EBay working on alternative software for Skype

SAN FRANCISCO — EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service's founders.

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Security researchers offer caution on smart grids

LAS VEGAS — The race to build a "smarter" electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities.

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'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updated

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming.

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Citizen Palin begins private life quietly

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fans to Sarah Palin: Please, post a tidbit on Facebook. A little chirp on Twitter would be nice.

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WASHINGTON - A Tel Aviv University researcher has claimed that the first quantum computer could overnight threaten our security and our data.

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If you have ever used Gmail to send messages with one of your other email addresses listed in place of your Gmail address, you must have noticed that Gmail adds a custom From to it. Well, since the e-mail are sent by Gmail's server but from a non-Gmail address, it displays the original Gmail username in the Sender field indicating that it was send On Behalf Of your other account. This is in compliance with the mail's delivery protocol that helps in preventing the mail from being marked as spam.

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NEW DELHI - The high-powered ministerial group, set up to decide on issues related with the auction of frequency spectrum for third generation telecom services, is scheduled to meet here for the first time later Friday.

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Prosecutors won't seek death in office killings

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty in the case of a Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three people at a Santa Clara high-tech firm.

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General Electric, Sony, Akamai among big movers

NEW YORK — Stocks that were moving substantially or trading heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.

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