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Plot thickens in Yahoo-Microsoft drama
Apr 9 2008 11:37PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale featuring a rich cast of Internet and media stars.
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Yahoo tests Google ads amid AOL talks
Apr 9 2008 9:49PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is surrendering some of its advertising space to Internet search leader Google Inc. in an unusual test announced Wednesday that could be just the first step in a last-ditch effort to escape its unsolicited suitor, Microsoft Corp.
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Google to help curb Web porn in Brazil
Apr 9 2008 7:37PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - The head of Google in Brazil said Wednesday the Internet giant will take actions to stop child pornography and hate crimes on a social-networking Web site used here _ but he did not offer to provide user information to officials.
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Google to help curb Web porn in Brazil
Apr 9 2008 7:37PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - The head of Google in Brazil said Wednesday the Internet giant will take actions to stop child pornography and hate crimes on a social-networking Web site used here _ but he did not offer to provide user information to officials.
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MIT researcher 'paints' cyber threats
Apr 9 2008 7:19PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam.
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MIT researcher 'paints' cyber threats
Apr 9 2008 7:19PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam.
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Review: Suunto watch measures golf play
Apr 9 2008 7:17PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - One of the latest sports watches from the Finnish company Suunto looks to remove a few variables from your golf game, or at least limit variables to things you can control.
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Feds blame Lieberman for Web site crash
Apr 9 2008 7:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign caused its own Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary, federal investigators have found _ not supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, whom Lieberman implied were responsible.
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Motorola names ex-AT&T boss as chairman
Apr 9 2008 3:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former AT&T chief executive David Dorman will become Motorola Inc.'s chairman next month as the struggling cell phone maker tries to fix its slumping fortunes and split itself into two companies.
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Motorola names ex-AT&T boss as chairman
Apr 9 2008 3:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former AT&T chief executive David Dorman will become Motorola Inc.'s chairman next month as the struggling cell phone maker tries to fix its slumping fortunes and split itself into two companies.
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Tech problems blamed on Census Bureau
Apr 9 2008 3:18PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The company hired to help modernize the 2010 census blamed government officials Wednesday for technology problems that will force census-takers to continue using paper and pencil.
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Embarq offers landline handset with Web
Apr 9 2008 2:47PM (CT)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - Traditional wireline provider Embarq Corp. is offering a new cordless home phone that includes Internet-powered features it hopes will help it hold on to customers.
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4 to share $1.7 million in tech prizes
Apr 9 2008 2:34PM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Four widely divergent scientific innovations are finalists in the international $1.8 million Millennium Technology Prize from the Technology Academy of Finland.
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4 to share $1.7 million in tech prizes
Apr 9 2008 2:34PM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Four widely divergent scientific innovations are finalists in the international $1.8 million Millennium Technology Prize from the Technology Academy of Finland.
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Magnavox, Philips brands licensed
Apr 9 2008 2:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics NV plans to transfer its consumer television activities in the U.S. and Canada to Japan-based Funai Electric Co.
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Magnavox, Philips brands licensed
Apr 9 2008 2:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics NV plans to transfer its consumer television activities in the U.S. and Canada to Japan-based Funai Electric Co.
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EU report urges search data deletion
Apr 9 2008 1:31PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad.
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EU report urges search data deletion
Apr 9 2008 1:31PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad.
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Computer experts protest global pact
Apr 9 2008 1:24PM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Roughly 60 data experts staged a rare and noisy street demonstration in downtown Oslo on Wednesday to protest Norway joining adoption of Microsoft Corp.'s document format as the international standard.
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Jason Reitman, Kevin Smith blog for NHL
Apr 9 2008 10:12AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jason Reitman, Lauren Conrad, Dierks Bentley and Kevin Smith are among the celebrities who will blog about their love of hockey on the National Hockey League's Web site.
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Jason Reitman, Kevin Smith blog for NHL
Apr 9 2008 10:12AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jason Reitman, Lauren Conrad, Dierks Bentley and Kevin Smith are among the celebrities who will blog about their love of hockey on the National Hockey League's Web site.
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Yahoo's Flickr expands into online video
Apr 9 2008 10:01AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internet's dominant video channel, Google Inc.'s YouTube.
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