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Can DSL handle success?

After getting piles of mail from Verizon Communications about its new $14.95 DSL service, Barbara Cerney finally decided to ditch dial-up. But when she called Verizon to sign on, she got an unpleasant surprise.

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Firm pushes open-source BlackBerry alternative

Funambol released an open-source software product Monday that allows companies to provide e-mail services from several different types of e-mail servers such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM's Lotus Domino, IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) servers. Funambol v3 is expected to become available as a free download on the company's Web site late Monday, and a version with additional features will be available for a fee.

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Gadget makers face the music

It's still an iPod world, Dell learns to its dismay. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson and others are blending tunes and phones.

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'Star Wars' boosts Hasbro profit

Toy maker Hasbro on Monday said fourth-quarter profit rose 15 percent on strong demand for its "Star Wars" products, but warned of tough comparisons this year as sales of the line are expected to decline.

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Dell bids adieu to hard-drive music players

Dell is dropping high-capacity music players from its roster of consumer electronics products, a company spokesman confirmed Monday.

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Sony Ericsson's music-playing messenger

Sony Ericsson has taken the wraps off its newest messaging-focused phone, which may remind you of an iPod but is not meant to remind you of a smart phone.

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Source: Sony may spin off four units

Sony is in discussions to sell sizeable stakes in four "non-core" businesses, including a retail outlet and a French restaurant launched by the late Sony founder Akio Morita, a source close the matter said on Saturday.

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Web hits the beach for surfing contest

File this one under authentic Web surfing--the kind that features wet suits, fiberglass boards and potentially bone-crushing 30-foot waves.

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Would Thomas Jefferson have Googled?

Google's Book Library Project would be applauded by at least one of America's founding fathers, the University of Michigan's president said Monday during her keynote at a national publishers meeting.

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Disney's MovieBeam spin-off gets Cisco investment

Cisco Systems said Monday that it has made an investment in MovieBeam, the on-demand movie service Walt Disney Co. spun off in January.

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Viewers of Bowl ads rush to Internet

The fact that most of the Super Bowl ads were ho-hum didn't stop viewers from checking out advertisers' Web sites or using search engines for queries related to the commercials.

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BitTorrent to crack down on use of name

The creators of the BitTorrent file-swapping application will soon begin cracking down on how other software developers use the BitTorrent name, company President Ashwin Navin said Monday.

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Blog world growing by leaps and bounds

The blogosphere is in the middle of a big bang.

According to the blog trackers at Technorati, a company that indexes and searches blog postings, the number of blogs online is doubling about every five and a half months.

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Gonzales: NSA may tap 'ordinary' Americans' e-mail

WASHINGTON--Agents operating a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program may have inadvertently spied on the e-mails and phone calls of Americans with no ties to terrorists, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday.

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Disney profit up, ABC radio unit to merge with Citadel

The Walt Disney Co. posted on Monday a 7 percent rise in first-quarter profit as improved results at its theme park, television and consumer products units outweighed a weak performance at its movie studio.

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Comic rappers battle for cred

In the '90s, the rap world became embroiled in a bitter and sometimes violent rivalry between Sean "Puffy" Combs' New York-based Bad Boy Records and Suge Knight's Los Angeles label, Death Row Records.

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CNET sells Computer Shopper

Media company CNET Networks, publisher of CNET News.com, on Monday said it was selling its monthly Computer Shopper magazine to SX2 Media Labs.

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Google blacklists BMW.de

Google has blacklisted BMW.de after the carmaker violated the search giant's guidelines by using a technique that could artificially boost its search engine rating, according to a Google engineer.

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Networks' iTunes gamble paying off

Television networks took a leap into the unknown when they started selling their shows on Apple Computer's iTunes online store, but even in these early days, it's starting to look as if that faith in digital downloads was well-placed.

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Secure RSS feeds from SimpleFeed

SimpleFeed said it will on Monday begin offering companies the ability to send RSS (really simple syndication) feeds that are safe from phishing, spam and viruses.

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