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AP - Motorola Inc. and Cingular Wireless LLC are out with their second cell phone with Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music service, and hope it's better received than the first iTunes phone.

Microsoft Corp. says it is setting new policies on shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized squelching of a well-known Chinese blogger at the request of Chinese officials.

AP - Microsoft Corp. says it is setting new policies on shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized squelching of a well-known Chinese blogger at the request of Chinese officials.

AP - Shareholders in Siebel Systems Inc. Tuesday voted in favor of the software maker's acquisition by Oracle Corp., clearing the way for the deal to close, according to a Webcast of the meeting in San Mateo, Calif.

The stock of Volterra Semiconductor Corp. leaped Tuesday after the chip maker posted fourth-quarter results that beat expectations and gave an encouraging first-quarter outlook.

PC World - Links with service that can allow up to 500 people on one call.

Investor's Business Daily - Wireless. Internet. Business services. AT&T touted all of that and more at its annual analysts meeting in New York on Tuesday.

Wall Street's high-flier Google Inc. on Tuesday stunned investors by posting a quarterly profit that missed analysts' estimates, becoming the latest big-name company to disappoint this earnings period.

NewsFactor - For close to 30 years, Oracle has been all about information. The company's acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005 put it in a better position than ever to provide businesses with information-driven infrastructures that store and process data. Oracle's database and customer-relationship management (CRM) applications are now at the core of operations in a significant number of companies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators plan to review whether tougher protections are needed to safeguard telephone customer information, a privacy watchdog group and sources familiar with the plan said on Tuesday.