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Microsoft to acquire Internet phone pioneer Skype
Microsoft announced Tuesday it is buying Internet phone service company Skype for $8.5 billion dollars cash in the largest acquisition ever by the U.S. computer software giant.
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Internet giant Google could launch an online music service as early as Tuesday to rival Amazon’s "cloud" service, which allows users to store digital music online, the Wall Street Journal reported.
U.S. high-tech giant Apple said staff at its flagship Beijing store acted in self-defence when a fight broke out, resulting in injuries to a customer who has since been compensated, reports said Tuesday.
Social Media
Despite age restrictions on some social media sites, the number of U.S. parents who would allow children 10-12 years old to have a Facebook or MySpace account has doubled in a year, a new survey showed.
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Canada new breeding ground for cybercrime
Canada has become the new breeding ground for cybercrime, according to an analysis released Monday. The American online-security company Websense found...
Microsoft buys Skype: At $8.5 billion a deal or a disaster?
Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has just been announced and already the debate is on. Is it is a good for Microsoft? And what about ...
Creating a camera carrier that takes the weight off: Cotton Carrier
Like many photographers, Andy (Cotton) Chamberlayne tired of lugging heavy cameras around his neck. But Chamberlayne didn't just complain about it...
Best of YouTube
Best of YouTube: Week of May 09, 2011
Here's a look at the latest videos making the rounds on YouTube this week.
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Smartphone wave sweeping mobile market away
Cellphones purchased just five years ago are already approaching typewriter status, thanks to a tech tide that's caused smartphones to officially overtake traditional mobile devices in Canada.
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Gizmos & Gadgets
Oy Gevalt! Yiddish cell phone launches in Israel
Israel’s kosher cellular phone market has a new model, a device with a Yiddish interface to help devout Jews combine tradition with modern technology.
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Gizmos & Gadgets
Indian brides told to put down their mobile phones
An Indian state has told newly-wedded women to avoid talking too much on their mobile phones for the first two years of marriage in case it provokes jealousy from their husbands.
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HP gunning for Cisco in computer network arena
Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled business computer networking gear tailored for modern Internet demands, taking direct aim at Cisco in a multi-billion-dollar market.
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U.S. privacy groups welcome ‘Do Not Track’ bill
Privacy and consumer groups welcomed a "Do Not Track" bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Monday that would let Internet users block companies from gathering information about their online activities.
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SETI Institute’s search for aliens hits a budgetary black hole
The nonprofit SETI Institute, the Bay Area organization that runs the Allen Telescope Array, is scrambling to keep the project alive.
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Where birds fly offers clues to man
Each December a hardy flock of birdwatchers scatters across Mecklenburg County in North Carolina for the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, which has tracked bird movements for more than a century.
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Space shuttle Endeavour gets green light for May 16 launch
The space shuttle Endeavour got a green light Monday to launch on 8:56 a.m. EDT on May 16, even though NASA is not certain about the root cause of an electrical failure that scrubbed the April 29 launch attempt.
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Osama bin Laden hideout a videogame battleground
Images of the Pakistani compound where Osama bin Laden made his final stand have been turned into a videogame battleground.
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Microsoft Xbox LIVE alert after PlayStation hack
Microsoft has warned users of its Xbox Live online gaming service of possible attempts to steal personal data after the Sony PlayStation Network was hacked.
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Nintendo drops Wii price with new model on horizon
Nintendo is cutting the price of Wii consoles that introduced motion-sensing controls to the video-game industry in 2006.
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Sony to brief media on data theft
Sony Corp's No. 2, Kazuo Hirai, to brief media about a huge security breach of its PlayStation Network — the first time an executive of the Japanese electronics giant will publicly address the case.
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