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Sears launches consumer electronics line Department store selling projection TVs via Web; will offer them in stores in the fall, with other devices to follow. | 3Sci/Tech
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Scientists Create Genetic Map of Cattle (AP) AP - For the first time, scientists have created a genetic map of a cow, providing researchers a new tool to reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition of beef and dairy products, the Agriculture Department announced Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech
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SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again Software maker SCO Group has been targeted by hackers once again. This time, the company #39;s Web site was defaced. The attacks began during the long holiday weekend and were first noticed | 3Sci/Tech
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Europeans debate software patents, interoperability BRUSSELS -- The European Union's (E.U.'s) planned software patent rules represent a major threat to interoperability unless specific exemptions are made to the legislation, participants at a conference on the issue heard on Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech
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NEC Shoots to Regain Supercomputer Title SX-8 system estimated to be almost twice as fast as IBM titleholder. | 3Sci/Tech
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News: U.S. Air Traffic Control Found Vulnerable In the wake of last month's air traffic communications failure, investigators report that computer security issues haunt the FAA's most critical systems.\ | 3Sci/Tech
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Switched on? Will Juniper Networks, Ciscos chief rival in the router market, make an entry into ethernet switching, and try to take yet another bite out of Ciscos business? | 3Sci/Tech
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Yahoo! Building Desktop Search, More Personalization Portal player Yahoo! will compete with Google and MSN in the desktop search arena, CEO Terry Semel told an audience at a Morgan Stanley investor conference. | 3Sci/Tech
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More Clues to Present Life on Mars Recent analyses of ESAs Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet. | 3Sci/Tech
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Glimpse at Swollen Stars Presages Earth's Demise (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Today's global warming nbsp;is nothing compared to what astronomers have just seen through the time machine nbsp;of a telescope. | 3Sci/Tech
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Ancient Roman Skin Cream Gave Women Beautiful Complexion Ancient Roman women had beautiful skin, apparently, they had a foundation skin cream which until recently, no one knew how to reproduce. | 3Sci/Tech
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Cisco to acquire P-Cube for \$200 million NEW YORK - Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale, California, software developer P-Cube Inc. in a cash-and-options deal Cisco valued at \$200 million. | 3Sci/Tech
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Nokia extends outsourcing deal with HP The deal is valued at about \$100 million, but the handset maker will be billed based on actual service consumption. | 3Sci/Tech
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Productivity's Battleground (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - At its Twinsburg, Ohio plant (below), Rockwell uses its own Logix controllers to make the 2.5 million circuit boards per year that power them. On one line, sensors scan boards as they move along a conveyor; if a match is found, a controller inches the conveyor forward. The same controller tracks the temperature of an oven used to cure the glue between the electronics and the board, adjusting the speed of the oven's conveyor based on the reading. All the controllers are lashed to an enterprise-management program that spits out productivity readings every two hours and looks for bottlenecks. ... | 3Sci/Tech
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Oracle Vows 'Oversupport' for PeopleSoft Customers (Reuters) Reuters - Business software maker Oracle\Corp. on Tuesday promised to do everything it can to\keep PeopleSoft Inc.'s giant customer base, whose\departure could threaten the financial success of its proposed\ #36;9.2 billion takeover of PeopleSoft. | 3Sci/Tech
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Ingres r3 open source database ships for Linux, Windows Computer Associates International plans to widen the field for open source alternatives to commercial databases with the general release of the Ingres r3 database on the Linux and Windows platforms. | 3Sci/Tech
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Misery loves company when it comes to spam I #39;M FEELING a little bit better about the hundreds of junk e-mails I get every day now that I #39;ve read that someone else has much bigger e-mail troubles. | 3Sci/Tech
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Newham chooses HP to build MS Exchange infrastructure Newham Council has signed a \$27m (16m) 10-year deal with Hewlett-Packard to provide a Microsoft Windows and Exchange 2003-based IT infrastructure. | 3Sci/Tech
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Sun drafts open-source blog developer The principal author of Roller Weblogger will gather support for the online journals inside and outside Sun. | 3Sci/Tech
