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YouTube flips switch on new sales channel
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10.7.2008 : 5:29 pm
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Online video leader YouTube has opened up its version of a home shopping network in its latest effort to wring more revenue from its massive audience and justify the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid for the site two years ago.
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Summary: AMD spins off chip factories
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10.7.2008 : 5:04 pm
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AMD'S SPLIT: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will now focus on designing chips and spin off a new venture focused on making them. Chip-making factories are massively expensive, and AMD can't afford to compete dollar-for-dollar with Intel Corp. on manufacturing.
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Fabless future: Struggling AMD spins off factories
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10.7.2008 : 4:54 pm
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SAN FRANCISCO -- For years, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s scrappy image was best summed up by an insult that founder Jerry Sanders lobbed against rivals: "Real men have fabs."
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MySpace, HP in deal to encourage photo printing
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10.7.2008 : 3:57 pm
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NEW YORK -- Among all the profiles on MySpace, the social networking site's users have uploaded almost 4 billion photos. Now through an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co., MySpace hopes people will increasingly print these images and, eventually, buy photo-embellished merchandise, too.
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Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter
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10.7.2008 : 2:13 pm
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NEW YORK -- U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several consecutive quarters of increases.
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`Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets
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10.7.2008 : 2:02 pm
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SEATTLE -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.
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Ads to the rescue as distraction from root canals
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10.7.2008 : 1:42 pm
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NEW YORK -- Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of personal video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal.
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New Google tool reveals marine protected areas
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10.7.2008 : 12:12 pm
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BARCELONA, Spain -- Conservationists working with Google Inc. have unveiled a tool that lets people view protected marine areas with the click of a mouse -- a bid to harness the Internet's top search engine to raise awareness of endangered ocean habitats.
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Asustek's low-priced Eee PC helps boost revenue
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10.7.2008 : 9:45 am
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A low-price laptop product line is helping Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. generate record revenue despite signs of slowing global growth, a senior company executive said Tuesday.
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Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk
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10.7.2008 : 9:37 am
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TSUKUBA, Japan -- A robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems will be available to rent in Japan for $2,200 a month starting Friday -- an invention that may have far-reaching benefits for the disabled and elderly.
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Judge orders RealNetworks to pull copying software
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10.6.2008 : 5:59 pm
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LOS ANGELES -- RealNetworks Inc. said Monday it had temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge's request in a copyright case brought by Hollywood studios.
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SAP says business turmoil hurting its revenue
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10.6.2008 : 5:29 pm
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Shares of SAP AG plunged Monday after the business software maker said it saw a sudden drop in business at the end of September as global financial turmoil escalated.
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EBay cutting 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of work force
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10.6.2008 : 5:14 pm
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NEW YORK -- After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of its work force, in its largest round of dismissals ever.
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Sector Snap: Internet stocks slide with market
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10.6.2008 : 3:37 pm
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SEATTLE -- Shares of major Web companies dropped sharply Monday amid a massive market sell-off that sent the Dow skidding below 10,000 for the first time in four years.
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Summary: eBay to cut work force by 10 percent
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10.6.2008 : 2:48 pm
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THE LAYOFFS: EBay Inc. is eliminating 1,600 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force. The online auction site operator will cut 1,000 full-time employees and let several hundred temporary and part-time workers go. It will also leave some open positions unfilled.
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Ford feature will let parents set limits for teens
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10.6.2008 : 1:49 pm
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DETROIT -- So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it.
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Top court stays out of DVR patent fight
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10.6.2008 : 12:40 pm
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.
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Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant
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10.6.2008 : 9:15 am
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NEW YORK -- Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?
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EBay buys Bill Me Later for $945 million
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10.6.2008 : 9:14 am
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- EBay Inc. did a little shopping of its own on Monday, saying it would pay $1.34 billion for online payments site Bill Me Later and two Danish classified ad Web sites.
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Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market
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10.5.2008 : 3:54 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.
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CNN hands over info on author of Steve Jobs rumor
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10.3.2008 : 8:20 pm
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SEATTLE -- A CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author of an item that claimed Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.
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Google agrees to brief delay of Yahoo ad deal
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10.3.2008 : 7:11 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Google Inc. agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal.
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Ex-McAfee executive clear of illegal option dating
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10.3.2008 : 6:22 pm
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A jury on Friday acquitted the former top lawyer at computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. of illegally tampering with his stock option grants to boost his pay package.
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RIM CEO: AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry
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10.3.2008 : 5:18 pm
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NEW YORK -- A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. is still undergoing testing by AT&T Inc., and RIM's co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new iPhone this summer.
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Labor report indicates squeeze on tech sector
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10.3.2008 : 2:00 pm
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NEW YORK -- The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls.
