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AOL wants to dig for gold _ literally
Aug 16 2006 9:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dig this: AOL believes a renegade Internet spammer buried gold and platinum on his family's property in Massachusetts and wants to bring in bulldozers to search for the treasure and satisfy a $12.8 million judgment it won in federal court.
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Balancing robot may care for elderly
Aug 16 2006 7:47PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.
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S.Korea wants people in 'smart' clothes
Aug 16 2006 6:42PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Technology-savvy South Korea isn't happy making only MP3 players and the memory chips that go inside many of the more popular models. It also wants people wearing South Korean "smart" clothes with built-in digital music players.
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Group files FTC complaint against AOL
Aug 16 2006 6:10PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The backlash against AOL's recent release of its subscribers' search requests continued Wednesday as a privacy rights group filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the breach was intentional.
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China to crack down on online video
Aug 16 2006 5:05PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China will regulate video on the Internet following a surge in satirical items in which real film clips are remade into mocking send-ups.
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AOL acquires GameDaily video game site
Aug 16 2006 4:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The video games site GameDaily is now part of AOL. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit said Wednesday it bought the consumer Web site and its industry newsletter earlier this month from Gigex Inc. AOL said it plans to turn GameDaily into its flagship brand for video games.
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Need a new Dell battery? Prepare to wait
Aug 16 2006 4:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - I hope Dell computer owners like classical music, because they'll hear a lot of it when they're on hold to order replacement batteries for their notebooks.
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Need a new Dell battery? Prepare to wait
Aug 16 2006 4:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - I hope Dell computer owners like classical music, because they'll hear a lot of it when they're on hold to order replacement batteries for their notebooks.
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Smaller colleges bypassing TV for Web
Aug 16 2006 4:46PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.
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Dell recall a boon for Sony rivals
Aug 16 2006 4:44PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million laptop computer batteries came as embarrassing news to Sony, which supplied the problem batteries, but proved to be good news for rival Japanese electronics companies Sanyo and Matsushita, pushing the struggling company's shares higher Wednesday.
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Dell corporate customers face headaches
Aug 16 2006 4:38PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Dell Inc.'s unprecedented recall of 4.1 million faulty laptop batteries is creating headaches for its corporate customers who have come to rely on notebook PCs as an indispensable part of doing business.
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HP beats forecast; sales up 5 percent
Aug 16 2006 4:34PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Hewlett-Packard Co. beat Wall Street's expectations Wednesday, when the computer maker reported that fiscal third-quarter profit surged on strong printer and laptop sales. The company's shares gained more than 5 percent in after-hours trading.
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