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FCC Vs. F-Word in Supreme Court
Justices of the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday to mull a 30-year-old indecency law in...
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'Max Payne' Is This Weekend’s No.1 at Box Office
“Max Payne,” the video game turned movie that stars Mark Wahlberg, scored big points at the North...
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One Step Closer to 3-D
The number of studios involved seems to grow every day and
3-D is one step away. Five Hollywood...
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Drug-Coated Stent Safer For Heart Attack Patients
A news study in the Sept. 25 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine
gives more hope to heart...
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Ready or Not, MySpace Music’s Launch Is Getting Closer and Closer
If the world’s biggest networking site expands even more so
as to offer just any noteworthy track...
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Update: Steve Jobs - Alive And Kicking
An obituary on Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs published on
Wednesday, presenting among other things his...
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mtvU Set to Launch First 25 Online Daily Guides for Students
Viacom Inc.’s mtvU, a division of MTV Networks that is
available on more than 750 college and...
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'Tropic Thunder' Still The King Of Box Office, With 16 Million
Despite the controversies it has caused, or probably,
because of them, the action comedy “Tropic...
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Amerigroup to Resolve Fraud Allegations for $225 Million
Health insurer Amerigroup Corp will pay $225
million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the...
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Social Networking Worldwide Frenzy Continues; Facebook Is Number One
On Tuesday, ComScore released the results of a recently completed study; as it turned out, the...
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J.K. Rowling Launches New Trend: Wizard Tales and Charity
Good news for Harry Potter fans. Even better news for Harry
Potter fans with kind hearts. J. K....
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New Palm Treo 800w Not Meant to Compete With iPhone 3G
Palm Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. today announced the Palm
Treo 800w smart phone, calling it a...
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Lehman Analyst Earthquakes Entertainment Industry
In a series of research notes, Anthony DiClemente, a Lehman
Brothers analyst, devalued the...
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Investigations Continue At The Helicopter Crash Site In Arizona
Three days ago, two medical helicopters collided in
Flagstaff, Arizona, killing six people and...
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Six Deaths and Three Injured in Chopper Collision
Six people died and three were injured after two
medical helicopters collided Sunday on their way...
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Update:Sony Confirms Movies Download Service For Its PlayStation3
It seems like finally Sony has decided to officially confirm its long-rumored movies download...
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The Days Of Glory Aren’t Over For The Smurfs
The Smurfs, the funny blue cartoon characters who have been
loved by many generations, are going...
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HarperCollins Chief Executive Resigns, Is Replaced By Murray
HarperCollins president and chief executive Jane Friedman
stepped down from her post, becoming the...
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Octogenarian Ed McMahon under Threat of Foreclosure
Ed McMahon, the trusted sidekick of Johnny Carson through decades of entertainment, is, at 85,...
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FOX Sued By Justice Department For Refusing To Pay FCC Fine
Lawyers representing the U.S. Justice Department have filed a lawsuit against FOX Television...
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CBS Forced To Fire News Staffers All Over US
The massive staff layoffs reportedly being made at CBS-owned TV stations in Los Angeles, San...
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News Corp. And Judith Regan Settle Over $100M Lawsuit
The legal battle between News Corp and its former employee, Judith Regan, is finally over as an...
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Sony BMG To Go DRM Free Way
According to a report from Business
Week, the music giant Sony BMG will sell DRM free music some...
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Oprah's Pick For Book Club: "The Pillars of the Earth"
Oprah Winfrey encouraged readers Wednesday to pick up Ken Follett’s 1989 historical novel...
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More Heads Expected To Roll at the BBC Over 'Crowngate' Scandal
As the "Crowngate" scandal at the British Broadcasting Corp. grows larger with the boss...
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MySpace to Challenge Hollywood's Movie Industry
After seeing Google’s YouTube grabbing the king’s crown for himself (along with a good portion of...
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Dow Jones Union Seeks Alternative To Murdoch’s Offer
It’s not sure if the media mogul Rupert Murdoch will add
Wall Street Journal to his media empire,...
