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  7 Feb 06, 11:00

  Sony Ericsson's music-playing messenger
  
  Sony Ericsson has taken the wraps off its newest messaging-focused phone, which may remind you of an iPod but is not meant to remind you of a smart phone.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:01

  Source: Sony may spin off four units
  
  Sony is in discussions to sell sizeable stakes in four "non-core" businesses, including a retail outlet and a French restaurant launched by the late Sony founder Akio Morita, a source close the matter said on Saturday.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:02

  Web hits the beach for surfing contest
  
  File this one under authentic Web surfing--the kind that features wet suits, fiberglass boards and potentially bone-crushing 30-foot waves.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:05

  Would Thomas Jefferson have Googled?
  
  Google's Book Library Project would be applauded by at least one of America's founding fathers, the University of Michigan's president said Monday during her keynote at a national publishers meeting.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:06

  Disney's MovieBeam spin-off gets Cisco investment
  
  Cisco Systems said Monday that it has made an investment in MovieBeam, the on-demand movie service Walt Disney Co. spun off in January.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:07

  Viewers of Bowl ads rush to Internet
  
  The fact that most of the Super Bowl ads were ho-hum didn't stop viewers from checking out advertisers' Web sites or using search engines for queries related to the commercials.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:34

  BitTorrent to crack down on use of name
  
  The creators of the BitTorrent file-swapping application will soon begin cracking down on how other software developers use the BitTorrent name, company President Ashwin Navin said Monday.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:36

  Blog world growing by leaps and bounds
  
  The blogosphere is in the middle of a big bang.
  
  According to the blog trackers at Technorati, a company that indexes and searches blog postings, the number of blogs online is doubling about every five and a half months.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:37

  Gonzales: NSA may tap 'ordinary' Americans' e-mail
  
  WASHINGTON--Agents operating a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program may have inadvertently spied on the e-mails and phone calls of Americans with no ties to terrorists, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:39

  Disney profit up, ABC radio unit to merge with Citadel
  
  The Walt Disney Co. posted on Monday a 7 percent rise in first-quarter profit as improved results at its theme park, television and consumer products units outweighed a weak performance at its movie studio.
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  7 Feb 06, 11:39

  Comic rappers battle for cred
  
  In the '90s, the rap world became embroiled in a bitter and sometimes violent rivalry between Sean "Puffy" Combs' New York-based Bad Boy Records and Suge Knight's Los Angeles label, Death Row Records.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:05

  CNET sells Computer Shopper
  
  Media company CNET Networks, publisher of CNET News.com, on Monday said it was selling its monthly Computer Shopper magazine to SX2 Media Labs.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:07

  Google blacklists BMW.de
  
  Google has blacklisted BMW.de after the carmaker violated the search giant's guidelines by using a technique that could artificially boost its search engine rating, according to a Google engineer.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:08

  Networks' iTunes gamble paying off
  
  Television networks took a leap into the unknown when they started selling their shows on Apple Computer's iTunes online store, but even in these early days, it's starting to look as if that faith in digital downloads was well-placed.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:11

  Secure RSS feeds from SimpleFeed
  
  SimpleFeed said it will on Monday begin offering companies the ability to send RSS (really simple syndication) feeds that are safe from phishing, spam and viruses.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:12

  Don't blow it, Congress
  
  As Congress begins writing new telecom legislation, a big question is whether Internet users will have the same broad freedom to access applications and content as before, or whether their online experience will be controlled by companies supplying your Net access.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:13

  Some companies helped the NSA, but which?
  
  This is the first in a two-part series. Coming Tuesday (US time), part two: A glimpse at the technical details of how the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance system seems to work.
  
  Even after the recent scrutiny of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance project approved by President Bush, an intriguing question remains unanswered: Which corporations cooperated with the spy agency?
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  7 Feb 06, 12:15

  NASA budget emphasizes space exploration
  
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Science will play a diminishing role at NASA as the space agency emphasizes lunar exploration in the next five years, according to a new governmental budget.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:16

  Face transplant patient aims to resume normal life
  
  AMIENS, France--The French woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant said Monday that she was grateful simply to have a face "like everybody else" and hopes to resume a normal life quickly.
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  7 Feb 06, 12:20

  A video slam-dunk for the NBA
  
  Garrick Barr, a computer hobbyist and former college basketball player, is trying to merge both of his passions into one sports technology company.