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Google pays Associated Press for news

News Google has been paying The Associated Press for use of its news stories and pictures on Google News, according to a statement from the two companies. On the surface, paying the Associated Press seems to conflict with the stance Google News has...

4 August 2006, 9:21

News.blog: Nintendo to recall 3.2 million Wii straps

News According to Kotaku, a videogame blog, which quoted an Associated Press article, Nintendo said on Friday it will offer replacements for the straps. After staying mum on the issue since launch, the publisher finally admitted they had an issue to the...

15 December 2006, 9:05

Video, podcasts and blogs track Winter Olympics

News That experience led Yahoo to invest heavily in covering this year's Games, hiring five former Olympic athletes as analysts, as well as drawing on the services of an Associated Press writer who will work exclusively for the online company during...

13 February 2006, 10:29

AP launches iPhone news app

News The Associated Press has created a news aggregation Web application called the Mobile News Network for the Apple iPhone. The new mobile Web site is targeted at people who want access to international, national and local news all the time.

Tags: events, product, international, iphone

6 May 2008, 9:00

News.blog: Microsoft abandons HD DVD drive

News Microsoft will end production of the external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 videogame console, according to a report by the Associated Press. The company said it would, however, continue to offer warranty support for the peripheral.

Tags: disc, definition, hd, playback

25 February 2008, 8:46

Wii News Channel starts webcasting

News Nintendo on Friday launched the Wii News Channel, a feed of recent Associated Press stories and pictures delivered to the innovative new Wii console via its Internet connection. There are currently eight news sections: National News, Regional News...

29 January 2007, 9:33

Brazilian kids to get first $100 laptops

News Silva is quoted in the Associated Press as saying: "I can affirm to you that we are very close to producing a $100 laptop. Fifty devices will be given to Brazilian school children for testing with 1,000 more in use from early next year, according...

28 November 2006, 10:35

News.blog: Web censorship hampers Olympics journalists

News Despite earlier assurances that journalists would have unfettered access to the Internet at the Main Press Center and athletic venues, organisers are now backtracking, meaning that the 5,000 reporters working in Beijing during the next several...

Tags: international, chinese, press, broadcast

30 July 2008, 8:39

News.blog: 'WoW' expansion delayed

News But Blizzard said on Tuesday that it plans to hold back the release of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade until January, according to the Associated Press. We feel confident that the extra time spent polishing the game will result in the high...

25 October 2006, 9:19

Photos: Jet-powered wing propels solo flight

News According to an Associated Press story, he accelerated to 186mph, rising as much as 2,600 feet during his manoeuvres above the Swiss Alps. Credit: Sipa Press A veteran pilot of fighter jets and commercial aircraft, Yves Rossy doesn't actually have...

Tags: structure, press, engines, body

21 May 2008, 11:01

MySpace cracks in the heat

News MySpace returned hours later -- the Associated Press estimated the entire length of the failure at 12 hours -- with scattered complaints continuing throughout the day from individuals who claimed they still couldn't access the site.

25 July 2006, 9:48

News.blog: China warned over Olympic Web access

News The unrest in Tibet, covered by a variety of news organisations, has led to calls to boycott the Olympic Games, according to a report in Associated Press. Our concern is that the press is able to operate as it has at previous Games during Games time.

Tags: international, press, bbc, china

2 April 2008, 9:18

US military security defeated by copy and paste

News According to a report by the Associated Press, a representative of Adobe Systems, owner of the PDF format, has suggested that whoever attempted to censor the report did so by placing black rectangles over the text in question, rather than deleting...

5 May 2005, 9:19

Libya jails political blogger

News His family told the Associated Press that police had confiscated some of his books and printed copies of his blog articles. Meanwhile, free-press advocate Reporters Without Borders is calling on China to reopen a blog it shut down recently.

7 November 2005, 10:03

Mobile use 'worse than asbestos and smoking'

News During a 14-month-long study Khurana reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phone use in recent medical and scientific literature in addition to press and Internet coverage -- and concludes "there is a significant and increasing...

Tags: mobile phones, research, study, body

1 April 2008, 9:08