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NEW YORK (Fortune) — RealNetworks’ Rhapsody music service is launching a full-scale assault on iTunes.
In a dramatic strategy shift, on June 30 the company announced the fissure of its MP3 store. The budding service does away entirely with digital rights management, the software baked into digital music that controls how widely it can [...]

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The North Pole may be briefly ice-free beside September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
"We kind of have an informal betting pool going around in our center and that betting pool is ‘does the North Pole melt out [...]

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The fun won’t be more than for the University of Arizona when batteries in favour of the school-led Phoenix Mars Lander fail and its computers dead in one’s tracks up in the Martian arctic after its three-month mission ends.
With the permanent Science Operations Center now built in Tucson, Arizona — and the recognition that [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is buying Helio LLC, a struggling cell phone carrier that was founded to bring the advanced features of South Korean phones to the U.S. shop.
Virgin Mobile said Friday it would give out $39 million in stock for Helio, which has 170,000 subscribers, down from nearly 200,000 [...]

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A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions — potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.
At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO(Fortune) — Microsoft is pushing hard to stop Google from teaming up with Yahoo now that the software giant has given up on acquiring the tarnished Internet portal. But antitrust lawyers and technology analysts maximum the case don’t think Ballmer & Co. has much of a prayer at stopping the deal from going [...]

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Treo smartphone maker Palm says it swung to a fiscal fourth-quarter loss as revenue declined sharply, falling below Wall Street’s expectations.
For the three months ended May 31, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm Inc. (PALM) said its loss after paying preferred dividends was $43.4 million, or 40 cents per share, compared with a [...]

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Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday.
Climate change-over "will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions," Thomas Fingar said. "All of [...]

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MIAMI(CNN American Morning) — Jessie Prado sees himself as a bit of a trailblazer. His house in Boca Raton, Florida is easy to pick finished. It’s the only one with solar panels – and solar power. He, as well as his power company, Florida Power and Light, are making an investment in solar power [...]

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) — Oracle Corp. breezed defunct analysts’ expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter, providing another sign of the technology industry’s vitality despite the listless U.S. economy.
The business software maker said Wednesday that it earned $2.04 billion, or 39 cents per deal, in the three months ending in May, up 27% from [...]

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