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Yahoo! News: Technology News
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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off
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| AP - Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.
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Google joins effort to make more Web sites more sociable
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 AP - The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd.
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MIT students show power of open cell phone systems
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 AP - What do you want your cell phone to be able to do?
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HP has eye on IBM as it discusses EDS acquisition
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 AP - Having seized the lead in personal computer sales worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Co. is stalking the technology services market for its next conquest.
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Chile probes data theft and posting by hacker
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| AP - A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet.
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Google offers to imbue all websites with social networking
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 AFP - Google has set out to enable all websites, free of charge, to be imbued with common social networking features as the Internet evolves toward becoming a giant community along the lines of MySpace or Facebook.
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Microsoft to bring back Visual Basic in Office for Mac
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| Macworld.com - Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would restore support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite's cross-platform automation functionality.
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Nokia Phone Maps Will Get Webbed Feet
(PC World)
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| PC World - Nokia is extending its mobile navigation system to the Web via its Ovi.com site, where people will be able to save map...
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Sun to Clarify JavaFX Open-source Plan Later This Year
(PC World)
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| PC World - While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family...
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Microsoft software gives free tours of space
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 Reuters - Any Star Trek fan knows that space
travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make
traveling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on your
computer.
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HP in talks to buy EDS to compete with IBM
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 Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co
is in talks to buy technology outsourcing company
Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12 billion to $13
billion in a deal which would vault it to a close second to IBM
in technology services.
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'Boom Blox,' 'Echochrome' offer pure fun
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| AP - For hardcore gamers, controlling a video-game character is second nature. You use one joystick to run, use another stick to look around, press the right trigger to shoot and use various buttons to open doors, take cover or talk to other characters.
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