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NewsFactor - You've been there -- late for a business flight, you forget your cell phone charger. Or, with a six-hour family vacation flight staring you in the face, the kids need something to keep them busy. You can relax: Chargers, Sony PSPs and even digital cameras will now be easily available in 12 U.S. airport terminals, courtesy of Best Buy.
NewsFactor - The Internet remains vulnerable to exploits of a critical security flaw in the Domain Name System, a Russian programmer demonstrated last week. Writing on his blog on Friday, Evgeniy Polyakov posted that he had succeeded in getting patched DNS software to return an incorrect location in less than 10 hours.
NewsFactor - It's the year 2409 in the upcoming Star Trek Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which was previewed at the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas.
AP - Major Internet stocks rose Monday, with Amazon.com Inc. shares rising after some positive analyst notes, including one saying sales of the online retailer's e-book reader Kindle seem to be "much stronger than expected."
NewsFactor - Instant-messaging chat or dissing your Texas Hold 'em opponents on the iPhone just got one step closer. Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has announced the release of its near-ubiquitous voice-over IP (VoIP) developer software for the iPhone engineering crowd. GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile is a development toolkit for iPhone software developers who ...
AP - Automotive dealer software manufacturer DealerTrack Holdings Inc. slashed its full-year earnings and revenue projections Monday, saying a challenging credit environment and slowdown in new car sales would impede performance.
Reuters - Members of The Allman Brothers Band
sued UMG Recordings for more than $10 million on Monday over
royalties from compact discs sales and digital downloads
services such as Apple's iTunes.
Reuters - Leap Wireless International Inc said
on Monday it had asked the U.S. telecom regulator to refuse
permission for the Verizon Wireless' $28.1 billion plan to buy
Alltel and become the No. 1 U.S. mobile service.
InfoWorld - Virtualization, SOA, and cloud computing are keys to accommodating the anticipated growth of datacenters in an energy-conscious environment, an IBM official stressed Monday.
Reuters - Google Inc said on Monday that
many users of its Gmail service are having trouble accessing
their online e-mail accounts due to a temporary outage in a
contacts system used by Gmail.
Investor's Business Daily - Advanced Micro Devices, which needs a spark, could rack up points with video game players and others with a hot graphics card it plans to roll out on Tuesday.
CNET - NASA's plans to launch new manned missions to the International Space Station three years after the space shuttle retires in 2010 aren't panning out.
Reuters - Google Inc said on Monday it has
resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many
users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their
online e-mail.
AFP - Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said Tuesday first quarter net profit fell 5.3 percent from the previous year as a stronger Singapore dollar cut earnings from its regional mobile businesses.