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After All, Murdoch Maybe Will Buy Wall Street Journal
The owners of Wall Street Journal, the Bancroft family may
consider selling one of the...
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Technology
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Yahoo Without a CEO and Left Behind By Microsoft
Having failed to reverse Yahoo's stalled growth and plunging profits, Mr. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder,...
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Pirates Dupe Blu-Ray Disk Buyers
Using a technological quirk, movie disk pirates are selling
so-called Blu-Ray disks, which can be...
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YouTube To Add New Full-Length MGM Shows To Boost Its Revenue
Popular video-sharing Web site YouTube takes a new step in
its quest to boost the company’s...
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YouTube Set To Deliver Full-Length MGM Movies
The MGM studio is eager to monetize its library however possible and it will allow YouTube to...
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YouTube Is Young and Restless
YouTube said it will begin showing full-length television programs beginning with shows from CBS...
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Hollywood Studios To Support Digital Rollout
Walt Disney Co, Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox, General...
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MySpace Music Lines Up Big Sponsors Ahead Of Launch
MySpace Music lined up an impressive list of sponsors just
days before the service is expected to...
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New Digital World from DECE
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, a group of
media industry companies, wants to build a...
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In Poland Orange Hired Actors To Stand In Line For iPhone
Because France Telecom's Orange is concerned that Polish customers won’t que to get their hands on...
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Sony to Launch PSP 3000 in Mid-October
Sony Corp. officially announced Wednesday the launch of a new version of the PlayStation Portable....
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Intel Prepares New Chip Line-up
Intel Corp. announced yesterday that a new line of desktop
computer chips, released under the well...
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Konnichiwa iPhone 3G! Crowds Take Over Cities Across Asia-Pacific
How does a launch day for next-gen iPhone 3G look like? Friday
morning, Japan, hours before...
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Microsoft Patched Up Several Serious Security Flaws
As part of its Patch Tuesday update cycle, Microsoft just
released four patches, all labeled as...
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The New Net Neutrality Bill
A new bill on neutrality and broadband policy was introduced
yesterday by Representatives John...
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Microsoft Goes Solo, Says Gates … But For How Long?
Now that the Microsoft – Yahoo deal
(or no deal) is history, there are no other major deals to be...
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Sing Your Heart Out With MySpace Karaoke
As music takes over the
Internet, so does karaoke apparently. Two years after Fox Interactive, a...
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Hacker On Trial On News Corp Pirating Accusations
A News Corp unit is currently involved in a trial, after
being accused of hiring a computer hacker...
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Despite Its Potential Alliances, Yahoo Cornered by Microsoft
Microsoft is fed up with waiting,
as Yahoo searches for alternatives to its offer…how will this...
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imeem Acquires Shawn Fanning’s SNOCAP
The music company, SNOCAP, founded in 2002 by the former
Napster founder Shawn Fanning was...
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MySpace Music, A New Rival For iTunes?
It was bound to happen, eventually. MySpace, the biggest
social-networking site, has announced its...
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It’s Official: MySpace Music Store Revealed!
Weeks of rumors have finally
turned to reality as MySpace officially announced the MySpace Music...
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MySpace Finally Announces Online Music Store
MySpace parent company News Corp. has announced the long-anticipated MySpace Music, an online music...
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It’s Official! Google Acquired DoubleClick In $3.1 Billion Deal
Almost one year after Google
announced its intention to acquire DoubleClick, the deal has been...
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Hulu Goes Public With Premium Content For U.S. Users
Hulu went public as of today,
with a wide variety of hit TV shows, movies, clips and other videos,...
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Now Google Gears Powers Up Your Mobile Applications
Less than a year since it was launched, Google Gears is now available
for the mobile phones....
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Coming Soon: MySpace Music?
According to the reports from The Wall Street Journal and
CNET it seems like MySpace could be the...
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Polaroid Could End Instant Photo Technology Era
Polaroid Corp., the company become famous for its instant cameras and photos, has decided to close...
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MySpace Opens Up to Third-Party Apps
As MySpace announced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, it opened its platform for developers...
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Google Stock Declines on Slow 4Q Results
Google stock has slipped as much as 8 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company...
