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Google's second-quarter profit quadruples
Jul 21 2005 11:59PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc.'s streak of stellar growth has spoiled investors so thoroughly that the online search engine leader may be punished because its second-quarter profit didn't surpass analyst expectations by a wide enough margin.
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Microsoft's 4Q profits up 37 percent
Jul 21 2005 11:56PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Brisk computer sales, continued strength in the server and tools market, and a big tax benefit helped boost Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profits nearly 37 percent.
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Google countersues Microsoft over engineer
Jul 21 2005 11:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. countersued Microsoft Corp. Thursday in a legal battle over a prized research engineer that illustrates the escalating tensions between the technology titans.
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Video game 'mods' under scrutiny
Jul 21 2005 8:52PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - With many video games, there's no "game over" screen, no reason to ever get bored. In a long-standing practice called "modding," fans create their own new chapters, artwork and other twists to extend the lives of their favorite games. Many game makers freely encourage the practice and give away free software tools to help.
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Legally downloaded music triples in 2005
Jul 21 2005 8:46PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The number of digital music tracks legally downloaded from the Internet almost tripled in the first half of 2005 as the use of high-speed broadband connections surged around the world, the international recording industry said Thursday.
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Sony to release Web browser for PSP
Jul 21 2005 8:45PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Sony officials Thursday said the company will release a software upgrade that will let the PlayStation Portable video game system surf the Web without a cumbersome software trick.
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Game's rating change may signal crackdown
Jul 21 2005 2:09PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The video game industry's decision to give an adults-only rating to the best-selling "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" because of explicit sexual content could signal the start of a crackdown on raunchy games.
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Google map service covers lunar surface
Jul 21 2005 1:37PM (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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Nokia's Q2 earnings rise 15 percent
Jul 21 2005 6:22AM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Nokia Corp., the world's top mobile phone maker, said Thursday its second-quarter earnings increased 15 percent and its share of the global mobile devices market grew to 33 percent.
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