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EDS to Install Software for Pentagon (17 March 09:30) |
| Electronic Data Systems' government unit in Herndon will install new software at the Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center under a five-year contract that could be worth as much as $179 m... |
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Bringing Together AOL's Ad Network (17 March 09:30) |
| Just as soon as AOL veteran Lynda M. Clarizio was promoted last week to lead Platform A, the company's ambitious online advertising network, firecrackers started to go off around her. |
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Astronauts Test Handyman Robot's Brakes (17 March 08:27) |
| HOUSTON -- The international space station's giant new handyman robot got its first checkup on Sunday, with astronauts and flight controllers testing its electronics, joints and brakes. |
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Karaoke That Lets You Compete (16 March 09:30) |
| Simon Cowell thinks I'm awesome. "You are a natural, a complete and utter natural," raves the "American Idol" judge, after I croon the '70s-era song "Come Sail Away" into my Xbox 360. "You'... |
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Seeing Red Over Bid to Clone a Bull (16 March 09:30) |
| MADRID -- Victoriano del R¿o has a favorite animal, a majestic bull named Alcalde, who is nearing the end of his days after faithfully and lucratively siring more than 400 offspring. Loa... |
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Indie labels take e-commerce into their own hands (16 March 02:47) |
| NEW YORK (Billboard) - With their digital download sites, a growing number of indie rock labels have begun to answer the prayers of fans who would love to hear long-out-of-print singles on ... |
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Google Says DoubleClick Deal Cost $3.24B (15 March 02:38) |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc. has pegged the final acquisition price of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. at $3.24 billion, slightly above the value when Internet search leader anno... |
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Microsoft, Yahoo Execs Finally Meet (15 March 02:18) |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. met with Yahoo Inc. to discuss the software maker's unsolicited takeover bid earlier this week, a breakthrough that could be the first step toward a friendl... |
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Microsoft to Buy Web Ad Analysis Company (14 March 05:55) |
| SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Rapt Inc., plugging a hole in its suite of tools for Web publishers and advertisers, the software giant said Friday. |
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Governor Backs Repeal of Tax (14 March 09:30) |
| Gov. Martin O'Malley added his voice yesterday to those calling for a repeal of Maryland's new tax on computer services, saying he would like to see legislators agree on another source of r... |
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AOL to Buy Bebo to Compete In Social-Networking Market (14 March 09:30) |
| AOL announced plans yesterday to buy social-networking site Bebo for $850 million in an attempt to appeal to younger Internet users and expand its online-advertising business. |
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What Did the FCC Do About That? (14 March 09:30) |
| The Federal Communications Commission processes 95 percent of the citizen complaints it receives but does a poor job of tracking how it resolves them, congressional auditors said in a repor... |
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EPA Closure of Libraries Faulted For Curbing Access to Key Data (14 March 09:30) |
| A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libra... |
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Bad News Travels Fast, And Furiously (14 March 09:30) |
| Sex scandals have been tainting American politicians and titillating the public for nearly as long as there have been American politicians and publics. In 1797, former Treasury secretary Al... |
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Game Giant Electronic Arts Begins Hostile Bid for Take-Two (14 March 09:30) |
| Game publisher Electronic Arts is turning to shareholders in its fight to acquire rival Take-Two Interactive Software. The world's largest game publisher announced yesterday that it would p... |
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Gates Predicts Big Technological Leaps (13 March 10:07) |
| WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years. |
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AOL to Pay $850M for Social Network Bebo (13 March 06:50) |
| NEW YORK -- AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business. |
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Gates Calls on Congress For Science Education, Visas (13 March 09:30) |
| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates paid a visit to Capitol Hill yesterday with a familiar wish list: more money for math and science education, more funds for research and more visas for skilled... |
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They're Not Phones. They're Not Laptops. They're Probably Not Necessary. (13 March 09:30) |
| How long can you stand to be without access to the Web? WiFi hotspots can bring the Internet to any new laptop computer, and most cellphones offer a more portable but limited view of the We... |
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System Would Allow Use of All Cellphones (13 March 09:30) |
| Metro is taking the first step toward building a new wireless system that would let all riders talk on their cellphones while riding the subway after years of customer complaints that only ... |
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Sprint Merger Would Be Hard to Undo, Officer Says (13 March 09:30) |
| Sprint Nextel, the wireless carrier formed by the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications in 2005, could not easily be split up again, chief network officer Kathryn A. Walker said yester... |
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For Schools, a High-Stakes Survey on Area Children (13 March 09:30) |
| School officials in Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun counties are teaming up to urge all households to complete a state-required form that will help determine how much money goes to local sch... |
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Gates Seeks More High-Tech Visas (12 March 10:28) |
| WASHINGTON -- More investment in math and science education and a more liberal policy toward skilled foreign workers are crucial if America is to avoid losing its competitive edge in the wo... |
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Don W. Butler, 91; Engineer Was a POW in World War II (12 March 09:30) |
| Don W. Butler, who went to Wake Island in the Pacific in 1940 to help build a military base and ended up a prisoner of war, died of complications of a subdural hematoma Feb. 20 at George Wa... |
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Signing Off at XM (12 March 09:30) |
