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• Apple can't stop ongoing iTunes charge scam

  Users of Apple's iTunes services should keep a close eye on PayPal and credit card statements for fraudulent iTunes charges.

• Executive steps down for review of Apple kickback charges

  A top executive at JLJ Holdings, the parent company of a Singapore-based Apple supplier named in an alleged kickback scheme, has stepped down from his position "for the time being" as the company pursues an investigation of the charges, it said Thursday.

• Huawei will give India gov't source code

  Huawei Technologies is willing to accept new Indian rules that will require telecommunication equipment suppliers to, among other conditions, give the government access to source code and engineering designs for its equipment, the company said on Thursday.

• Cameron Diaz could wreck your PC, McAfee warns

  Cameron Diaz's next film could easily be titled "There's Something About Malware."

• Laptop e-mail cache tipped Apple to kickbacks scheme

  Court papers filed by the U.S. Government and Apple against a former manager detail a scheme that allegedly saw confidential Apple data supplied to Asian electronics companies over more than three years in return for kickbacks of more than US$1 million.

• Choice domain names pitched as investments

  Forget real estate, the stock market or Internet startups, the new way to make fast money is to invest in domain names, argues a domain name brokerage that will auction off a passel of domain names on Wednesday in New York.

• RIM may allow India to monitor instant messenger service

  Research In Motion (RIM) has offered India some access to BlackBerry instant messages, according to media reports citing government officials. Talks however continue on the Indian demand that its law enforcement agencies be able to also monitor enterprise email, the reports said.

• Asian suppliers mum on Apple-kickback allegations

  Electronics component suppliers that allegedly paid kickbacks to gain business from Apple declined to comment on the allegations when contacted on Monday.

• Apple manager arrested over $1 million in kickbacks

  An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company's contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks.

• Nvidia licenses Rambus memory patents

  Nvidia has signed an agreement to license Rambus patents on memory controllers following a ruling against Nvidia at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the two companies announced.

• Cloud still too dark for legal information

  Moving proprietary legal information to public cloud services is too risky for one services firm, which believes many unanswered questions about how the data is managed remain.

• Dell refutes withholding evidence in faulty-PC case

  Dell on Friday refuted accusations that it was withholding evidence in connection with a long-running case charging the PC maker of willingly selling faulty PCs.

• Google calls Oracle lawsuit 'baseless,' vows to fight it

  Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.

• Oracle sues Google over Java use in Android

  Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday.

• Russian charged with selling credit card numbers online

  A Russian man accused of selling stolen credit card numbers online for nearly a decade has been arrested in Nice, France, and faces charges in an indictment unsealed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said.