Information Technology
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Verizon 2Q profit up 12 percent, beats expectations
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Verizon Communications Inc.'s second-quarter earnings rose 12 percent, the company said Monday, while revenue was slightly shy of expectations and customers ...
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Ex-Google engineers debut new search
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system....
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Best Buy opening in-store music centers
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Hoping to cater to everyone from the garage guitarist to a recording musician, Best Buy Co. Inc. is announcing a massive new initiative that sets aside store space for a...
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Apple's MobileMe is far too flawed to be reliableJul 26, 2008 11:00 pm - People who work for large corporations are used to having their email, contacts and calendar appointments synchronized instantly among their various computers and smart ...
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Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard
Jul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a ...
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China says its Internet users is world's No. 1 at 253 million
Jul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - BEIJING - China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls o...
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AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs
Jul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on it...
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Microsoft exec who led Yahoo buyout team to leave
Jul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - SEATTLE _ Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company's failed ...
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Facebook to help some programmers, punish others
Jul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO _ Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its effo...
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Satellite radio companies to pay $19.7 million
Jul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies moved closer to fruition Thursday after the pair agreed to pay $19.7 million to settle a case a...