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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
NEW YORK, 6:35 a.m. Aug. 20 (AP)
Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few weeks, but this time eBay Inc. hopes it can cool tempers.
Already this year, eBay has tinkered with its fee structure, search results and feedback system. These efforts might be meeting eBay's aims of improving the experience for buyers, but several sellers say their relationship with eBay is worse than ever, and some have left the site entirely.
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NEW YORK, 8:02 a.m. Aug. 20 (AP)
American launches in-flight Internet on 3 routes: One of the few remaining Internet-free havens vanished Wednesday as American Airlines launched airborne e-mail, Web and other online services on some of its longer, nonstop flights.
TOKYO, 2:56 a.m. Aug. 19 (AP)
Japan reports 2 iPods overheating, suspects defect: Japan is investigating a possible battery defect in the popular iPod Nano music player after reports that two overheated in Tokyo, scorching nearby paper and a woven straw mat, a government official said Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, 7:11 a.m. Aug. 19 (REUTERS)
Google invests $10 million in geothermal technology: Google Inc Tuesday said it would invest more than $10 million in a breakthrough geothermal energy technology.
BOSTON, 10:12 a.m. Aug. 18 (AP)
Studies: Video games can aid students, surgeons: Parents, don't put away those video games just yet – today's gamer may be tomorrow's top surgeon.
LOS ANGELES, 4:26 p.m. Aug. 15 (AP)
Military funds mind-reading research: Here's a mind-bending idea: The U.S. military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts.
NEW YORK, 8:49 a.m. Aug. 15 (AP)
Electric bikes selling briskly as gas prices climb: When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop owner in the city.
LOS ANGELES, 11:38 a.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
NASA delays robotic moon mission until 2009: NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts.
BERLIN, 9:36 a.m. Aug. 14 (REUTERS)
EA sees 2008 Europe industry sales up a fifth: Electronic Arts, one of the world's top two video game publishers, expects industry revenue to grow by at least 20 percent this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a top executive told Reuters.
NEW YORK, 9:38 a.m. Aug. 14 (REUTERS)
Open-source pact subject to copyrights law – court: A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the holder of a copyright to a computer programming code made available for free public download can enforce an “open-source” copyright license to control future use of the work.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., 9:04 a.m. Aug. 14 (REUTERS)GM to finish electric car design by mid-September: General Motors Corp said Thursday it would finalize the design of the all-electric Chevy Volt by mid-September and aims to have 50 prototypes with production-ready parts by the end of 2008. GRANTS PASS, Ore., 1:29 a.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
Feds: Common pesticides jeopardize salmon survival: Three pesticides commonly used on farms and orchards throughout the West are jeopardizing the survival of Pacific salmon, the federal agency in charge of saving the fish from extinction has found. CUPERTINO, 2:57 a.m. Aug. 13 (AP)
Fire burns building at Apple HQ in California: Firefighters have put out a blaze that burned for more than three hours at the headquarters of computer maker Apple.
HONG KONG, 2:53 p.m. Aug. 12 (AP)
Gates marks anniversary of Microsoft research arm: Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution.
Aug. 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE)Rise Of The Poker Bots: Using a computer to beat chess masters is so 1997. Today, programmers are gunning for the world's best Texas Hold 'em players.
8:48 a.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
20th-anniversary 'Madden NFL' is better than ever: When Electronic Arts announced the retired Brett Favre as its 20th anniversary cover boy, it looked like the notorious “Madden” curse – which had mangled the careers of Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb and Shaun Alexander – was finally broken.
SANTA CLARA, 4:28 p.m. Aug. 10 (AP)
Intel's new chip to be called Core i7: Intel Corp. said Sunday it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established “Core” brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7.
SAN FRANCISCO, 12:30 a.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
Card-counting whiz eyes Facebook football fantasy: By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about. His card-counting prowess at blackjack tables during wild weekends in Las Vegas and Atlantic City won him and his college buddies millions of dollars, inspiring a best-selling book and the recent movie “21.”
LAS VEGAS, 5:04 p.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world: Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
NEW YORK, 1:44 p.m. Aug. 8 (AP)Yahoo to let visitors decline more targeted ads: Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy.
