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E! swings 'Vine' online

E! Networks is launching a broadband channel that will deliver streaming video and original content exclusively for the Web, the channel said Tuesday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

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Analyst upgrade sends Rambus trade soaring

Semiconductor technology company Rambus saw its shares soar 15 percent Wednesday in heavy trading after the brokerage WR Hambrecht advised clients to buy the stock on expectations that the company could prevail in a series of royalties lawsuits.

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AOL hasn't given up on growing subscriptions

America Online is planning moves this year to improve its cash-generating yet shrinking subscriber business, a top executive at parent company Time Warner said Tuesday.

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Tuning tech catches on with guitarists

No matter how accomplished they are, musicians who play fretted instruments spend a lot of time playing out of tune.

Strings stretch and bind. Fluctuations in humidity and string tension cause instrument necks to bow, arch and twist. Something--it is not always clear what--throws string pitch out of whack. Professional players on stage and in recording sessions find themselves twisting tuner knobs between every song and sometimes in the middle of songs.

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Can Mark Cuban sing and dance?

The technology industry is populated with brilliant mathematicians, entrepreneurs with Ph.D.s and futuristic designers.

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FAQ: The new 'annoy' law explained

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MacWorld 2006

The big event in the Apple world is this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Fans eat up announcements for Intel-based Macs, a new high-end laptop and a revamped iMac, but few devices generate more excitement than the ubiquitous iPod.

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A DVD combo? Don't hold your breath

For consumers, a device that could play both HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs would take a lot of risk out of adopting the new video players--but one may not arrive for a while.

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Biodiesel guru sees fuel joining mainstream

LOS ANGELES--Josh Tickell, who looks like a young version of the movie director Ron Howard in a banker's blue shirt, appears out of place in his Venice Beach neighborhood, which is best known for its hippies, hipsters and long stretches of sand.

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Agencies probing sales of cell phone data

Congressman Edward Markey said on Friday that federal agencies were looking into whether telephone companies were sufficiently protecting consumers' records amid concerns that Internet sites were selling cell phone call information.

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U.S. video game sales up in 2005, masking risks

U.S. retail sales of video game consoles, hand-held devices, games and accessories were up 6 percent to $10.5 billion in 2005, market researchers NPD Group said on Friday.

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Turning up the heat on hybrid cars

Toyota Motor pushed the hybrid envelope further this week by unveiling two high-profile cars equipped with the alternative powertrain at the annual Detroit auto show, but competitors responded by cranking up the volume to promote rival clean-engine technologies.

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Record falls as best Rubik's 'cubers' meet in S.F.

SAN FRANCISCO--Think of the things you could do in 11 seconds. Maybe you could walk to the fridge to get a soda. You could change CDs, or possibly put on a T-shirt. But when you think about it, it's a pretty short period of time.

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Post-Christmas comes a geek's gizmo-rama

If you're a nerd, geek or gadget freak, what dances in your head during the holidays isn't sugar plums. It's the prospect of the two big high-tech trade shows that kick off the new year with dazzling displays of new electronic goodies.

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HP server exec leaves for Linux firm

Pauline Nist, for years a leader of Hewlett-Packard's high-end NonStop server group, has become senior vice president of product development at Penguin Computing, the Linux server maker plans to announce Monday.

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U.K. judge frowns on software patents

A U.K. judge has questioned whether software patents should be granted, and has criticized the U.S. for allowing "anything under the sun" to be patented.

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Fujitsu to start making 1.8-inch hard drives

Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu said on Friday that it would start producing 1.8-inch hard disk drives used in portable music players and video cameras, entering a market dominated by Toshiba.

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Changing times for chipmakers

Intel charts a course for Viiv brand and lands in the Mac, as Dell continues to ponder a switch to AMD.

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Newsmaker: Intel's traveling salesman

Anand Chandrasekher has a knack for being in the right spot at the right time.

In the 1990s, he headed up the effort to get Pentium chips inside workstations. Intel went from being a blip in the market to dominating it a few years later. When laptop sales exploded, he ran Intel's notebook division. Centrino became a success story under his watch.

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