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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
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 AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.
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02/08/2010 07:05 PM
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Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
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 AP - Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
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02/08/2010 03:31 PM
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MySpace Music experiments with audio ads
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AP - Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.
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02/08/2010 06:46 PM
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Chinese police shut down hacker training business
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AP - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.
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02/08/2010 03:26 AM
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Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract
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AP - Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network.
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02/08/2010 09:22 PM
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PayPal halts certain payment transactions in India
(AP)
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AP - The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week.
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02/06/2010 09:25 PM
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China plans online gambling crackdown
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Reuters - China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website.
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02/08/2010 09:34 PM
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Control Your Nokia N900 With Sony's Sixaxis Controller
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PC World - We recently stumbled across a hack that allowed the Nokia N900 to run Mac OS X. Now another mod has surfaced, but this time it's all about gaming.
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02/08/2010 04:59 PM
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Nuance Communications narrows 1Q loss
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AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased.
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02/08/2010 09:10 PM
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TiVo: Doritos' 'House Rules' Ad Wins Super Bowl
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PC Magazine - Doritos' ad featuring a tough-as-nails kid slapping some sense into his mother's date stole the show as the most-watched Super Bowl ad, according to data collected by the TiVo "Stop Watch" service.
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02/08/2010 05:17 AM
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EA in the red for 12th quarter in a row
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 AFP - US videogame giant Electronic Arts was unable to fight its way out of the red over the Christmas holidays, and has posted a net loss for the 12th consecutive quarter.
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02/08/2010 09:33 PM
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Rumor: Core i7 Coming Soon to MacBook Pro?
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PC World - Rumors are hinting that an upgrade to Apple's MacBook Pro notebook line could be coming in the near future. The rumor comes courtesy of French site Nowhere Else, which claims that Apple will reveal updated Macbook Pro's featuring Intel's newest Core i7 chips. '
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02/08/2010 07:54 PM
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SAP CEO Abruptly Resigns; Co-CEOs Will Take Over
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NewsFactor - Leading business-software maker SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) on Monday announced a strategic shift in the corporate suite. Léo Apotheker has resigned as CEO and member of the SAP executive board, effective immediately. The abrupt decision came as part of a "mutual agreement" with the company's supervisory board not to extend Apotheker's contract as a member of the executive board.
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02/08/2010 04:26 PM
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Intel, IBM roll out new computer network chips
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 AFP - US technology titans IBM and Intel have rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers.
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02/08/2010 09:27 PM
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Summary Box: New attack shows security chip hole
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AP - CRACKING THE UNCRACKABLE: A former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has found a way to break into a type of chip that protects the most important secrets inside many personal computers.
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02/08/2010 03:54 PM
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