LOS ANGELES, 11:29 a.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
'Star Trek Online' is ready to beam up: “Star Trek Online” is finally going warp speed ahead. After years in development limbo, the “Trek”-themed massively multiplayer online game will engage, according to game developer Cryptic Studios Inc.
LAS VEGAS, 6:21 a.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
Reporters booted from conference for hacking: With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public Wi-Fi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.
ST. LOUIS, 2:25 p.m. Aug. 7 (AP)3 plead guilty in online gambling case: Three men who helped promote the online gambling firm BetOnSports have pleaded guilty to federal charges. LOS ANGELES, 2:36 p.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
Favre to be a Packer on 'Madden' cover, Jet inside: Don't judge Brett Favre in “Madden NFL 09” by his cover. When the latest edition of the football video game franchise is released Tuesday, it will still feature the quarterback in his Green Bay Packers uniform – despite the fact Favre was traded to the New York Jets.
Aug. 7 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Fit to be exercised: Working out can now be as easy as playing a video game. Legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has raised the bar with Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise system for the Wii console, targeted toward getting gamers off the couch and into a workout routine.
LOS ANGELES, 11:24 a.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
'Dark Knight' reigns not in video game: It's a puzzle worthy of The Riddler: Why is there no video game based on “The Dark Knight”?
NEW YORK, 10:53 a.m. Aug. 7 (REUTERS)
PluggedIn: Libraries step into the age of iPod: It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer or MP3 player – and it doesn't cost a cent, unlike, say, media from Apple Inc's iTunes or Amazon.com Inc .
LAS VEGAS, 9:07 p.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
Hackers target Google Gadgets: One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing – which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers.
NEW YORK, 1:09 p.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
11 charged in connection with credit card fraud: The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had charged 11 people in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers.
RICHMOND, Va., 4:00 a.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs: Cici confesses on her Web page that she likes to greet everyone by licking their feet. Dolce admits to being a mamma's boy. And Jake and Tycho posted a video that chronicles their adventures of rolling around on their backs.
NEW YORK, 1:44 p.m. Aug. 5 (AP)Let's be friends? Online parenting's new frontier: Julia McGovern was shocked when her mom sent her a “friend” request on Facebook. She had been on the social networking site for four years and had no idea her mother even knew what it was. SAN FRANCISCO, 2:36 p.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
Giant online security hole getting fixed, slowly: A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.
ATLANTA, 6:00 a.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
Delta to offer Wi-Fi on mainline domestic fleet: Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday it will offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by the middle of next year.
Aug. 3 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
A battle of chips: The prototype device in the hands of Qualcomm executive Sanjay Jha looks like a sleek, ultraportable laptop. It boasts an 8.9-inch screen and full-size keyboard.
NEW YORK, 1:33 p.m. Aug. 4 (AP)
NY appeals court green-lights remote storage DVR: In a decision sure to affect millions of cable television subscribers, a federal appeals court Monday gave a green light to Cablevision Systems Corp.'s rollout of a remote-storage digital video recorder system.
DALLAS, 11:44 a.m. Aug. 4 (AP)
Blockbuster, NCR to deploy DVD vending machines: Blockbuster Inc. and NCR Corp. will be putting out 50 automated kiosks that provide DVD rentals as a pilot program that could result in 10,000 kiosks within 18 months.
SEOUL, 5:04 a.m. Aug. 3 (REUTERS)
Bruised S.Korean government takes on 'infodemics': South Korea's unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of running the world's most wired society.
WASHINGTON, 1:43 p.m. Aug. 1 (AP)
Lawmakers demand info on Web tracking practices: A congressional committee wants the nation's largest telecommunications and Internet companies to explain whether they target online advertising based on consumers' search queries and Web surfing habits.
LOS ANGELES, 6:14 p.m. Aug. 1 (AP)U.S. firm offers 3-cent songs to raise bar in China: A U.S. distributor of independent music is offering songs for about 3 cents apiece online in China, where people have easy access to free, pirated music.
