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BusinessWeek
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The Time Warner unit is launching HBO on Broadband, allowing consumers to watch movies and its pay-TV shows on the Web for "free"
It seems you can't read the news these days without coming across a new, improved, gee-whiz service that will make downloa..
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News 24
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Popular social-networking site MySpace will fail in a few years time, says self-confessed geek Jimmy Wales.
Wales, founder of the free web encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is currently in South Africa for a digital freedom tour.
MySpace, owned by News Corp..
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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"Apparently, Hollywood believes that you should have to re-purchase all your DVD movies a second time if you want to watch them on your iPod." That's what I said last week, commenting on the Paramount v. Load-N-Go lawsuit, in which Hollywood studios cl..
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MSNBC
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You are used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers — and, later, others — may have to, if the company's t..
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MSNBC
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“It took a long time for 3G handsets to get to the point where they were competitive with 2G-type phones,” said Fred Wright, Motorola’s senior vice president who oversees cellular networks and WiMax, in a recent interview about 4G with FierceWireles..
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MSNBC
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A monitoring device that cut TV and computer time in half helped young, overweight children eat less and lose weight, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
And it worked without creating a lot of conflict between parents and their kids, they said.
"It re..
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BusinessWeek
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On news of the acquisition, Deputy CEO Apotheker says it's an "exciting time" for the tech industry, despite economic fears and sagging share prices
A weak dollar, a looming U.S. recession, and a sagging stock market may foreshadow a gloomy new year fo..
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BBC News
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The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.
Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs..
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Los Angeles Times
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In a big win for a little Wi-Fi start-up called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its residential broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hot spots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.
For Fon, which h..
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BBC News
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The Chinese government has clamped down on the amount of time youngsters can spend playing online games, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
Under-18s who play for more than three consecutive hours a day will have limits imposed on the amount..
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The Register
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If the fuss currently being made about Dubbya's attempt to save energy by making the US go to Daylight Saving Time a fortnight early reminds me of anything, it's the hype we had to endure eight years ago about the Millennium Bug. At the time, we were t..
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The Register
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US plans to change daylight saving hours this spring could wreak havoc on computer systems, Gartner claims. The analyst firm said utomated systems could run haywire this March...
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www.jet-man.com
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Man, forever obsessed with the dream of flying; Icare's myth, tried time after time to fly like a bird. The best ever achieved are flying machines in which men lock themselves in, created by some of mankind's greatest pioneers in this area...
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www.yomiuri.co.jp
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The PlayStation 3 finally goes on sale Saturday in Japan. It's the most technically advanced and ambitious video gaming console ever to be created and also the most expensive. At a time when the Sony group is still reeling from a recall of 9.6 million li..
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