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LOS ANGELES — Microsoft introduced what it said would be a slimmer and more responsive version of its Windows operating system on Tuesday, while unceremoniously dropping the brand name Vista for the new product.
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The new version will instead be [...]

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Nearly 40 years after the Beatles broke up, the band looks to be taking its first step into the digital future.
MTV Networks is expected to announce Thursday a licensing arrangement with the Beatles that may bring the band’s songs to the company’s popular Rock Band video game.
Speculation about a licensing deal emerged [...]

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WHY buy a new car when you can upgrade the one you have with the latest technology? Here are some new gadgets that will not only make life behind the wheel more comfortable but may also end up saving you money.
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Black & Decker’s SmartScan is a diagnostic tool that [...]

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — With falling revenue, problematic acquisitions, product slips and a stock that has lost three-quarters of its value in the last year, Sun Microsystems is finding that Wall Street is losing patience.
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Jonathan I. Schwartz, Sun Microsystems’ chief executive, says weakness in the broader economy [...]

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Two of the scrappiest bantamweights in Silicon Valley, Netflix and TiVo, are expected to announce a long-awaited partnership on Thursday.
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Netflix will place its Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo’s HD-compatible set-top boxes, furthering the technology industry’s goal of sending television [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — I.B.M. sued one of its top executives on Thursday in an attempt to prevent him from taking a position at Apple.
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The company said that the executive, Mark Papermaster, who until last week had been manager in charge of the company’s [...]

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Ford’s Sync operates cellphones and media players by voice.
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ONE day, your car might be able to drive itself while you chat on the phone or watch television. But until that [...]

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TOKYO — Sony reported a 72 percent drop in profit in the most recent quarter on Wednesday, hurt by a stronger yen and the global slowdown.
The poor results were expected, after the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment conglomerate last week cut its annual profit forecast for the fiscal year through March [...]

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WASHINGTON — The 2008 presidential campaign, now almost two years old, may be the most polled election in history, leading to the creation, and the increasing popularity, of Web sites that aggregate and average each day’s wave of new polls so voters do not have to.
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SAN FRANCISCO — How much money can criminals make scaring naïve computer users? Try $5 million a year.
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SecureWorks
A pop-up that appears on computers, aimed at persuading users they need the Antivirus XP program, for $49.95.
That is how much a marketing associate of one [...]

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