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1. Man dies during filming of U.K. reality show – HollywoodReporter.Com

   Channel 4 said it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the incident, which happened Sept. 13 during filming for the upcoming series of ‘Time Team’. The incident is being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive.

2. Big Blue seeks a patent way to leverage patents – GlobeAndMail.Com

   Floating privilege, once purchased, could be activated by a patent-infringement lawsuit. Companies would buy the right to use a patent portfolio like IBM’s as a legal shield for themselves and may be aimed at hindering “patent trolls”

3. Non-stop music for BlackBerries – News24.Com

   Vodafone had signed an exclusive deal with Omnifone that will give customers an unlimited number of tracks from a catalogue of over 1 million to their mobile phones for a weekly fee of £1.99. The service launches in the UK in Novemeber.

4. EBay: The Place for Microfinance – BusinessWeek.Com

   Her hope is to create sustainable economic growth in the world’s most impoverished communities—and do her part to expand the reach of the microfinance industry to more than 1 billion people worldwide, from about 100 million people currently.

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