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Internet oversight board OKs new domains
Sep 15 2005 10:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the Internet through a ".xxx" suffix.
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Xbox 360 to launch in U.S. Nov. 22
Sep 15 2005 7:55PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox game console will be available in the United States two days before Thanksgiving, in time for the important holiday shopping season, the company said Wednesday.
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Review: Mobile payment has growing pains
Sep 15 2005 7:55PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The logic is solid behind MobileLime, a new service designed to let you leave your wallet at home _ or at least some of the cards in it _ and instead use your cell phone to buy things. Too bad the service, in my tests around town, didn't seem quite ready for the mobile masses.
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Times to charge for access to columnists
Sep 15 2005 7:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The marquee columnists for The New York Times' Op-Ed page _ including Thomas L. Friedman, Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich _ generate lots of interest and discussion online. Now, the paper is hoping they'll also generate something else: cash.
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Adobe reports strong profits on sales
Sep 15 2005 6:14PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Adobe Systems Inc. said Thursday that its third-quarter profits soared nearly 39 percent as the maker of the widely used Acrobat and Photoshop software reported strong sales.
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Search engine Google's shares rise
Sep 15 2005 6:05PM (CT)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc.'s shares rose slightly Thursday to remain above the $295 price set in the Internet search engine leader's first sale of stock since its closely watched initial public offering last year.
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Microsoft, AOL discuss online partnership
Sep 15 2005 5:52PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc. have been discussing potential online partnerships that would help the two companies better compete against rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., two people familiar with the talks said Thursday.
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Dutch to create cradle-to-grave database
Sep 15 2005 8:09AM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch government will begin tracking every citizen from cradle to grave in a single database, opening a personal electronic dossier for every child at birth with health and family data, and eventually adding school and police records.
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New Google search engine boosts 'blogging'
Sep 15 2005 6:51AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A new Google Inc. specialty search engine sifts through the Internet's millions of frequently updated personal journals, a long-anticipated development expected to help propel "blogging" into the cultural mainstream.
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Nokia wades into crowded Blackberry market
Sep 15 2005 6:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nokia Corp. is joining a suddenly crowded field of BlackBerry rivals, becoming the first major cell phone maker to weigh into the mobile e-mail market with its own brand and service.
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