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'GTA' game rating changed to adults-only
Jul 20 2005 10:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The video game industry on Wednesday changed to adults-only the rating of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," a best-selling game in which explicit sexual content can be unlocked with an Internet download.
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Google map service covers lunar surface
Jul 20 2005 8:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface.
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Feds accuse firms in porn e-mail scheme
Jul 20 2005 8:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators accused seven companies Wednesday of hiring others to send illegal e-mails with pornographic messages to tempt consumers to visit adult Internet sites.
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Study: Some Internet terms unfamiliar
Jul 20 2005 8:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Podcasting and RSS feeds may be the latest craze in high-tech circles but the general public is largely unfamiliar with the Internet terms.
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Web games to let players win cash, prizes
Jul 20 2005 8:42PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Upcoming Web versions of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" will let fans do more than sit on the couch and shout answers at their televisions.
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New spam-fighting technique criticized
Jul 20 2005 8:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Escalating the war on spam, a California company wants to let thousands of users collaborate to disable the Web sites spammers use to sell their wares.
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New spam-fighting technique criticized
Jul 20 2005 8:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Escalating the war on spam, a California company wants to let thousands of users collaborate to disable the Web sites spammers use to sell their wares.
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Blinkx offers TV, radio program searches
Jul 20 2005 8:33PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Search company Blinkx launched a free service on Tuesday that scans radio and television programs available on the Internet and automatically delivers the shows to a user's computer.
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Cell phone sales to reach 779M this year
Jul 20 2005 8:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Global sales of cell phones will reach nearly 800 million this year, and the annual tally will surpass 1 billion in 2009 though market growth will soon slow sharply, the research firm Gartner Inc. says in a new forecast.
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Intel's shares dip after Q2 profit report
Jul 20 2005 6:14PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Shares of Intel Corp. sank Wednesday after the world's largest chip maker said its second-quarter profits jumped 16 percent and sales increased to $9.23 billion, but its profit margin came in lower than expected.
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Cingular's profit narrows on merger costs
Jul 20 2005 5:42PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Cingular Wireless LLC, the nation's largest cell-phone provider, reported a much narrower second-quarter profit on hefty merger integration costs, but saw strong growth in subscribers and revenue.
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EBay's earnings climb 53 percent
Jul 20 2005 3:42PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - EBay Inc.'s second-quarter profit eclipsed analyst expectations as the online auction leader brushed aside worries that it may be losing its competitive edge amid strident complaints about everything from rising fees to the fraud controls in its e-commerce clearinghouse.
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Yahoo stock tumbles after Q2 profit report
Jul 20 2005 9:09AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc.'s shares tumbled in early trading Wednesday as the company suffered a hangover from second-quarter earnings that didn't measure up to analysts' lofty expectations despite a more than six-fold improvement in its profit.
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Ex-Microsoft exec sued over Google job
Jul 20 2005 8:13AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. sued Google Inc. on Tuesday, accusing it of poaching a top executive the search engine company had wooed away to head a new research lab in China.
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