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    Microsoft, McDonalds Team for Free Zune Wi-Fi (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - Buying a new Zune today? Then you should rush over to Mickey D's afterward, buy some fries, grab several napkins so you don't grease up the media player, and try the free Wi-Fi. -- read full article
    Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:21:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Survey: Nearly every kid a video gamer (AP)

    In this Jan. 9, 2008 file photo, Judy Mellett of Toronto poses while playing a video game through Myvu's personal media viewer at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A new national survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that while they don't necessarily play the same thing, nearly all U.S. youth — girls included — play video games of one kind or another. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)AP - Katherine Graden doesn't really like shoot-'em-up video games. She prefers games on her Wii system that test her fitness and agility — the ones her guy friends tease are her "sissy games."


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    Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:50:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    AT&T to link iPhone to U-verse video, Internet (Reuters)
    Reuters - U.S. phone company AT&T Inc plans to eventually link Apple Inc's iPhone to its high-speed Internet and video service called U-verse, and introduce new features like using the phone as a remote control. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:40:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Best Buy Will Acquire Napster for $121 Million (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Consumer electronics giant Best Buy announced Monday that it will acquire digital-music pioneer Napster for $121 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Napster shareholders will receive $2.65 for each outstanding share. The companies expect the purchase to be completed in the fourth quarter. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:49:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    iPhone App Lets Users Send Photos To Other Phones (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Apple iPhone users have have a new way to send photos. They can now use Flutter, a free application that allows users to take a photo and send it to another cell phone. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:50:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Mac OS 10.5.5 packs fixes for slew of security flaws (CNET)
    CNET - With the release of Mac OS X 10.5.5 on Monday, the Cupertino, Calif., computer company provided patches for almost three dozen software flaws. Some of the fixes are specific to Apple features, such as image processing and Finder. Other fixes are updates to various open-source projects including Bind, ClamAV, OpenSSH, and Ruby. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:33:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Teens view cell phones as essential (CNET)
    CNET - SAN FRANCISCO - Cell phones have become almost as important to American teens as the clothes they wear, according to a nationwide survey of teenagers released last week. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:06:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Apple improves security in iPhone 2.1 (Macworld.com)
    Macworld.com - Among the many improvements to the iPhone with the 2.1 software update posted on Friday are changes meant to enhance security on the device. Apple has provided details about what's changed. All of the changes affect security issues noted for iPhone 2.0 through 2.0.2 software releases. None of the problems affect iPhone software prior to 2.0. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:45:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz (InfoWorld)
    InfoWorld - It was a big week for really small things. Apple unveiled new music players, BlackBerry rolled out new phones, even Microsoft had a few Zune announcements hidden in there -- but nothing quite as small in size or as big in importance as the particles soon to be flying out of the Large Hadron Collider. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Studios form digital-download "ecosystem" (Reuters)

    The water tower at Paramount Pictures Studios, a division of Viacom, Inc. is pictured in Los Angeles, California July 29, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Hollywood is challenging the hegemony of Apple in digital distribution. A consortium of major studios -- excluding key Apple ally Walt Disney Co. -- is teaming up with leading retailers and consumer-electronics firms to essentially transform the paid download into an experience akin to buying a DVD. The goal is letting video purchased at any outlet be played on any device worldwide.


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    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:22:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    I2 Telecom offers cheap calls via mobile phones (Reuters)

    A screenshot of MyGlobalTalk.com, taken on September 15, 2008. (myglobaltalk.com/Reuters)Reuters - An upstart Internet telephone company has introduced a method for U.S. mobile telephone users to call land line phones around the world for as little as two-cents a minute on top of basic rates.


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    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:27:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Best Buy to buy Napster for $121 million (Reuters)

    The Napster 'Cat' logo is shown on the floor at a launch event for the Napster online music service in New York in this October 9, 2003 file photo. (Jeff Christensen/Reuters)Reuters - Best Buy Co Inc plans to buy digital music service Napster Inc for $121 million in cash in an effort to compete with Apple's dominant iTunes service and its iPod music players.


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    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:20:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Yahoo opens its doors to hackers (AFP)

    A Yahoo sign in Times Square, New York. Hackers armed with laptop computers, camping tents and dreams of software glory invaded Yahoo during the weekend as the Internet pioneer opened its strategy and its doors to outside developers(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AFP - Hackers armed with laptop computers, camping tents and dreams of software glory invaded Yahoo during the weekend as the Internet pioneer opened its strategy and its doors to outside developers.


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    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:31:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Apple improves security in iPhone 2.1 (Macworld.com)
    Macworld.com - Among the many improvements to the iPhone with the 2.1 software update posted on Friday are changes meant to enhance security on the device. Apple has provided details about what's changed. All of the changes affect security issues noted for iPhone 2.0 through 2.0.2 software releases. None of the problems affect iPhone software prior to 2.0. -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:45:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
    Studios form digital-download "ecosystem" (Reuters)

    The water tower at Paramount Pictures Studios, a division of Viacom, Inc. is pictured in Los Angeles, California July 29, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Hollywood is challenging the hegemony of Apple in digital distribution. A consortium of major studios -- excluding key Apple ally Walt Disney Co. -- is teaming up with leading retailers and consumer-electronics firms to essentially transform the paid download into an experience akin to buying a DVD. The goal is letting video purchased at any outlet be played on any device worldwide.


    -- read full article
    Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:54:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
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