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Hamas' YouTube-inspired site hits the internet - Feature
Gaza City - Featuring content ranging from relatively conservative Syrian social drama to videos glorifying al-Qaeda, the Islamic Hamas movement has launched its answer to the popular YouTube internet site. The Hamas version, AqsaTube, shows real-tim...

Sony to offer e-reader in Germany from spring 2009
Frankfurt - Sony is to offer its e-book reader, a replacement for paper books, in Germany from the spring of next year, the Japan-based media company said Wednesday at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Sony Reader device went on sale in the United States ...

Google to appeal German thumbnail copyright ruling
San Francisco - The internet giant Google is to appeal two German court decisions that found it violated copyright law by showing thumbnails of works by two artists in search results, PC World reported Tuesday. The cases involved Google's Image Searc...

Apple unveils new MacBooks
San Francisco - Apple unveiled a new line of Macbook laptop computers Tuesday, bringing prices down at the same time as improving function and design. The two most prominent new features of the new line-up are powerful new graphics capabilities provi...

Google, Yahoo in talks over advertising deal
San Francisco - Executives from Yahoo and Google are negotiating with the US Department of Justice in an effort to allay antitrust fears about their proposed advertising agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The report said that the ta...

Pamuk criticizes blockage of YouTube access in Turkey
Frankfurt - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, criticized Turkey on Tuesday for prosecuting outspoken authors and charged that internet providers in his homeland were blocking free access to the internet site YouTube. In a sp...

Soyuz craft carrying Texas space tourist successfully docks at ISS
Moscow - Texan millionaire space tourist Richard Gariott and two professional astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday after two days of cramped orbit aboard the Russian Soyuz shuttle. Mission commander Michael Fincke o...

Spicebird: Open source e-mail done right - Feature
Washington - Web-based e-mail services may get most of the attention these days, but traditional desktop-based e-mail remains indispensable for most. That's in part because of history - people are still accustomed to downloading their e-mail into a t...

New ISS crew launched into space - Summary
Moscow - A new crew for a lengthy stay on board the International Space Station (ISS) was launched Sunday morning from the Baikonur space centre. The Soyuz capsule with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lontchakov and his US colleague Michael Fincke was launche...

New ISS crew launched into space
Moscow - A new crew for a lengthy stay on board the International Space Station (ISS) was launched Sunday morning from the Baikonur space centre. The Soyuz capsule with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lontchakov and his US colleague Michael Fincke was launche...

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Med Stats Can Confound Even Docs
Misleading drug claims confuse even doctors, a study shows.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/yZkn_Q8Mkcs" height="1" width="1"/>

NASA Does Remote-Control Fix on Hubble
NASA to repair Hubble by remote-control Wednesday.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/Zb9cwfXPIRY" height="1" width="1"/>

Hackers' Next Target? Cell Phones
Researchers expect hackers to prey on cell phones.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/omfptitdWF8" height="1" width="1"/>

Germ Tech: 7 Products That Battle Bacteria
New technology will manhandle microbes without our even knowing it.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/sbT1pTDTnqo" height="1" width="1"/>

Authorities Shut Down Vast Spam Operation
US, New Zealand authorities claim shutdown of large spam network.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/SajvYl9hUYU" height="1" width="1"/>

Who Is Keeping You in Line Online?
Before you post that zinger, meet the people who might take it down.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/aBnmmkNYzAA" height="1" width="1"/>

Why Teens Post Nude Pix of Themselves
More and more teens throwing inhibition to the Internet, at their own risk.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/HM8FxODo8Zw" height="1" width="1"/>

New Tech Could Curb Cell Phone Driving
New software detects when a cell phone is moving at car speeds and holds calls.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/06UjzrZqSMI" height="1" width="1"/>

World's Oldest Human Footprints Confirmed
Scientists verify that the world's oldest footprints are in Italy.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/ZQ1ipm7RFpA" height="1" width="1"/>

U.S. Space Tourist Arrives at Space Station
Russian craft carrying U.S. space tourist, crewmates docks with orbital station.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~4/dnTzxYn7GmY" height="1" width="1"/>

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AVG flags ZoneAlarm as malware
A false positive causes some AVG antivirus software users to think they are under attack from a new Trojan horse.

Has Storm stopped sending spam?
Researchers find that spam output produced by the once prolific botnet has dwindled to almost nothing in the last month.

Poptub: Google tries best-of-YouTube TV show
A Pepsi-sponsored show featuring YouTube highlights and celebrity interviews delivers an audience to advertisers.

Discovery's 'Prototype This!' debuts tonight
The new show from the producers of MythBusters highlights innovative product design from the minds of a group of creative, yet telegenic hosts.

Get ready for Microsoft's PDC
With questions swirling around Windows 7 and "Windows Cloud," Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference will be the place to be. Even if you can't be there, our shiny PDC page will keep you up-to-date.

Apple executive parade not prelude to change
Just because CEO Steve Jobs shared the stage with several of his top lieutenants at Tuesday's notebook announcement doesn't mean he's ready to give up control.

Microsoft to ditch MSN Groups?
An e-mail forwarded to LiveSide.net seems to indicate that Microsoft will be closing its MSN Groups service and replacing it with a new Windows Live Groups--but the two won't be compatible.

BooRah launches API to share restaurant reviews
BooRah has launched an API to give website owners the opportunity to post its restaurant reviews on its site. But will that be enough to coax them from Yelp?

At least IT isn't fooling itself again
One big difference between now and the dot-com bust: IT managers aren't fooling themselves that the good times are just around the corner. That's actually splendid news for any number of reasons.

IDC: Netbook shipments up, expect constrained IT budgets
Economic turmoil drives lowered consumer and professional spending on PCs, but makes cheaper Netbooks more attractive.