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AP - The U.S. Army plans to invest $50 million over five years to develop video games for use in training soldiers for combat, according to a report in Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper.
AP - TiVo Inc. recorded a profit in its fiscal third quarter due to $105 million it received from Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent, the maker of digital video recorders says.
AP - Cisco Systems Inc. will close most of its U.S. and Canadian offices for 4 days over the holidays as part of a plan to cut $1 billion in costs in the current fiscal year, the company said Tuesday.
CNET - Warner Music Group, the label that represents such acts as REM and Green Day, is the second major recording company to report healthy growth in digital sales during the past quarter.
AFP - Online retail spending fell four percent in the first weeks of November from the same period last year, the first ever such decline in e-commerce spending, online researcher comScore reported on Tuesday.
AFP - Technorati announced on Tuesday that it was laying off six employees and cutting pay for the remaining members of the blog search engine company.
Reuters - MySpace, the popular social networking website owned by News Corp, said on Tuesday former MTV executive Courtney Holt will become president of its MySpace Music joint venture with the four major record companies.
Investor's Business Daily - With valuations of emerging-market phone companies falling, some of the telecom industry's big players are swooping in to make acquisitions.
Reuters - Australia's two largest telecommunications firms lodged bids on Tuesday to build an around $6 billion fast broadband Internet network that would give a much-needed boost to the country's infrastructure.
CNET - Reports that a purported Gmail vulnerability was being used by unauthorized third parties to hijack domains turned out to be nothing more than a phishing scam, Google announced Tuesday.
PC World - Indian IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), plans to commercialize its WebHealthCentre, an online portal for medical consultations, healthcare information, and telemedicine.
PC World - Intel joined Taiwanese mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch Giga-byte Technology's Atom-powered M528 mobile Internet device on Monday in Taipei.