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New York Times
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Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
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Reuters
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IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.
IBM said it would offer document, spreadsheet and presenta..
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Macworld
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Universal Music Group has confirmed reports that it has altered its licensing deal with Apple's iTunes service.
The world's largest major record label last night released a statement on the matter, telling Macworld UK: "Universal Music Group has decide..
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BBC News
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Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns...
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BBC News
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Campaign body the Open Rights Group (ORG) has called for further detail on the workings of ad system Phorm.
BT, Virgin and Talk Talk have signed up to trial the system, which intercepts users' web surfing to analyse habits.
More than 2,500 people have s..
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BusinessWeek
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Computer makers are now taking tiny laptops seriously, due to the success of Taiwan's Asustek and India's HCL. Acer will soon join the fray
For years, many in the PC industry dismissed efforts by a small group of innovators to come up with small laptop..
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MSNBC
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A consumer electronics industry group predicted Monday that consumers will buy more gadgets in 2008, despite fears of a recession.
At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Association trade group forecast in..
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Yahoo News
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An industry group says it has won a new round in a court battle with Yahoo Inc.'s China arm, which is accused of helping online music pirates.
A Beijing appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling against Yahoo China over its search engine's links to out..
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Physorg
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Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into revealing passwords.
Like a "411" for the Internet, Who..
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Ars Technica
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Any group that believes a worldwide flood created the Grand Canyon 4,000 years ago, that Cain married his sister, and that the King James translation of the Bible is inerrant must be used to a certain level of skeptical questioning, even downright hostili..
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Ars Technica
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Last year, Spamhaus found itself on the wrong end of a $11.7 million default judgment awarded to online marketing firm e360insight after it decided not to fight the case due to its belief that US courts had no jurisdiction over the group because of its lo..
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Los Angeles Times
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Satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc. said Wednesday that it reached a deal to offer subscribers high-speed Internet and voice services carried by Current Group over electric power lines.
DirecTV will be able to offer its customers the servi..
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Los Angeles Times
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Warner Music Group Corp. said Thursday that it had settled its copyright infringement lawsuit against the social-networking website Imeem by agreeing to license its music and video content to the site for a slice of its ad revenue.
Financial details of..
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MSNBC
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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
In a report released..
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MSNBC
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Sony Corp. says it will introduce its first HD Radio products in July, joining the growing group of companies seeking to make the next-generation digital radio technology a standard feature in audio products over the next several years.
HD Radio is new..
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Yahoo News
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - EU regulators gave Universal Music Group clearance Tuesday to buy BMG Music Publishing for about $2.09 billion but warned that its "serious doubts" about the deal's effect on online music were soothed only by the companies' plan to..
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Los Angeles Times
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In a nod to the growing importance of Internet advertising, WPP Group, the world's second-biggest advertising company, said Thursday that it was buying online ad agency 24/7 Real Media Inc.
The $649-million deal underscores how major agencies are scram..
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BBC News
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Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings.
Women in the 18 - 34 age group account for 18% of all online Britons.
They also spend the most time online - accoun..
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CNN
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EMI Group has agreed to make its music catalogue available through Apple Inc.'s iTunes store without copy protection.
Apple is the first online retailer to get the rights to sell the British music giant's downloads.
"The new higher quality DRM-free..
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BusinessWeek
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A former Microsoft exec is starting a service that lets just about any group—from churches to sports teams—become its own cell-phone provider
Fans of the Long Island Ducks baseball team are about to get a whole new choice in wireless—one designed..
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