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Cool-er e-book reader ($250), from a British company called Interead, you have to sit up and take notice. It’s supposed to be just like the Amazon Kindle, but smaller, lighter, thinner and $110 less expensive. (The name Cool-er comes from “Cool E-book Reader.”) The Cool-er has enough
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Tata teleservices partners with Yahoo India to innovate and launch unique services for its Indian subscribers. They launched a co-branded home page for all Tata-teleservices users that will have access to all Yahoo and Tata services like Bill Payment, Bill details, tariff plans , promotions, Yahoo
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Mobile Phone Providers Bharti Airtel, which has about 2.7 million Internet subscribers, on Friday launched its Net PC initiative that provides Internet connectivity to users without the need to invest in personal computers (PC). With Net PC, users can also work on basic compute
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Google is looking for solution providers serving the energy market to help utilities get its Google PowerMeter application up and running. PowerMeter is a Google Gadget application that can show consumers their personal electricity consumption on a home computer. It relies on "smart meters" or o
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Pakistan called on Taliban fighters in the northwest to lay down arms as “intense” fighting erupted between the army and militants in the Swat Valley, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced to flee. Security forces entered the towns of Matta and Kanju near Swat’s main cit
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Scribd.com Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it. The Scribd Web site is the most popular of several document-sharing sites that take a YouTube
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Atlantis' astronauts suited up Sunday for their second in-orbit repair of a dead science instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope in as many days. This time, Michael Massimino and Michael Good were going to venture out of space shuttle Atlantis to try to fix a long-dead spectrograph. The day befo
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Poor wireless reception is symptomatic of a much bigger issue. Setting up a high-speed wireless network (wi-fi) at home, documenting the whole tortuous process on the BBC Technology blog, but all his hard work could apparently be ruined by a single baby listener. The intercoms that let p
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Cape Canaveral (FL) - The space shuttle Endeavour is sitting on its launch pad, ready for a rescue mission NASA hopes won't be needed. The shuttle's sister craft, Atlantis, is scheduled to launch later today on a flight to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. While there are but
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The European Commission is reportedly set to levy what could be a record fine against Intel Corp. for violating antitrust rules. Reuters and others reported Monday that the Santa Clara-based chip giant (Nasdaq: INTC) will be told of the fine Wednesday. Intel has almost 6,000 empl
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