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| Yahoo to Shut Down Yahoo 360 |  | | Yahoo is finally shuttering its Yahoo 360 social networking site after promising to do so nearly two years ago, Bloomberg reports. The Web giant is closing the social network next month due to competi |
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| Microsoft launching Zune HD |  | | Microsoft plans to release a new version of its portable Zune music player later this year featuring a touch screen, Web browser, Wi-Fi connectivity and high-definition radio receiver.
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| Google adds automatic translation |  | | Google added automatic translation technology to Gmail, allowing users of its email service to translate messages in another language with a single mouse click. The Mountain View, California-based Int |
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| Install new Hubble camera |  | | Spacewalking astronauts equipped the Hubble Space Telescope with the first of two new science instruments Thursday, launching the first overhaul of the 19-year-old observatory in seven years. |
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| Robot to create Facebook profile |  | | Facebook could soon be helping bridge the divide between humans and robots. Researchers are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to help foster meaningful relationships with people. |
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| Digital system for driving licences |  | | The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) Friday installed state-of-the-art ‘touch screen system’ for conducting road sign tests of those applying to get new driving licences, the ITP said. |
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| EBay plans Skype public listing |  | | Online auction site eBay is planning to spin off internet call service provider Skype and list shares in the firm in the first half of 2010.EBay said Skype was a "great stand-alone" firm but had "limi |
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| Fake security software big threat |  | | Hackers are increasingly hiding viruses in bogus computer security software to trick people into installing treacherous programs on machines, Microsoft warned on Wednesday. |
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| Villagers challenge Google camera |  | | Angry residents of a Buckinghamshire village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking photographs of their homes. Police were called to Broughton, near Milton Keynes, afte |
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| Windows Touch coming to a PC soon |  | | The multi-touch controls familiar to Apple iPhone users will be built-in to Microsoft's Windows 7. Windows Touch will be a "first class way to interact with your PC alongside mouse and keyboard," said |
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| Microsoft launches latest browser |  | | Microsoft has launched the latest version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Microsoft says that IE8 is more secure, allows users to cut down on common tasks and will be an integral part of |
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| IBM, 3D patient record software |  | | Physicians at Thy-Mors hospital in Denmark and IBM have developed patient record software that uses a three-dimensional computer model of the human anatomy to visualize a patient’s medical information |
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| YouTube tops 100 million US viewers |  | | The number of US Internet users watching videos at YouTube hit a new monthly high in January, topping 100 million as it dominated the online video arena, according to comScore, a a marketing research |
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| Facebook offers control to users |  | | Facebook has responded to criticism over the way it handles user data by handing over control to its users. Members of the social network will have comment and voting rights over the firm's future pol |
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| New chat services on Mobile |  | | Sixty mobile phone operators have linked up to develop new ‘chat’ functionality for subscribers that will replicate the experience of online programmes such as MSN Messenger, according to an industry |
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| IBM helps for secure web businesses |  | | The IBM is helping the companies secure their web businesses. This was announced by an official of the IBM in a statement issued here on Monday. It was pointed out that the new solutions help to lower |
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| Google Earth dives under the sea |  | | Google has lifted the lid on its first major upgrade to its global mapping software, Google Earth. Google Ocean expands this map to include large swathes of the ocean floor and abyssal plain. |
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| Slimming odds for emperor penguin |  | | Emperor penguins, whose long treks across Antarctic ice to mate have been immortalised by Hollywood, are heading towards extinction, scientists say. Based on predictions of sea ice extent fr |
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| No eye cancer risk from cell phones |  | | Regular mobile phone use does not appear to increase a person's risk of getting a type of cancer called melanoma of the eye, German researchers said. The study involving about 1,600 |
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| A supercar that runs on wind energy |  | | Get ready for a supercar that could reach a top speed of 155mph without harming the environment, for it runs on wind energy. Designed in California, the environmentally friendly Formula AE car will in |
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