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Designers embrace power of fashion's blogging crowd

Designers are embracing a growing crowd of internet-savvy fashion followers taking catwalk glamor beyond the coveted front row, with many young creators welcoming a trend they say brings them closer to consumers.
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Wal-Mart agrees to buy movie service Vudu: report

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will buy the Vudu movie service in a deal that puts the world's largest retailer in competition for online delivery of films with the likes of Netflix Inc, the New York Times reported on Monday.
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FBI to probe alleged webcam syping case

The FBI will reportedly begin investigating allegations that a suburban Philadelphia school district spied on students using remotely activated Web cams without students being aware of it.
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Genzyme says Carl Icahn to nominate 4 to its board

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn plans to nominate himself and three others to the board of Genzyme Corp , which is struggling to recover from a manufacturing crisis that lead to shortages of two of its life-saving drugs and sparked outrage from patients and investors alike.
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Google drops Gears for HTML 5

Google is dropping development of its Gears web programing standard in favor of HTML 5, a new web protocol bringing rich features to without the need of special plugins.
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E-Waste threatens developing nations: UN

Waste produced by old computers, cell phones, and other electronics threaten to choke developing nations with mountains of hazardous e-waste, according to a new report on Monday.
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IOC orders blogger to take down video

The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili from his website.
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Microsoft phone system hits reset on digital music

DENVER - It's been more than six years since then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates admitted that Apple caught the company flat-footed in the digital music market and directed his team to make up for lost ground, according to recently surfaced internal e-mails.
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China PLA officer urges new Internet control agency

A senior Chinese military officer has called for a new national body to enforce Internet controls, while China faced fresh claims on Monday about the source of hacking attacks that hit search giant Google.
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Chinese schools deny link to Google attack

A prestigious Chinese university and a lesser-known vocational school have denied a report they were the source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other U.S. corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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ITC to investigate Apple complaint vs Nokia

The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday it has agreed to investigate Apple Inc's patent infringement complaint against Nokia Oyj, as the legal battle between the two technology heavyweights continues to play out.
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South Korea restricts Twitter for poll campaigns

South Korea announced controls on Friday on how the microblogging service Twitter can be used during elections, an issue that has some people calling for changes in the country's stringent election law.
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FCC expands broadband access at schools

The Federal Communications Commission voted to expand a school program that is likely to help increase Americans' access to high-speed Internet, a major goal of the upcoming National Broadband Plan.
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Dell margins miss Street view, shares fall

Dell Inc's quarterly gross margin missed Wall Street expectations, hurt by sales of lower-priced personal computers for consumers and a rise in costs for memory chips and other components.
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Dell profit beats but margin a little light

Dell Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue on strong sales of its notebook computers, though its gross margin was slightly below analysts' forecasts.
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Social networking, govt sites hacked in global attack

A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness.
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Atari beams up with new Star Trek online game

Hollywood director J.J. Abrams has gone where man has gone before, with his 2009 Star Trek movie blasting the sci-fi franchise back into the spotlight and online, uniting new and older generation fans.

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