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3 hours, 55 minutes ago

(AP) Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said.The two 17-year-olds from Mahopac, about 30 miles south of Oniontown, suffered head and face injuries.Troopers arrested a ...

Canadian telecom BCE, suitor agree on terms

8 hours, 19 minutes ago

(AP) BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications company, said Friday it has agreed on terms of a $35 billion sale to a group led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in the biggest leveraged buyout ever. The deal is expected to be completed by mid-December.The announcement ends suspense that the banks funding ...

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs

14 hours, 40 minutes ago

(AP) Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued ...

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

19 hours, 37 minutes ago

(AP) This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.The attack was ...

Mars lander's next bake test could be its last

19 hours, 55 minutes ago

(AP) The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last.Engineers said a short circuit that occurred last month in one of its test ovens designed to shake and bake miniscule soil samples ...

Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed

1 day, 5 hours ago

(AP) From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet.Creation of a new Earth Systems Science Agency is urged in this week's edition of the journal Science, by merging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

1 day, 5 hours ago

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs

1 day, 6 hours ago

Adobe to make searching easier on Flash sites

1 day, 6 hours ago

(AP) Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on the popular Flash video format.Adobe Systems Inc., the format's developer, has released a customized version of its Flash Player software that allows Google Inc.'s search engine and others to see the elements of Web pages embedded ...

Ex-tech exec gets new judge in extradition case

1 day, 8 hours ago

(AP) A Namibian prosecutor says a new judge will be appointed to hear the extradition case of businessman Jacob "Kobi" Alexander.Deputy State Attorney Nixon Marcus says a Sept. 17 hearing can now go ahead as planned to decide whether the former CEO of voicemail-software maker Comverse Technology Inc. should be sent ...

Merger of US earth sciences agencies is proposed

1 day, 8 hours ago

Case dropped against parents who put baby on eBay

1 day, 10 hours ago

(AP) A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro _ $1.59 _ as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said Thursday."The child has been returned to his parents," prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer told The Associated Press.The parents maintained ...

EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing

1 day, 11 hours ago

(AP) The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write.The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, is close to finishing an antitrust investigation into how royalties are collected. The outcome might help large music ...

Study says many dial-up users don't want broadband

1 day, 19 hours ago

(AP) A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the argument that broadband providers need to more aggressively roll out supply to meet demand.Only 14 percent of ...