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TECH SPOTLIGHT: Pair of wireless mice deliver outstanding portability for business travelers on the go

(Monday, July 14, 2008)

Summer is a popular time for personal travel, but business travelers can be on the go all year around. » Read story.

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Verizon initiative gets 1st, unsexy device

Wireless modem that alerts to storage tank levels uses new open network

(Monday, July 14, 2008)

NEW YORK — When Verizon Wireless announced in November that it would open up its network to any company that wanted to make a device for it, industry watchers had visions of innovative features such as cheap international calls and Google applications. » Read story.

Apple’s iPhone, similar gadgets fuel touch-screen boom

(Monday, July 14, 2008)

NEW YORK — It’s been a good year for touch-screens. » Read story.

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U.S. sites attract overseas traffic, few foreign ads

(Monday, July 14, 2008)

U.S. Web sites are waking up to a sobering reality: A huge share of their traffic now comes from overseas, but they are struggling to make money from it. Now, Internet companies big and small are scrambling their business models to try to cash in on foreign markets they have largely ignored. » Read story.

Solar power magnetizing semiconductor firms

Techniques of chip making to be applied to power cells

(Monday, July 14, 2008)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Semiconductor companies, which made computers and other electronic devices ubiquitous, now are setting their sights on solar power. » Read story.

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For 2nd time, Yahoo rejects Microsoft bid

(Sunday, July 13, 2008)

Yahoo said Saturday night that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft — together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn — to buy the beleaguered Internet company’s search business. » Read story.

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Apple’s new iPhone snatched up fast

Despite a pricier service plan, slightly cheaper retooled device has its fans

(Saturday, July 12, 2008)

Less than an hour after AT&T’s store opened Friday at Shackleford Crossing in Little Rock, almost all the retooled Apple iPhones had flown out the door. » Read story.

Customers lining up for new iPhone

AT&T stores opening 2 hours early Friday to accommodate expected crush

(Thursday, July 10, 2008)

AT&T’s 26 stores statewide have been preparing for the highly anticipated second version of the iPhone since Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the next-generation device in June. » Read story.

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Microsoft bankers may get 2nd bite

Fat fees at stake in bid for Yahoo

(Tuesday, July 8, 2008)

Chances are good that Morgan Stanley and Blackstone Group LP will split more than $50 million in fees if Microsoft Corp. revives its bid for Yahoo Inc. » Read story.

Police to tipsters: Let fingers do the talking

(Monday, July 7, 2008)

TAMPA, Fla. — Police in the 1970s urged citizens to “drop a dime” in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages. » Read story.

Son’s death drives maker of military robots

Grief moves him to create machines for troops in Iraq

(Monday, July 7, 2008)

TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. — The knock on Brian Hart’s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had arrived to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq. » Read story.

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Lawsuits spur tech top guns to unite

Patent cases give firms the shivers

(Monday, July 7, 2008)

Several tech-industry heavyweights are banding together to defend themselves against patent-infringement lawsuits. Their plan: to buy up key intellectual property before it falls into the hands of parties that could use it against them, say people familiar with the matter. » Read story.

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IBM’s video game chip comes into play in hunt for deep-water oil stores

(Monday, July 7, 2008)

NEW YORK — IBM Corp. and an international oil company are joining forces in an attempt to use a microchip built to power video game consoles to speed up the search for deep oil reserves in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico. » Read story.

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Give logs to Viacom, judge orders YouTube

Data sought in copyright-infringement suit

(Friday, July 4, 2008)

NEW YORK — Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. » Read story.

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Attitude seen limiting shift to faster Net

(Thursday, July 3, 2008)

NEW YORK — A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don’t have high-speed Internet access. » Read story.

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