posted by on Nov 9
AP - Have a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator? Don’t keep your iPod earbuds in your shirt pocket or draped around your neck
posted by on Nov 5
Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to approve a Verizon Wireless plan to buy Alltel Corp for $28.1 billion and Sprint Nextel Corp’s proposed joint venture with Clearwire Corp.
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FCC OKs Verizon/Alltel and Sprint/ Clearwire deals
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posted by on Oct 16
AFP - Travellers from Japan, western Europe and a number of other countries must request authorization to enter the United States on the Internet from January 2009, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday.
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US shifts Visa Waiver Program authorization to Internet
(AFP)
posted by on Oct 16
AP - Here’s the one thing that makes “Max Payne” comparatively painless: Unlike most movies based on video games
posted by on Oct 16
Reuters - International Business Machines Corp , the world’s biggest technology services company, posted a higher quarterly profit on Thursday as an increase in services and software revenue offset a decline in computer hardware sales.
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IBM services and software sales up as hardware falls
(Reuters)
posted by on Oct 16
AFP - Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip paid a visit to Internet search giant Google’s British headquarters in central London on Thursday.
Queen visit marked by royal Google doodle
(AFP)
posted by on Oct 16
AFP - Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, reported on Thursday a 30-percent drop in third-quarter net profit to 1.087 billion euros (1.046 billion dollars), amid falling sales and lower prices for its handsets.
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Nokia sees net profit plunge 30% in third quarter
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posted by on Oct 16
AFP - Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, reported Thursday a 30-percent drop in its third quarter net profit to 1.087 billion euros (1.046 billion dollars), amid falling sales and lower prices for its handsets.
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Nokia sees net profit plunge 30 percent in third quarter
(AFP)
posted by on Oct 15
NewsFactor - Mozilla’s Firefox 3.1 beta 1, now available for public download, is loaded with new features that once again put the Firefox developer community on the cutting edge of browser development.
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 for Public Testing
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posted by on Oct 15
NewsFactor - Sick of the advertisements for the presidential election? Thought unplugging your phone, ignoring television programs, and avoiding the newspaper would protect you from advertisements featuring Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain? Think again.
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Obama Campaign Shows Up in Video Games
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posted by on Oct 15
CNET - Nothing is much of a secret about Apple events these days.
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Three things Apple won’t do
(CNET)
posted by on Oct 14
NewsFactor - The OpenOffice business productivity suite is now available as a native Mac application for the first time.
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OpenOffice 3 Available for Mac, Windows and Linux
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posted by on Oct 14
Reuters - Making music just got easier. A Japanese game maker has teamed up with the nation’s leading mobile phone network carrier to enable users to play an orchestra with their fingertips.
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Dial-a-concert? Japan software turns mobiles musical
(Reuters)
posted by on Oct 14
AP - Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli is gambling that an appeals court will accept a plea deal that would spare him prison time in one of the nation’s largest stock options backdating cases.
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Broadcom co-founder bets he can still avoid prison
(AP)
posted by on Oct 14
Reuters - News and financial data provider Bloomberg LP hired veteran television news executive Andrew Lack to run its expanding television, interactive and radio operations.
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Bloomberg hires NBC veteran to run TV, online ops
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posted by on Oct 14
Reuters - Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia’s N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.
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3 UK to sell Nokia’s N95 music phone: source
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posted by on Oct 14
AFP - A Canadian company has unveiled software crafted to prevent people, particularly mobile device-loving teenagers, from making telephone calls or text-messaging while driving.
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Software thwarts mobile phone chatting while driving
(AFP)
posted by on Oct 14
AFP - Michelin guides, lauded as roadmaps to the world’s finest cuisine, will be delivered to iPhones and other “smart” mobile devices as the century-old publication embraces the Internet age.
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Vaunted Michelin guide adds mobile Internet to its review menu
(AFP)
posted by on Oct 13
NewsFactor - The Tokyo Game Show is, to put it mildly, a noisy event as game manufacturers crank up the volume on their latest racing or military combat products. But the loudest sound may have come from Kazuo Hirai, president and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, who told the Financial Times that Sony has no plans to cut prices on its gaming consoles for the holiday season.
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Sony Says PS3 Price Will Remain Firm for Holidays
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posted by on Oct 13
NewsFactor - The Federal Communications Commission has released an engineering report that opens the door for the FCC to apportion a chunk of wireless spectrum for free Internet services across the nation.
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FCC Green-Lights Wireless Free Internet
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