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File-swapping may be here to stay
Jun 22 2005 8:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four years after it shuttered the original Napster with a legal assault, the recording industry is taking a different approach to online file-swapping: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
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Yahoo closes chat rooms over sex content
Jun 22 2005 8:40PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Reacting to angry protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo Inc. has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors.
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Windows minus media player not big seller
Jun 22 2005 8:35PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - In Microsoft's new operating system _ Windows XP N _ the "N" stands for "Not with Media Player." But it might as well stand for "No Thanks." PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that Europe's competition commissioner ordered Microsoft Corp. to offer as part of the punishment in the software maker's long antitrust battle with the European Union.
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Technology finding new ways to pay
Jun 22 2005 7:40PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Quicker. More secure. More fun. Stores, credit card companies and banks are giving consumers new ways to pay in the latest evolution of cashless payments.
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Iran tightens Net control, researchers say
Jun 22 2005 6:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Iranian government has tightened its control over the Internet, increasingly blocking content in its national language of Farsi and restricting what citizens can publish through Web journals, Western researchers say.
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Biometrics making inroads with laptops
Jun 22 2005 6:04PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Biometric technology is taking another leap toward widespread usage as Hewlett-Packard Co. ships new laptops with fingerprint readers.
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Study: Too few women, minorities in IT
Jun 22 2005 5:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Women and some racial minorities are "significantly underrepresented" in the U.S. technology industry, according to a new study from the industry's trade group.
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Calif. city looks for tech-savvy prankster
Jun 22 2005 5:46PM (CT)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - A tech-savvy prankster has been tampering with traffic lights in this Silicon Valley town, turning them off and rejigging wires so the lights flash red in all directions.
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Serial entrepreneur Joe Kraus joins EFF
Jun 22 2005 5:44PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Joe Kraus, a serial entrepreneur who helped orchestrate one of Silicon Valley's most audacious business deals in the late 1990s, has joined the board of directors at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Review: Trivia stump smart search engines
Jun 22 2005 3:46PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Even as they become more savvy, the Internet's leading search engines still sometimes bog down in befuddlement when a specific kernel of knowledge is sought.
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Microsoft pushing spam-fighting system
Jun 22 2005 3:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. is stepping up the pressure on e-mail senders to adopt its "Sender ID" spam-fighting technology despite problems that could send up to 10 percent of legitimate messages to junk folders.
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CEO says Google won't compete with PayPal
Jun 22 2005 1:41PM (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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Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby dies at 81
Jun 22 2005 9:32AM (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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Common sense may prevent credit card fraud
Jun 22 2005 6:50AM (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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