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Microsoft to start online book searches
Oct 25 2005 11:58PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. is diving into the business of offering online searches of books and other writings, and says its approach aims to avoid the legal tussles met by rival Google Inc.
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iMesh rolls out new file-sharing software
Oct 25 2005 9:55PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Popular peer-to-peer, file-sharing service iMesh introduced new software Tuesday that allows users to legally share and buy music online.
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Google gives peek at classified ad service
Oct 25 2005 9:53PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. has unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be a looming expansion into classified advertising _ a free service that might antagonize some of the Internet search engine's biggest customers, including online auctioneer eBay Inc.
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New Xbox processor offers powerful speeds
Oct 25 2005 7:54PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Less than a month before Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 hits store shelves, International Business Corp. revealed details of the microprocessor that powers the long-awaited video game console.
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Remote control device 'controls' humans
Oct 25 2005 7:54PM (CT)
ATSUGI, Japan (AP) - We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.
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First Swede convicted of online piracy
Oct 25 2005 11:36AM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A Swedish court on Tuesday handed down the country's first Internet piracy conviction, fining a man 16,000 kronor ($2,000) for using a file-sharing network to distribute a movie online.
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IBM, others to create open-source programs
Oct 25 2005 7:10AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Pushing the "open source" idea deeper into computing, several companies led by IBM Corp. are teaming up to develop programs for letting big businesses uniformly manage their increasingly vast warehouses of data.
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