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XM Satellite, Audible to launch device
Jun 7 2005 8:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Audible Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. on Tuesday said they will co-launch a new portable device capable of playing XM's satellite radio service and content from Audible, a seller of downloadable audio versions of books, newspapers and other printed matter.
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Citigroup data of 3.9M customers is lost
Jun 7 2005 8:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - CitiFinancial, the consumer finance division of Citigroup Inc., announced Monday that it has begun notifying some 3.9 million U.S. customers that computer tapes containing information about their accounts have been lost.
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Apple to switch Macs to Intel chips
Jun 7 2005 8:24PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After touting its Macintosh computers as superior alternatives for more than 20 years, Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that it plans to switch to the very Intel microprocessors that power machines designed to run Microsoft Windows.
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China orders all Web sites to register
Jun 7 2005 8:24PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Authorities have ordered all China-based Web sites and blogs to register or be closed down, in the latest effort by the communist government to police the world of cyberspace.
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United Airlines to offer Internet access
Jun 7 2005 8:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - United Airlines, the world's second-largest carrier, received regulatory approval Monday to install wireless Internet access to its fleet in a partnership with Verizon Communications Inc.
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Seattle tops list for wireless web access
Jun 7 2005 8:23PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Seattle and San Francisco are the most "unwired cities" in America _ top spots for computer junkies who send e-mail and surf the Web at restaurants, libraries or public plazas.
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Shanghai cracks down on pirated movies
Jun 7 2005 8:19PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Shanghai is cracking down on pirated videos ahead of the city's international film festival, putting illegal copies of the latest "Stars Wars" movie and TV shows such as "Friends" out of reach _ at least for now.
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Apple vows to make podcasting easier
Jun 7 2005 6:26AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs called podcasting "the hottest thing going in radio" on Monday and promised to make it easier for audiophiles to create and distribute the digital recordings.
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Laptops outsell desktops for first time
Jun 7 2005 6:23AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In a sure sign that the era of mobile computing has arrived, notebooks have for the first time outsold desktops in the United States in a calendar month, the research firm Current Analysis says.
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Microsoft creates 'push' e-mail capability
Jun 7 2005 6:18AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. weighed in Monday on the increasingly competitive market for real-time e-mail on mobile devices, introducing a software bridge between the company's popular Exchange platform for corporate networks and its Windows Mobile operating system for cell phones and PDAs.
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AOL offers free, Web-based e-mail
Jun 7 2005 6:17AM (CT)
DULLES, Va. (AP) - America Online Inc. launched a free, Web-based e-mail service on Monday, departing for the first time from a fee-based subscription model as it moves to compete with free, and increasingly large, e-mail accounts offered by the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
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