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Laptop project set for 2 weeks in Nov.
Sep 23 2007 11:46PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.
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New service eavesdrops on Internet calls
Sep 23 2007 11:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
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Myspace to launch ad-supported cell phone
Sep 23 2007 11:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The social networking Web site MySpace is launching a free, advertising-supported cell phone version Monday as part of a wider bid by parent News Corp. to attract advertising for mobile Web sites.
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Starbucks to give away free iTunes songs
Sep 23 2007 11:33PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets.
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Technology startups set for DEMO show
Sep 23 2007 11:30PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Six minutes is all that each of 69 startups get to impress journalists, venture capitalists and technology mavens. If speakers run over, the music starts, the organizer steps on stage and the microphone goes off.
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Microsoft adds 20 advertising clients
Sep 23 2007 11:19PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.
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Researchers study software gender gap
Sep 23 2007 11:17AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.
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