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In a bid to make the queue at the cashier a thing of the past, a Japanese convenience store will test a checkout system that scans shopping baskets instantly.
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Manoj Namburu ran a technology consulting firm in the United States before he moved to Indias hi-tech capital three years ago to build luxury houses for wealthy software executives.
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When airline executives and IT specialists met in a pub in the English Midlands 10 years ago to plan the first ever Internet flight booking service, few of them suspected that they would spawn a revolution for the industry.
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A Japanese "hitman" hired by a woman over the Internet to kill her lovers pregnant wife was sentenced to jail on December 27 for swindling his client with a false promise to carry out the murder.
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The worlds biggest electronics fair opened on Thursday with high-definition televisions, next-generation DVD players and all-in-one communication tools blazing a trail for the digital future.
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The founders of Internet search engine Google have been named the Financial Times Men of the Year, the newspaper announced on December 23.
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One of the hottest races in the Internet world has climaxed with Google investing in America Online (AOL), knocking back Microsofts hopes of grabbing a bigger slice of the lucrative online advertising market.
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A systematic effort by hackers to penetrate US government and industry computer networks stems most likely from the Chinese military, the head of a leading security institute said on Monday.
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Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that is the product of collaboration of its users, has become a major force on the Internet, but faces a crisis after a false biography raised questions about its credibility.
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At a time when $100 might not buy the latest techno-gadget youve been lusting over, MITs Media Lab thinks that it can do something better: provide a laptop computer for a child in a developing country.
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They are the addicts who slake their craving in public, snatch a fix in boring business meetings, on the subway, or even risk a hit during rows with their spouses.
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ITV, Britains biggest commercial TV network, on Tuesday snapped up Friends Reunited for 175 million pounds Sterling (€258 million, $304 million) from the Website groups founders and employees.
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Japanese police searching for the killer of a seven-year-old girl are studying Internet bulletin board messages boasting of a plan to kidnap a girl after school, a press report said on Monday.
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Flushing out the secrets of Americas Websurfers, a new survey of Internet use has found that more and more people are logging on - in the bathroom.
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Even in countries that lag behind in the information technology sector, there is a clear understanding that the gap between the rich and poor will only increase unless that IT divide is addressed. Yet some of Africas richest nations are already ca
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Sonys next-generation PlayStation 3 will join newly-released Microsoft Xbox 360 in giving parents tools to limit access to computer games deemed too risqué or violent, industry officials said on Monday.
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From talks about launching the $100 laptop to setting up a technology investment fund, poorer nations made certain that addressing the digital divide between the wealthy and impoverished countries was addressed at the latest United Nations conferen
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US software giant Microsoft was elated on Tuesday after seeing its new Xbox 360 computer games console fly off store shelves across North America and fetch jaw-dropping sums in online auctions.
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A scam involving e-mails appearing to come from the FBI or CIA has unleashed a computer virus that spread rapidly worldwide, US officials and security experts said on Tuesday.
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Al Jazeera, which is relentless in reporting US involvement in Iraq and other major stories, has so far been less forthcoming about a legal dispute involving its own Website.
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Sony BMG was hit with lawsuits on Monday alleging that it deceived consumers by using copy protection programs on its music CDs that opened up personal computers to hackers and malicious software.
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Information technology was not just for geeks at the 45th edition of Madrids International Exhibition of Information Technology and Communications, popularly known as SIMO.
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Billed as the worlds biggest videogaming festival, the World Cyber Games being held here is testimony to a multibillion-dollar industry that analysts say now rivals music and movies in the popularity stakes.
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Since eBay announced its decision to buy out Luxembourg-based Skype for $2.3 billion two months ago, it has become clear that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is not only here to stay, but that it has considerable potential to allow businesses t
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A potentially damaging rift over US control of the Internet has been averted hours before a key summit beginning on Wednesday in Tunis tries to spread the IT revolution to poor countries.
