25246210]. Apple's Jobs says cash hoard allows for bold moves CUPERTINO, California - Steve Jobs defended Apple Inc's <AAPL.O> decision to maintain a $40 billion cash pile and said it was better to save the money for bold risks, like acquisitions, than to spend it on stock buybacks or cash dividends. Faced with shareholders' questions over his intensions for the company's cash balance, equal to about one-fifth of its market capitalization, the chief executive said buy backs and dividends would not have a lasting impact on the Apple's share value. Microsoft wins court approval to topple "botnet": report - Software giant Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes, the Wall Street Journal said. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, granted a request by Microsoft to deactivate 277 Internet domains, which the software maker said is linked to a "botnet," the paper said. Facebook urged to act after memorial sites defaced CANBERRA - Cyber attacks on Facebook pages set up to pay tribute to two murdered Australian children has prompted calls for the social networking site to be more accountable for its users. Social media experts say it is natural that people who use sites such as Facebook or MySpace as a major form of communication should turn to these sites with personal tragedies. 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