Information Technology
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Giant online security hole getting fixed
Aug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being...
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Cisco earnings up 4 percent
Aug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Cisco Systems Inc. said Tuesday that sales would be weaker than analysts had forecast in the next few quarters, but investors who had expected worse were che...
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With automated tagging, Web links can surprise
Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article. But there, in the final paragraph of an online story about the call girl involved in the...
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What's next for Nintendo? More interactivity
Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - TOKYO — After overseeing several years of rapid growth at Nintendo Co., President Satoru Iwata faces new challenges: how to keep players of the company's videogames in...
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The virtual vacation homeAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Helena Peterson's favorite show these days depicts shadows flickering on artwork and furniture in a deserted dining room. It's not an avant-garde production but a Webcam...
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Services can help send big videoAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Q: I need some help sending videos to others. It seems that every video I try to send in various ways is always too large. I've tried to use a program that works wit...
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Laws proposed to fight e-fencingAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Organized retail theft has become so widespread that state and federal governments are seeking to pass legislation against e-fencing, where stolen goods are sold on Inte...
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FCC slaps Comcast for blocking file sharing
Aug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and ...
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Professionals find jobs back in rural hometowns
Aug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - LEBANON, Va. - Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, h...
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Microsoft must face suit
Aug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, must face a lawsuit accusing the company of infringing patents for a process to improve images on computer screens, ...