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US software titan Microsoft released super-computing server software on Tuesday, with the companys founder declaring such analytical power vital to innovation and invention.
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The small screen is heating up with a new wave of racy images and film clips making their way to mobile phones and the new video iPods, raising new questions for telecom companies and regulators.
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If you regularly ride underground trains in London, Tokyo or Cairo, there is a chance that Portuguese comic book artist Antonio Jorge Goncalves has made a sketch of you without you realizing it.
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US software titan Microsoft takes the computer game wars to the Japanese enemy with the North American launch on Tuesday of its next-generation Xbox 360 console.
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Grokster, the music-swapping Website that became a flashpoint in the legal battle over copyright protection on the Internet, will shut down its service under a settlement with the US music industry, it was announced on Monday.
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A Hong Kong court sentenced a man to three months in prison on Monday in what is believed to be the first jail sentence for distributing movie files over the popular online BitTorrent (BT) network.
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The Saudi ministry of trade and industry has issued a warning to Saudi citizens about a dramatic increase in cases of Internet fraud.
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A 16-year-old Japanese girl has been arrested for trying to kill her mother with rat poison and keeping an Internet blog narrating how her condition deteriorated.
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AOL founder Steve Case said on Monday that he was quitting the board of Time Warner Inc. to cap a turbulent five years since he orchestrated the disastrous mega-merger of the media and Internet groups.
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US software colossus Microsoft announced plans on Wednesday to launch an online library of books and other written works.
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Google on Thursday launched its controversial effort to digitize millions of books for online viewing - but said that it would limit access to any copyrighted material for now.
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Chun In-Hyo was just eight years old when North Koreas peerless leader Kim Jong-Il declared the twenty-first century the era of the information technology revolution.
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US-based semiconductor maker AMD said on Friday that it would enter a joint venture with an Indian firm to sell personal computers for the same cost as mobile phones.
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Reem Abdullah was raised in a conservative family in a village near the city of Ramallah. She is a university student and needs some Internet time to do research for her studies.
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After a week of intense speculation, Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday launched an iPod portable video player that can screen music videos and hit television shows for fans on the move.
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For decades so secret it did not even officially exist, Britains overseas intelligence agency MI6 emerged from the shadows on Thursday with a Website aimed at dispelling "myths" and recruiting would-be spies.
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Microsoft agreed to pay $761 million to RealNetworks in a deal that settles an antitrust suit and puts the former tech rivals in a partnership on digital music and games, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Indian software giant Infosys said on Tuesday that its second quarter net profit had jumped a better than expected 30 percent from a year ago as it garnered new business from companies abroad.
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A driverless car that won a $2-million Pentagon prize in a landmark robotic race could change the face of human transportation forever, its developers said on Monday.
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Voters in Estonia, which have long been using technology to ease daily life, on Monday began voting in local elections without leaving the comfort of their home or office computer.
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Domestic woes are mounting for Samsung, South Koreas biggest and most profitable business group, recognized as a major global player and market leader in memory chips.
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A film festival for movies shot on mobile telephones was to open on Friday in Paris, aiming to take cinema a technological and creative step forward in the country that gave birth to the seventh art.
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In a futuristic move that captures the imagination, US search giant Google said on October 3 that it had offered to blanket the city of San Francisco with a wireless network that would allow residents to log on to the Internet free of charge. {/bol
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South Koreas parliament on Wednesday grilled top executives from Samsung Group over unpaid debts and allegations that the group was resisting corporate reform, lawmakers said.
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Samsung Electronics on Thursday announced an ambitious investment plan aimed at building the worlds largest cluster of semiconductor production facilities by 2012 at a cost of $33 billion.
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The launch of an Iranian spy satellite on a Russian booster this month has been postponed.
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A masked man claiming to speak for Al Qaeda has produced a 16-minute Internet video "newscast" praising Iraqi insurgents and Palestinians.