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New Sony Reader has light, note-taking stylus
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10.2.2008 : 8:22 pm
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NEW YORK -- Sony Corp. unveiled a new e-book reader Thursday with a built-in light and a touch-sensitive display, features that set it apart from Amazon.com Inc.'s competing Kindle reader.
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Chinese snoop on Skype, but are they alone?
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10.2.2008 : 7:54 pm
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NEW YORK -- A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."
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Copyright board leaves royalty rate unchanged
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10.2.2008 : 6:36 pm
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LOS ANGELES -- The federal Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday left the royalty that songwriters receive on sales of CDs and digital downloads at 9.1 cents per song for the next five years.
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Senator urges DOJ to monitor Google, Yahoo deal
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10.2.2008 : 5:23 pm
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WASHINGTON -- A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month.
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Showgoers viewing fare on screen, not stage
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10.2.2008 : 2:40 pm
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BURBANK, Calif. -- As the house lights dim and the maestro lifts his arms, a hush comes over the crowd. It's opening night at The Metropolitan Opera -- only we're 2,800 miles away.
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Star-Ledger owner hopeful it can avoid closure
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10.2.2008 : 11:17 am
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NEW YORK -- New Jersey's largest newspaper came one step closer toward averting a closure or sale as at least a quarter of its full-time nonunion employees applied for a buyout.
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Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says
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10.2.2008 : 9:42 am
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NEW YORK -- The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the last few years, according to data sleuths at Verizon Communications Inc.
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New Nintendo DS portable will come with camera
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10.2.2008 : 9:17 am
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TOKYO -- Nintendo's hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday.
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Industry group: August chip sales rose 5.5 percent
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10.2.2008 : 9:11 am
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Semiconductor sales totaled $22.7 billion in August, up 5.5 percent from a year ago and 2.4 percent from the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Thursday.
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Hollywood studios agree to digital rollout
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10.1.2008 : 7:08 pm
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LOS ANGELES -- Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie screens in North America, a precursor to showing movies in 3-D.
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Standard Microsystems 3Q guidance disappoints
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10.1.2008 : 6:21 pm
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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- Chip maker Standard Microsystems Corp. said Wednesday it has seen a "significant decline" in third-quarter demand for notebook and desktop PCs, especially from corporate customers, and gave a forecast below Wall Street's expectations as a results.
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Standard Microsystems 2Q profit declines
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10.1.2008 : 6:21 pm
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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- Semiconductor maker Standard Microsystems Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit declined, and shares fell after-hours after its outlook fell short of expectations.
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Diller: IAC `extremely lucky' with split timing
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10.1.2008 : 5:15 pm
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NEW YORK -- Barry Diller is feeling very lucky right now. The consummate deal maker split his Internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, into five publicly traded companies in late August -- and not a moment too soon, he told The Associated Press in an interview this week. IAC borrowed $2 billion to finance three of the five companies.
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Micron Technology posts wider 4Q loss
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10.1.2008 : 4:48 pm
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BOISE, Idaho -- Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened as the industry continues to face oversupply problems and pricing pressures.
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How can I make my computer run faster, for free?
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10.1.2008 : 4:16 pm
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Q. My computer has gotten slower and slower at doing basic things like booting up and running multiple programs at once. How do I improve its performance without spending any money?
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Apple drops secrecy pledge for iPhone developers
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10.1.2008 : 3:37 pm
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SEATTLE -- Apple Inc. will no longer force iPhone software developers to sign a nondisclosure agreement that many had said was hampering their ability to work.
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Allstate testing whether games can improve driving
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10.1.2008 : 3:10 pm
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NEW YORK -- Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who play the games.
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Congress targets rogue online pharmacies
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10.1.2008 : 1:30 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Congress has passed a bill intended to crack down on rogue online pharmacies that sell drugs without a valid prescription.
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Review: Xpaper eases digitizing of paper documents
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10.1.2008 : 12:33 pm
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Promises of the paperless office have been circulating ever since the first IBM clones started showing up on desks in the early 1980s. Yet we're still tied to printed documents and there's no sign that's going to change.
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AT&T unites fixed-line, wireless consumer units
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10.1.2008 : 12:17 pm
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NEW YORK -- AT&T Inc., the country's largest telecommunications company, is reorganizing to put one executive in charge of both its wireless and consumer fixed-line phone businesses.
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Congress passes bill to help save Internet radio
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10.1.2008 : 12:04 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Congress has cleared the way for a potential agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates.
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Hollywood aims to block RealNetworks' DVD software
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10.1.2008 : 7:47 am
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LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood's six major movie studios on Tuesday sued RealNetworks Inc. to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to "rent, rip and return" movies or even copy friends' DVD collections outright.
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