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Online retailers step up discount offers
Dec 13 2005 8:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Online retailers stepped up discounting ahead of the deadline this week for most free shipping of Christmas gifts with guarantee of standard delivery. But they're not panicking _ overall, the holiday 2005 shopping season is shaping up well.
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MTV, Microsoft to develop online service
Dec 13 2005 8:04PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - MTV Networks Inc. said Tuesday it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to develop an online music service to launch early next year.
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Xbox 360 gets a soft start in Japan
Dec 13 2005 8:03PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console got a lukewarm welcome in Japan on its debut weekend with fans buying fewer than half the games available in stores, a market researcher said Tuesday.
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Honda robot serves tea, pushes mail carts
Dec 13 2005 8:03PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The walking, childlike robot from Honda Motor Co. can now serve tea, push a mail cart and gallop along at twice its previous pace _ the latest in the Japanese automaker's quest to replicate human movement.
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Google to expand European base in Ireland
Dec 13 2005 5:33PM (CT)
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Internet search provider Google Inc. announced Tuesday it will expand the workforce at its European headquarters by 600, or 75 percent, over the next two to three years.
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Regulators warn of text message stock scam
Dec 13 2005 4:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Securities regulators are warning investors about a new twist on the "pump and dump" stock-fraud scam that uses text messaging on cell phones to tout stocks.
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Correction: Microsoft-MCI-Internet-Phones
Dec 13 2005 1:27PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - In early versions of a Dec. 12 story about Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. offering an Internet phone service, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a similar offering from Yahoo Inc. uses technology from Skype Technologies SA.
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Toshiba to delay HD DVD player launch
Dec 13 2005 11:50AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday copy protection issues would delay the Japan launch of the first players supporting its HD DVD format, the latest development in the high-stakes battle for the next generation of video discs.
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'Secret Santa' exchanges made easier online
Dec 13 2005 6:26AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - For years, Caroline Lamarre dreaded the annual "Secret Santa" tradition of picking a name out of a hat and giving her secret match a gift.
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Microsoft, MCI plan PC-to-phone service
Dec 13 2005 1:24AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones.
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