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Microsoft this afternoon reported second-quarter profit of US$2.28 billion, after the company took a $660 million charge to cover class-action lawsuits. Microsoft saw record revenues of $7.74 billion for the quarter, an 18 percent year-over-year increase. Microsoft also announced that it has shipped 17 million copies of Windows XP since the operating system’s launch and also sold 1.5 million Xbox consoles.

TV networks, film studios, and consumer electronics companies are participating in an effort to add a watermarking technology to digital television broadcasts by March that would prevent consumers from trading movies and TV shows online, either through peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as Gnutella or through personal video recorders such as TiVo or UltimateTV.