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All new chips multicore, says Intel Intel has confirmed that in future all its chips will be multicore and has revealed additional desktop, server and mobile processor plans. | 3Sci/Tech
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New IE Exploit Spoofs Web Sites Security researchers have uncovered a spoofing flaw in Internet Explorer that could turn out to be the perfect holiday gift for scammers. | 3Sci/Tech
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FCC: 8M Wireless Users Keep Cell Numbers (AP) AP - Nearly 8 million mobile phone users have switched carriers and kept their cell numbers since a new rule allowing that flexibility went into effect one year ago, according to the Federal Communications Commission. | 3Sci/Tech
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New Beagle mission plan revealed The details of the next Beagle mission to Mars have been announced by the team behind Beagle 2. Lead Beagle scientist Colin Pilger has outlined plans for putting a new robotic laboratory on the Red Planet. | 3Sci/Tech
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European Judge Questions Moves Against Microsoft The judge in Microsoft's appeal of the antitrust measures imposed by the European Commission questioned the wisdom of those moves as the hearing wound up. | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft, Sun to talk about cooperation Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on December 1 will deliver a joint update on their collaborations pursuant to an April 2004 technology-sharing agreement to boost interoperability between the two vendors products, according to a Microsoft representative on Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Steam, Magma Building in Mount St. Helens (Reuters) Reuters - Magma continued to push up into the Mount St. Helens volcano on\Tuesday, pushing up the lava crust and creating a boiling lake\in the crater, a government scientist said. | 3Sci/Tech
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GeekTech: Here Comes BTX New industry standard should offer cooler, quieter systems--so why isn't anybody rushing to embrace it? | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft Internet Explorer loses market share Microsoft #39;s Internet Explorer browser continues to lose users to rivals such as Firefox and Opera, a Web analytics firm said Thursday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Cisco First-Quarter Profits Up 29 Percent (AP) AP - Cisco Systems Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter profits jumped 29 percent as the network equipment giant reported continued strength in its traditional markets as well as emerging technologies such as Internet telephones, wireless and home networking gear. | 3Sci/Tech
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Spirit captures some evidence that underground source created rock <b>...</b> NASA #39;s older Martian robotic rover, Spirit, has found evidence that underground water changed a major rock formation called the Columbia Hills, scientists said Thursday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Sport Anglers Said to Catch More Fish Than Thought Casual fishermen reel in nearly a quarter of the catch of overfished saltwater species, a much higher share than previously thought, researchers report in a new study. | 3Sci/Tech
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Scientists Reverse Paralysis in Dogs (AP) AP - Dogs with paralyzed hind legs regained the ability to walk after getting a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze that helped repair nerve cells in their damaged spinal cords, scientists reported. | 3Sci/Tech
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E-passports to put new face on old documents Countries begin test programs--get ready for a facial scan the next time you take an overseas flight. | 3Sci/Tech
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Qualcomm to Build National Wireless Media Network Network would beam music and video to 3G handsets. | 3Sci/Tech
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Toshiba 20 TV freaks out, sends distress signal See what happens when your warranty runs out?. In this case, a 20 Toshiba owned by Chris van Rossman started sending out the international distress signal at 121. | 3Sci/Tech
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Expedition to Probe Gulf of Mexico (AP) AP - Scientists will use advanced technology never before deployed beneath the sea as they try to discover new creatures, behaviors and phenomena in a 10-day expedition to the Gulf of Mexico's deepest reaches. | 3Sci/Tech
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Area engineer was in at the start of the space race Maxime quot;Max quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA #39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died. | 3Sci/Tech
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A giant step for humanoids THE discovery by Australian scientists on the Indonesian island of Flores of an entirely new humanoid species - colloquially dubbed quot;hobbits quot; because of their diminutive stature -uts a new piece in place in the long scientific mission to understand | 3Sci/Tech
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Skin Trade Threatens World's Few Surviving Tigers (Reuters) Reuters - The world's tiger population has\plummeted by 95 percent from the start of the 20th century to\as few as 5,000 now and is further threatened by the lucrative\trade in their skins, officials told a forum Friday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Giving a game a good score Game makers need to spend time to make sure that music adds to the playing experience. | 3Sci/Tech