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‘Developer Platform’ From MySpace To be Launched
MySpace will allow software developers to sign up starting
Wednesday for the software that will...
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Business
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Courtney Holt Named MySpace Music President
Tuesday, social
networking website MySpace announced that former MTV executive Courtney...
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GM scales back production, cuts corporate jets
New York - Suffering US automaker General Motors Corp will again cut its production, the firm said...
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US stocks rally on energy, technology shares
New York - US stocks rallied at day's end Tuesday as energy and technology shares led the way and...
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Windows Live Gets New Features
Microsoft’s decision to add social networking features to its Windows Live Web services was...
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YouTube Adds New Full-Length Shows To Boost Its Revenue
Popular video-sharing Web site YouTube takes a new step in
its quest to boost the company’s...
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GM, Ford report massive losses; Obama assures support
Washington - The two major US automakers, Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp, reported massive...
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News Corp Profit Down on TV Ad Weakness
Los Angeles - Media conglomerate News Corp reported a drop in quarterly net income of 30 per cent,...
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Toyota Sees 1st Quarterly Sales Drop in 7 Years
Tokyo - Toyota Motor Corp saw its global sales take their first quarterly dive in seven years as...
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Yahoo to Announce at least 1,000 Job Cuts
San Francisco - Yahoo Inc was to announce at least 1,000 job cuts, possibly as early as Tuesday...
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Exelon offers 6.2 billion dollars for discounted NRG Energy
New York - Giant energy company Exelon Corp, the country's largest utility, has made an uninvited...
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YouTube Offers For The First Time Full TV Episodes
Google’s YouTube service is ready for a makeover and a new
direction. Looking to turn its...
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US stocks plummet further; Dow below 9,000 points
New York - US stocks plummeted again on Thursday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below...
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Facebook Will Go On Without One Of Its Co-founders
The news about Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz
leaving the company have been confirmed by...
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Citigroup goes to court over Wachovia takeover
Washington - In another surprise development in the takeover race for the fourth-largest US bank, a...
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The MPAA Means Business When It Comes To RealNetworks' Business
There is a lot of hype surrounding the upcoming lawsuit
between RealNetworks and Hollywood’s major...
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US Auto Sales Fall Due to Tighter Access to Credit
Washington - Sales of automobiles in the US decreased considerably in September as a weaker economy...
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New Video Service On Facebook
Slide Inc., a well known social network software maker,
finalized a deal with several major media...
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Movie Studios Attack RealNetworks' Product
Last week’s release of RealNetworks’ RealDVD program was
received by Hollywood’s major movie...
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MySpace Music Stirs Controversy, Indie Labels Left Out
Although it has been available for only a couple of days,
MySpace Music has already sparked...
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MySpace Has Its Own Music Service
MySpace rolled out today its new online music store, called
MySpace Music, which enables users to...
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US Stocks Rebound on AIG Hopes after Wild Trading Day
New York/Washington - US stocks made strong gains after a wild day of trading Tuesday, pulling back...
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US Financial Turmoil Sends Stocks to Sharp Lows
New York/Washington - The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and fears of more looming bank...
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Protracted Financial Crisis Puts US Primacy in Jeopardy
Washington- After the worst episode yet in a devastating, year-long credit crisis plaguing the...
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Financial behemoth Lehman Brothers largest failure in US
New York - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the 158-year-old investment bank, has become the largest...
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Microsoft Slashes The Price Of Xbox 360 In Japan
Microsoft is making a new attempt to keep up with its
competitors, Sony and Nintendo, on the...
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US growth at 3.3 per cent in second quarter
Washington - The United States economy grew at 3.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, the...
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More US jobs lost, unemployment up to 5.7 per cent
The United States economy lost 51,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate went up to 5.7 per...
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Microsoft Is Not Targeted By China's Investigations
Today, the rumors about the investigations on the monopoly-oriented activities conducted by...
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CBS Strikes Online Market With CNET Networks Acquisition
CBS Corp. confirmed on Thursday the
acquisition of CNET Networks Inc. for $1.8 billion, in one...
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