Information Technology
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Appeals court rules some software can't be boughtSep 10, 2010 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court has ruled computer software programs can't be resold under widely used licensing agreements that handcuff the program's original...
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AT&T to texters: LMK ur fav txtsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Are OMG and LOL so yesterday? Those acronyms for "Oh my God!" and "laughing out loud" seem generations ago. Acronyms and abbreviations in text messages continue to becom...
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Study tracks concerns about 3-D TV setsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A study about consumer attitudes toward 3-D television found many who were less interested in the technology after they actually experienced it. Still, 52 pe...
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EBay wins a round in court against CraigslistSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A judge has ordered Craigslist to reverse two moves it made that hurt one of its biggest investors -- eBay. The moves diluted eBay Inc.'s share of th...
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Video game sales fall ahead of product debutsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - U.S. video-game sales fell 10 percent to $818.9 million in August as consumers reduced their purchases of Wii and DS game players by Nintendo Co. Sales of the Nintendo D...
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Nokia dumps CEO, turns to Microsoft execSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - HELSINKI -- Nokia Corp. is replacing CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Microsoft executive Stephen Elop as the world's top maker of mobile phones aims to regain lost ground ...
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Facebook inches past Google for Web users' minutesSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc. In August,...
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Texas Instruments trims top-end 3Q targetsSep 09, 2010 11:00 pm - DALLAS -- Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. on Thursday lowered the top end range of its estimates for earnings per share and revenue in the third quarter. The company ...
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Apple to publish guidelines for app approvalSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Apple Inc. said Thursday that it will publish the guidelines its uses to determine which programs can be sold in its App Store. The move follows more than tw...
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Twitter hack attack hits home for AP movie writerSep 07, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The Twitterverse is full of far more mysterious forces than indecipherable trending topics and Lady Gaga. There are people out there with dark, dastardly ...