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BBC News
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Mobile phone company Orange has said 20% of customers who have bought iPhones from it in France have opted for unlocked ones.
Orange sold the popular Apple product for 399 euros (�288) with a two-year contract, or 749 euros without one.
Elsewhere,..
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Ars Technica
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender has sent a flurry of takedown notices and legal threats to P2P web sites that are facilitating the propagation of a 700MB archive of internal MediaDefender e-mail that was leaked onto the Internet this we..
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Ars Technica
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Viacom's copyright battle with YouTube took an interesting turn this week, as the company has found itself in the embarrassing position of having highlighted the possibly that it committed a little "for-profit" copyright infringement of its own (some woul..
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MSNBC
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A union representing 570 space shuttle program workers at the Kennedy Space Center voted to strike Saturday, less than a week before the planned launch of the shuttle Atlantis.
The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, which rep..
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Los Angeles Times
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Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem would retire, leaving two of the top executive posts at the company unfilled.
Nazem will leave June 8, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo said. Co-founder Jerry Yang will oversee Yahoo's t..
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Los Angeles Times
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Motorola Inc. said it would cut 4,000 jobs in addition to the 3,500 it announced earlier this year. The new cuts will help save an additional $600 million, the company said.
The company said it expected costs of $300 million, or 8 cents a share, in the..
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Los Angeles Times
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Dan Nye landed a job as chief executive of a hot Silicon Valley company without even dusting off his resume.
Nye was an executive vice president at Advent Software Inc. when Reid Hoffman, chairman of social-networking company LinkedIn Corp., came calli..
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www.tomshardware.co.uk
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Declining microprocessor sales as well as dropping average selling prices for its microprocessors have pushed AMD deeper into the red. The company reported a net loss of $611 million on revenues of $1.233 billion, which is more than 20% below the guidance..
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New York Times
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For much of this year, the buzz around Google has been all about the flurry of new initiatives at the No. 1 Internet search company, from its YouTube video sharing site, to its new software for office workers, to its forays into television, radio and news..
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Globe and Mail
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The BlackBerry wireless email system of Research In Motion Ltd. has suffered a system failure, according to the company's phone recording.
Waterloo, Ont.-based RIM didn't say when the problem may be fixed, an omission that could well cause consternatio..
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Washington Post
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Microsoft said yesterday that Google's proposed purchase of Internet advertising company DoubleClick raises antitrust and privacy concerns that deserve careful review by authorities.
Executives at the software giant said they talked over the weekend wi..
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New York Times
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Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for You..
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eWeek
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Apple acknowledge April 12 that its highly anticipated new Mac OS X 10.5, which the company is calling Leopard, will be delayed until at least October, although developers could have a beta version by June.
The Cupertino, Calif., company announced the..
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Bloomberg
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Microsoft Corp. is in talks to buy DoubleClick Inc., the Internet advertising company owned by private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation.
DoubleClick hired Morga..
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Yahoo News
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The chairman of BenQ Corp. offered his resignation on Tuesday over losses caused by the company's inability to make its former German mobile phone subsidiary profitable. BenQ's board of directors refused to accept the offer, however, demanding that he rem..
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Bloomberg
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A Brussels court said Google Inc. violated copyright laws by publishing links to Belgian newspapers without permission and ordered the company to remove them, setting a precedent for future cases in Europe. Google, the owner of the world's most-used se..
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CNET
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What do you get when you cross a notoriously tight-lipped computer company with rabidly fanatical users? A whole lot of gossip, speculation and hearsay, that's what. Thirty years of Apple Computer has seen the company rise, fall and rise again like a kin..
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Forbes
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ComScore Networks is the Big Brother of the Internet. The widely-used online research company takes virtual photos of every Web page viewed by its 1 million participants, even transactions completed in secure sessions, like shopping or online checking. Th..
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PC Magazine
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If anything is doomed to failure, it is the Microsoft Zune. I have no idea who is marketing this device within the company, but from what I can tell, this is going to become a major turkey in the product mix. As far as I can tell, Microsoft should simply..
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Reuters
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The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Windows operating system, Vista, is "rock solid and ready to ship" and will be available to retail customers on January 30, the co-president of the company's platforms and servic..
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