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U.S. woman posed as teen online, teased girl: attorney (Reuters)
Reuters - A Missouri woman established a fake identity online to torment a vulnerable teenage girl who later committed suicide, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday in a trial that is being closely watched by the burgeoning social networking industry.
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Guns N' Roses album to debut on MySpace (CNET)
CNET - Guns N' Roses fans who have waited 17 years to hear the rock band's new album are mere hours from having their patience rewarded with a free Web debut before it goes on sale next week.
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Microsoft: New software not Symantec, McAfee rival (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's upcoming security software is not designed to take sales from Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc as it is a stripped-down, free product that focuses purely on anti-virus protection, a Microsoft executive said.
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Irish the heaviest users of mobile phones: Ofcom (Reuters)
Reuters - Residents in the Republic of Ireland spent the most time on their mobile phones and sent the most text messages per head in the world in 2007, according to a report which examines changes in the communications industry.
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Ballmer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving more than 20 percent.
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E-mail in zero G: NASA develops network for space (AP)
AP - In space, no one can hear you scream. But scoring an Internet hookup suddenly isn't out of the question.
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Ruby hailed as economic solution, offering smaller investment and less risk (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Advocates for the Ruby programming language on Wednesday hailed its usefulness as an enterprise application development option, especially in a down economy.
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`Fake Steve Jobs' stops blogging as the 'Real Dan' (AP)
AP - It was bad enough when Dan Lyons stopped sharing his musings about the technology scene in a hilarious satire of what Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs would be like as a blogger.
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New Xbox Experience Launched To Battle Sony's Offering (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft launched its New Xbox Experience on Wednesday, expanding the existing service to compete with Sony in turning the video-game console into an entertainment hub.
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Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell this week are announcing upcoming availability of both the beta version of Moonlight, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, and the general release of Advanced Management Pack for Suse Linux Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
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China's Baidu.com fights to rescue reputation (AP)
AP - Baidu.com has been the star of China's Internet world. But now the search engine dubbed "China's Google" is scrambling to rescue its reputation after state TV accused it of letting unlicensed suppliers of medical products pay for higher rankings on its results page without alerting users.
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Google gives online life to Life mag's photos (AP)
AP - Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
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Microsoft to offer free security software (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats.
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NASA tests "deep space Internet" (AFP)
AFP - The US space agency NASA said it successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
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DoCoMo, KTF to sell Google phone next year: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc and South Korean partner KTF Co will jointly develop a smartphone using Google Inc software for launch next year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.
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Facebook application plan rankles some developers (AP)
AP - Facebook plans to start charging for verifying applications built for the social network an optional process that has upset some developers despite the company's assurances it will bring plenty of positive benefits.
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Mobile considers free Wi-Fi for downtown upgrade (AP)
AP - Mobile officials are considering providing free, wireless Internet services in the downtown district, joining the ranks of other cities with free wi-fi for roving laptop users on Main Street.
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Yahoo's fate riding on Yang's successor as CEO (AP)
AP - With Jerry Yang quitting as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive, the Internet company's board will confront pivotal questions as it looks for a new leader.
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National Geographic Launches Video-Game Division (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - National Geographic on Tuesday announced a new twist for the science and educational organization -- video games.
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