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Thursday, October 2, 2008

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Gamers look to buck slowdown

Poised to cash in as consumers look for ways to get biggest bang for their entertainment buck in a deteriorating economy

Outsourcing aids many data thefts

Reliance of restaurant s and stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches, Verizon says

Nokia CEO takes aim at BlackBerry

Suddenly you have the mightiest companies in the world there as your competitors. That is a little mind-boggling, CEO says

Letterman clip a mixed blessing

Despite the fact that it may be copyright infringement, CBS seems content to let people watch a Letterman clip on YouTube

The RCMP's odd approach to copyright law

A corporal on the Intellectual Property Crime division tells the American Bar Association just what he thinks about Canada's laws

LittleBigPlanet beta wows

Sony's eagerly anticipated exclusive will deliver extraordinary innovations in gaming—and potentially make the PlayStation 3 this holiday's must-have machine


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MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Xpaper eases digitizing of paper documents

The Xpaper PDF digital writing system is designed to improve a computer's relationship with the paper document

Credit ills hurt wireless entrants

Funds may be scarce to build networks

Apple drops secrecy pledge

Move prompted by release of the first phone with Google's Android software, an open-source operating system that lets developers make and sell programs without restriction

Congress passes bill to save Net radio

Way cleared for agreement intended to save emerging Internet radio market from crippling royalty rates

Nokia challenges iTunes

World's top mobile phone maker launches its free music package today, challenging Apple's dominance of the digital music market

Men happiest online, women prefer family time

Rest and relaxation were the most enjoyable activities while physical exercise was least likely to make people happy, Australian poll finds

Google stock fell on error

Last-minute pounding of Google's shares on Wall Street caused by ‘erroneous orders' that Nasdaq says it is cancelling

Do Not Call List site overwhelmed

System struggles to handle volume as Canadians rush to sign up

Intel says will invest through recession

Chipmaker's R&D, capital spending cash cushion totals about $10-billion

Tech stocks lose safe harbour status

Shares of the sector's steadiest performers dragged down by fears that businesses and consumers will soon spend less

PERSONAL TECH

Minding your business

What do you really want to do with a cellphone? These six applications show how you can take better charge of your life than you ever dreamed

Prospects keep hand on stick, eyes on the screen

Meet the Phantom, which looks like a desk lamp connected to a computer. The NHL is very interested in it

Where the browsers are going

Today's browsers are no longer promoting their features, their makers are pitching them to developers, and Chrome's arrival shows the way they're all going

TQ@WORK

We've got your back

G4S Canada uses an arsenal of technology to make sure your employees stay safe

Coded for business

This could be the breakthrough year for XBRL, the programming language that will make sifting through business data a snap

Seven Wonders of the World (Wide Web)

There's no shortage of IT news on the Web. In fact, it can be hard to tell one tech site from the next. Here are seven that stand out

SCIENCE

Mama's milk ice cream cone, anyone?

PETA wants Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for its ice cream

Dinosaur breathed like a modern bird

Unearthed remains fortify the link between birds and dinosaurs and helping to explain the evolution of birds' unique system of breathing

TECH POLL

A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that workers have mixed feelings about using the Internet and e-mail in the last few years. Almost half said the technology increases the demands that they work more hours, and technology makes it harder to disconnect from work when they should be off. Do you think technology has robbed you of time away from work?

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