Information Technology
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Barnes & Noble cuts price for Nook; Amazon drops Kindle priceJun 20, 2010 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon.com Inc. has again cut the price of its Kindle e-reader, bringing it below $200 after Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its competing Nook devi...
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Rent-an-everything web culture now offers friendsJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - In a not-so-secret double life, Jennifer Morrison is simply "Jennifer," platonic friend for hire. The reservation-taker at a popular Las Vegas restaurant has accepted ca...
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Co-president Hirschhorn to leave MySpaceJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- After just four months on the job, co-president Jason Hirschhorn is leaving the struggling social networking site, MySpace. The other co-president, Mike ...
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Twitter a hit in Japan as millions 'mumble' onlineJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - TOKYO -- Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" -- the translation of tweet -- and...
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Arlington Heights firm to put you on a cloudJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Ameen Pishdadi founded Arlington Heights-based Gigenet, employs about 35 workers and plans to add services to grow the company even more. Through his Web hosting and dat...
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AOL selling social networking site BeboJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- AOL Inc. is paring its ambitions in online social networking, selling a website called Bebo that it bought a little more than two years ago for $850 million ...
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Report: U.S. lacks staff, power to protect networksJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The federal agency in charge of securing the government's computer systems is unable to monitor the networks or analyze threats in real time, and it lacks ...
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Music publishers sue LimeWire after labels' winJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- On the heels of a major court win by the recording companies against file-sharing software company LimeWire, eight major music publishers said they filed...
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FCC votes to reconsider broadband regulationsJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are reconsidering the rules that govern high-speed Internet connections -- wading into a bitter policy dispute that could be tied up in ...
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Comcast's $16 million web-slowdown accord approvedJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable company, won final approval of a $16 million settlement of consumers' claims that it intentionally delayed some file transfers over...