Information Technology
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Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger
May 29, 2009 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Cuba criticized Microsoft on Friday for blocking its Messenger instant messaging service on the island and in other countries under U.S. sanctions, calling it...
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Tesla Motors recalling electric Roadster
May 28, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Tesla Motors is recalling more than half of its new $109,000 electric Roadster sedans to address a problem with the vehicle's steering, the automaker said ...
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Palm's new smart phone synchronizes with iTunes
May 28, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Palm Inc. said Thursday that its much-awaited new smart phone, the Pre, can connect to Apple's iTunes software and download music and photos just as if it we...
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Student loan site upgrades, approaches peak seasonMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Deerfield-based Illinois Designated Account Purchase Program is approaching its peak season for its student lending Web site, www.idapp.com. About 42 percent of all app...
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Bing it on: Microsoft overhauls search engine, again
May 27, 2009 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a redesigned search site in the coming days and hopes it will lure more Web surfers than the two most recent incarnations, Live...
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MySpace's new CEO promises innovation
May 27, 2009 11:00 pm - CARLSBAD, California -- The new leaders of News Corp.'s MySpace said Wednesday they need to innovate to rejuvenate the social networking site, which has suffered from s...
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Microsoft adds touch screen, Web browser to Zune
May 26, 2009 11:00 pm - REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. says the next generation of its Zune music player due out in the fall will have a touch screen, Web browser and an HD Radio receiver. T...
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Facebook's $200 million investment values co. at $10B
May 25, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Facebook is getting a $200 million investment from a Russian Internet investor that values the social networking company at $10 billion even though it has ye...
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A Twitter-based competition show headed for TV?
May 25, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody's doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series. The social-networking site has teamed with Reveille productio...
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Geneva firm expands after success of electronic trading platformMay 21, 2009 11:00 pm - When hedge fund veteran Ronald Santella was tapped last fall as the new chief executive officer at Geneva-based Fox River Execution Technoogy LLC, his mission was to exp...