Technology: Afternoon Edition

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Most Viewed Articles in Technology 1) Apple fires back at Nokia in patents battle SAN FRANCISCO/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Apple Inc accused Nokia of anti-competitive practices and patent infringement on Friday, escalating a legal battle as they fight for market share in smartphones. 2) Google Touts City Of LA's Decision To Equip 34,000 Employees With Google Apps A big win for Google's cloud-based communication and collaboration suite: the company has announced that the City of Los Angeles has equipped 34,000 employees with Google Apps . 3) Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding. When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend's wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that's another story. 4) Do you want the extended warranty? The smart answer is 'sometimes.' HARTFORD, CONN. -- Lloyd Wimbish of West Hartford has refused many a cashier's offer to spring for the extended warranty on a product. 5) Microsoft China Blatantly Rips Off Microblogging Service Plurk Microblogging startup Plurk may not have become hugely popular in these parts, where Twitter rules the lands, but it has been making strides in Asia. Recently, the fledgling company has gotten a feared competitor in the space with the launch of MSN Juku in China by the local Microsoft subsidiary, in... 6) AP INVESTIGATION: Monsanto seed biz role revealed ST. LOUIS -- Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated... 7)  OffiSync Brings The Best of Google Docs and Microsoft Office Together Wouldn't it be nice if you could make a mash-up of Microsoft Office and Google Docs, using all of Office's great tools for document creation and editing, and Google Docs's online storage and collaboration tools? With OffiSync (free), that's exactly what you can do. You use Office to create your... 8) The Medium Is No Longer The Message, . . . You Are Editor's note : This guest post is written by Seth Goldstein ( @seth ), ?the Co-Founder of socialmedia.com , which is building the first ad server based on people not pages. Its platform provides authoring, serving and reporting across different types of social media. All of its ads are real... 9) MySpace Continues To Get Trashed Over Imeem Shutdown It's been nearly a week since MySpace Music closed its acquisition of some of the assets of music service Imeem and redirected imeem.com to music.myspace.com. MySpace took a lot of heat for the sudden shutdown of the Imeem service, particularly the API . 10) Google Wants You To Give Chrome For Christmas Not sure what presents to get for the holidays? How about giving away a free browser? Your friends and relatives won't think you are too cheap to get them a real present. They might even thank you, if the present is Google's shiny new Chrome browser all wrapped up in virtual wrapping paper. UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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