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NASA: Genesis #39; Broken Capsule Holds Good Science After peering inside NASA #39;s broken Genesis capsule with flashlights and mirrors, scientists said on Friday the craft #39;s unexpected crash landing left solar material | 3Sci/Tech
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Cisco reports access control server flaws Hackers could exploit the vulnerabilities to launch DOS attacks and bypass user authentication on the servers. | 3Sci/Tech
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Spam Influx Reaches New Heights Back-to-school sales and political pitches helped spur latest barrage of spam. | 3Sci/Tech
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Mercent making cents of Amazon for Guess The e-commerce Web services specialist is helping a growing list of retail manufacturers sell their wares via Amazon. | 3Sci/Tech
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Britain becomes top data swapper More data now passes through the UK's key net hub in London than any other on the planet. | 3Sci/Tech
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BlueGene Wins the Supercomputer Speed Race In September, IBM announced that the Blue Gene/L prototype had sustained speeds of 36 trillion calculations per second. Blue Gene/L recently achieved a sustained performance of 70. | 3Sci/Tech
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IDC Sees Pressure on Apple #39;s iPod Dominance; Flash Player From <b>...</b> Market research firm IDC is forecasting Apple Computers dominance in the portable jukebox market of MP3 players with the iPod and iPod mini will see increased | 3Sci/Tech
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Scholar disputes claim in hacking attack A visiting scholar whose computer has been linked to a hacker attack at the University of California, Berkeley, released a statement late Friday saying she believed her equipment | 3Sci/Tech
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MSN forced to offer search software. After Google announced their search software utility and Yahoo! told the world they are working on a similar program. MSN is now beta testing their software. | 3Sci/Tech
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IBM in Voice Services Deal With Lloyds International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it will provide voice and data services to British financial-services company Lloyds TSB Group PLC for seven years in a deal worth \$971.6 million. | 3Sci/Tech
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EDS extends Opsware contract Opsware, a data-center automation software company, and EDS renew a contract worth \$50 million. | 3Sci/Tech
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Radical Antarctic telescope quot;would outdo Hubble quot; Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal Nature this week 16 September, show that the Dome C site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared | 3Sci/Tech
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Lost Votes in N.M. a Cautionary Tale Four years ago, about 2,300 voters cast their ballots before Election Day on state-of-the-art, push-button electronic voting machines. For 678 of them, their votes were never recorded.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3Sci/Tech
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Judge Won't Block Oracle Takeover Bid (AP) AP - A federal judge on Thursday rejected the government's attempt to block Oracle Corp.'s #36;7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc., concluding a combination between the business software makers wouldn't throttle competition in a narrow market niche. | 3Sci/Tech
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FedEx Ground Steps to Bluetooth and GPRS Wireless (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - FedEx's Ground division already uses wireless RFID for asset tracking, but officials are taking a wait-and-see approach to other RFID possibilities. | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft Reveals More Intellectual Property Microsoft today released its third open-source offering called the FlexiWiki project on SourceForge.net. FlexWiki is a collaborative web-based authoring environment implemented on the Microsoft . | 3Sci/Tech
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Prince of Persia: The Final Interview Now that we #39;ve beaten Warrior Within, we return to ask Ubisoft some final questions. November 22, 2004 - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within ships December 2 for Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and PC. | 3Sci/Tech
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Man Arrested in UK Tsunami Death Email Probe (Reuters) Reuters - British police said on Sunday they had\arrested a man after a hoaxer posing as a government official\emailed relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami,\saying their loved ones had been confirmed dead. | 3Sci/Tech
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iTunes referred to consumer watchdog The Consumer Association has today complained to the UKs Office of Fair Trading that downloading tracks from Apples iTunes costs UK consumers more than their counterparts in France and Germany. | 3Sci/Tech
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Honda's Robot Advances, but to Where? Despite the technological advances, Honda has not made much progress in determining just what the robot might be used for. | 3Sci/Tech