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Sonys restructuring drive is about more than just cost cuts - it also aims to restore the innovative edge that made Sony a global household name, Sony president Ryoji Chubachi said on Tuesday.
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Japanese electronics maker Toshiba scored a point on Tuesday over rival Sony in a brewing war over formats of next generation DVDs after winning the support of US technology giants Microsoft and Intel.
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Microsoft teamed up on Monday with mobile computer maker Palm and telecom giant Verizon on a new "smart phone" aiming to grab market share from the popular Blackberry device.
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New restrictions on Internet news content in China are aimed at controlling an increasingly independent society that is demanding more rights protections, reports and analysts said on Monday.
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Two Samsung executives were found guilty on Tuesday of illegally handling the father-to-son transfer of company ownership, in a ruling expected to unsettle the countrys biggest business group.
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Sony shares tumbled on Monday as investors fretted that with a big loss looming this year, a plan to overhaul the struggling Japanese electronic icon might not be radical enough.
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From private cabins with designer fabrics and en suite bathrooms in first class to on-screen virtual air attendants taking orders in economy, the future of air travel is going high-tech and high-style.
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Liu Di, a 24-year-old Beijing translator, uses encryption software whenever she sends off e-mails, but not everyone is that careful.
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How much was my home damaged? Can I come back?
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Films being presented at Deauville, Venice and other festivals are no longer so exclusive: many are already available in pirated versions online in a trend threatening the whole cinema industry, according to a French subsidiary of a major US distri
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A judge on Tuesday freed a former Microsoft executive to set up a China research center for Google but set strict limits on what he could do.
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Apple Computer on Wednesday unveiled a mobile phone that doubles as an iPod and an ultra-thin version of the popular music player touted as leading a "revolution" in the field.
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Hani stays up past midnight to talk to Pam in an Internet chat room. He is a 22-year-old Palestinian, locked down by Israel in the Gaza Strip and banned by social convention from spending time with a woman.
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With the launch of ".eu" Internet domain names just weeks away, European companies are in a rush to register their names and ensure that prestigious brands can figure on their Web address.
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As the music download market grows more competitive on its home turf of Japan, Sony, the inventor of the Walkman, is arming itself with style - handheld music machines that look like jelly beans.
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Terrorism authorities across the globe have been keeping close tabs on Muslim countries that may be breeding grounds for Islamic fundamentalism, but they are now finding that some of those nations might actually be a hotbed of secular terrorism, na
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At night 22-year-old Indian mathematics research student Gurpreet Singh logs on to the Internet to teach students sitting thousands of kilometers (miles) away in the United States.
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"Two by two is five, says the presidential decree."
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Japanese electronics giants said on Tuesday that they would go ahead with incompatible formats for next-generation DVDs after talks to reach a common standard failed, presenting consumers with a choice much the same as when videocassettes came out
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Google, the Internet search giant that went public a year ago, said Thursday said it plans to sell more than 14 million additional shares in a secondary offering that could raise four billion dollars.
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The United States has asked the Internets regulator to postpone the creation of a new ".xxx" domain for sex-oriented websites, citing an "unprecedented" level of protests.
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Lions are doing a roaring trade, with baboons, giraffes, zebras and chimps also on sale on the Internet, a report published Tuesday said.
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Australian police were called in Monday to investigate claims that workers in India-based call centers are selling personal information that put tens of thousands of people at risk of Internet fraud.
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Yahoo Inc signed a deal on August 11 to buy 40 percent of Alibaba.com for $1 billion cash while handing over the running of its China operations to the Chinese online retailer.
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News in brief related to Information Technology Internet fraudsters target British tsunami victims families
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The far-right Israeli deserter who shot dead four Arabs on a Galilee bus was recruited over the Internet.
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The online communications channel between Al Qaedas shadowy leaders and its terrorist operatives has been severely disrupted in recent weeks - since the July 7 jihadi attacks on London - apparently by British intelligence.
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