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BitTorrent lands $8.75 million in funding
Sep 28 2005 8:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The creator of the popular online file-swapping software BitTorrent has lined up $8.75 million in financing from a venture capital firm in a bid to build his software into a commercial distribution tool for media companies.
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Study: Broadband use grows in the U.S.
Sep 28 2005 8:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - More than 60 percent of Americans who use the Internet at home now do so with a high-speed connection, a new study finds.
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REVIEW: Recording Web radio, TiVo style
Sep 28 2005 8:12PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Want to take your favorite radio shows with you on your portable music player? A few new software packages that record Internet radio make that possible. They all aim to be "TiVo for radio," but the comparison is not quite deserved _ none of them is as easy to use as a TiVo.
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Google ends boycott of News.com
Sep 28 2005 8:09PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc.'s boycott of News.com appears to have ended quietly, less than three months after company executives told the technology news site that they would stop speaking with its reporters for a year.
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Apple: Small number of iPod Nanos flawed
Sep 28 2005 8:02PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Display screens crack easily on a small number of iPod Nano digital music players, Apple Computer Inc. acknowledged Wednesday, saying it would replace flawed units.
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Design of $100 laptop for kids unveiled
Sep 28 2005 8:01PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant.
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Google may build campus on NASA property
Sep 28 2005 8:01PM (CT)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to develop up to 1 million square feet on a NASA research center in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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ID chip helps morgue track Katrina victims
Sep 28 2005 8:00PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - As body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied in the days after Hurricane Katrina, some morgue workers began using a new technology to keep track of unidentified remains.
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Microsoft executives receive raises
Sep 28 2005 6:33PM (CT)
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each earned $1 million last year, an 11 percent raise over the previous fiscal year, Microsoft Corp. reported in a regulatory filing Wednesday.
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Correction: Palm-Microsoft story
Sep 28 2005 2:23PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In a Sept. 27 story about smartphone operating systems, The Associated Press reported erroneously that in the second quarter of this year, about 56 million smartphones equipped with Windows operating systems were shipped, and about 48 million with PalmOS operating systems were shipped.
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Apple reportedly offers to fix iPod Nanos
Sep 28 2005 10:10AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three weeks after introducing the pencil-thin iPod Nano portable music player, Apple Computer is reportedly ready to respond to complaints about defective screens.
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