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A Space Race to Change the World USA Today -- More than eight years ago, a new space race began with the announcement of the X Prize Competition. Based on prizes that inspired the development of aviation in the early 20th century, the X Prize was started to encourage private space travel through a competition to build the first reusable spacecraft... | 3Sci/Tech
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SCO to launch legal Web site Prosco.net will feature an archive of filings and other information related to the company's many legal battles over Linux. | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft's Media Center packs sticker shocker The software giant prices the software somewhere between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro, CNET News.com has learned. | 3Sci/Tech
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Intel #39;s Rosedale chip brings WiMax closer Intel Corp. has begun shipping samples of its first WiMax chip, called Rosedale, and the first network trials based on the technology will start next year, a senior company executive said Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Calif. Plan Aims to Add Solar Energy to Homes (Reuters) Reuters - California should try to add\solar energy systems to 1 million homes by 2017 to save\electricity and cut pollution from power plants, Gov. Arnold\Schwarzenegger said on Friday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Digitizing the Bill of Rights (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from conducting "unreasonable searches" of our "persons, houses, papers, and effects" without a warrant. The First Amendment, of course, protects our right to free speech. | 3Sci/Tech
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Labor Web Site Tracks Jobs Sent Overseas Organized labor is starting to track companies that ship U.S. jobs overseas and will make the information available to the public in a database. | 3Sci/Tech
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Human Corpse to Be Shown Rotting on TV A British television channel is seeking a terminally ill volunteer to donate their body after death so it can be filmed as it decomposes. | 3Sci/Tech
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Lycos pulls antispam screensaver from site Lycos Europe appeared to have pulled a controversial antispam screensaver program from its site, after coming under fire from both security experts and the spammers themselves. | 3Sci/Tech
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AMD gains in Q3 chip sales SAN FRANCISCO: Advanced Micro Devices captured nearly 10 per cent of computer microchip market revenue in the third quarter, the highest level in nearly three years, market research firm IDC said on Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Virgin to Launch Commercial Space Flights British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that his Virgin company plans to launch commercial space flights over the next few years. | 3Sci/Tech
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New crew arrive at space station Three new crew members have reached the International Space Station after a Russian spacecraft docked successfully. Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin and US astronaut Leroy Chiao are all now on board the | 3Sci/Tech
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NASA Says Switches May Have Caused Genesis Crash Problems with switches aboard NASA (news - web sites) #39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft #39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said. | 3Sci/Tech
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'Grand Theft' of intellectual property Irony alert: Game publisher is furious over stolen copy of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," in which players steal lots of stuff. | 3Sci/Tech
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IBM triples transistor performance with germanium IBM has successfully demonstrated a new technique for improving transistor performance that will help the company build smaller, more powerful chips in the next decade, company researchers said yesterday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Pointlessly, Imperfectly Portable (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - The Portable Media Center -- a new, Microsoft-conceived handheld device that presents video and photos as well as music -- would be a decent idea if there weren't such a thing as lampposts. Or street signs. Or trees. Or other cars. | 3Sci/Tech
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Photo: XM's portable satellite radio XM Satellite Radio Holdings introduced a handheld portable version of its satellite radio. | 3Sci/Tech
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Outsourcing growth predicted at 5.9 a year IT job exports are forecast to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 5.9 between 2002 and the end of 2004, said Frost amp; Sullivan. | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft Unveils Its New Search Engine -- at Last! After months of speculation and two quot;preview quot; releases, Microsoft unwraps its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join Web search major leagues in nearly a year. | 3Sci/Tech
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NEC Tops IBM with Speedier Supercomputer (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY) continues to play "can you top this" with IBM (NYSE: IBM), as the Japanese company claims that its latest supercomputer is faster than the ultra high-performance machine rolled out less than a month ago by Big Blue. | 3Sci/Tech
