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A self-regulating program announced by a group of the advertising industry’s largest trade organizations aims to let people opt out of being tracked for behavioral advertising.
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Ad Group Unveils Plan To Improve We...
One of Facebook’s venture capitalists talks about the dynamic of cutting checks in Silicon Valley and defends Mark Zuckerberg regarding his past.
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A Silicon Valley Investors Take On ...
As a public figure, Facebook’s founder would have to prove reckless disregard for the truth if he wanted to address the portrayal of him in the film “The Social Network.”
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No Stopping Movie View Of Mark Zuck...
Verizon Wireless will pay up to $90 million to 15 million cellphone customers who were wrongly charged, one of the largest-ever refunds by a telecommunications company.
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Verizon Wireless To Pay Millions In...
The Japanese electronics maker will be the first on the market with such a TV, though they will only be sold in Japan for now.
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Toshiba To Sell 3-D TV That Require...
A trade group for major casinos like Harrah’s Entertainment and MGM Resorts is working on a proposal to ask Congress to legalize some form of online gambling.
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Casinos Now See Online Gambling As ...
After more than a decade, Dr. Tom Doerr and his brother, John, see a possible turning point for their business with Apple’s iPad and a national mandate for digital medical records.
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2 Brothers Await Broad Use Of Medic...
The new site offers a good number of fresh features that enhance the social-network experience, Katherine Boehret writes.
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Easier Navigating At Tweaked Twitte...
Companies are scrambling to provide free video calling between mobile phones. Walt Mossberg tests Tango, a new entry that aims to be more versatile, and almost as simple, as Apple's FaceTime.
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A New Face To Mobile Video Calls
David Fincher's account of Facebook's founder quickly lifts you to a state of exhilaration and keeps you there for the entire film, while the vampire remake "Let Me In" successfully imbibes the essence of its Swedish original.
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'Social Network': Password Is Per...
The iLuv App Station is an iPhone dock that can double as an alarm clock complete with snooze button, but it's pricey, writes Jonelle Marte.
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An IPhone Alarm Clock
Joe Queenan on why bloggers should have gotten some of that Washington stimulus money.
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Cyber Stimulus: Blogging Is Shovel-...
The licensing fee that Yahoo Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. pay to offer streaming music on their websites is again up for debate.
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Streaming Music Fee Is Up For Debat...
China has become one of the biggest sources of games for mobile devices like the iPhone and social-networking sites like Facebook. But software developers here are finding it difficult to make profits in their home market.
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App Makers In China Struggle On Hom...
AOL announced three acquisitions, including technology blog TechCrunch and Web video-syndication company 5min, part of the Internet company's efforts to juice up its content offerings.
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AOL Shifts Emphasis, Bit By Bit
This week: A small business owner grills Obama in Iowa; Zynga's founder may have to thank an investor's daughter for his success.
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Enterprise Dispatch
The irrationally exuberant seem smitten by smartphone circuitry. Just look at mobile-chip juggernaut ARM Holdings.
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For Investors: A Farewell To ARM
The government is proposing to extend broadband coverage across the nation within two years via the services of two state-owned telecom firms, TOT Corp. PCL and CAT Telecom PCL.
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Thailand Proposes National Broadban...
Cisco is preparing a consumer version of the high-end video-conferencing technology it sells to companies, moving into a market dominated by cheap webcams and free services like Skype.
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Cisco Set To Add Home Video Gear
Blockbuster's bankruptcy last week has made it official: Technology is killing the video-rental store—and a piece of American culture with it.
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Fade-Out Nears For Video Stores
Facebook announced it has opened an office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, in a move that is likely to help the social networker boost advertiser numbers and bring in more software developers.
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Facebook Opens India Office
Three Sprint Nextel executives resigned from Clearwire's board under pressure, amid a recent heightening of tensions between the two companies.
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Sprint Officials Leave Clearwire Bo...
Nokia said it has started shipping its N8 smartphone, having warned only last week that it would hold shipments to do some final amendments.
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Nokia Ships N8 Smartphone
Facebook and Skype are in talks to mesh their communications services more closely together.
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Facebook, Skype Ponder Alliance
A House proposal that would have limited the FCC's power to regulate broadband traffic failed to win support, putting new pressure on the FCC to take up the matter of net neutrality.
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'Net Neutrality' Is Left To FCC
Hibernia Atlantic announced plans to build a new trans-Atlantic communications cable aimed at allowing high-frequency stock traders to be even faster.
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Ocean Cable Targets Rapid-Fire Trad...
Comcast may be paying relatively little to buy control of NBC Universal. But the true cost won't be clear until regulators have decided what conditions to impose, including how they treat online video.
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Comcast Could Suffer From Universal...
Nintendo slashed its earnings forecasts and said its 3-D hand-held videogame system will miss the year-end holiday shopping season.
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3-D Gadget Delay Gives Nintendo Hol...
Two of the splashiest premieres at the Paris Motor Show were the electric scooters unveiled by BMW's Mini and Daimler's Smart.
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BMW, Daimler Test Electric Scooters
Research firm iSuppli trimmed its 2010 global semiconductor-sales growth forecast to 32% from 35%, citing a recent slowing of consumer demand for electronic devices and rising inventories.
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Researcher Trims 2010 Chip Forecast
Two senior Yahoo executives are leaving the Internet company, including U.S. Executive Vice President Hilary Schneider, adding to a long list of recent departures.
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Top U.S. Executive Leaving At Yahoo
Microsoft will unveil three smartphones using a new version of its Windows mobile operating system on Oct. 11, and AT&T will begin offering them in early November.
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Microsoft, AT&T To Unveil New Smart...
Google Inc.'s YouTube struck a deal with France's biggest music-rights body to pay composers when their songs are viewed on the video-sharing website.
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YouTube To Pay Royalties To French ...
Liberty Media Chairman John Malone could be just the person Yahoo needs to figure out how to tax-effectively unlock the value of its Asian investments.
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Crouching Yahoo, Hidden Dragon
Comverse Technology is drawing interest from several potential buyers, including Oracle, as the telecommunications-software maker works to bring its regulatory filings up to date.
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Oracle, H-P Circle Software-Maker C...
Abu Dhabi's Etisalat offered to buy 46% of Kuwait-based Zain in a telecom deal valued at $11.7 billion that would be one of the Mideast's biggest transactions in recent years.
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Mideast Telecom Bids Big To Expand
Apple's latest version of its iPod Nano media player, released last month, is half as big as the original and features a touch screen.
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Apple's Shrinking Nano
The National Football League is in talks with Verizon Wireless to distribute its football programming via a tablet computer.
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NFL, Verizon Strike Tablet-PC Deal
U.S. regulators are expected to crack down on air-cargo shipments of computers and other electronics that contain lithium ion batteries, prompted by the recent fiery crash of a UPS cargo jet filled with electronic goods.
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Plane Fires Prompt Battery Safeguar...
Smart application of technology has made life underground more tolerable for the 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped for eight weeks.
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Inventions Ease Trapped Miners' Pl...
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