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<title>Delta Merger Won't Solve Problems, Airline Workers Tell Congress</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 03:27:14 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Flight attendants and mechanics told Congress on Wednesday that the planned merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines could hurt consumers, communities and workers. </description>
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<title>Delta Merger Won't Solve Problems, Airline Workers Tell Congress</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 07:28:14 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Flight attendants and mechanics told Congress on Wednesday that the planned merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines could hurt consumers, communities and workers. </description>
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<title>Dell's New Computer Another Step along the Green Path</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:53:42 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Oh, how far Dell Inc. has come down the green path. </description>
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<title>Tech-Funding Giant Backs Electric-Car Venture</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:43:10 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The venture capital firm that funded the creation of Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. is now trying to jump-start a Norwegian electric car company that has struggled to get off the starting line. </description>
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<title>British Grocer Finds 'Fresh &amp; Easy' Concept Not So Easy to Sell</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:35:47 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Here in the heart of suburbia, where sprawling supermarkets and big-box stores rule, the little Fresh &amp; Easy market is attracting fans like Deborah Forger. </description>
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<title>Security Efforts Aren't Making the Web Safer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:13:53 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Despite all the antivirus software, all the extra security features in your computer's operating system, and all the government regulations intended to make the Internet a safer place, your PC and your personal data are as threatened as ever. </description>
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<title>Olympic Torch Relay Curtailed, Rerouted amid Protests</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:44 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Angry and sometimes violent skirmishes between demonstrators prompted officials to cut short and radically change the only North American appearance of the Olympic torch on Wednesday, turning a symbol of world harmony into one of conflict. </description>
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<title>San Francisco Braces for Olympic Torch Protests</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:11 EDT</pubDate>
<description>With the Olympic torch making its only North American appearance here Wednesday, this city is bracing for an incendiary protest by thousands opposed to China's hosting of the Summer Games. </description>
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<title>Chertoff Says Major Effort Under Way on Computer Security</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:11 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The Homeland Security Department has launched an overhaul of the government's computer security efforts "almost ... like a Manhattan Project" in response to concerns that the nation's Internet system is vulnerable to hackers and online terrorists, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday. </description>
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<title>Alligator Blood Yields Powerful Antibiotics, Researchers Find</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:20:19 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Someday, an alligator might save your life. </description>
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<title>Apple Claims Title as No. 1 Music Seller</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:55:38 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Who's the biggest seller of music in the world? </description>
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<title>'M-Commerce' Advances Give Consumers New Powers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:54:21 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Retailers and wireless companies are again dialing for dollars with cell phones. </description>
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<title>Tech Industry Grew Last Year, but More Slowly</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:52:57 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The nation's high-tech industry continued to add jobs in 2007, but at a slowing pace, according to a study released Wednesday by high-tech industry group AeA. </description>
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<title>Yudof Formally Named Head of University of California System</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:47:05 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Mark Yudof never planned to leave the University of Texas. </description>
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<title>IBM Announcing Partnership for 'Autonomic' Computing</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:45:07 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Computers that automatically heal and manage themselves may be reminiscent of the villainous "Hal" that turns on its human programmers in "2001: A Space Odyssey." </description>
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<title>A Peek into the 'Birthplace of Silicon Valley'</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:44:30 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The old workbench is there, right next to a green Sears Craftsman drill press like the one that was the company's first piece of equipment. There's still paint on the concrete floor, and the partially whitewashed walls have holes in them. </description>
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<title>U.T. Chancellor Likely Heading to California</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:41:50 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Mark Yudof, chancellor of the University of Texas System, was recommended for the top job at the University of California System on Thursday  and is expected to be formally appointed next week. </description>
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<title>Bigger Screens, Smaller Prices Coming to TV Showrooms</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description>If you haven't bought that big-screen TV yet, or if you're in the market for another one, it might be worth waiting a little longer. </description>
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<title>Western States Hold Lessons as Florida Ponders Mail-In Revote</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:35:14 EDT</pubDate>
<description>For an idea of how a Florida revote by mail might work, the Sunshine State is looking West. </description>
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<title>Revamp of HP Labs Aimed at Innovations with 'Big, Broad Impact'</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:32:27 EDT</pubDate>
<description>It pioneered the programmable calculator, and its ink-jet innovations doomed the dot-matrix printer. Its roots reach back to the very start of Silicon Valley, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the first affordable oscilloscope. </description>
