Information Technology
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Laser-guided robots may aid the sick
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- The El-E robot looks like something you'd see in a Hollywood sci-fi flick: It's got two lenses spaced together just like eyes and a slender 5½-foot-tall body....
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Hulu offers good online viewing of showsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - The major television networks and movie studios, tired of seeing their programming pirated online, have been gradually moving to offer it via legal Web sites and downloa...
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EU to battle 'geeky' IT imageMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The information technology industry needs to show that it isn't just for "geeky, unsociable" people if it is to attract more women to fill a skills ...
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Microsoft, Yahoo executives meet for first time about takeover bid
Mar 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO _ Microsoft Corp. met with Yahoo Inc. to discuss the software maker's unsolicited takeover bid earlier this week, a breakthrough that could be the first s...
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Verizon to make file sharing easier
Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Peer-to-peer file sharing, the primary vehicle for online piracy, has been as unpopular with Internet service providers as it has been popular with users. Pr...
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Microsoft to buy Rapt Inc
Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Rapt Inc., plugging a hole in its suite of tools for Web publishers and advertisers, the software giant was expected to announce ...
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Electronic Arts takes &2 billion bid to gamemaker Take-Two shareholders
Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The heat is on: Electronic Arts Inc.'s $2 billion bid for "Grand Theft Auto" maker Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. turned hostile today as EA took its $26...
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AOL buying Bebo for $850 million
Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to pay $850 million for th...
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Apple offers new wireless hard drive backupMar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - With its new Leopard operating system, Apple tried to solve one of the most nagging problems faced by home-computer users: how to regularly back up their computers compl...
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USB turntable gives new life to record albums
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Most people gave up on their vinyl music collection two decades ago, when compact discs all but nudged LPs off store shelves for good. If you held onto ...