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Google, the Internet company, said Tuesday that its YouTube video sharing Web site was being blocked in China.
The company said it did not know why the YouTube site was being blocked, but on Tuesday, a report in China’s official Xinhua News Agency accused supporters of the Dalai Lama of fabricating a video that appears [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — A small Web site operator filed an antitrust suit against Google on Tuesday, accusing it of unfairly manipulating its advertising system to harm a potential competitor.
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TradeComet.com, which operates a site called SourceTool.com, a vertical search engine for those seeking business products and services, accused Google [...]

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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — The payments processor Heartland Payment Systems said Tuesday that the system it used to process Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card transactions was breached last year, but asserted that merchant and customer data were not affected.
The chief financial officer, Robert H.B. Baldwin Jr., said the company found evidence of an [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) Co. said late Thursday that it would stop a distributor from selling its products in Iran. The computer and printer maker acknowledged that it knew the sales were occurring despite trade sanctions on Iran, but maintained it did nothing illegal and was halting the practice [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc. denied that it had reversed its stance on the issue of ”Net neutrality” and dismissed a story in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal on the subject as ”confused.”
Citing undisclosed sources, the newspaper reported that Google had been in talks with major cable and [...]

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Since MP3s first became popular a decade ago, music industry executives have obsessed over this question: when would digital music revenue finally surpass compact disc sales?
For Atlantic Records, the label that in years past has delivered artists like Ray Charles, John Coltrane and Led Zeppelin, that time, apparently, is now.
Atlantic, a unit of Warner [...]

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Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, told shareholders on Wednesday that the company was no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo, setting off a 21 percent decline in Yahoo’s share price.
Skip to next paragraphRelatedNow Comes the Hard Part as Yahoo Wrestles With a Question of Direction (November 19, 2008)
“We’ve moved on,” Mr. Ballmer [...]

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Apple’s new executive in charge of iPods and iPhones must stop work immediately because he may have violated an agreement with his former employer, I.B.M., a New York judge ruled. The executive, Mark Papermaster, left for Apple last month. I.B.M. sued him, saying the move violated an employment contract in which he agreed [...]

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Mere mention of the possibility of renewed talks sends Yahoo stock price up 17%
Mention the name Yahoo today in the tech community and immediately thoughts of the failed talks of buyouts or partnerships with Microsoft jump to many minds. Yahoo held out for far more money than anyone outside of Yahoo management though the company [...]

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(Credit: Sony)
Updating an earlier post, Sony is indeed bringing an 18-inch laptop to the U.S. in the form of the Vaio AW. Announced Wednesday morning, the Vaio AW features an 18.4-inch display with Adobe RGB color management. That is, your digital photos will look the same onscreen as they will on paper.
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