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Wal-Mart unveils customized music CDs
Apr 27 2005 8:24PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now offering customized music CDs for its online customers. The world's largest retailer launched the new service Tuesday.
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Nokia introduces camera-music phone
Apr 27 2005 8:24PM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Nokia Corp. unveiled Wednesday a new line of pricey mobile devices including a high-end camera phone with Carl Zeiss optics and a handset with enough storage for music to potentially compete with the iPod.
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High-tech giants push for digital-TV
Apr 27 2005 8:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of U.S. high-tech heavyweights on Wednesday urged Congress to set a firm date for the transition to digital signals for television broadcasts, saying it's critical for innovation and jobs.
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Malaysian Web defacement an epidemic
Apr 27 2005 6:17PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - An overwhelming number of Malaysian Web sites have been hacked and defaced this year, evidently by Indonesians upset over a territorial spat between the neighboring countries, an Internet watchdog said.
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Study: High-tech industry on the mend
Apr 27 2005 6:08PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - The nation's high-tech industry is healing after a severe four-year downturn, with job losses leveling off and exports and investments on the rise, according to a trade group report.
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H.S. students attend cybersecurity camp
Apr 27 2005 6:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A less rowdy spring break hardly seems possible: Twenty-eight high school students spent their week off at cybersecurity camp, looking for vulnerabilities in a wireless network by day and watching "Patton" by night.
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Netscape veterans launch video startup
Apr 27 2005 6:01PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who helped ignite the dot-com boom in the late '90s have launched a startup that aims to let independent film makers, public television broadcasters and anyone else distribute video over the Internet.
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AOL readies next-generation IM tools
Apr 27 2005 5:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. is preparing to ditch its decade-old instant messaging platform, building a replacement from scratch that's designed to integrate text, audio, video and future forms of communication.
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Wal-Mart targets parody site
Apr 27 2005 2:33PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A college student was forced to redesign a Web site satirizing a foundation run by Wal-Mart after the discount retail giant claimed he violated copyright law by using graphics from the company's Web site.
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Students accused of piracy won't be ID'd
Apr 27 2005 2:06PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A federal magistrate has ruled that two North Carolina universities do not have to reveal the identities of two students accused of sharing copyrighted music on the Internet.
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Hong Kong charges man with online piracy
Apr 27 2005 12:05PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong customs officials on Wednesday filed copyright violation charges against a 38-year-old man who allegedly uploaded three movies onto the Internet using the popular file-sharing program BitTorrent.
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XM Satellite Radio narrows its 1Q loss
Apr 27 2005 9:43AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. reported a smaller loss for the first quarter of the year Wednesday while its revenues more than doubled.
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Media companies seek documents in SCO suit
Apr 27 2005 8:29AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Three media companies have asked a federal judge to unseal documents in the $5 billion lawsuit by SCO Group against IBM over software code used in the Linux operating system.
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NTT DoCoMo to ease use of 'wallet phones'
Apr 27 2005 8:13AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's biggest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, is making coinless payments with computer chip-embedded "wallet phones" as easy as using a credit card.
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China plans rules to curb online piracy
Apr 27 2005 8:04AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China will soon enact new regulations aimed at curbing online piracy of copyrighted material that will hold Web sites responsible for stolen material, state media reported Wednesday.
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Verizon tops forecast with $1.76B profit
Apr 27 2005 7:11AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Verizon Communications Inc. topped Wall Street forecasts with a first-quarter profit of $1.76 billion as its rapidly growing wireless business helped drive a 6.6 percent improvement in revenues.
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