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<title>HP Says Restructured Labs Will Focus on Innovation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:30:51 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Hewlett-Packard Co., signaling that it has turned its focus to research and development, announced Thursday a major restructuring of its HP Labs division. </description>
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<title>Intel a 'Solid, Executing Machine,' CEO Assures Investors</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:29:37 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Amid rising competition and a softening semiconductor market, Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini on Wednesday sought to reassure investors and others that his company is still poised for growth and primed for innovation. </description>
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<title>Money for Clean-Tech Research Mainly Flowing to California</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:27:53 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Cities from Austin, Texas to Toledo, Ohio are trying hard to become the next Silicon Valley for environmentally sensitive "clean" technology. </description>
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<title>Some See a 'Tidal Wave' of Carbon Trading in Nation's Future</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:26:50 EDT</pubDate>
<description>What's the price of pollution? </description>
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<title>Economy Slowing? Not in the World of Pet Lovers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:21:20 EDT</pubDate>
<description>A dog's life ... is getting pretty good. </description>
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<title>U.S. Begins Shipping Discount Coupons for Digital TV Converters</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:18:42 EDT</pubDate>
<description>With a year to go until analog TV broadcasts give way to digital, the federal government on Tuesday started mailing $40 discount coupons for digital converter boxes to consumers who requested them. </description>
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<title>Google Out to Revolutionize the World of Energy</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:16:39 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In the carports at Google Inc.'s headquarters, power cords dangle above parking spots, ready for the day when electric cars are commonplace. </description>
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<title>Yahoo Rejects Microsoft -- but Is It Just Being Coy?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:11:44 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Now that Yahoo Inc. has formally rejected Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion buyout bid, the question swirling around the biggest tech industry merger ever proposed is this: </description>
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<title>New Lending Rules Push Power Companies to Go Green</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:09:42 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Power companies just got another big reason to go green. </description>
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<title>Internet Giants Back Single-ID System for Web Sites</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:07:43 EDT</pubDate>
<description>It's the bane of anyone who uses the Internet: remembering different user IDs, passwords and registration information for sites you use regularly. </description>
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<title>Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Targets Internet Advertising, Archrival Google</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:02:34 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In making an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Web pioneer Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. is trying to get a bigger piece of the fast-growing Internet advertising business and counter the growth of archrival Google Inc. </description>
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<title>Leading Countries Want Treaty Limiting Greenhouse Gases, but Will U.S. Join Them?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:02:31 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Leaders of some of the world's biggest economies are pushing for an international treaty that could require large countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 in the fight against global warming. </description>
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<title>Climate Summit Opens to Calls for Faster U.S. Action</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:00:54 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Leaders of the world's biggest economies opened two days of meetings on global warming here Wednesday amid calls for urgency and more leadership from the United States. </description>
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<title>Hawaii Leads the March Toward Alternative Energy</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:00:18 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Thirty minutes away from the conference center where world leaders are gathering Wednesday to discuss climate change, workers at the HPower incineration plant here are converting yesterday's garbage into this afternoon's electricity. </description>
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<title>U.S. Likely to Stand Firm on Emissions at Hawaii Climate Meeting</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:58:26 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Hoping to show the world it really does want to do more to address global warming, the Bush administration this week welcomes leaders of the world's biggest economies to Hawaii to discuss climate change. </description>
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<title>U.S.-State Plan Aims at Making Hawaii Nearly Energy-Independent</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:57:41 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Federal and state energy officials are planning a major investment in new technologies in an attempt to make Hawaii the nation's first state to get the vast majority of its energy from renewable sources. </description>
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<title>Google Lays Out Priorities for Its Huge Charity Program</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:52:01 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Google's goal is to organize the world's information. But it said Thursday it also wants to help predict and prevent drought, slow the spread of infectious diseases, expand communication networks in developing countries and help solve global warming. </description>
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<title>Apple Moves into Online Movie Rentals</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:49:40 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Now that it has conquered the online music business, Apple Inc. wants to do the same with online movie rentals. </description>
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<title>Mobile Internet Devices Are Being Hyped, but Will Consumers Buy?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:47:55 EDT</pubDate>
<description>They're smaller than a laptop, bigger than a phone and the computing industry says you'll really, really want one. </description>
