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BBC News
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Yahoo and Google, the world's two biggest search engines, have announced a two-week experiment that will see them share advertising space.
During the pilot, Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of search results on Yahoo's website.
Analysts..
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CNN
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Greetings from Barcelona! It could so easily have been "Greetings from Paris." The team and I made an unscheduled stop there after our flight from London was diverted when a fellow Mobile World Congress delegate fell ill somewhere over the English Channel..
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BBC News
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Four men who run one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in Sweden.
The Pirate Bay's servers do not store copyrighted material but offer links to the download location of films, T..
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BusinessWeek
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The world's most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple's high-tech gadget
The Japanese fell for the iPod. So why should they not embrace the iPhone, too? It's tempting to think that Japan's love affair with Apple's (AAP..
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BBC News
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The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry.
Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's most profitable games business" in a deal worth $18.8bn (�..
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BusinessWeek
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The CEOs behind such hits as Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft talk about the potential of the $18.9 billion tieup: namely, a new No. 1 video game company
Jean-Bernard Lévy and Robert Kotick have had a busy holiday season. On Dec. 2, Lévy, the chief..
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MSNBC
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Blizzard Entertainment is one of the most successful game developers in the world, with an unbroken string of hit games including “World of Warcraft,” the “Diablo” franchise, the “Warcraft” series and “StarCraft.”
The only hitch? The co..
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O.C. Register
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For World of Warcraft players hanging out in Shadowmoon Valley last Friday, bizarre events occurred that can only be explained by a small group of people inside the headquarters of Blizzard Entertainment.
At the helm of the strangeness sat 10-year-old..
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CNET
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Award-winning Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken of PC World resigned Tuesday over disagreements with the magazine's publisher regarding stories critical of advertisers, according to sources.
McCracken, reached Wednesday evening, confirmed that he resigne..
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ZDNET
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"Storm Worm," one of the larger Trojan horse attacks in recent years, is baiting people with timely information about a deadly, real-life storm front, security researchers said Friday...
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The Register
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The latest problem to be thrown at us, on top of war, global warming, disease etc, is that we are "sleepwalking into a surveillance society"...
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The Register
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If you need your home computer to be fixed don't go to PC World's repair centre, a new report has warned...
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All Headline News
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The scientist who created the World Wide Web said Thursday that if trends continue, the Internet could become an "undemocratic" virtual space riddled with "misinformation" and "untruths"...
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MSNBC
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Those new high-tech swimsuits rewriting the sport's record books have caught the eye of scientists.
Acting on advice from the Italian swimming federation, the committee's Institute of Medicine and Science will study the relationship between the suits a..
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CNN
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Scientists studying the carcass of what they call the heaviest squid ever found have discovered it has eyes as big as soccer balls -- reportedly the largest in the world. The colossal squid's eyes were measured at about 27 centimeters (10.8 inches) across..
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MSNBC
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How will the world look in the year 2058?
Sixty thinkers from around the world rise to that challenge in a collection of essays titled "The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today."
The consensus view is that we'll muddle through many of the issues that..
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MSNBC
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Carlyle-controlled Japanese handy-phone firm Willcom Inc. rolled out the world's first phones featuring Intel Corp's Centrino Atom microprocessors, as it fights for new users in a saturated market.
Willcom, which held 4 percent of Japan's mobile market..
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BBC News
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Intel, the world's biggest computer chipmaker, has been raided by European Union competition regulators amid claims it abused its market position.
Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel, said the regulators raided the company's office in Munich, Germany...
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MSNBC
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Wireless industry players place their bets on the future during the four-day Mobile World Congress opening Monday in Barcelona, laying stakes on the next big thing with new product launches, services and alliances.
Is wireless broadband beamed into you..
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BBC News
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An amateur cryptographer who beat the British World War II computer Colossus in a code-cracking challenge has been honoured for his skills.
Joachim Schueth solved a German cipher in just 46 seconds, more than three hours quicker than the 60 year old PC..
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