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Four Livedoor execs sentenced in Japan
Mar 21 2007 9:14PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced the former chief financial officer of scandal-tainted dot-com company Livedoor to 20 months in prison for inflating earnings reports.
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Apple '1984' ad gets political makeover
Mar 21 2007 8:39PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Whether Apple Inc. likes it or not, its classic "1984" Macintosh television ad, which aired only during the Super Bowl that year, has been reincarnated with a political veneer and is becoming one of the latest hits on Google Inc.'s YouTube.
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Apple set-top box ships after delay
Mar 21 2007 8:36PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - After a slight delay, Apple Inc. said Wednesday it is now shipping Apple TV, a set-top box that can wirelessly stream or download iTunes videos, podcasts and music from a computer to a television. The slim, square gadget, which has a suggested retail price of $299, was previously promised to arrive by the end of February. Apple would not explain the uncharacteristic delay and said only that the launch took a few weeks longer than expected.
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Art imitates video games
Mar 21 2007 4:58PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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Motorola slashes outlook, replaces CFO
Mar 21 2007 4:34PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Motorola Inc. replaced its chief financial officer Wednesday in a shake up of top management as it slashed its first-quarter sales forecast, blaming weaker-than-expected revenue from its cell-phone unit.
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Court backs FCC over states in VoIP case
Mar 21 2007 4:18PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a decision by the Federal Communications Commission that barred states, including Minnesota, from regulating Internet-based phone services.
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Court backs FCC over states in VoIP case
Mar 21 2007 4:18PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a decision by the Federal Communications Commission that barred states, including Minnesota, from regulating Internet-based phone services.
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New service creates custom news sites
Mar 21 2007 3:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A new service lets visitors create custom news sites centered around niche hobbies, business ventures and other special interests, pulling stories on the topic from some 25,000 news sources.
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Biofuels spark biotech rally
Mar 21 2007 2:17PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Biotechnology was first applied in medicine, then farming. Today, dozens of lifesaving drugs are on the market, while many crops are genetically engineered to withstand weed killers.
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HotEnough.org courts good-looking people
Mar 21 2007 1:07PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Jason Pellegrino (an 8.2 on the attractiveness scale) says the problem with Internet dating services is not enough really hot-looking people. So he and a business partner have created HotEnough.org, a sort of online version of Studio 54, the exclusive '70s disco where gaining admission was a pitiless Darwinian exercise. HotEnough.org is for "fit, good-looking" people.
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India high-tech school curbs online use
Mar 21 2007 12:13PM (CT)
MUMBAI, India (AP) - A half-hour before the clock strikes midnight, India's top technology institute pulls the plug on Internet access in students' dorm rooms.
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Sirius: Lower price plan with XM buy
Mar 21 2007 10:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Satellite radio customers will get the option to pay a lower price for just the channels they want if the industry's two big providers are allowed to merge, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said Wednesday in a securities filing of its bid to buy XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.
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Sirius: Lower price plan with XM buy
Mar 21 2007 10:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Satellite radio customers will get the option to pay a lower price for just the channels they want if the industry's two big providers are allowed to merge, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said Wednesday in a securities filing of its bid to buy XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.
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EU to write rules on data tag privacy
Mar 21 2007 10:55AM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Privacy and security need to be built into radio frequency identification tags before they become widespread, the European Commission said, announcing it would publish guidelines later this year.
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EU to write rules on data tag privacy
Mar 21 2007 10:55AM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Privacy and security need to be built into radio frequency identification tags before they become widespread, the European Commission said, announcing it would publish guidelines later this year.
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IBM wins deal to manage firm's IT unit
Mar 21 2007 7:29AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - IBM Corp. said Wednesday it has won a 10-year contract to manage the information technology infrastructure of Indian mobile company Idea Cellular in a deal valued between $600 million and $800 million.
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India tech institute curbs Internet use
Mar 21 2007 6:11AM (CT)
MUMBAI, India (AP) - A half hour before the clock strikes 12, India's top technology institute pulls the plug on Internet access in students' dorm rooms.
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Gates loses virtual soccer match to pro
Mar 21 2007 12:22AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates met his technological match Tuesday, losing a video game simulation of a penalty shootout to star Mexican soccer player Rafael Marquez 2-1 as hundreds of Microsoft Mexico employees and other invited guests cheered on the two.
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