Lawmakers want to restrict use of ‘peer-to-peer’ after disclosure of ethics committee report

House lawmakers push ban on peer-to-peer software

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Vermont city’s public telecommunications venture runs into $17 million snag

Vermont city's foray into telecom hits $17M snag

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A public option for phone, cable and Internet seemed like a good idea when this Vermont college town launched Burlington Telecom four years ago.

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Obituaries in the news

Obituaries in the news

Stephen Gately

PORT D'ANDRATX, Mallorca (AP) — Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, died Saturday. He was 33.

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Boston gears up for new bike-sharing program that would be nation’s largest, with 2,500 bikes

Boston gears up for biggest bike-sharing program

BOSTON — The city is entering talks with a Montreal-based company to create what would be the nation's largest urban bike-sharing system.

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Apple coaxed to NC area hurting from manufacturing layoffs as site for East Coast data center

apple logoNC town raises offer for Apple data center site

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina community battered by manufacturing layoffs raised the offer for Apple Inc. to open its East Coast data center just 30 miles down the road from a similar Google Inc. server farm that opened last year. Catawba County and the town of Maiden agreed Monday to a package of local incentives aimed at luring Apple and cutting into the 15 percent unemployment rate. The state last month changed its tax calculations to land Apple's $1 billion data center, giving the company a tax break estimated at $46 million in the next decade.

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