Washington - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal challenging the legality of Cablevision's network-based digital video recorder service, which the television networks and movie studios had charged amounted to copyright infringement. [more..]

San Francisco - After a five-month medical leave of absence, during which he underwent a successful liver transplant, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has officially returned to work at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, The New York Times reported. [more..]

Palo Alto, Calif. - Online social network Facebook on Monday named David Ebersman, former chief financial officer at biotech firm Genentech, as its new CFO. [more..]

San Francisco - Microsoft has hired Morgan Stanley to help it sell off Razorfish, the digital ad agency it acquired as part of a $6 billion deal back in 2007, the Financial Times reported. [more..]

Los Gatos, Calif. - One of the teams working towards the Netflix Prize, a $1 million purse the company offered to anyone who could improve its movie recommendation algorithm by 10%, claims to have reached that goal. [more..]

Stockholm, Sweden - Swedish file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, which two years ago announced plans to launch a streaming video site, appears to be closer to completion as the developers launched a test version of The Video Bay earlier this month, TorrentFreak reported. [more..]

Tokyo - Sony is mulling the addition of cell phone functionality to its PSP handheld video game system, Reuters reported, citing the local Nikkei daily. [more..]

Los Angeles - Hackers took over the Twitpic accounts of celebrities Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres over the weekend, and sent false posts that included one stating that Spears had died, the Associated Press reported.
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Boston - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said in court documents filed this month that it had settled with 4,000 of the 18,000 people it contacted about their alleged infringements on file-sharing networks, although other estimates peg the total number of proceedings at nearly double that figure, Digital Music News reported. [more..]

London - Microsoft has partnered with French pay-TV company Canal Plus to offer movies, TV and soccer on demand through its Xbox 360 video game console, Reuters reported. [more..]

Washington - Government Executive Media Group, publisher of the Nextgov.com federal technology community site, said on Monday that it has launched a new tool designed to aggregate official Twitter feeds from federal government agencies. [more..]

New York - Viacom's MTV Networks on Monday named Scott Guthrie as vice president and general manager of MTV Games. [more..]

Los Angeles - The IMAX Corporation announced on Monday that Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" posted the biggest opening in IMAX history, with a single-day domestic gross of $3.9 million, and five-day gross of $14.4 million. [more..]