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Next-generation Xbox to be media hub
May 2 2005 8:28PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox gaming console will be more of a digital entertainment hub than its predecessor, making it even more of a PC hybrid than ever, Bill Gates told a meeting of business journalists on Monday.
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Sirius to offer 'podcast' show
May 2 2005 8:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. is latching onto the "podcasting" phenomenon, launching a show later this month that will feature a daily selection of the increasingly popular do-it-yourself audio programs.
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AOL treats Fla. emergency e-mails as spam
May 2 2005 8:25PM (CT)
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Emergency managers in Indian River County, hard-hit by hurricanes last year, thought the best way to get out weather alerts was by e-mail _ until they learned that AOL was tagging the messages as spam.
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Ex-Bush adviser joins cybercrime startup
May 2 2005 7:14PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A senior computer security adviser to President Bush has joined a New Jersey technology startup that protects home Internet users from hackers, con artists and other online threats.
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Military mistake caused data leak
May 2 2005 4:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Just a few clicks were enough to reveal names, training procedures and other secrets the U.S. military thought it had blacked out from an electronic report.
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Gates pushes auto industry on technology
May 2 2005 2:28PM (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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'Tags' ease sifting of digital data
May 2 2005 2:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's how we tend to organize our digital photos: We stick them into a folder on our computer and label it "Hawaii trip," or whatever. Here's a new way: Forget folders or albums. Just "tag" the photos based on what's actually in each frame. Now, extrapolate this concept to the ideas, images, videos _ and people _ you meet or wish to find online. If they're properly tagged, they're far easier to find.
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Inmates use intermediaries to go online
May 2 2005 6:28AM (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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