Google opens Web store for business applications
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet....
MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly....
On latest guitar game, players strum real strings
NEW YORK (AP) -- An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument....
`Nobel of computing' goes to early PC designer
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A Microsoft Corp. researcher won the $250,000 Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, on Tuesday for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer....
Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba
GENEVA (AP) -- A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba....
Mandatory insurance proposed for UK dogs
LONDON (AP) -- A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to get microchips and take out insurance for their pets....
Cisco to introduce new heavy-duty Internet router
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it is upgrading one of its biggest pieces of networking hardware, a router that's used to power the most trafficked parts of the Internet backbone....
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