| Ten years ago, Lee Abrams helped revolutionize radio. Now, he's hoping to do the same to journalism. |
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Google Cleared To Buy Ad Firm (12 March 09:30) |
| PARIS, March 11 -- European regulators Tuesday cleared Google's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Web-advertising giant DoubleClick, a cyber-marriage that would combine their abilities t... |
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Hollywood Tests Tolerance For Ads With Online Video (12 March 09:30) |
| Watching video online has typically entailed viewing short snippets of celebrity news, music videos and homemade clips. But as streaming video becomes more popular, Hollywood is trying to f... |
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Vanished Into Thin Air (12 March 09:30) |
| When something is thin enough to fit into an envelope, light enough to sit on your lap for a couple of hours without discomfort and so compact that it doesn't even bulge in an airline seat-... |
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EU Clears Google Bid for DoubleClick (11 March 07:40) |
| BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union regulators cleared Google's $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick on Tuesday, saying the acquisition won't curb competition for online ads. |
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New Ways To Manage Health Data (11 March 09:30) |
| You already bank online and use computer software to do your taxes. So why don't you trust technology to help you manage your health? Microsoft, Google and more than 100 Web sites offering ... |
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In First for Studios, Paramount Offers Snippets of Movies (11 March 09:30) |
| Paramount Pictures is chopping its feature films into short scenes, some as little as a few seconds, and distributing them free on the Internet, becoming the first major movie studio to ans... |
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U.N. Alleges Nuclear Work By Iran's Civilian Scientists (11 March 09:30) |
| Iranian nuclear engineer Mohsen Fakhrizadeh lectures weekly on physics at Tehran's Imam Hossein University. Yet for more than a decade, according to documents attracting interest among West... |
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Microsoft Health vs.Google Health (11 March 09:30) |
| Personal health records, or PHRs, were all the buzz at last week's health-tech conference in San Diego -- especially recent entries by Google and Microsoft that have the rest of the industr... |
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Connecting . . . (11 March 09:30) |
| Wandering through a foreign airport or strolling down Sixth Avenue to his Manhattan office, Devaraj Southworth is usually staring at his BlackBerry, rapidly tapping out text messages, check... |
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Food Industry Tests Techno-Tasters to Judge Flavor (10 March 09:30) |
| The expert taster sat silently in the brightly lighted room, surrounded by 53 samples of ruby-red wine. |
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Advertising Sent To Cellphones Opens New Front In War on Spam (10 March 09:30) |
| The spam messages that have long plagued e-mail inboxes are now finding victims through a much more personal route: the cellphone. |
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Today's Lesson: Major Disaster (10 March 09:30) |
| Elisabeth Pimentel positioned two metal wands in front of a pink, fleshy gall bladder. With a couple of clean strokes, she snipped at the tissue surrounding the pear-shaped organ, gently cu... |
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Bacterium Gets Wheels Turning on Ethanol Fuel (10 March 09:30) |
| A strain of bacteria accidentally found in the Chesapeake Bay more than 20 years ago -- a bug that decomposes everything from algae to newspapers to crab shells -- could help produce cheape... |
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Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say (10 March 09:30) |
| The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just... |
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Northrop to Continue Updating Weather Data Systems (10 March 09:30) |
| Northrop Grumman Mission Systems of Reston will continue merging systems that provide data about conditions on Earth and in space for the Air Force Weather Agency under a five-year contract... |
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Do-It-Yourself Help for Filing (09 March 10:30) |
| What's worse than paying your taxes? Spending money on a program to tell you how much you'll pay in taxes. But when the alternative to buying a tax-prep application is hours of mind-numbing... |
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Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China (09 March 10:30) |
| GAOLONG, China -- The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn't believe what happened. Stopping between the cornfields and the pr... |
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When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook 'Friend' (09 March 10:30) |
| When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend request. |
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Greener Cell Power Presents Challenges (08 March 03:54) |
| KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- When wireless industry technicians speak of "green" cell towers these days, they're not just talking about making them look more like trees. |
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AOL, CBS Team Up For Radio, Advertising (08 March 10:30) |
| AOL's Internet radio division and CBS Radio yesterday announced a content and advertising partnership that will allow AOL's listeners to access CBS content, including University of Maryland... |
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Terror-Themed Game Suspended (08 March 10:30) |
| NEW YORK -- In the video game that Wafaa Bilal created, his avatar is steely-eyed and hooded, with an automatic rifle at his side, an ammunition belt around his waist, a fuse in his hand an... |
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Washington Prepares for Cyber War Games (07 March 06:14) |
| The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games throughout next week to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks. |
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Radios Don't Work In Metro's New Cars (07 March 10:30) |
| The radios in Metro's highly publicized new rail cars are not compatible with the agency's troubled radio network, so train operators must rely on handheld radios to communicate with the sy... |
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Anti-Terrorism Efforts Hailed (07 March 10:30) |
| Islamic extremists have been targeting Europe instead of the United States because the Bush administration has made a domestic attack much more difficult through improvements in U.S. travel... |
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Features Added to iPhone (07 March 10:30) |
| Apple said yesterday that it added business features to the iPhone and will let outside developers create programs for it. |
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