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Rumors rise over Sprint Nextel's fate
Mar 13 2008 11:11PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Sprint Nextel Corp.'s plummeting stock price and the expected exodus of millions of subscribers this year have yielded a fresh round of speculation about the company's future.
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Rumors rise over Sprint Nextel's fate
Mar 13 2008 11:11PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Sprint Nextel Corp.'s plummeting stock price and the expected exodus of millions of subscribers this year have yielded a fresh round of speculation about the company's future.
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Verizon gets cozy with P2P file-sharers
Mar 13 2008 11:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Peer-to-peer file sharing, the primary vehicle for online piracy, has been as unpopular with Internet service providers as it has been popular with users.
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Nigerian patent suit still dogs OLPC
Mar 13 2008 5:36PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A potential $20 million problem for the group behind the "$100 laptop" isn't going away easily.
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MSN chief leaves Microsoft
Mar 13 2008 4:43PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The top executive at Microsoft Corp.'s MSN media network is leaving for Los Angeles advertising startup Spot Runner, the software maker said Thursday.
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AOL to pay $850M for social network Bebo
Mar 13 2008 4:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to pay $850 million for the online hangout Bebo and a foothold in the growing arena of social media.
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AOL to pay $850M for social network Bebo
Mar 13 2008 4:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to pay $850 million for the online hangout Bebo and a foothold in the growing arena of social media.
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Game maker EA's Take-Two bid now hostile
Mar 13 2008 3:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The heat is on: Electronic Arts Inc.'s $2 billion bid for "Grand Theft Auto" maker Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. turned hostile Thursday as EA took its $26-per-share offer directly to Take-Two shareholders.
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Programming pioneer Weizenbaum dead
Mar 13 2008 12:56PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural language understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 85.
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Gates predicts big technological leaps
Mar 13 2008 11:37AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.
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Harvard says hacker broke into system
Mar 13 2008 8:02AM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Harvard University is notifying thousands of graduate students and applicants that their personal information may have been exposed by a data breach.
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New sales program pays Facebook members
Mar 13 2008 6:33AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout so far has proven to be a better place for promoting fun and games than peddling products.
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Apple sued over iTunes technology
Mar 13 2008 1:08AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Inc. was sued Wednesday over allegations its iTunes online music store and iPod music players are illegally using a patented method for distributing digital media over the Internet.
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