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<title>Consumer Electronics Show Offers Cool, Useful and Goofy Gadgets</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:47:54 EDT</pubDate>
<description>It's wrong to call them the good, the bad and the ugly. But you could call them the cool, the useful, and the downright goofy. </description>
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<title>Comcast Promises Internet Service 16 Times Faster than Existing Top Speeds</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:45:23 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In a peek into the potential future of television, Comcast Corp. on Tuesday demonstrated Internet service 16 times faster than today's top speeds. </description>
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<title>Push Is On to Make Web More Accessible on Mobile Phones and Portable Gadgets</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:44:46 EDT</pubDate>
<description>You probably already have Internet access at work and at home. Now, tech companies want you to take the Internet with you wherever you go. </description>
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<title>Microsoft Heralds New 'Digital Decade' of Products, Services</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:43:58 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Microsoft Corp. is moving ever further into consumers' living rooms, rolling out new services it says will let users of some of its products link their televisions and computers more easily, customize how they watch news and sporting events and communicate with each other online in new ways. </description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:42:33 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The VCR debuted there. So did the camcorder, the compact disc player, the Xbox, high-definition and plasma televisions. </description>
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<title>Chinese Computer Maker Lenovo Set to Enter U.S. Consumer Market</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:39:39 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought IBM Corp.'s corporate personal computer business in 2005, is about to take another big step in America. </description>
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<title>With an Eye on the Bottom Line, Corporate America Is Going Green</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:35:32 EDT</pubDate>
<description>After the hippies, the tree-huggers, the politicians and the entrepreneurs, corporate executives are also starting to figure out that the environment really is important. </description>
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<title>Shell to Explore Biofuel from Algae as Supplement to Traditional Oil Business</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:18:21 EDT</pubDate>
<description>A day after breaking ground in Texas on the nation's biggest oil refinery, Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced it is building a fuel refinery of a very different type: an algae farm and laboratory in Hawaii that will produce vegetable oil that can be converted to biofuel. </description>
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<title>Twin Rovers Defy Death to Continue Exploring Mars</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:16:30 EDT</pubDate>
<description>It looked like the beginning of the end for poor Spirit. </description>
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<title>GOP Governors Praise the Achievements of Perdue, Their Departing Chairman</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:08:29 EDT</pubDate>
<description>After a year of guiding the Republican Governors Association, Georgia's Sonny Perdue turned over the reins of the influential group with a challenge to his peers: Be the leaders of the next Republican revival. </description>
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<title>Perry Picked to Head GOP Governors and Will Focus on Expanding Their Ranks</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:08:29 EDT</pubDate>
<description>A year ago, Rick Perry narrowly won re-election as governor of Texas. Next year, he'll help guide Republican gubernatorial elections nationwide. </description>
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<title>Gingrich Tells GOP Governors of New Blueprint for America</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:07:36 EDT</pubDate>
<description>He may not be running for president, but Newt Gingrich nonetheless has a new political platform. </description>
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<title>Party Post-Strategy Session: Golf, Skeet or Spa?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:07:35 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Running a state isn't easy. </description>
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<title>Google Plans Major Investment in Renewable Energy</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:04:48 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Google is going ga-ga over green energy. </description>
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<title>Writers' Strike Starting to Take a Toll</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:02:07 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Akiva Goldsman never stopped writing. </description>
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<title>A Gadget for Every Stocking</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:01:15 EDT</pubDate>
<description>This year, Santa's wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a pocket protector on his bright red suit. And whether you're on a budget or willing to splurge, he's got a high-tech gift for your gadget lover. </description>
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<title>With Digital Camera Market Saturated, Makers Push Add-Ons and Services</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:54:07 EDT</pubDate>
<description>While snapping all those digital photos of Thanksgiving dinner and recording those holiday home movies, take a minute to think: What are you going to do with them next? </description>
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<title>Buying Spree for Tech Companies May Be Just Beginning</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:52:53 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Like shoppers scrambling at the start of the holiday rush, technology companies are on a buying spree that may be just beginning. </description>
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<title>Innovative Devices on the Way, Dell Says</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:49:12 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In an effort to show that the reinvented Dell Inc. isn't just about boring beige PC boxes anymore, CEO Michael Dell dropped hints Wednesday about two innovative devices his company has in the works. </description>
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<title>Intel Unveils First Chips Using a Major Advance in Manufacturing Technology</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:46:43 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Intel Corp. on Monday rolled out microprocessors made with new materials and nearly twice as many transistors as today's chips &amp;mdash; innovations the company says will dramatically increase computing performance and boost applications like high-definition video over the Internet. </description>
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<title>Google Moving into Cell Phones</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:32:46 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Google Inc. on Monday finally took the wraps off its much-awaited strategy to move into the cell phone business, unveiling a new software platform and agreements with more than 30 partners that it says could dramatically advance Internet-type services on mobile phones. </description>
