• 'Antique' Phone Tax Dropped (p)(f)
  The Treasury Department, conceding that it has no right to continue collecting a 108-year-old tax on long-distance telephone calls,will drop its legal battle for the tax and instead refund about $13 billion to callers who have paid the tax in the past three years. The 3 percent tax, enacted in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War and revised in 1965, was declared illegal by five federal courts of appeal.May 26, 2006
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• 1-Hour Brainstorm Gave Birth to Digital Imaging (p)(f)
  In a one-hour brainstorming session in late 1969, Boyle and Smith drew up the basic design for a memory chip they called a "charge-coupled device," more familiarly known as a "CCD." Washignto Post FFeb 20, 2006
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• BlackBerry Lawsuit Is Patently Absurd (p)(f)
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• CIA employees easily identified by Internet searches (p)(f)
  The identities of 2,600 CIA employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency`s covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. March 12, 2006
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• Comcast Boosts Modem Speed For Subscribers In Reston (p)(f)
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• Comcast Boosts Modem Speed For Subscribers In Reston (p)(f)
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• Defense lawyers challenge DUI breath test machine (p)(f)
  Timothy Muldowny`s lawyers decided on an unconventional approach to fight his drunken driving case: They sought computer programming information for the Intoxilyzer alcohol breath analysis machine to see whether his test was accurate. March 12,2006
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• For Now, Consumer Nanotech Concentrates on the Little Things (p)(f)
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• Hit-and-Miss List (p)(f)
  The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control maintains its "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List" to be easily accessible on its public Web site.
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• Kodak Tops U.S. Digital-Camera Market (p)(f)
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• Konica Minolta Plans to Drop Sales of Film, Digital Cameras (p)(f)
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• Netflix Settlement Gets Reworked After Protests (p)(f)
  A proposed class-action settlement involving Netflix Inc. customers has been rewritten to address complaints that the agreement did little for consumers while rewarding the company and lawyers who filed the suit. March 22, 2006
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• Nikon Says It`s Leaving Film-Camera Business (p)(f)
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• Raids close file-sharing server (p)(f)
  Joint raids by police in Belgium and Switzerland have shut down a popular file-sharing server. The Razorback2 server was part of the Edonkey file-sharing network and was used by a third of the system`s users. BBC News Feb 23, 2006
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• Scientists ponder invisibility cloak (p)(f)
  Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out the blueprint and calling for help in developing the exotic materials needed to build a cloak. MAy 25, 2006
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• Security Implications of Google Earth (p)(f)
  It is surprising that a defence technologist of the calibre of President APJ Abdul Kalam could label Google Earth as a threat to the security of India, and call for restrictions on access to satellite photographs of India`s sensitive defence and nuclear installations.
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• U.S. Spending Billions to Stop Iraq IEDs - Yahoo! News (p)(f)
  The Pentagon`s upgraded Joint IED Defeat Organization is getting a sharply increased $3.3 billion this year to foil the often rudimentary weapons, which the Iraqi resistance generally fashions from artillery and mortar rounds. The "JIEDDO" staff of explosives experts and others will almost triple, to 365. MArch 13, 2006
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• Why DVD+R(W) is superior to DVD-R(W) [1/1] (p)(f)
  The main problem here is that getting DVD+R(W) and DVD-R(W) standards require money and NDAs, so that little detailed technical information about these formats can be found on the Internet.
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• Wi-fi rots your brain ? (p)(f)
  LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY in Canada has canned a big wi-fi project out of fears that it could cause cancer and rot its students` brains.
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