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Kate Moss on comeback trail with cellphone gig
AFP - British supermodel Kate Moss has scored a lucrative deal with a mobile phone operator as she swiftly rebuilds her cocaine-shaken career, The Sun newspaper reported.
High Def, Low Cost: HDTV Prices Plunge
PC World - Fierce competition and a supply boom send costs tumbling for LCD, plasma TVs.
Fujitsu to Dock Execs' Pay Over Glitches
AP - Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. on Friday said it would dock the pay of its president and several other executives after problems in the company's software forced the Tokyo Stock Exchange to shut down trading earlier this month.
Kazaa deadline extended to February
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sharman Networks, the operator of file-sharing network Kazaa, on Friday said an Australian court has extended until late February a deadline for Sharman to modify its software to block piracy.
ESPN wants to ring you up with highlights
USATODAY.com - For the big day-after Thanksgiving shopping stampede: How about going online to give the fanatic in your life a way to watch sports on a 2-inch screen costing $400? While the $400 ESPN Mobile cellphones won't be in stores nationwide until February, they go on sale online Friday at mobileespn.com.
Siemens brings fast Internet, mobile to Greenland
Reuters - The 57,000 inhabitants of the Arctic
island of Greenland will soon have access to the fastest
Internet connections available in Europe, German engineering
conglomerate Siemens said on Friday.
Nokia sees 2006 market beating expectations
Reuters - The chief executive of top mobile-phone
maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Friday that the global market is
likely to grow faster next year than many people expect.
Ubisoft not for sale, eyeing acquisitions -report
Reuters - French video games maker Ubisoft
not only wants to remain independent but is also
looking to make several acquisitions in a consolidating sector,
its chairman said in a magazine interview.
Sweden Aims to Bring Expo to Internet
AP - There won't be any cotton candy, but most other treats of a world fair would be available in an Internet version of the global exposition being prepared in Sweden.
Cray chief scientist resigns
Reuters - Supercomputer maker Cray Inc.
on Friday said that cofounder and chief scientist Burton Smith
will leave the company to take a job at software maker
Microsoft Corp. .
EA sees C.Europe games market maturing, piracy down
Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), the world's
biggest video game publisher, expects the central European
market to continue developing quickly and piracy to fall, EA's
head of European sales said in an interview.
Child pornography problem growing in Sweden
AFP - The number of Swedes seeking out sexual images involving children on the Internet is on the rise, the Swedish chapter of the anti-child pornography group Ecpat warned.
Nokia's cell phone sales skyrocket in China
AFP - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said that over the first nine months of the year it had sold 23 million handsets in China, an increase of 77 percent compared to the same period a year ago.
Firm wants to rid Net of suffixes
Reuters - A Dutch technology company has
breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes
such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be
countries, company names or fantasy words.
Online retailers await 'Cyber Monday'
Reuters - U.S. online holiday sales are
expected to hit nearly $20 billion this year and should take
off on Monday, when consumers return to work and their fast
Internet connections after the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Sales stall for digital music tracks
Reuters - The pace of U.S. digital music
track sales during the last six months has slowed dramatically
after a year of explosive growth.
Wireless home music hub needs no computer
Reuters - Olive Media Products has
introduced the Musica wireless music center, an alternative to
the PC as the digital music hub in the home.
Apple's iPod nano a holiday hit
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc.'s
sleek iPod nano music player was among the top-selling
electronic items on Amazon.com on Friday and some models sold
out on a top retailer's Web site as consumers stocked up on
holiday gifts on one of the year's busiest shopping days.
Kazaa gets stay; industry sees changes
Reuters - The operator of the Kazaa file-sharing
network on Friday said an Australian court would hear an appeal
on a copyright case in late February conditional on Kazaa
making some changes to its software in the mean time.
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