Information Technology
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Slacker is radio, with more controlDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - More than 100 million music fans know the joys of portable digital music players -- the ability to carry a large number of your favorite songs, arranged in playlists of ...
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Facebook apologizes for privacy snafu; Higher ed in Second Life
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Among the top stories in the Tech world this week came Wednesday when Facebook said it will allow members to turn off a controversial feature that monitors t...
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Macrovision to buy Gemstar-TV Guide
Dec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Macrovision Corp., which develops technology to prevent unauthorized copying and viewing of video, music and other content, said Friday it will bu...
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Analysts: U.S. economic slowdown will take bite out of technology
Dec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - BOSTON -- Weakness in the U.S. economy figures to take a bite out of the technology industry's growth rate in 2008, when analysts expect tech spending to slow around the...
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Toyota shows off new violin-playing robot
Dec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - TOKYO -- Compared to a virtuoso, its rendition was a trifle stilted and, well, robotic. But Toyota's new robot plays a pretty solid "Pomp and Circumstance" on the violin...
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Cisco hires former Motorola technology chiefDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Cisco Systems Inc. said today it hired Padmasree Warrior, the former head of technology at mobile phone maker Motorola Inc., as chief technology officer. War...
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Chief technology officer leaves MotorolaDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer at Motorola Inc., has left, the Schaumburg company said Monday. Motorola executives declined to say whether she voluntarily r...
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Amazon's Kindle is hampered by flawsDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Companies have failed for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a dedicated device that would do for books what Apple's iPod has done for music -- allow ...
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Report says ID theft down 16 percent in 2005; critics say data are unreliable
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A government survey released this week questions the conventional wisdom that identity theft is a growing problem in the U.S. But don't toss out your shred...
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Microsoft says technology key
Nov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - If the experience of the world's largest software vendor is any guide, the industry's best hope for reducing piracy rests with anti-copying technologies rather than in p...