News technology 2008-07-30 Andanh.com

Portugal to sell 500,000 of Intel's Classmate PCs Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:00:41 -0400
SEATTLE - Intel Corp.'s low-cost laptop initiative is set to get a boost today from Portugal's government, which is pledging to provide elementary school students...

Faux Scrabble game knocked off Facebook Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:40:16 -0400
NEW YORK - The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online hangout Facebook suspended their word game yesterday after being hit with a lawsuit,...

SanDisk's Eli Harari helped launch digital revolution Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:53:25 -0400
SAN JOSE, Calif. - If it hadn't been for his wife, Britt, as SanDisk co-founder Eli Harari tells it, the restless young physicist that he was in the 1970s might have...

More Internet providers agree to block child porn Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:54:58 -0400
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - New York's attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography. Andrew Cuomo says Comcast...

XM Satellite and Sirius complete merger Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:03:41 -0400
NEW YORK - XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio said Tuesday they have completed their long-pending merger. The combined company plans to use the name Sirius XM...

Man pleads guilty to peeking at stars' IRS files Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:58:40 -0400
COVINGTON, Ky. - An Internal Revenue Service employee in Kentucky says he's guilty of improperly accessing the IRS accounts of celebrities and sports figures. John...

Virgin Galactic shows off mothership aircraft Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:45:14 -0400
MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. Sir Richard Branson's space company today trotted out the mothership...

Facebook fends off attack of the clones Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:47:23 -0400
MOSCOW - In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself. Clones of the wunderkind social-networking Web site - some of which resemble Facebook right down...

TV change yields cable complaints Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:56:42 -0400
The confusion has begun. The state's Department of Telecommunications and Cable is starting to receive complaints from customers as cable companies move to convert...

Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:51:45 -0400
SAN FRANCISCO - Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She...

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