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    Microsoft has successfully fended off a lawsuit over a set of controversial voice digitisation patents, in a case that could have roiled the computer and Internet telephony industries if the patents had been upheld as valid.

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    The FBI is trying to convince the government to mandate that providers of broadband, Internet telephony, and instant-messaging services build in backdoors for easy wiretapping.

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    Tiago Bittencourt Silva started an ambitious programming project last month: an open-source utility that lets small groups of Internet users communicate through instant messages, video links and audio chat.

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