Reuters – British cable operator Virgin Media is testing a new technology to deliver ultrafast broadband over telegraph poles which could allow it to extend its reach to another 1 million homes.
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AFP – MySpace began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.

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PC World – Motorola will start loading Microsoft’s search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.
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PC World – Online photography store Adorama is offering a factory-refurbished Nikon Coolpix S360 digital camera in black for just $129.95 with free shipping. The 12-megapixel camera features a 7X optical zoom, four-way image stabilization, a 2.7-inch LCD, and in-camera editing features. It has nifty features such as a Sport Continuous Mode for high-speed image capture, and a Smart Portrait System that includes face-priority autofocus, Smile Mode, Blink Proof, and in-camera Red-Eye Fix.
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AFP – A vague threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking sites led to the lockdown on Wednesday of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis, officials said.

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AP – The sudden takedown of an Internet provider helping spread a promiscuous piece of malicious software has cut off criminals from possibly millions of personal computers under their control.
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PC World – Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers “the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse.” On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.
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AFP – MySpace on Wednesday began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.

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AFP – Microsoft’s new Internet search engine Bing slightly increased its share of the US search market in February, the ninth straight month of modest gains, online tracking firm comScore said Wednesday.

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PC World – Microsoft’s Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it’s slowly and steadily gaining users. And it appears that Bing’s share is coming at the expense of both Google and Yahoo, the latter of which recently teamed up with Microsoft to be more competitive in online search.
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