Chris Myers is pinch-hitting for John Murrell, who we're expecting to return to the starting lineup tomorrow.

Three CNet journalists whose personal phone records were scrutinized by investigators working for Hewlett-Packard as part of an investigation into leaks of information plan to sue the company over the probe.

The suit, set to be filed by reporters Dawn Kawamoto, Stephen Shankland and Tom Krazit, asks for punitive damages againist the computer giant, which admitted to gathering information on them using pretexting, attorney Kevin Boyle told the New York Times.

Six other reporters were also pretexted by HP as part of the company's probe. Four of them -- three from Business Week and one from the New York Times -- continue to pursue settlement discussions as a group. Two Wall Street Journal reporters have thus far declined to seek compensation.

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"It's the regulatory environment, the cultural attitudes, the social and professional networks that connect people. It's the attitude toward failure - how you deal with that. Those are things that are much harder to change than it is to build up the research facilities."

-- Nanostellar chairman and Stanford emeritus professor Bill Miller on the short- and long-term advantages of Silicon Valley against increasing global competition