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<title>In Hollywood, Writers Battle for Greater Share of Revenues from 'Nontraditional' Media</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:31:31 EDT</pubDate>
<description>This is a town that doesn't like change. When's the last time you saw something really new and different on TV or at the movies, after all? </description>
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<title>Someday an Army of Robot Cars, but Not Just Yet</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:29:13 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The Porsche Cayenne from Atlanta slammed into a concrete wall. </description>
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<title>IBM Makes Major Push into Computer Security Business</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:24:56 EDT</pubDate>
<description>IBM Corp. on Thursday plans to announce a major new push into the computer security business, spearheaded by its operations in Atlanta and Austin, Texas. </description>
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<title>Why Are We Here? A Californian Contemplates</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:02:23 EDT</pubDate>
<description>A string of lights &amp;mdash; just like the ones on our patio &amp;mdash; hung on a charred and twisted gate. </description>
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<title>Robot Cars at the Starting Line of Futuristic Race</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:36:50 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Beginning Friday, 35 vehicles will hit the streets of a former Air Force base north of here for a very unusual race. </description>
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<title>For Wildfire Evacuees, Refuge Is Luxurious Compared to Superdome after Katrina</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:37:26 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Over by Gate A you can get a free massage or acupuncture treatment. Up on the Plaza Level are group counseling sessions and medical checkups. </description>
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<title>California Officials Predict Fires May Take Weeks to Extinguish</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:04:15 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Hellish fires that have already destroyed some 1,500 homes and forced the evacuation of a half-million residents continue to roar through Southern California, with state officials saying it could be weeks before they're contained. </description>
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<title>250,000 Evacuated as Fires Rip through Southern California</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:14:23 EDT</pubDate>
<description>More than a dozen wildfires stretching from ritzy Malibu to the Mexican border drove 250,000 residents from their homes and destroyed millions of dollars of property Monday &amp;mdash; and authorities said the fires will get worse before they get better. </description>
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<title>California Fires: When the Headlines Came to My House</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:56:43 EDT</pubDate>
<description>When the phone rings at 6 a.m. at our house, it can't be good. When the call comes from the fire department, it can't be much worse. </description>
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<title>IBM to Offer Chips That Speed HD Video across Wireless Networks</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:27:28 EDT</pubDate>
<description>IBM Corp. plans to announce Monday it is teaming up with a Taiwanese company to develop and sell ultra-fast microprocessor chipsets that can wirelessly transmit high-definition video between computers, televisions and other devices in a fraction of the time it takes today. </description>
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<title>Municipal Wi-Fi Takes a New Look at Its Future</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:03:05 EDT</pubDate>
<description>By now, we were supposed to be well on our way to a Wi-Fi world. </description>
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<title>Business Finding Advantages in Virtual Communities</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:03:13 EDT</pubDate>
<description>There are no booth babes and you can't grab any souvenir gimmes to take home to the kids, but otherwise Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Virtual Experience is much like a real-world technology conference. </description>
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<title>Turner Offering Real-Life TV on Kaneva as Companies Stake Claims to Virtual Worlds</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:36:41 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In between the virtual dance parties and late-night raves in the online world of Kaneva, you can build a virtual dream home, plop down on a virtual couch and soon, watch some real TV. </description>
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<title>Teradata Off and Running as an Independent Company</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:05:20 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Mike Koehler spent 32 years with NCR Corp., starting out selling the company's cash registers back when stores kept inventory with clipboards and bar codes had yet to catch on. </description>
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<title>Solar Industry, on a Roll, Seeks Congress' Help to Maintain Momentum</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:03:28 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Hoping that federal regulators follow the lead of states like Florida and California, the solar industry is launching a major effort to persuade Congress to extend tax breaks and other incentives they say are critical to keep the industry's recent momentum going. </description>
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<title>Solar Energy 'Greatest Business Opportunity in History,' Turner Says</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:43:30 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Ted Turner made a fortune on his way to becoming one of the world's best-known tycoons. But the biggest opportunity he has ever known, Turner said Tuesday, is his newest one &amp;mdash; the solar business. </description>
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<title>Private Space Industry Still on the Launching Pad</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:44:57 EDT</pubDate>
<description>After SpaceShipOne pierced the heavens high over California in the first-ever private manned spaceflight, many expected the event would immediately ignite a new era of commercial space businesses. </description>
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<title>Intel Announces Big Moves toward Smaller Chips</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:18:23 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Intel Corp. showed off semiconductors with circuits smaller than ever before Tuesday and said it is on track toward other products that promise to shrink the size of everyday electronics while increasing their capabilities. </description>
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<title>Intel -- Nowhere to Go but Down?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:44:31 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Intel Corp. opens its fall developer's conference here Tuesday at a time when the company is as strong as ever. In fact, Intel's biggest problem these days may be that it's doing too well. </description>
