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Online shoppers overwhelm iTunes store
Dec 27 2006 10:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Swarms of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards apparently overwhelmed Apple's iTunes music store over the holiday, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song.
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Review: Archos media player delivers
Dec 27 2006 4:24PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - If Apple's iPod is the nicely tuned Porsche of portable media players and Microsoft's Zune is the Jetta, then a new Wi-Fi-enabled unit from Archos is the Hummer, a brutish performer with all the tools to navigate the rugged terrain of technology needs on the go.
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Taiwan quake severs communications lines
Dec 27 2006 3:45PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Undersea fiber-optic cables were damaged by a powerful earthquake off the southern tip of Taiwan, causing the largest outage of telephone and Internet service in years and demonstrating the vulnerability of the global telecommunications network.
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Microsoft: No sweeping claim to RSS tech
Dec 27 2006 3:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Despite patent filings, Microsoft Corp. isn't trying to claim all rights to the Really Simple Syndication technology for notifying users of new entries on their favorite news sites and Web journals, a lead product manager says.
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Microsoft: No sweeping claim to RSS tech
Dec 27 2006 3:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Despite patent filings, Microsoft Corp. isn't trying to claim all rights to the Really Simple Syndication technology for notifying users of new entries on their favorite news sites and Web journals, a lead product manager says.
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Sun donates art of rival HP co-founders
Dec 27 2006 2:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For five months, Sun Microsystems Inc. owned a life-size painted cutout depicting the co-founders of its rival, Hewlett-Packard Co., the product of a zany, cross-country art project.
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Sun donates art of rival HP co-founders
Dec 27 2006 2:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For five months, Sun Microsystems Inc. owned a life-size painted cutout depicting the co-founders of its rival, Hewlett-Packard Co., the product of a zany, cross-country art project.
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Report: Apple probed on stock options
Dec 27 2006 2:28PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Federal prosecutors are probing whether former Apple Computer Inc. officials forged documents to maximize executives' profits from stock options, according to a legal publication that also reported CEO Steve Jobs has hired his own lawyers to represent him in the investigation.
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Microsoft adds behavioral targeting
Dec 27 2006 1:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. has started linking users' search habits with other personal information as it prepares to show more personalized advertisements.
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Radio tags in Tokyo to bring ads, info
Dec 27 2006 11:15AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Stores in central Tokyo are set to beam news of special offers, menus and coupons to passers-by in a trial run of a radio-tagging system.
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Anti-spam tool ceases as spammers evolve
Dec 27 2006 10:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Open Relay Database, a tool e-mail service providers used for years to help curb the spread of spam, is ceasing operations, a death partly attributable to its own success. It was 5.
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Anti-spam tool ceases as spammers evolve
Dec 27 2006 10:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Open Relay Database, a tool e-mail service providers used for years to help curb the spread of spam, is ceasing operations, a death partly attributable to its own success. It was 5.
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Samsung develops new mobile memory chip
Dec 27 2006 8:21AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has developed a new mobile memory chip that is thinner and uses less power than its predecessor.
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