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Inmates use intermediaries to go online
Apr 30 2005 8:22PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Keith Maydak's jail cells are roomier than most. Must be all that cyberspace. State and federal prisons don't let inmates use Internet computers behind bars _ and the Allegheny County Jail doesn't either. Yet Maydak has answered a reporter's e-mails from the Pittsburgh jail, and later an Ohio lockup, while he awaits sentencing for violating probation on a 900-number phone scam that cost AT&T $550,000 dollars.
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Wal-Mart unveils customized music CDs
Apr 30 2005 11:53AM (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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European digital library is proposed
Apr 30 2005 11:52AM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Six European leaders jointly proposed Thursday that works contained in European libraries be made accessible online, in what they called a "European digital library."
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Bahrain site registration sparks protests
Apr 30 2005 11:52AM (CT)
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - All Web sites operating in Bahrain must register with the country's Information Ministry under a new government mandate that has provoked protests from an international watchdog for press freedom.
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Verizon pulling plug on free NYC Wi-Fi
Apr 30 2005 11:52AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Verizon Communications Inc. is turning off the free wireless Internet access it beams from New York City telephone booths for DSL subscribers who use laptops away from home or the office.
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Cinema owners seek to curb phone rage
Apr 30 2005 11:52AM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand cinema owners may use mobile phone jamming technology to stop mid-movie calls, text messaging _ and cell phone rage among patrons, they said Friday.
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Gates pushes auto industry on technology
Apr 30 2005 11:52AM (CT)
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. mogul Bill Gates and the leader of Ford Motor Co. outlined a future Friday in which software enables cars to fix themselves and avoid accidents.
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Spitzer sues Intermix over 'spyware'
Apr 30 2005 11:52AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued a major Internet marketer Thursday, blaming it for secretly installing software that delivers nuisance pop-up advertisements and can slow and crash personal computers.
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