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<title>Print That Shot -- HP Technologu to Help Deliver Medications</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:37:07 EDT</pubDate>
<description>The technology behind that inkjet printer on your desk may soon deliver drugs painlessly into your body, potentially replacing the need for traditional hypodermic needles. </description>
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<title>Future of Fuel Cells May Be in Powering Not Cars, but Small Devices</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 9 Sep 2007 00:02:45 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In a nondescript industrial park not far from one of nation's biggest nuclear laboratories, researchers at a small start-up company have spent the last five years developing a new kind of energy source. </description>
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<title>Apple Unveils Line of Smaller, More Powerful iPods</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:22:24 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Parents, beware. </description>
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<title>'Blended Wing' Plane Could Be Big Fuel Saver</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:24:43 EDT</pubDate>
<description>It has taken wing a half-dozen times now, like a white manta ray streaking over the dusty Mojave Desert northeast of here. </description>
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<title>Discoveries on Atomic Scale Could Lead to Computing Breakthroughs</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:37:05 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In two big breakthroughs on the smallest scale, IBM researchers say they've made discoveries about the nature of individual atoms and molecules that could someday lead to dramatic improvements in computing and other consumer technologies. </description>
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<title>Acer Buys Gateway and a Foothold in the U.S. Market</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:05:14 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Acer Inc. has long tried to get a foothold in the United States, but giants like Dell Inc. and Hewlett Packard Co. have constantly tripped up the Taiwanese computer maker. </description>
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<title>Ever-Expanding Google Keeps Its Eye on Advertising</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:06:14 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Ever since its founding nine years ago in a Silicon Valley garage, Google Inc. has said its simple goal is "to organize the world's information." </description>
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<title>Internet Catching Up to TV in Attracting Consumers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:12:23 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Is the Internet starting to edge out television for consumers' free time? </description>
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<title>MTV and Partners Take Aim at iTunes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:19:22 EDT</pubDate>
<description>In what could be one the most formidable challenges yet to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, the owner of MTV is teaming up with Verizon Wireless and RealNetworks Inc. on a new online music service. </description>
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<title>Keep Your Eye on Changes in Computer Monitors</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:04:32 EDT</pubDate>
<description>We've come a long way from the hulking putty-colored computer monitors that used to dominate our desks. </description>
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<title>'Intel Inside' Logo Stickers Absent from New Apple iMacs</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:23:56 EDT</pubDate>
<description>When Apple Inc. unveiled its newest iMac computers last week, something was missing. </description>
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<title>With New iMacs, Apple Moves Closer to Seamless Digital World</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:08:55 EDT</pubDate>
<description>IPhones and iPods may get all the attention, but Apple Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a new line of desktop computers and a revamped iLife suite of software for managing photos, movies and other multimedia. It also announced major enhancements to its .Mac (pronounced "dot-Mac") subscription Internet service. </description>
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<title>Whole Foods Says Fast-Growing Trader Joe's Is Main Threat</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:10:16 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Less than a mile from Whole Foods' sprawling grocery store here, a challenger clad in a Hawaiian shirt is coming. </description>
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<title>AMD Says Planned Products Will Bring a Bright Future</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:33:40 EDT</pubDate>
<description>After a recent rocky stretch, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. turned to the future Thursday, laying out ambitious new product road maps in an effort to show that the company is still on the right track. </description>
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<title>Disney Vows to Cut Smoking in Its Films</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:02:47 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Disney is trying to kick the habit. </description>
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<title>Half of Colorado Exports Now Tech-Related</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:18:11 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Exports of high-tech goods from Colorado companies grew by 16 percent last year, and more than half of all exports from Colorado are now tied to the technology industry, according to a new study. </description>
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<title>North Carolina Lagging in Tech Exports</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:14:07 EDT</pubDate>
<description>North Carolina was one of only a dozen states that saw a decline in exports of high-tech goods last year, according to a new study. </description>
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<title>Georgia Slips in High-Tech Exports, but 'Still Doing OK'</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:11:49 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Georgia was one of only a dozen states that saw a decline in exports of technology related goods last year, but the state's high-tech outlook isn't as bad as it may seem, according to a new study. </description>
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<title>Texas High-Tech Exports Grow 13 Percent</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:00:41 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Exports of high-tech goods such as computers and semiconductors grew by 10 percent nationally last year to $220 billion, companies based in Texas helping lead the way. </description>
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<title>Florida Ranks No. 3 in High-Tech Exports</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:36:36 EDT</pubDate>
<description>Exports of high-tech goods such as computers and semiconductors grew by 10 percent nationally last year to $220 billion, with companies based in Florida helping to lead the way. </description>
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