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NEW YORK - AOL is revamping its popular online radio service Tuesday, adding streams from all 140 CBS Corp.-owned radio stations and upgrading its player to add more functions and expand the service's reach.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon , Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography, The New York Times reported on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Apple Monday unveiled a new version of its popular iPhone built for high-speed wireless networks with faster Internet access and more features for business users.

Apple's new enterprise focus for the iPhone has promise, but the company has to work through a number of software and hardware...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Apple Monday unveiled a new version of its popular iPhone built for high-speed wireless networks with faster Internet access and more features for business users.

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A supercomputer with components originally developed for Sony's PlayStation video-game console has become the world's fastest computer.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play pioneering video game entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell in a biopic about the Atari co-founder's life, it was reported Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The start of summer is often bittersweet for gamers: there is lots of free time to play, but typically few new releases to fill the long days.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - German media group Bertelsmann is in talks with Japanese partner Sony on the sale of the former's half in their jointly owned music company Sony BMG, a newspaper said on Tuesday.

Mobile games, productivity programs, Web tools, sports apps, music makers, and medical software debut at the Apple developers conference.

InformationWeek - Microsoft says it has no plans to produce a phone-enabled version of its Zune mobile music player.

Some Web domains are more vulnerable to cybercrimes than others, and Hong Kong's ".hk," ranked as the most dangerous domain, followed by China's ".cn," and ".info," according to a report by anti-virus software vender McAfee. The servers for ".hk" and ".cn" Web sites don't have to be in China. Some Internet scam operators gravitate to domain name services with lower fees, and to services that cut registration requirements to boost profit. Among ".com" sites, about 5% were identified as dangerous. The least-risky domain names are: ".gov," ".jp" (Japan), and ".au." (Australia).

Experts discussed ways to improve online safety and better prevent cybercrime at a security conference in Seattle.

HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong websites are the most likely to hit visitors with unwanted ads, viruses and spam, research from an Internet security company has found.

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's number three mobile cellphone operator Softbank Mobile announced on Tuesday it will introduce a new version of Apple's iPhone next month as rival NTT DoCoMo said it had no plan to offer the handset.

Apple on Monday released an update to its QuickTime multimedia software. According to Apple's notes, QuickTime 7.5 "improves application compatibility and addresses security issues" and is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

Apple's new enterprise focus for the iPhone has promise, but the company has to work through a number of software and hardware...

SourceForge.net's annual Community Choice awards highlight the most promising open source projects-- and the most troubled.

The efforts of Google and others to push open-source software in cellular networks are nothing new and won't have a big impact, say executives with Microsoft and Nokia, the largest providers of smart phone software.

Acer and other Taiwanese companies see Linux as a key to developing the low-cost laptop market.

SAN FRANCISCO - The iPhone will soon be $200 cheaper and support satellite navigation and faster Internet access, but higher monthly service charges are likely to erase most of the savings.

PORTLAND, Ore. - It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.

Microsoft may be sunsetting XP, but you'll still be able to buy it on some new systems--and support isn't going away for several years.