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Panel: VeriSign should retain domain name
Mar 28 2005 11:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An independent advisory firm recommended Monday that VeriSign Inc. be given another six years to run the Internet's third most popular domain name suffix.
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Google acquires Urchin Software
Mar 28 2005 10:32PM (CT)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc. said late Monday it has agreed to acquire Urchin Software Corp., which makes software to help companies analyze the traffic at their Web sites.
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Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000
Mar 28 2005 9:55PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A thief recently walked into a University of California, Berkeley office and swiped a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicants, highlighting a continued lack of security that has increased society's vulnerability to identity theft.
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Michigan may require online dating checks
Mar 28 2005 8:40PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Sandie Cornillie did a double take when she first heard about a bill that would force online dating sites to say whether criminal background checks have been conducted on their members.
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Groups predict more songs over Internet
Mar 28 2005 8:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The music and film industries will continue to offer digital copies of songs and movies online for a price even if they lose a landmark Supreme Court case focusing on consumers who steal copyrighted material over the Internet, those industries' chief lobbyists said Monday.
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Cell phone songs prompt control questions
Mar 28 2005 12:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's been the great "Whodunit?" of two big technology shows: Who put the gag in Motorola Corp.'s mouth just as it was going to unveil a new cell phone featuring the iTunes music download service from Apple Computer Inc.?
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Group protests China's Web site crackdown
Mar 28 2005 7:54AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Shuimu.com is just one of China's thousands of Internet chat rooms. But when non-students were barred this month from using the site at Tsinghua University in Beijing, it triggered a rare burst of outrage.
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Pentagon invests in unmanned 'trauma pod'
Mar 28 2005 7:52AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Pentagon is awarding $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned "trauma pod" designed to use robots to perform full scalpel-and-stitch surgeries on wounded soldiers in battlefield conditions.
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N.C. newspaper uses blogs to reach readers
Mar 28 2005 5:48AM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - It's a journalist's job to ask questions, but they're usually aimed at outsiders. At the News & Record, a 93,000-daily circulation newspaper in Greensboro, reporters and editors are asking tough questions about the paper itself. The biggest questions: If the paper needs to change to survive, what changes should be made? What can it do, especially online, to make itself the electronic equivalent of a town square?
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Amazon.com knows, predicts shopping habits
Mar 28 2005 5:47AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself.
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File-sharing case worries Indie artists
Mar 28 2005 5:47AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Recording industry executive Andy Gershon sees opportunity in the online file-sharing networks that most of his rivals decry as havens for music pirates. As president of V2 Records, home to such established acts as The White Stripes and Moby, Gershon mines such Internet distribution channels for new fans and revenues.
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Writer of retracted stories faces review
Mar 28 2005 5:46AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A freelance journalist who authored two online news articles that Technology Review magazine retracted over questions of veracity is also facing review of stories she wrote for other publications.
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New Sony president admits consumer misses
Mar 28 2005 5:46AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp.'s engineering prowess helped the company develop an array of nifty products but those gadgets often failed to appeal to consumers, the electronics maker's new president said Thursday.
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