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| Bluetooth "Big Brother" Tracks Festival-Goers Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival. ... More |
| Treasure Hunt Gets Digital Update In WiFi Venice Treasure Hunting will go fully digital on Friday night when players chase a mysterious oriental wand with special powers along the narrow streets and bridges of Venice. ... More |
| MySpace Suicide Conviction Tentatively Dismissed A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona. ... More |
| Broadband Industry Group Say U.S. Rules Go Too Far U.S. government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws. ... More |
| First Solid-State Quantum Chip Is Created A U.S.-led team of physicists says it has created the first rudimentary, solid-state quantum processor, ... More |
| NY Thieves Want iPhones, Victims Fight Back Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology. ... More |
| Oracle Plans To Lay Off Up To 1,000 In Europe: AFP Oracle Corp plans to lay off up to 1,000 workers in Europe, or about 1 percent of its global staff, as the recession erodes the giant software company's earnings. ... More |
| Gamer Steals From Virtual World To Pay Real Debts Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market. ... More |
| Intel-Nokia Tie Takes Few Years To Succeed: Barrett Intel Corp's former chief executive and chairman, Craig Barrett, said on Thursday it would take "a few years" to see whether Intel's technology partnership with Nokia succeeds. ... More |
| Web Advertisers Propose Self-Regulation Principles Online advertisers are proposing a mix of consumer education, disclosures about what information is being collected and special protections for children and sensitive information in an effort to head off tough legislation. ... More |
| Jay Leno Wins Cybersquatting Case In a ruling issued on Thursday, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said Leno had common law trademark rights to his name after a 30-year career in entertainment. ... More |
| Fame, Fortune For Web Tutors In Education-Crazy South Korea For a teacher who never sees his students and instructs only online, South Korean Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a lot of money, $4 million a year to be exact. ... More |
| Carphone To Sell Vodafone Contracts Again British telecoms and retail group Carphone Warehouse will offer contracts from Vodafone from next week in its 820 stores, ending a three-year dispute. ... More |
| MySpace, Web Servers Not Liable For Assaults: Court Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website. ... More |
| China Paper Says Web Filter Only A Matter Of Time It is only a matter of time before a controversial scheme to install Internet filtering software on all computers begins in China, a state newspaper said on Thursday. ... More |