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[Medianews] Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secrets Suit

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[Medianews] Digeo Chooses Samsung to Make Set-Top Boxes

Digeo Chooses Samsung to Make Set-Top Boxes By SAUL HANSELL April 4, 2005 Digeo, a company that designs software for set-top boxes used with cable television systems, will announce today that it has selected Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, to make its next generation of boxes. The

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[Medianews] Amazon.com Offers Harry Potter Fans Delivery of ``Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' on the Day It is Released

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[Medianews] Krause v. Titleserv, Inc.

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[Medianews] Verizon Brings VoiceWing Internet-Based Calling to Massachusetts for as Low as $19.95 a Month

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[Medianews] Maine Joins Fight to Keep Pay Phones

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[Medianews] Mathematician untangles legendary problem

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[Medianews] Test Driving a Home Defibrillator

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[Medianews] The Best Photo Organizers

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[Medianews] Deal may let Comcast grow in state / Firm expected to try to join its franchises with those of Adelphia

Deal may let Comcast grow in state Firm expected to try to join its franchises with those of Adelphia By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | April 9, 2005 An $18 billion bid for bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corp. by the nation's two biggest cable companies will likely lead to Comcast Corp.

[Medianews] HDTV on Your Mac

HDTV on Your Mac by Erica Sadun, author of Modding Mac OS X 03/29/2005 So the other night, I popped over to Target to pick up an antenna. You remember what those are, don't you? Those telescoping metallic things that connect to television sets? That predate cable? Rabbit ears? I was about to

[Medianews] Schedule HackTV with iCal

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[Medianews] Build an iTunes Remote Control

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[Medianews] Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your Life? Parts of It, Maybe

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States Scramble To Protect Data Dozens of Privacy Bills Introduced After Spate of Security Breaches By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 9, 2005; Page E01 Legislatures in more than two dozen states are considering ways to give consumers more control over personal

[Medianews] Reporters get credit for simple ID switch

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[Medianews] President Bush's iPod

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/politics/11letter.html (Earlier today the headline was Tunes for the Freewheelin' George Bush) White House Letter President Bush's iPod By ELISABETH BUMILLER April 11, 2005 WASHINGTON Between his return on Friday from Pope John Paul II's funeral in Rome and

[Medianews] AFL-CIO Paywatch Website

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[Medianews] In Britain, Apple's iTunes Fans Have Reason to Be Confused

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[Medianews] Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience

Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience by Michael Geist Abstract Canada is in the midst of a contentious copyright reform with advocates for stronger copyright protection maintaining that the Internet has led to widespread infringement that has harmed the

[Medianews] Computer-aided music distribution: The future of selection, retrieval and transmission

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[Medianews] Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29

Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29 - Apr 12, 2005 08:30 AM (PR Newswire) More Than 200 New Features Innovations CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple(R) today announced that Mac OS(R) X version 10.4 Tiger will go on sale Friday, April 29, beginning at

[Medianews] Apple Announces Mac OS X Server 'Tiger'

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[Medianews] HP Introduces Spring Lineup of Digital Music Offerings

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[Medianews] OnStar Debuts 'Out of the Blue' 30-Minute Documercial

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Tougher laws, penalties will help protect us By Tom Mashberg/ Identity Fraud Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - Updated: Apr. 13, 2005 12:31 AM EST Last of a three-part series on identity fraud. After just four days as a data entry clerk at a members' club in Philadelphia, Stephanie Mobley knew

[Medianews] Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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[Medianews] Polo Ralph Lauren Customers' Data Stolen

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[Medianews] Verizon Wireless International Roaming

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[Medianews] Review: Multifunction Inkjet Printers

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[Medianews] Riding iTrike With iTunes

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[Medianews] The iPod Out Loud: Testing Speaker Attachments

April 13, 2005 The iPod Out Loud: Testing Speaker Attachments By WALTER S. MOSSBERG Many people who use Apple iPods have grown so attached to the digital music players that they want to listen to them at home as well as on the go. So it makes sense that many different accessories are

[Medianews] Court Orders EchoStar to Carry Channel

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[Medianews] HP Completes Acquisition of Snapfish

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[Medianews] Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment

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[Medianews] Tufts warns alumni on breach / Computer attack exposed names, numbers to theft

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[Medianews] Court rules common law protects recordings made before U.S. copyright law

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[Medianews] Verizon Wireless International Long Distance Value Plan

Verizon Wireless Makes It More Affordable to Stay Connected Around the World for Business or for Fun - Apr 18, 2005 04:58 PM (PR Newswire) International Long Distance Value Plan Offers Rates Starting at $.09 per Minute BEDMINSTER, N.J., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless,

[Medianews] Wireless Community Supports DVB-H Open Standard, Encourages Competition and Innovation for Burgeoning Digital TV Market

Wireless Community Supports DVB-H Open Standard, Encourages Competition and Innovation for Burgeoning Digital TV Market - Apr 18, 2005 01:22 PM (PR Newswire) Crown Castle Mobile Media, DiBcom, Freescale, Intel, Microtune, Nokia, O2, S-Communications, Silicon Software Systems

[Medianews] Markey targets credit ID theft: Wants to put security freeze power in consumers' hands

Markey targets credit ID theft: Wants to put security freeze power in consumers' hands By Thomas Caywood and Tom Mashberg Monday, April 18, 2005 - Updated: 12:06 PM EST Stunned by the ease with which identity thieves are obtaining credit cards in other people's names, a Bay State congressman

[Medianews] Congress renews interest in identity theft

Congress renews interest in identity theft By Associated Press Friday, April 15, 2005 - Updated: 12:17 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Responding to outrage from consumers whose personal information has been stolen from companies, Congress is primed to pass new laws to try to prevent break-ins and to

[Medianews] Re: Credit Information Stolen From DSW Stores

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted - Apr 18, 2005 10:34 PM (AP Online) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Thieves who accessed a DSW Shoe Warehouse database obtained 1.4 million credit card numbers and the names on those accounts _ 10 times more than investigators estimated last month.

[Medianews] Verizon Wireless Makes 'IN' About More Than Calling

Verizon Wireless Makes 'IN' About More Than Calling - Apr 19, 2005 09:15 AM (PR Newswire) IN Messaging Lets Verizon Wireless Customers Send and Receive Unlimited Mobile to Mobile TXT, PIX and FLIX Messages BEDMINSTER, N.J., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting

[Medianews] America Online Launches Major Campaign against Phishing

America Online Launches Major Campaign against Phishing - Apr 20, 2005 08:00 AM (BusinessWire) DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2005--America Online Inc.: -- Round-the-Clock Blocking of Suspected Scam/Identity Theft Sites Supplements Other Anti-Phishing Tools,

[Medianews] Cingular Wireless Posts Solid First-Quarter Results:

Cingular Wireless Posts Solid First-Quarter Results: - Apr 20, 2005 06:00 AM (PR Newswire) -- Net subscriber additions of more than 1.4 million -- 50.4 million subscribers at quarter's end -- Gross subscriber additions of 4.8 million -- Monthly subscriber churn

[Medianews] VeriSign Reports First Quarter 2005 Results

VeriSign Reports First Quarter 2005 Results - Apr 20, 2005 04:10 PM (PR Newswire) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today

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