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Apple today announced several changes to the iTunes Store. Beginning today, all four major music labels—Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, are now offering their music in iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free format with higher-quality 2
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Mark January 15 in your calendar: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft peg that as the day the bad news will come. The latest to report on the possibility of layoffs at the software giant is the blog Fudzilla, which puts the number of job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft's worldwide ope
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Hasbro Inc. has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the lawsuit Friday. Hasbro, which owns the North American rights to the word game, sued Jayant and Rajat Agarwal
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In a surprise to no one, Time magazine named President-elect Barack Obama its "Person of the Year" for 2008. The magazine said Obama "has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago."
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Liberal caucus members agreed unanimously on Monday that Stéphane Dion would stay on to lead a Liberal-NDP coalition, after the two parties reached a tentative agreement to replace the minority Conservative government if it falls.
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Godzilla is a pussycat compared to the coterie of lawyers and investigators in Los Angeles and Japan who aggressively protect the radioactive behemoth from anyone who dares to appropriate his lizardly image for profit. Hurling hundreds of lawsuits and takedown notices like so many fireballs, Godzil
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The "Srizbi" botnet returned from the dead late Tuesday, said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer at FireEye Inc., when the infected PCs were able to successfully reconnect with new command-and-control servers, which are now based in Estonia. Srizbi was knocked out more than two weeks ag
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Thousands of illegal cellphones are being smuggled into prisons, where inmates, including some on death row, use them to threaten victims, conduct drug deals, plot escape and seek legal help, prison officials say.
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The world may well be teetering on the brink of economic recession, but new U.S. performance figures for the month of October have shown that the videogame industry is enjoying considerable growth. According to market researcher NPD Group, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo led the hardware industry in
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1. The Doomsday Machine — Dr. Strangelove (film)
The aptly named "Doomsday Machine" was one of the uncredited stars of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Its purpose? Delivering a retaliatory nuclear strike on all mankind in the event of an attack on Soviet soil. All it took was a broken radio
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