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Microsoft: We're in 'fighting shape'

LAS VEGAS--Microsoft has some catching up to do.

It's not a phrase you hear every day. But whether it's Apple Computer's iTunes-iPod combo or Google's advertising engine, the software maker's top executives readily admit that they are coming from behind.

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Dell shows off speedy game PC

The gadget-loving masses have descended on Las Vegas for the annual blockbuster Consumer Electronics Show. From the conference rooms to the show floor, keynotes and parties, here's everything you need to know.

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Google: Where's the stock split?

As it inched above $450 per share Thursday, Google's stock looked more like a pricey Tiffany's diamond than a good bet for ordinary investors.

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Google to showcase video-on-demand service

Google plans to sell television shows and sports programming that customers can download from its Web site, a source familiar with the deal told CNET News.com.

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Yahoo Go Keeps Users Connected

LAS VEGAS-- With some help from Hollywood stars Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Cruise, Yahoo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Semel launched a new service Friday that connects users to all of their Yahoo Internet-based services through multiple devices.

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Google to launch online video store

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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Google Pack: A Big Move Beyond Search

At a late afternoon keynote address on Friday at the CES show, Google co-founder and president of products Larry Page made several new announcements on behalf of the company and painted a picture of how the consumer electronics industryon the hardware sidecould make life easier for everyone. Among the biggest announcements he made was Google Pack, a free download available now at pack.google.com, which installs a raft of software titles that "can make any PC run better."

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Google Plans to Expand Video Offerings

LAS VEGAS - Google Inc. is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer Inc.'s pioneering iTunes store.

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Cell Phone Includes Internet Telephony Capability

LAS VEGAS-- A new cell phone about to debut could drastically reduce your cell phone bill by splitting calls between cell networks and less-expensive VoIP over WiFi.

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Google Launches Video Download Service

LAS VEGAS-- As expected, Google today launched a new video download service during a keynote here by co-founder and President Larry Page at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

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Citigroup rates Amazon.com No. 1 in Web shopping

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc. was the top-rated Web shopping site this holiday, according to a Citigroup study released on Friday that considered factors such as simplicity of checkout, price and product assortment.

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Google not in competition with Microsoft: Schmidt

LONDON (AFP) - The expansion of Internet search engine Google is not about direct competition with IT giant Microsoft, the company's chief executive said.

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Google Introduces Software Starter Kit

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is distributing a free software startup kit designed to make computing safer and easier a generous gesture driven by the company's desire to steer technology offline as well as online.

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Wal-Mart: Error to Blame for MLK Link

Human error is to blame for an offensive link at Wal-Mart's Web site that recommended a film about Martin Luther King Jr. to potential buyers of a "Planet of the Apes" DVD, the retail company said Friday.

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Clear Channel to launch music video-on-demand

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top U.S. radio conglomerate, on Friday said it planned to begin testing a free, music video-on-demand service next Tuesday as part of a strategy to bolster its Internet presence.

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Yahoo expanding Web on TV, phones with Go service

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), the world's largest Internet media company, on Friday unveiled a new service that will make using its Web, media and personal services as easy to use on mobile phones and TVs as on computers.

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Motorola to Add Google Button to Phones

NEW YORK - Motorola Inc. will soon begin selling Web-enabled cell phones that feature easy access to Google's search engine by clicking on a button on the phone's keypad, the world's second-largest maker of cell phones said.

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Microsoft Shuts Down Chinese Blog

BEIJING - Microsoft Corp. has shut down the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger that discussed politically sensitive issues, including a recent strike at a Beijing newspaper.

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DivX and Google Partner Up

DivX, the video compression and content company with the sometimes renegade reputation, is actually more pervasive and established than some people might think. According to company executives, the DivX digital video file format is in some 50 million devices (DVD players, for example) around the world. This may explain today's announcement of a new partnership between Google and DivX.

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Tech industry scrambles to get into Internet telephony

LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) - High-tech companies are scrambling to get a piece of the action of Internet telephony as the new technology gains more ground against traditional phone service.

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