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MSNBC
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Comcast Corp. will start offering faster Internet services in Minnesota's Twin Cities region on Thursday, with plans to extend that type of next-generation system to its entire service area by 2010.
The $150-a-month offering for residential customers c..
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CNN
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Dubai, renowned for its high-technology facilities, has seen many of its services paralyzed by an extensive Internet failure which affected much of Asia and the Middle East on Thursday. A major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started..
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BBC News
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Net users in the UK have rated the ability to download DVD-quality films quickly as the service they most want from next-generation broadband.
In a survey conducted by Broadbandchoices.co.uk, users put it ahead of video calls, High Definition video dow..
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BBC News
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Google is to ban adverts for essay writing services - following claims that plagiarism is threatening the integrity of university degrees.
There have been complaints from universities about students being sold customised essays on the internet.
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Yahoo News
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Google announced on Monday that it would provide free online communication services such as e-mail and Internet telephone calling to universities in Kenya and Rwanda.
The Mountain View, California-based Internet search engine giant said it had partnere..
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The Register
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Google has quietly axed the web services API to its eponymous search engine. The stealth move was made without any announcement, but visitors to the page now receive a blunt message, backdated to 5 December, advising them that the SOAP API is no longer su..
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BusinessWeek
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India is losing its stranglehold as the outsourcing destination of choice as China, Morocco, and Hungary gain ground
Fewer global delivery centers were opened in India by the United Kingdom's 20 largest IT services suppliers than in each of the three c..
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BBC News
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Internet services have been disrupted in large parts of the Middle East and India following damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption...
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BusinessWeek
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PayPal—and other electronic payment services—are wooing more and more consumers and merchants, and becoming the quiet stars of e-commerce
A disappointing revenue forecast and news that longtime eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman would soon retire overshad..
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BusinessWeek
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Sexy hardware and sleek new media services are all but certain. But what other products, services, or industries should the company tackle?
On Jan. 15, Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs will bound onto the stage of the Macworld Conference & Expo to give his..
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BusinessWeek
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Big Blue has built a global network for client services and in the past three years has hired 90,000 people in low-cost countries
When Rogerio Oliveira strolls through the vast IBM (IBM) service delivery center in Hortolandia, Brazil, the contrast betw..
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BusinessWeek
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StrategyEye is mixing Web search services with in-house analysis to provide companies with business info in easy-to-digest, interactive formats
What do you do if your average Google search just isn't finding the business information you need? That's a..
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MSNBC
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Air France, which plans to start allowing cellular calls through OnAir within months, said it would see how people use such services before crafting rules.
"Are you going to reach your wife to tell her what you did the entire day or just tell her, 'Can..
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BusinessWeek
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AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and other big cellular carriers are dragging their feet on approving services that could compete with their own
Even as the wireless industry chants a new gospel about opening mobile-phone networks to outside devices and applica..
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SF Gate
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JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.
General Web surfing and e-mail attachments won't be permitted..
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BBC News
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A survey looking at UK broadband services has revealed a downturn in customer satisfaction levels.
Customer complaints now outnumber service-related enquiries by 52% to 48%, the study by market research firm JD Power found.
According to the survey,..
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BusinessWeek
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S&P says spending on virtualization software and services is likely to skyrocket, with VMWare, Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic leading the race
From Standard & Poor's weekly investing newsletter The Outlook
Amid the Web 2.0 talk of big companies acqui..
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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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BBC News
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Google has refused to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone.
Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a series of"GPhones", centred on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps.
In a st..
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BusinessWeek
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Companies such as Tata and Infosys are scrambling to cash in on India's soaring demand for air services—and orders from the likes of Boeing
India's supercharged aviation industry, the fastest growing in the world, is being buoyed by huge jumps in pas..
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