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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. AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. weathered economic turbulence remarkably well in the fiscal third quarter but the technology bellwether faces another big challenge — stiffer personal-computer competition — that threatens to slow its steady growth. AP - China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves. Reuters - The Beijing Olympics will become the
most viewed Games in their 112-year history, boosted by a
hugely popular Internet platform, the IOC said on Wednesday. Reuters - Video games publisher
Electronic Arts set a launch date of February 20, 2009
for the latest installment of its biggest-selling franchise,
the Sims, on Wednesday.
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 9:41am
American launches in-flight Internet on 3 routes
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 9:31am
AP - American Airlines expanded the availability of in-flight Internet access Wednesday, launching airborne e-mail, Web and other online services on some of its longer, nonstop flights.
HP posts 3Q profit jump; faces stiff competition
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 5:38am
China limits use of Olympians' names online
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 3:33am
eBay to lower sellers' fixed-price fees
(CNET)
20 Aug 2008 at 2:00am
CNET - eBay will reduce the fees it charges to sellers to list fixed-price items, the online auctioneer is set to announce Wednesday.
Games attract record viewers and Internet a hit
(Reuters)
20 Aug 2008 at 8:50am
Palm to launch Treo Pro without US carrier
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 10:20am
AP - Palm Inc. announced Wednesday it will sell a new smart phone aimed at business users this fall, but it won't have the backing of a U.S. carrier.
Ericsson, STMicroelectronics form joint venture
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 9:50am
AP - Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB and Swiss chip-maker STMicroelectronics NV unveiled plans Wednesday to create a 50-50 joint venture that will make a key component known as chipsets for mobile phones.
Microsoft to pay Novell $100 million more for Linux support
(Reuters)
20 Aug 2008 at 1:20am
Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to pay
software maker Novell Inc up to $100 million in
additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's
open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's
proprietary Windows software.
Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
(USATODAY.com)
20 Aug 2008 at 8:19am
USATODAY.com - Apple (AAPL) acknowledged Tuesday that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G.
JavaFX looks to stake claim in RIA
(InfoWorld)
20 Aug 2008 at 8:00am
InfoWorld - With its new JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications, Sun Microsystems hopes to leverage the strength of the Java development base and Java's ubiquitous presence on devices to make a strong run in a race in which it is a very late entrant.
Electronic Arts sets February launch date for Sims 3
(Reuters)
20 Aug 2008 at 8:30am
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