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Macworld.com - Microsoft may be losing two of its shining stars but not everything is looking bleak: the European Parliament is all getting new iPads! And the New York Mets trump their crosstown rivals a second time this week. It’s all in the remainders for May 25, 2010.

Reuters - U.S. digital video recording technology company TiVo Inc reported its fifth consecutive quarterly loss as the pace at which it added subscribers slowed, and said it remains confident it will prevail in a patent battle with Dish Network.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Robbie Bach, head of its video games and mobile phones unit, is retiring in a management shuffle, as Chief Executive Steve Ballmer tightens his grip over a division steadily ceding ground to rivals.

PC World - Hewlett-Packard knocked IBM from the top spot in worldwide server revenue during the first quarter, as the market for x86 systems picked up but sales of Unix and mainframe systems continued to decline, Gartner said on Tuesday.

Christopher Null - The iPhone may be many things, but itrsquo;s legendarily sad mdash; even notoriously so mdash; in the battery-life department.

AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is replacing top executives at its gaming and mobile devices division, which has stumbled in the smartphone and tablet computer markets.

Reuters - Revolution LLC, an investment company created by AOL co-founder Steve Case, is taking a stake in Internet wine seller Vinfolio in a bid to transform the privately held firm into the eBay of fine wines.

Reuters - Threats to sensitive computer networks lurk everywhere and with a few mouse clicks, organized criminals and hackers could shut down vital networks that run the U.S. government, industry and military.

AP - Digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. on Tuesday reported a net loss in the first quarter mdash; its sixth straight money-losing quarter as the company struggled with higher legal expenses and other costs that wiped out an increase in revenue.

PC World - Today's reports of a managerial shakeup at Microsoft — specifically the departure of two key executives from the company's entertainment division that makes mobile phone software, Xbox game consoles, and Zune media players — is a yet another strong indication of Redmond's internal turmoil.

AFP - Amazon's Kindle, which is facing competition from Apple's multi-purpose iPad, will remain a dedicated electronic book reader and a color model is some way out, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday.

AP - Forbes Media is buying the online news startup True/Slant, marrying two companies with vastly different approaches to journalism and publishing.

NewsFactor - On Monday, 74 Democratic legislators sent a letter urging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to reconsider a plan to reclassify broadband Internet service. The legislators oppose the FCC's so-called Third Way approach and have started their own movement to update the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

AP - Google has pulled back another curtain and revealed the size of its lucrative Internet ad network in the U.S. It spans more than 1.5 million advertisers and websites.

AP - ATT's new digital home phone service failed across the country Tuesday, illustrating continuing reliability issues with Internet-based phone service.

AFP - Ireland's main broadband supplier said Tuesday it had launched a crackdown on Internet piracy that could see customers being cut off if they share copyrighted music online illegally.

AP - McAfee Inc., a maker of anti-virus software, said Tuesday that it's buying mobile security company Trust Digital.

PC World - VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday.

Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co overtook IBM as the world's top server maker by sales during the first quarter as customers held off on buying equipment from IBM before new product launches, a research firm said on Tuesday.

AP - A color version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader may come eventually, but it won't be soon.