08 Mar 2010 07:07 am

A Cablevision sign is seen in New York, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Cablevision subscribers were scrambling Sunday to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's parent company Walt Disney Co. switched off its signal in a dispute over fees. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Cablevision and ABC were negotiating a deal Monday that tentatively ended a dispute over fees and restored millions of viewers' access to the Academy Awards telecast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the broadcast began.


08 Mar 2010 02:42 am

File photo shows a woman using her laptop computer. Washington will allow technology companies to export Internet services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan in a bid to exploit their libertarian potential, The New York Times has reported.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Washington will allow technology companies to export Internet services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan in a bid to exploit their libertarian potential, The New York Times reported late Sunday.


08 Mar 2010 02:40 am
PC World - Apple chose the Oscars on the ABC television network to air its first iPad commercial on Sunday night in the U.S.
07 Mar 2010 11:00 pm
PC World - Getting a movie (or an entire season of Lost) delivered in the mail used be the height of convenience, but discs are so last decade. Consumers are increasingly seeking instant satisfaction, in the form of streaming video on demand. Netflix says that 48 percent of its 12.3 million subscribers used its streaming feature in December 2009, versus just 28 percent the previous year.
07 Mar 2010 06:07 pm

A pirate boat in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia in 2009. Somali pirates raked in an estimated 60 million dollars in 2009 but the Indian Ocean's ransom hunters have also spurred a much larger industry of ship protection devices.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Somali pirates raked in an estimated 60 million dollars in 2009 but the Indian Ocean's ransom hunters have also spurred a much larger industry of ship protection devices.


07 Mar 2010 03:55 pm

FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)AP - A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.


07 Mar 2010 02:00 am

File photo of Kashmiri employees working at a call centre in Srinagar. India's big three outsourcing companies -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro -- all have plans to boost hiring sharply in the coming financial year.(AFP/File/Rouf Bhat)AFP - Indian software engineer Prithvi Sen has a spring in his step after getting re-hired by the country's flagship outsourcing industry, which is shaking off the effects of the global recession.


06 Mar 2010 10:53 pm

Event guests play with the new Apple iPad during an Apple Special Event in San Francisco in January.(AFP/File/Ryan Anson)AFP - As an electronic reader, Apple's iPad has been touted as a possible "Kindle killer" but what has videogame makers buzzing is the potential of the touchscreen tablet computer as a gaming platform.


06 Mar 2010 01:23 am

PC World – Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog.

05 Mar 2010 07:25 pm
AP - Mobile phone software developer Sybase Inc. said Friday that it has redeemed $390 million of convertible debt.

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