Information Technology
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Twitter hack started with 'rainbow tweets,' Australian saysSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - A person in Australia, who claims to be the center of an incident that impaired service on Twitter Inc.'s website for thousands of users, said he had no malicious intent...
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Twitter hack: Made in Japan?Sep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - TOKYO -- This week's Twitter attack that caused a widespread headache for the micro-blogging service appears to have been triggered by a Japanese computer hacker who say...
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Facebook is up after glitchy afternoonSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A technical glitch blocked or slowed access to Facebook for about four hours Thursday, unplugging many of the social-networking site's 500 million users from...
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Review: Newest iPods get it right, as expectedSep 22, 2010 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- By now, Apple's introduction of new iPods each fall is about as surprising as kids going back to school. And, as usual, many of the changes CEO Steve J...
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FutureGen companies name new CEOSep 21, 2010 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- The companies working with the federal government to find ways to use coal as a power source while storing its carbon dioxide emissions have a new CEO. Kenn...
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Twitter hack opens popups, causes havoc on main siteSep 20, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A new way to cause mischief quickly spread through short-messaging service Twitter on Tuesday morning before the site could fix the problem, as mysterious "t...
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Microsoft bets on Xbox as it releases Zune service in EuropeSep 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Microsoft Corp. is expanding its Zune music and film download service to Europe, and betting that the user base for its Xbox games console will help it take on Apple Inc...
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Exec: MySpace redesign may lose users initiallySep 20, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The MySpace redesign set to launch in mid-October may be so jarring that the social networking site could lose members at first. That's according to Jon M...
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IBM buying Netezza for about $1.7 billionSep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. said Monday it has agreed to pay $1.7 billion for Netezza Corp., a company that helps businesses sort through data on corporate servers. The deal w...
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Oracle's net income swells 20 percentSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle Corp.'s net income swelled 20 percent in the latest quarter as the world's biggest maker of database software prospered from freer technology spe...