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/ 10 January 2009
Rescue helicopters ferried stranded tourists on Friday from a picturesque volcanic area in Costa Rica where a strong earthquake killed around 14 people.
Sony is reportedly negotiating licensing deals with studios to distribute videos online through a long-promised service for the PlayStation 3. Citing studio executives, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Monday that Sony could launch the service as early as summer.
From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. In most cases, Chinese factories are the source.
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/ 2 February 2008
White House hopefuls have launched a frantic blitz with the stakes enormous heading into ”Super Tuesday” and the home stretch of the costliest and longest United States election campaign in history. Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were criss-crossing the country over the weekend.
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/ 23 October 2007
Apple’s fiscal fourth-quarter profits jumped 67% to cap a year that saw unprecedented momentum in its Macintosh computer business, continued demand for iPods and the successful launch of the iPhone. For the three months that ended September 30, Apple said on Monday it earned -million, or ,01 per share.
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/ 13 September 2007
Sun Microsystems will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft’s Windows operating system installed directly on them, instead of forcing customers to install the ubiquitous software on their own or defect to a competitor for one-stop shopping.
A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge — and a huge financial opportunity. Chip makers are no longer racing to have the fastest microprocessor and have shifted their focus away from building chips with a single, super-fast calculating core.
Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive. Either way, your employer can now tunnel into your crippled machine remotely by communicating directly with the chips inside it, allowing authorised managers to power up and repair turned-off PCs at virtually any time.
An update to Apple’s iTunes music software still has not resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft’s new operating system. The latest version, iTunes 7.1, comes a month after the iPod and Macintosh computer maker warned PC users against installing Windows Vista until Apple could fix the problems.
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/ 3 February 2007
Apple is urging some iPod and iTunes users to hold off on upgrading their computers to Windows Vista, warning that the iTunes software may not work well with the new operating system from Microsoft. Apple said iTunes may work with many Vista computers, but the company knows of some compatibility problems.
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/ 13 January 2007
Federal prosecutors in California scored their first victory in the investigation of Hewlett-Packard’s ill-fated boardroom spying probe on Friday, when a low-level private investigator pleaded guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges. Bryan Wagner (29), of Littleton, Colorado, pleaded guilty to the two felony counts.
Apparently, Apple Computer is listening. In a world where hearing problems are real and lawyers are looking to make gadget providers liable, Apple issued a software update on Wednesday for its recent iPod models — the nano and the video-capable iPod — allowing users to set how loud their digital music players can go.
Despite pulling out of the Australian Open, Andre Agassi is planning a mid-February return to tennis with his entry into the ATP San Jose event. The 35-year-old is apparently sure that his ankle injury will be completely behind him by the February 13 start of a tournament he has won five times since 1990.
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/ 28 November 2005
Sony has become the latest of the video-game console makers to announce parental controls in its newest machine, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Now, all three major console makers are promising parents the means to help restrict their children’s access to violent video games.
A California judge has sided with Google in an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former manager who alleged the online search-engine leader had fired him because he didn’t fit in with the company’s youthful culture. Brian Reid had been 54 when he filed the suit more than 14 months ago.
The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that organises the development of the Firefox Web browser said on Wednesday it has formed a corporate subsidiary, not to make money but to better focus its activities. Mozilla will work mainly on developing and delivering free software products such as the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail program.
Intel’s second-quarter earnings grew 16% and sales jumped to a record ,23-billion (â,¬7,71-billion) on Tuesday as the world’s largest chip maker continued to profit from the rising popularity of notebook computers and growth in emerging markets.
Microsoft on Wednesday settled a lawsuit that claimed it planned to incorporate a patented networking technology into future versions of the Windows operating system without permission. The agreement grants Microsoft and chipmaker Broadcom access to related patents held by San Jose-based Alacritech for an unspecified fee.
A fire consumed several floors of a busy Costa Rican hospital before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 15 patients, Costa Rican officials said. Nurses broke out windows trying to escape, and many patients fled the hospital on their own. The fire broke out on the fourth or fifth floor of the Calderon Guardia hospital.
A pair of Supreme Court rulings this week is stoking fears that the internet is becoming an ever-more centralised platform for entrenched corporate interests — the antithesis of the digital commons envisioned by technophiles and civil libertarians. But others predict that innovation will actually be encouraged by the rulings.
A United States woman who claimed she found part of a human finger in her fast-food meal has been arrested, police said on Friday, as the digital mystery took a dramatic new turn. Anna Ayala (39) was arrested at her home in the desert gambling town of Las Vegas late on Thursday, officers said.
EBay said this week that the online auction giant is entering the internet classified niche through a new site aimed at international users. The San Jose, California based company launched Kijiji.com on February 28 as a place for users to buy and sell goods and services that are difficult or impossible to ship.
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/ 28 February 2005
Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer’s groundbreaking Macintosh computer but left the company before it came to market, has died. He was 61. Raskin died on Saturday night at his home in Pacifica, his family said in a statement.
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/ 14 February 2005
Andy Roddick can forget his frustrating finish in the Australian Open. The top-seeded Roddick played a near-flawless first set and breezed to a 6-0, 6-4 victory over unseeded Cyril Saulnier of France in 50 minutes to win the SAP Open in the fastest final on the ATP circuit thus far this season.
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/ 10 February 2005
Top seed Andy Roddick launched his defence of the San Jose ATP title with a straight-set victory over United States qualifier Paul Goldstein on Wednesday. Making his first appearance since the Australian Open quarterfinals, Roddick beat Goldstein 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the 000 tournament.
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/ 9 February 2005
Catching up with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel said on Tuesday it will ship a desktop PC microprocessor that can handle significantly larger chunks of data than most of today’s chips. The new 600-series Pentium 4s are the first Intel desktop chips that support a technology called 64-bit memory addressability.
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/ 20 January 2005
Strong holiday sales caused eBay’s profit to surge 44% from the same period last year, and optimistic executives raised their outlook for the rest of 2005. But the online auction giant failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations by a penny per share and its shares fell.
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/ 13 October 2004
Driven by demand for flash memory chips used in cell phones, Intel’s third-quarter profits rose 15% as the chip-making giant struggled to overcome lacklustre PC sales, growing inventory, product missteps and stiff competition. For the three months ended on September 25, Intel earned ,9-billion, or 30 cents per share, on sales of ,5-billion.
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/ 21 September 2004
Call it the kitty’s third life. Roxio bought the Napster brand name and feline logo at a bankruptcy auction two years ago and with the acquisition of another music service, pressplay, relaunched the once-renegade file-swapping pioneer as a legal music service last October.
Google’s initial public stock offering next month will instantly transform hundreds of Silicon Valley workers into millionaires, at least on paper. Google has doled out stock options to virtually all its 2 292 employees. From senior executives to administrative assistants, self-described ”Googlers” get options — which may eventually be sold for cash — when they start work and when they’re promoted.
Apple Computer and the BMW Group on Monday introduced an adapter that allows iPod and BMW customers to plug their music collections directly into their car sound systems. The two companies worked for a year to jointly develop the system that will work in BMW’s newer model 3 Series, Z4 Roadster, X3 and X5 sports utility vehicles and the Mini Cooper.
When Google began its explosive rise nearly six years ago, it was unconventional in its stark layout, absence of annoying banner ads and unprecedented usefulness. Now, preparing for a much-hyped initial public offering, the search engine company has taken unorthodoxy another step. In the filing, co-founder Larry Page promises to make the world ”a better place,” and says the company won’t ”be evil”.