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TOKYO, May 7 (Reuters) - Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T: Quote, Profile, Research said on Monday it had scrapped a plan to offer its wireless Internet technology to Hutchison Essar as Britain's Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research is set to buy a majority stake in the Indian mobile phone carrier. 

Communities seem to be one of the de rigueur marketing approaches these days, especially when vendors are targeting applications developers and systems architects. They are not just a good way for such people to share knowledge about the established technologies and products they work with, but also an increasingly important delivery vehicle for newer technologies.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shares of Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research soared as much as 19 percent to their highest level in nearly a year on Friday after two newspaper reports said the company and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research were in preliminary merger talks to take on common foe Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research 

LONDON (Reuters) - The world nuclear power industry welcomed on Friday the tacit backing given to their technology by some of the world's top scientists and economists in the latest analysis of the climate change crisis.

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - A heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Friday putting into orbit two telecommunications satellites, space officials said.

IBM could layoff - get out your really, really big box of tissues - more than 100,000 workers, according to some guy at PBS.

Capgemini and Hewlett Packard have gained the most ground in the rankings of top suppliers to the public ICT market.

Microsoft has been ordered to stump up $1.5bn for violating MP3 patents owned by Alcatel and Lucent Technologies.

Most Apple fans have nurtured the dream that one day everyone will see sense and abandon Windows for a platform that just looks and works so much better. While that dream seems to be coming partly true among consumers, Apple seems no closer to winning over big businesses with its innovative but costly hardware and software combo.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, the world's largest software maker, is a contender to buy Internet advertising firm 24/7 Real Media Inc. (TFSM.O: Quote, Profile, Research for as much as $1 billion, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - New Zealand-based company Michael S Sutton Ltd. has filed a complaint against Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research in the United States for infringing a data packaging technology patent and is seeking damages, court documents showed.

More than 1,300 jobs were pencilled for elimination at IBM.

May 1 (Reuters) - Business software maker BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS.O: Quote, Profile, Research cut its first-quarter total revenue outlook range to $342 million to $347 million, saying it faced a difficult selling environment, specially in the Americas. 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software maker Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research on Monday asked a U.S. court to make SAP AG (SAPG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research preserve evidence on its computers, saying it was concerned its German rival might destroy electronic information at the heart of a corporate theft lawsuit.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. cable television leader Comcast Corp. and Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said on Monday they had agreed to a multi-year partnership for Yahoo to supply Web advertising to Comcast.

Three owners of online payment processor E-Gold and an affiliated company have been indicted for money laundering and related crimes for allegedly allowing sellers of child pornography, operators of investment scams and other types of criminals to send and receive payments related to their misdeeds.