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CNN Money - Technology
Wed Oct 25, 2006
- The online search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new service Monday that allows users to create their own personalized search engine for their own Web sites or blogs.
- Apple Computer added Intel's new Core 2 Duo chip to the the MacBook Pro laptop, the company announced Tuesday.
- You're savvy. You've read lots of network security horror stories, so you've taken all the usual precautions. You've installed firewalls, password-protected your gear, and created offsite backups.
- Walmart.com on Tuesday announced an extensive overhaul that includes a major redesign of the Web site that aims to offer users a shorter checkout process and a "virtual" buying guide to research their purchases online.
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- IBM has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Amazon.com for unspecified damages, the company announced Monday.
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- "Nicholas, it looks like a science project," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said to Nicholas Negroponte, the Pied Piper of the $100 laptop, as he demonstrated one of its first versions. Skeptics abounded when, in early 2005, Negroponte left MIT's Media Lab, which he founded and ran for 20 years, aiming to build a supercheap portable computer for the world's poor children.
- Growing up in a small town in southern Norway, Jon Lech Johansen loved to take things apart to figure out how they worked. Unlike most kids, though, he'd put them back together better than they were before. When he was 14, his father bought a digital camera that came with buggy software, so Jon analyzed the code and wrote a program that worked better.
- Google stock closed at a record high Monday as investors kept cheering the company's strong third-quarter earnings and its recent $1.65 billion deal to buy online video kingpin YouTube.
- The browser is the new OS. Yes, we've heard this before, and if you're quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why.
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- Google, the world's leading search engine, reported third-quarter sales and earnings Thursday that beat analysts' estimates as the company continues to benefit from robust demand for online advertising.
- Apple's iPod celebrates its fifth birthday Monday, marking a milestone for the music player that not only reinvigorated the "other" computer maker but revolutionized the way people buy and listen to music.
- Imagine the real estate mogul in a world where everything is for sale. No, it's not Donald Trump in Vegas, but a Chinese-born teacher who is the land baroness of the virtual world Second Life. The profits are real, even though the landscape and the character named Anshe Chung are simulated. The woman who created Chung, and whose brick-and-mortar home is in Germany, owns about $250,000 in virtual land that she buys, sells and leases with fellow virtual citizens, or avatars.
- Chipmaker AMD has been steadily winning market share from industry leader Intel, but scars from the fierce competition were apparent when the company reported its quarterly results this week.
- With the PlayStation 3 launch date less than one month away, Sony is finally answering some of the lingering mysteries about the video game system.
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