Topic: Science and Technology

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Napster gives away music players with subscription

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 02:54 AM

	Napster, which was transformed into a legal service after turning the music industry on its ear with an unauthorized song-swapping platform, is now giving away MP3 devices to anyone who subscribes for a full year. Read full article: 'Napster gives away music players with subscription'

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Articles: Ex-Symbol CEO on the run

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 02:52 AM

	"My advisers in Sweden and the United States have advised me to stay in Sweden till this is all cleared up, because I am a Swedish citizen," Tomo Razmilovic, who is a native Croatian but also claims Swedish citizenship, told the weekend edition of the paper. Read full article: 'Ex-Symbol CEO on the run'

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Articles: Yahoo! launches 'Yisou' search portal

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 02:44 AM

	The introduction of Yahoo!'s new Web site, http://www.yisou.com/, follows Google's acquisition last week of a minority stake in Baidu.com Inc., China's biggest independent Internet search engine and one of Google's strongest rivals here. Read full article: 'Yahoo! launches 'Yisou' search portal'

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Articles: Digital bugle plays taps when soldiers can't

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 02:42 AM

	Instead of a bugler playing the 24 notes, a computerized chip implanted in the horn renders the heart-stirring song. Read full article: 'Digital bugle plays taps when soldiers can't'

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Articles: Spacewalk To Repair Station to Proceed

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 12:14 AM

	The United States and Russia will proceed this week with a complicated and unprecedented spacewalk outside the international space station despite a last-minute dispute over the use of Russian equipment that threatened to delay things for a day, NASA engineers said yesterday. Read full article: 'Spacewalk To Repair Station to Proceed'

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Articles: MasterCard Goes Fishing For Phishers

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 12:11 AM

	MasterCard International Inc. and digital-fraud-detection firm NameProtect Inc. have joined to fight illegal online activities, principally "phishing" schemes and the online trading of stolen credit-card numbers. Read full article: 'MasterCard Goes Fishing For Phishers'

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Articles: Private venture proves commercial flights feasible

Posted by admin on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 12:09 AM

	The story of SpaceShipOne could only happen in America — the designing, building and flying of a privately funded rocket-powered plane into the deadly environment of space without a cent of government funding. Read full article: 'Private venture proves commercial flights feasible'

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Articles: Climate film put to computer test

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 02:59 AM

	Computer users across the world are being invited to download and run a climate model of what may happen this century. Read full article: 'Climate film put to computer test'

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Articles: Effort to save UK's web heritage

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 02:57 AM

	The two-year project will archive some 6,000 websites in an attempt to capture a flavour of British life online. Read full article: 'Effort to save UK's web heritage'

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Articles: Finance firms risking wi-fi woe

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 02:55 AM

	A survey by RSA Security found that a third of businesses are still not doing enough to protect data passing over wi-fi networks. Read full article: 'Finance firms risking wi-fi woe'

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