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2004 Election Candidate Comparison Search by PriceGrabber 2004 Election Candidate Comparison Search by PriceGrabber\\PriceGrabber, a shopping search engine, in conjunction with the University of Southern California's (USC) Center for E-Government, has employed its shopping comparison technology to create a useful and unique candidate comparison tool to help voters choose between more than 100 candidates in the 2004 ... | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft to enter battle of the search engines Microsoft is set to launch a trial version of its long-awaited Internet search engine, as it reacts to the growing threat of Google. | 3Sci/Tech
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Experts envision taillights that talk Forget Bluetooth and UWB. A group of Japanese companies believes it's found a better answer for short-range networking. | 3Sci/Tech
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Sony to launch its first MP3 hard-disk music player (MacCentral) MacCentral - Sony Corp. is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for earlier players with hard disk storage so they can play MP3s too. | 3Sci/Tech
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MSN Toolbar Suite Beta So how good are those tools are... and what #39;s the big fuss about them? Personally I don #39;t know, as I didn #39;t try them out. | 3Sci/Tech
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Reducing Information Overkill Vivisimo has launched Clusty, a meta search engine with an impressive array of tools that helps you quickly find relevant results from a variety of information sources. | 3Sci/Tech
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ICANN domain transfer policy takes effect NOVEMBER 12, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A new transfer policy for inter-registrar domain names went into effect today, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). | 3Sci/Tech
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Microsoft Windows CE beats Palm OS in PDAs A version of the Windows operating system designed for small devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) (or Handheld PCs in the Microsoft vernacular). | 3Sci/Tech
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A New Player in Desktop Search Copernic, a well-known developer of web search tools, is entering the desktop search marketplace with the release of a new product today. | 3Sci/Tech
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Ill., Mich. Want New Federal Isotope Lab CHICAGO - Like most of us, politicians don #39;t know much about isotopes. But because they know something about money and jobs, lawmakers from Illinois and Michigan are locked in a battle to convince the federal | 3Sci/Tech
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High Court Won't Hear Music Sharing Case (AP) AP - The Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a dispute over whether Internet providers can be forced to identify subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online. | 3Sci/Tech
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Report: Fast-Internet Use Doubles in U.S. (AP) AP - The number of Americans using fast Internet connections doubled from 2001 through late 2003, still below some expectations and especially low among minority groups and people in rural areas, according to a report by the Bush administration. | 3Sci/Tech
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Google to digitize #39;U #39; libraries Soon anyone will be able to browse the University library, whether he is in Ann Arbor or Europe or anywhere in between. The University announced a partnership with Google | 3Sci/Tech
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Sneaky Sharing Despite well-publicized wins by piracy foes, illegal digital music and movie trading continues to flourish in underground havens. | 3Sci/Tech
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Salesforce.com reports subscriber surge The subscription software company adds 85,000 individual subscribers to its online customer information system. | 3Sci/Tech
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Venture Capital's Transparency Trouble Among the tables, charts and bottom-line numbers in venture capital firm Grotech Capital Group's quarterly report to its investors is what Managing General Partner Frank A. Adams calls his "heart of hearts," a narrative of his gut feelings about companies that Grotech of Timonium has invested in. The essay includes Adams's candid opinions about the companies' top executives and their chance of succeeding. | 3Sci/Tech
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SpaceShipOne wins \$10MX Prize SpaceShipOne has completed its second suborbital flight in five days, securing the \$10 million Ansari X Prize. SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach space. | 3Sci/Tech
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Science: The Earth Explores Cassini Data The Cassini spacecraft has sent back images of Saturn #39;s moon Titan giving scientists the closest views yet of the mysterious satellite. | 3Sci/Tech
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Xbox owner sues over dud drive Game fan upset over failed disc drive sues Microsoft on behalf of all U.S. Xbox owners. | 3Sci/Tech
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Small College Debates Its High-Tech Gamble Small, poor and 45 minutes from the nearest town with a shopping mall, West Virginia Wesleyan College couldn't attract enough students to fill its classrooms and improve its struggling finances. To survive and thrive, it needed to stand out. The answer, college leaders decided, was technology. | 3Sci/Tech
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