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FRANCISCO--The question was surely on the minds of many
as a top Apple executive spoke Tuesday at a major cell
phone trade show: When will Apple adapt its QuickTime
media player for cell phones, driving a wave of mobile
music download stores? |
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>> Apple unveils color iPod, U2 edition |
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The color
model can also be used to
display photos, either on its own screen or on a TV
set. It comes in two capacities: a 40GB model for $499
and a 60GB version for $599. The screen is capable of
displaying 65,536 colors |
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New Microsoft set-top box
ready to roll |
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On the outside, it's slick, with new
video-playback and photo-viewing programs, and a custom
version of Internet Explorer 6 designed to make Web
browsing on the television a far less painful process.
On the inside, it's a Windows CE-based product with a
733MHz Celeron--slow by PC standards but downright zippy
in the world of set-top boxes. |
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FDIC warns about e-mail
'phishing' scam |
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC),
perhaps best known as an insurer of bank deposits,
issued its warning about so-called "phishing" eight
months after criminals began misappropriating its name
and reputation to perpetrate e-mail fraud. |
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Game puts players in Kerry's boat |
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Military game specialist Kuma Reality Games will let
players make up their own answers in a couple of weeks,
when it releases a new adventure based on presidential
candidate John Kerry's Vietnam War service |
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Have the browser wars been
reignited? |
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People have assumed for several years that browser wars
were over. Microsoft took down upstart Netscape and
weathered an ugly antitrust trial after the smoke
cleared. One tactic, however, might be backfiring. Tying
Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system has
largely prevented the company from adding new features
separately from the operating system. With the next
version of Windows
expected in 2006, that's a five-year gap. |
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Microsoft corrals Longhorn |
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To meet its deadline of 2006 for the ambitious revision
of Windows, Microsoft has lopped off one key element,
the WinFS file system, and is making changes to others.
But the operating system won't lack for features,
executives say. Developers, meanwhile, are of two minds
about the changes. |
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Epson aims to turn TVs into printers: |
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Consumers
will soon be able to to print product catalogs and magazines
from their television sets, if Epson has its way.
Such
convergence between televisions and printers is already
happening. In Japan, for instance, Epson has a share in the
Megaport digital broadcasting station, the company said at a
recent press event in China. |
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Nokia pitches baseball to phones: |
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Nokia is
bringing baseball to cell phones. Noting that the
arrangement will not deliver many of the aesthetic pleasures
of the ballpark, such as the smell of hot dogs and fresh-cut
grass, the phone maker nonetheless announced its pleasure at
winning a programming deal with Major League Baseball on
Tuesday.
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Viagra maker cracks down on counterfeit
Net sales: |
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Pfizer, the
maker of Viagra, has launched a legal battle against
dozens of online pharmacies that sell counterfeit or
illegal generic versions of its drug
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Worm sleeps
to avoid detection: |
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The latest
mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it
suspects that antivirus software is trying to detect
it....8 |
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Dell, HP offer recycling deals: |
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Consumers can turn in unwanted electronics gadgets for
recycling this summer at more than 850 Office Depot
stores throughout the country through a deal announced
Tuesday between the retailer and Hewlett Packard... |
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Is Real's
iPod "hacking" legal? |
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Code-crackers risk fines and prison time when they
defeat copy-protection technology, but such draconian
rules likely don't apply in the case of RealNetworks and
its iPod "hack," legal experts said. |
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Microsoft puts multisearch tool on
show: |
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REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft on
Thursday revealed the progress it has made in building
search technology when it showed off a tool that can
comb both the Internet and a PC's hard drive... |
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iPod helps
police nab alleged car thief: |
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Adeagbo was
allegedly the head of a car crime gang known as the
"iPod Crew," which had been using identity theft tactics
to get finance agreements that allowed them to drive off
with posh cars--Jaguars, BMWs and the like... |
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