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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
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02/08/2010 |
 AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.
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Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
(AP) |
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02/08/2010 |
 AP - Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
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MySpace Music experiments with audio ads
(AP) |
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02/08/2010 |
AP - Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online. |
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Chinese police shut down hacker training business
(AP) |
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02/08/2010 |
AP - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday. |
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Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract
(AP) |
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02/08/2010 |
AP - Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network. |
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PayPal halts certain payment transactions in India
(AP) |
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02/06/2010 |
AP - The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week. |
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China plans online gambling crackdown
(Reuters) |
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02/08/2010 |
Reuters - China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website. |
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LG, Samsung Go Social With Latest Handsets
(PC World) |
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02/08/2010 |
PC World - South Korea's two biggest cell phone makers previewed on Tuesday handsets they plan to unveil at next week's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona. |
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Nuance Communications narrows 1Q loss
(AP) |
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02/08/2010 |
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased. |
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TiVo: Doritos' 'House Rules' Ad Wins Super Bowl
(PC Magazine) |
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02/08/2010 |
PC Magazine - Doritos' ad featuring a tough-as-nails kid slapping some sense into his mother's date stole the show as the most-watched Super Bowl ad, according to data collected by the TiVo "Stop Watch" service. |
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EA in the red for 12th quarter in a row
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02/08/2010 |
 AFP - US videogame giant Electronic Arts was unable to fight its way out of the red over the Christmas holidays, and has posted a net loss for the 12th consecutive quarter.
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Rumor: Core i7 Coming Soon to MacBook Pro?
(PC World) |
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02/08/2010 |
PC World - Rumors are hinting that an upgrade to Apple's MacBook Pro notebook line could be coming in the near future. The rumor comes courtesy of French site Nowhere Else, which claims that Apple will reveal updated Macbook Pro's featuring Intel's newest Core i7 chips. ' |
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Windows 7 Just Being Honest About Battery Life
(PC World) |
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02/08/2010 |
PC World - Last week I wrote about reports that some Windows 7 users are experiencing anomalies with battery life, or at least how Windows 7 reports remaining battery life. The issue seemed worthy of exploring, but not big enough to cause any significant damage to Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system. |
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IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers
(PC World) |
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02/08/2010 |
PC World - IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time. |
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Summary Box: New attack shows security chip hole
(AP) |
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02/08/2010 |
AP - CRACKING THE UNCRACKABLE: A former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has found a way to break into a type of chip that protects the most important secrets inside many personal computers. |
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InfoWorld review: Windows on the Mac
(InfoWorld) |
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02/08/2010 |
InfoWorld - Why choose between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard when you can have both? A Mac with virtualization software is a great platform for running Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other Intel-based operating systems, all at the same time. There's also Mac OS X's native Boot Camp, but it only supports Windows and doesn't give you access to Mac OS X without rebooting. |
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Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance?
(PC World) |
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02/08/2010 |
PC World - If Apple is really considering price cuts on its just-introduced iPad, the best advice is to make them before launch, not after. |
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