AP - Japan's Nintendo Co. drove the U.S. video game market in January,
with industry sales of gaming systems, software and accessories
growing 13 percent to $1.33 billion.
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Microsoft Forms Posse, Sets Bounty for Worm Authors (NewsFactor)
February 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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NewsFactor - Late last fall, Microsoft servers came under attack from
a particularly vicious worm called Conficker/Downadup. The worm may
have been specifically written to exploit a vulnerability that
Microsoft revealed in Security Bulletin No. MS08-067.
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40 job cuts as Google exits broadcast radio ad business (AFP)
February 12, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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AFP - Google said Thursday it is getting out of the broadcast radio
advertising business in a move that could result in the Internet
powerhouse shedding about 40 workers.
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Samsung Delays Debut of Android Smartphone (NewsFactor)
February 12, 2009 at 5:55 pm
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NewsFactor - While Google and T-Mobile delivered an Android-based
phone on time, Samsung has pushed back the release of its
Android-based smartphone. Korea-based Samsung said the handset will
not be shown at the Mobile World Congress and will not be available in
the second quarter as expected.
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Review: Asus `kitchen computer' does the job (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 5:46 pm
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AP - AsusTek Computer Inc. upended the laptop market when it brought
out the tiny, cheap Eee PC a year and a half ago. As a follow-up, the
plucky Taiwanese company is trying something harder: conquering the
kitchen.
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Google pulling plug on radio advertising service (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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AP - Google Inc. will stop selling ads on broadcast radio stations
this spring, marking the Internet search leader's latest flop in
off-line media.
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Nokia May Add Facebook Features to Mobile Phones (NewsFactor)
February 12, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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NewsFactor - Social-networking company Facebook is hoping to connect
with more mobile-service providers.
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Microsoft Pushes To Boost Vista Before Windows 7 (NewsFactor)
February 12, 2009 at 4:44 pm
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NewsFactor - Microsoft finds itself on the horns of a dilemma these
days. On the one hand, the company is getting some much-needed buzz
and earlier critical support for the upcoming release of its latest
operating system, Windows 7. Preliminary reviews suggest the new OS is
faster, less of a memory hog, less fussy about hardware, and generally
less annoying.
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IBM Selects Amazon To Deliver Cloud Software (NewsFactor)
February 12, 2009 at 4:17 pm
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NewsFactor - IBM has tapped Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to
deliver software to clients and developers under a new pay-as-you-go
model. The agreement will let Big Blue's clients access IBM DB2,
Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content
Management, WebSphere sMash, and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system
in the cloud.
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Note to cell phone junkies: Txtng + date :( (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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AP - So you're on a first date and you notice your potential love
interest looking down and fiddling with a cell phone under the table.
Or maybe he or she isn't even attempting to hide it.
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Viacom 4Q profit falls amid recession (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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AP - Viacom Inc., the media conglomerate controlled by Sumner
Redstone, said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell 69 percent as
the recession hurt advertising, home entertainment and video game
revenue and it recorded $454 million in charges.
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U.S. tweaks Internet privacy guidelines (Reuters)
February 12, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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Reuters - Federal regulators tweaked recommendations for how websites
should collect, save and share information about users, extending them
to Internet service providers and mobile users.
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Authors Guild irked by text-to-speech on Kindle 2 (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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AP - The guild that represents authors is urging writers to be wary of
a text-to-speech feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s updated Kindle
electronic reading device.
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Garmin, ASUS To Release Navigating Mobile Phone (NewsFactor)
February 12, 2009 at 11:48 am
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NewsFactor - GPS device maker Garmin and mini-notebook maker ASUSTeK
Computer are teaming up to release a new smartphone at next week's
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Samsung Delays Google Android Phone (PC World)
February 12, 2009 at 9:52 am
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PC World - Contrary to recent speculation, Samsung will not announce a
mobile phone based on Google's Android mobile operating next week, the
company says. The release of the Android-based phone has been delayed
until the second half of this year, Samsung says.
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HP, IBM Push New OASIS Encryption Key Standard (PC World)
February 12, 2009 at 9:40 am
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PC World - A group of industry vendors, led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard
and EMC, is proposing a new standard to make their encryption
management software work together.
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Joy ponders software, decline of print media (InfoWorld)
February 12, 2009 at 7:30 am
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InfoWorld - Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and author of
Berkeley Unix, predicted the decline of the print newspaper, lamented
the state of software development, and pondered the futures for green
energy and the environment during an appearance Wednesday night in
Silicon Valley.
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Verizon Wireless copies Alltel's My Circle (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 12:22 am
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AP - Verizon Wireless is set to announce Thursday that subscribers on
some qualifying plans will be able to pick five or 10 phone numbers
that they can call for free, without drawing down their plan's
minutes.
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