Information Technology
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Apple blames battery supplier for iPod meltdowns
Aug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Apple Inc. said Tuesday that batteries from a single supplier are to blame for the meltdown of some models of its tiny iPod Nano digital music player. The com...
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Have you bought your TV converter box yet?Aug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - If you still have the old-fashioned "rabbit ears" or a rooftop antenna, you have six months left. That's when local broadcasters will end analog transmissions and you'll...
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Qwest reaches labor agreement with 2 unions
Aug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER -- Qwest Communications International Inc. has reached a tentative agreement with its largest union about a day after a labor contract had expired, both sides sai...
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Toshiba settles for improving standard DVD
Aug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD. On...
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Analog TV shutdown kills free cell-phone TV
Aug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Picture whipping out your cell phone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an ...
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EA won't extend Take-Two deadline
Aug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said it won't extend a Monday evening deadline for its $2 billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Tak...
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Motorists turn to car pool Web sites as gas prices rise
Aug 16, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Robert Gilliland didn't think much about carpooling until gas prices got out of control. Now, he's happy to trade his motoring freedom for $120 in weekly savi...
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Alcatel Lucent Naperville leads on Visual Voice MailAug 16, 2008 11:00 pm - A group of Naperville engineers and technicians at Alcatel Lucent helped to develop the new Visual Voice Mail application now offered by Verizon Wireless on the LG Voyag...
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Netflix hampered by 'severe technical issues'Aug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Netflix Inc. said Thursday that major technical problems over the past three days have severely limited the number of DVDs it could send out. The unspec...
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
Aug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for ...