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Online game sells pawnshop licenses
May 10 2007 10:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Online games give players roles like warriors, space explorers and wizards. Now, there's an exciting new profession: pawnbroker.
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Germany investigating `Second Life' porn
May 10 2007 10:50PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - German authorities are trying to uncover the identity of a person who's offering child pornography in the virtual world of "Second Life."
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Joost raises $45 million in funding
May 10 2007 10:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Joost, an Internet-based TV service being launched by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, said Thursday it has raised $45 million from five investors including CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. and an influential Hong Kong telecommunications executive.
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Google maintains it won't split stock
May 10 2007 10:49PM (CT)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc.'s stock price has been lagging the overall market so far, but that didn't seem to bother several hundred mostly festive shareholders who attended the online search leader's annual meeting Thursday.
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Apple meeting tackles options issue
May 10 2007 10:49PM (CT)
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs defended the company's handling of its stock options-backdating scandal Thursday and suggested a former employee's accusations about his role in the matter were wrong.
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New domain names could come in mid-2008
May 10 2007 10:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday.
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NYC taxi cabs offer high-tech hardware
May 10 2007 10:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To taxi officials, the touch-screen monitors popping up in cabs help passengers make the most of the 13 New York minutes spent on an average ride.
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NYC taxi cabs offer high-tech hardware
May 10 2007 10:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To taxi officials, the touch-screen monitors popping up in cabs help passengers make the most of the 13 New York minutes spent on an average ride.
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NYC taxi cabs offer high-tech hardware
May 10 2007 10:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To taxi officials, the touch-screen monitors popping up in cabs help passengers make the most of the 13 New York minutes spent on an average ride.
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LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
May 10 2007 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.
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LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
May 10 2007 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.
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LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
May 10 2007 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.
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LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
May 10 2007 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.
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Calif. Web site outsources reporting
May 10 2007 4:15PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The job posting was a head-scratcher: "We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."
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Vonage 1Q loss narrows amid patent spat
May 10 2007 11:32AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said Thursday its net loss narrowed slightly to $72 million during the first quarter, a period sullied by a guilty verdict in a patent suit that threatened to prevent the company from signing up new customers.
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Dell donates computer to Smithsonian
May 10 2007 6:50AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
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Dell donates computer to Smithsonian
May 10 2007 6:50AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
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URL buyers hope to cash in on tragedy
May 10 2007 1:34AM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - When Fred McChesney heard about the Virginia Tech shooting spree on April 16, he was appalled. But what he did next has appalled many others. Within hours of the rampage, the Phoenix man began buying dozens of domain names _ CampusKillings.com, VirginiaTechMurders.com, SlaughterInVirginia.com _ in the hopes of selling them later to the highest bidder.
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