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Small movie software firm gets Hollywood traction

Media software company DivX Inc said on Tuesday it signed deals to digitally distribute films for Lions Gate Entertainment Corp and Paramount Pictures, bringing the total number of Hollywood studios to embrace its technology to four.

Sony plans $199 U.S. e-reader, takes on Amazon

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Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, taking rival Amazon.com Inc head-on in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.
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Dish, Echostar happy on Tivo development

DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Tuesday they were pleased the Patent and Trademark Office issued an initial office action rejecting TiVo Inc's software claims as invalid.
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Mid-Day Minute - August 4 Tech

The resignation of Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt from Apple's board of directors may not be enough to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission, which plans to continue its ongoing investigation into the close relationship between the two tech giants.
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Sexting craze on the rise among British children

A growing number of British teenagers are swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers, police and a children's charity said on Tuesday.
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EBay's PayPal shut globally for an hour

EBay Inc's online payments service, PayPal, shut down worldwide for about an hour on Monday after the Internet retailer encountered internal problems with the fast-growing division.
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EBay's PayPal shut down for 1 hour

EBay Inc's online payments service, PayPal, shut down worldwide for about an hour on Monday after the Internet retailer encountered internal problems, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Daily wrap up - August 3 - Tech

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc, after Google's chief quit Apple's board on Monday
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FTC to press on with Apple-Google board probe

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc, after Google's chief quit Apple's board on Monday.
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Mid-Day Minute - August 3 Tech

Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, announced his resignation from Apple's Board of Directors due to potential conflicts as the two tech giants compete in similar markets. Schmidt has served as a member of Apple's board since August 2009. Read Full Article here.
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Google's Schmidt quits Apple board

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple Inc's board of directors, Apple said, citing increased competition between the two leading technology companies.
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Google CEO Schmidt to quit Apple board

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple Inc's board of directors, the companies said, citing increased competition between the two leading technology companies.
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Japan eyes e-politics as political rivalry grows

Japanese opposition lawmaker Seiji Ohsaka was disappointed, if not surprised, when he found he was supposed to stop posting microblogs on social networking service Twitter once the formal campaign begins for an August 30 election.
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Microsoft's Bing gains another 1 pct of US search

Microsoft increased its share of the U.S. Internet search market by another 1 percentage point in July, taking its combined share with new search partner Yahoo to 20.36 percent, according to data released on Monday.
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Panasonic loss beats consensus, outlook unchanged

Japan's Panasonic Corp reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and sharply lifted its half-year outlook as it cuts costs to cope with a firmer yen and weak TV sales, but stuck to its outlook for a second annual net loss.
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Yahoo to focus on display ad, content businesses: report

Yahoo Inc , which last week announced a Web search deal with Microsoft Corp , will invest money from reduced marketing and infrastructure costs into its display ad, content and mobile services technology, its chief executive Carol Bartz told the New York Times in an interview.
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Panasonic slips to Q1 loss, outlook unchanged

Japan's Panasonic Corp reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss as it cut costs to fight a firmer yen and weak TV and digital camera demand, and it stood by its annual outlook for its net loss to shrink by half.
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Panasonic slips to loss, outlook unchanged

Japan's Panasonic Corp reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss as it cut costs to fight a firmer yen and weak TV and digital camera demand, and it stood by its annual outlook for its net loss to shrink by half.
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Bartz: Yahoo to focus on display ad, content businesses: report

Yahoo Inc, which last week announced a Web search deal with Microsoft Corp, will invest money from reduced marketing and infrastructure costs into its display ad, content and mobile services technology, its chief executive Carol Bartz told the New York Times in an interview.
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Head of English Catholics warns about emails/texting

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales is concerned that excessive use of emails and mobile phone text messaging is creating shallow friendships and undermining community life, according to an interview published on Sunday.
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Amazon.com sued over deleted digital book copies

Amazon.com ate my homework.That's a legitimate excuse for one high-school student whose notes for a homework assignment vanished when the online retailer remotely deleted digital copies of George Orwell's 1984, off consumers' Kindle devices.

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