Technology News
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Microsoft, NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:45PM July 16, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.
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Study: Viewers turning to YouTube as news source
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:21PM July 16, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.
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Nokia cuts US price of flagship smartphone
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:15PM July 16, 2012 CommentHELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has halved the price of the Lumia 900 in the United States in an effort to boost sales of its flagship Windows smartphone, the cellphone manufacturer announced on Monday.
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Behind the TV channel blackouts: stalling profits
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:13AM July 16, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Channel blackouts such as the one that resulted from the recent spat between Viacom and DirecTV have become far more common over the past three years. Consumers can thank the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry.
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Evidence shows Syrian security got comms from West
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:41AM July 16, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — As violence began racing through Syria last year, two European contractors were putting the finishing touches on an encrypted radio system that Syrian officials intended for their security forces, according to leaked company emails and three senior employees involved in the project.
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Microsoft, NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:27PM July 15, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.
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Blackberry maker loses patent suit over software
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:35PM July 14, 2012 CommentA federal jury in San Francisco has found beleaguered Blackberry maker Research in Motion Ltd. liable for $147.2 million in damages for infringing on patents held by Mformation Technologies Inc.
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Nvidia: 400,000 coded passwords may have been hit
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:45PM July 13, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — U.S. semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp. says up to 400,000 users of its forums have had their encrypted passwords compromised in attacks dating back to early July.
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Facebook Stock Falls 3 Percent For the Week
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:43PM July 13, 2012 Comment
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NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's stock has had another down week.
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Price hike still haunts Netflix stock 1 year later
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:23PM July 13, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is more popular among couch potatoes than investors a year after its polarizing decision to raise U.S. prices for video subscription services.
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Apple returns to environmental ratings list
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10PM July 13, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. said Friday that it is putting its products back on an environmental ratings registry, saying it made a mistake in removing them from the list.
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Yahoo's interim CEO faces off with shareholders
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:54AM July 13, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo's restless shareholders let interim CEO Ross Levinsohn know that they won't give him much time to fix the troubled company if he gets the job on a permanent basis.
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U.S. Social Media Account in China Disappears
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:30AM July 13, 2012 Comment
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BEIJING (AP) — A widely read microblog written by the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai and known for its sometimes tongue-in-cheek comments about China's social and political issues was inaccessible Friday.
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Future 'Assassin's Creed' games may not leap ahead
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:32PM July 12, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — The next installment of "Assassin's Creed" may take a trip further back in time.
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US retail sales of video games fell for 7th month
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:04PM July 12, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A new report says U.S. retail sales of video-game hardware, software and accessories fell for a seventh consecutive month.
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A look at Netflix since much-hated price hike
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:27PM July 12, 2012 CommentThursday marked one year since Netflix announced an unpopular price increase in the U.S. It has bounced back this year to revive its subscriber growth, though its stock remains 70 percent down from its peak about a year ago.
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NBC launches 2 apps to watch the Olympics
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:13PM July 12, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — NBC launched two mobile apps that will let people watch Olympics events as they happen, look up athlete profiles and access other extra content on their iPads, iPhones and certain Android devices.
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Review: More adventures, insights with Potter site
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:29PM July 12, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Shortly before the Harry Potter saga came to an end on movie screens a year ago, we were teased with more adventures about the young wizard through a website called Pottermore.
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Yahoo's interim CEO faces off with shareholders
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:08PM July 12, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo's restless shareholders let interim CEO Ross Levinsohn know that they won't give him much time to fix the troubled company if he gets the job on a permanent basis.
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Yahoo Confirms Theft of 450,000 Users' Passwords
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:18PM July 12, 2012 Comment
Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
LONDON (AP) — Some 450,000 Yahoo users' email addresses and passwords have been leaked because of a security breach, the company confirmed Thursday, adding that just a small fraction of the stolen passwords were valid.
