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Wireless developers plan to meld Bluetooth
May 3 2005 11:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Wireless developers plan to work together to meld Bluetooth, the short-range technology that links cell phones and cordless headsets, with an emerging technology designed to beam video and other large content short distances between TVs, home entertainment systems and computers.
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Regulators to ban hunting via Internet
May 3 2005 10:18PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse.
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Neb. teen wins national Web design contest
May 3 2005 8:20PM (CT)
ATKINSON, Neb. (AP) - America's youngest Web wizard is a 14-year-old in northern Nebraska. That would be Danika Young of Atkinson Junior High School, who won the title as part of a nationwide contest.
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Amazon.com partners with wine retailer
May 3 2005 8:06PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com has launched a partnership with Internet wine retailer Wine.com, hoping to move more wine shoppers online and capitalize on one of the last major retail markets that hasn't yet made a big splash on the Internet.
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Next-generation Xbox to be media hub
May 3 2005 8:00PM (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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World Cup warns of computer virus
May 3 2005 6:36PM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - A computer virus spreading through fake e-mails crashed the computers of the World Cup organizing committee Tuesday, overloading the system with millions of e-mails.
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GOP operative launches anti-Hillary site
May 3 2005 3:19PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A veteran GOP operative launched an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton Web site Tuesday, complete with an unflattering photo and a warning that she and her husband are trying to "pull the wool over America's eyes once again."
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AOL treats Fla. emergency e-mails as spam
May 3 2005 1:56PM (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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'Tags' ease sifting of digital data
May 3 2005 6:47AM (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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Sirius to offer 'podcast' show
May 3 2005 6:46AM (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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