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7 hours 6 min ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Word of mouth is one of the most common ways homebuyers and sellers find a real estate agent. Now, there are several Web sites that tout a more scientific approach: ranking agents based on criteria such as years of experience, how many sales they've closed, and the number of positive testimonials from past clients....
7 hours 14 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has banned, at least temporarily, the use of external computer flash drives because of a virus threat officials detected on Defense Department networks....
7 hours 24 min ago
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maybe there's something to face-to-face interaction after all....
7 hours 47 min ago
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?...
7 hours 52 min ago
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Two engineers from China were sentenced to a year in prison Friday for stealing computer chip designs from their Silicon Valley employers and trying to smuggle the secrets to their homeland to launch a government-backed startup there....
9 hours 12 min ago
TEN SLEEP, Wyo. (AP) -- The nearest Wal-Mart is two hours away, and only foul weather, a deer in the road or a Washakie County sheriff's deputy would slow down anyone with a mind to drive there faster....
9 hours 28 min ago
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Not everyone is slashing jobs in these grim economic times. Microsoft Corp. has no plans to cut back on research spending and plans to add workers in the coming year, senior executive Craig Mundie said Friday....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 23:49
Dell Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit sank 5 percent as concerns about the deepening economic crisis crimped corporate spending on computers and other technology products....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 18:33
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving an early holiday gift to people who pay for all-you-can-listen access to the Zune digital music store: 10 songs to keep each month, included in the $14.99 monthly subscription fee....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 18:16
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 15:01
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:30
KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Shareholders of telecommunications company Clearwire Corp. have approved a plan to merge with Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless broadband network....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:10
NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite the bad economy, U.S. Internet advertising revenue rose in the third quarter, according to an analysis released Thursday....
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 05:59
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving more than 20 percent....
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 23:02
NEW YORK (AP) -- With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. has fired back at Apple Inc. in the Great Smart Phone Skirmish of 2008....
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 19:41
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- After 27 years as a print publication, PC Magazine is ditching its print edition and going online-only in February....
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 18:36
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Akamai Technologies Inc., a Web content provider, said Wednesday it is cutting 7 percent of its work force in the fourth quarter as part of a restructuring to save on costs....
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 16:35
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In space, no one can hear you scream. But scoring an Internet hookup suddenly isn't out of the question....
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 15:59
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- It was bad enough when Dan Lyons stopped sharing his musings about the technology scene in a hilarious satire of what Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs would be like as a blogger....
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 14:36
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will include millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before....