Information Technology
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Walls that keep Web users from moving data starting to erode
May 24, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'...
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Yahoo delays shareholder meetingMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company under pressure from investor Carl Icahn, delayed its annual meeting after the billionaire threatened to oust its directors for snubbing...
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Microsoft's 'Plan C': Cash for clicksMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans t...
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TV boxes let Netflix users bypass mail delivery
May 19, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. on Tuesday is introducing its first solution for subscribers who w...
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EA again extends Take-Two deadline a third time
May 18, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Video game publisher Electronic Arts is extending the deadline on its $2 billion tender offer for smaller rival Take-Two Interactive for a third time. Redwoo...
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Microsoft: New talks for alternative Yahoo deal
May 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point ...
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Fox launching LatAm online ad network
May 18, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- News Corp. is pooling some of its Web sites, including the newly acquired Wall Street Journal properties, to better sell financial ads targeting Latin Americ...
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Both earpieces do the job, but one does it betterMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Wireless cellphone earpieces can make people look faintly ridiculous as they stroll down the street or around the office, seemingly talking to themselves with ugly appen...
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EU warns Google over photos on Street View
May 14, 2008 11:00 pm - BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The EU's top data protection supervisor said Thursday that Google Inc.'s "Street View" map and imaging feature could pose privacy problems if it lau...
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MySpace wins $230 million spam judgment
May 13, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam awa...