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Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby dies at 81
Jun 21 2005 8:51PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose 1958 invention of the integrated circuit ushered in the modern electronics age and made possible the microprocessor, has died after a battle with cancer.
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CEO says Google won't compete with PayPal
Jun 21 2005 8:18PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Tuesday denied recent media and analyst reports that the online search engine leader is gearing up to compete directly with eBay Inc.'s pioneering PayPal service, although he acknowledged some kind of electronic payment product is in the works.
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Theft indicates hackers' increasing power
Jun 21 2005 8:17PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The numbers involved in the latest high-stakes cybercrime are astonishing: Burrowing into a payment-processing company's computers, a hacker apparently stole data on 200,000 credit and debit accounts and had access to 40 million.
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Common sense may prevent credit card fraud
Jun 21 2005 8:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - You may not be able to keep hackers or dishonest employees out of your credit card processors' office, but you can keep thieves from filching your credit card information from the garbage.
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Google may expand into online payments
Jun 21 2005 9:35AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hoping to build upon the power of its Internet leading search engine, Google Inc. is believed to be developing an online payment system that would pose a stiff challenge to online auctioneer eBay Inc.'s industry-dominating PayPal service.
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China's Tom Online signs distribution deal
Jun 21 2005 6:31AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Tom Online Inc., a Chinese Internet and wireless services company, said Monday it will be the sole wireless distributor for Warner Bros. in China _ offering the U.S. movie studio's games and animation to Chinese cell-phone users.
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Programming jobs losing luster in U.S.
Jun 21 2005 6:22AM (CT)
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - As an eager freshman in the fall of 2001, Andrew Mo's career trajectory seemed preordained: He'd learn C++ and Java languages while earning a computer science degree at Stanford University, then land a Silicon Valley technology job. The 22-year-old Shanghai native graduated this month with a major in computer science and a minor in economics. But he no longer plans to write code for a living, or even work at a tech company.
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Cell phones now playing role of wallet
Jun 21 2005 6:21AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Already a device of multiple disguises, from camera to music player and mini-TV, the cell phone's next trick may be the disappearing wallet. After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry around cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well?
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MTV Networks buys Neopets.com parent
Jun 21 2005 6:21AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - MTV Networks on Monday said it acquired NeoPets Inc., owner of the popular teen Web site Neopets.com., for an undisclosed sum.
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Blackberry network down for hours
Jun 21 2005 6:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The BlackBerry e-mail service suffered a nationwide outage Friday morning, but the nearly four-hour disruption only appeared to affect devices connected to certain types of cellular networks.
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