WASHINGTON, 10:10 a.m. Aug. 1 (AP)
FCC rules Comcast violated Internet access policy: A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and has ordered the cable giant to change the way it manages its network.
NEW YORK, 9:18 a.m. July 31 (AP)
Scrabble knockoff returns to Facebook with changes: A popular Scrabble knockoff is back on Facebook – with changes that could help it skirt legal trouble.
NEW YORK, 6:00 a.m. July 31 (REUTERS)
Microsoft ad agency reaches out to old media: Avenue A/Razorfish, a digital advertising and services agency, is set to announce plans to launch a media and entertainment consulting practice, banking on business from traditional media companies that are trying to broaden their image.
TOKYO, 6:36 a.m. July 31 (AP)
Japanese electronics mostly report better profit: Japanese electronics mostly reported better fortunes Thursday as they reaped the benefits from reshaping their businesses and healthy global demand for flat-panel TVs.
4:31 a.m. July 31 (AP)
TV's loss is Web's gain as Roger Ebert blogs: Roger Ebert is gone from “At the Movies,” but he's an increasingly influential figure in the new dominant realm of film criticism: the Web.
LONDON, 2:28 p.m. July 30 (AP)Top UK court allows extradition of hacker to U.S.: Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment.
TOKYO, 12:34 a.m. July 30 (AP)
Nintendo reports jump in quarter profit on hit Wii: Nintendo saw its profit for the first fiscal quarter jump 34 percent from a year earlier as sales of its hit Wii video game consoles shot up.
CHICAGO, 11:35 a.m. July 30 (AP)
ER docs: Don't text and walk, skate – or cook: The warning came too late for Barack Obama's adviser: Don't walk and text at the same time. Obama aide Valerie Jarrett fell off a Chicago curb several weeks ago while her thumbs were flying on her Blackberry.
NEW YORK, 11:25 a.m. July 30 (AP)
Review: In an iPod Nano world, some rivals lure: It's easy to understand the appeal of Apple Inc.'s iPod Nano music and video player: It's slim and simple to use, and it has a crisp 2-inch LCD screen. Its brand name is considered synonymous with hip tech gear.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., 1:45 p.m. July 29 (AP)More Internet providers agree to block child porn: New York's attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography.
NEW YORK, 10:52 a.m. July 29 (AP)
Popular Scrabble knockoff suspended on Facebook: The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online hangout Facebook suspended their word game Tuesday after being hit with a lawsuit, disappointing fans who logged on expecting to make their next moves.
NEW YORK, 1:20 p.m. July 29 (AP)Electronic Arts posts smaller loss, misses targets: Video game publisher Electronic Arts says its net loss narrowed in its fiscal first quarter and revenue more than doubled. But both figures fell short of analyst estimates.
SAN FRANCISCO, 11:01 a.m. July 29 (AP)
Pickens rips Yahoo management, sells entire stake: Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens has sold all of his holdings in Yahoo Inc. in a pique over the way the Internet company's management handled sales talks with Microsoft Corp.
TOKYO, 6:23 a.m. July 29 (AP)
Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba results mixed: Three major Japanese electronics makers – Sony, Matsushita and Toshiba – reported mixed results Tuesday for their fiscal first quarters, with Matsushita the only one to increase earnings in a period marked by a stronger yen and dropping gadget prices.
TOKYO, 11:11 p.m. July 28 (REUTERS)Sony says Apr-Jun PS3 sales more than double yr/yr: Sony Corp said on Tuesday it sold 1.56 million units of its PlayStation 3 game console in the April-June quarter, up from 700,000 units a year earlier.
WASHINGTON, 8:46 a.m. July 28 (REUTERS)
FCC to uphold network complaint vs Comcast-source: U.S. communications regulators later this week are expected to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast Corp of unreasonably restricting Internet users who share movies and other material, a source familiar with the case said on Monday.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, 6:49 a.m. July 28 (AP)
New U.S. online travel security screening measure goes online Aug 1: Europeans and others who travel visa-free to the United States can start registering in August for a new online security screening check that will become mandatory in January to enter the U.S., officials said Monday.
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