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- Sprint Loses Money, Users
Sprint Nextel yesterday reported first-quarter losses of 1.1 million subscribers and more than half a billion dollars. - Microsoft Executive To Run Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday tapped veteran Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes as chief executive of the world's largest charitable foundation. - Personal Tech
The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions. - Life With Laptop
It's your constant travel companion, a source of pain and pleasure. Here's how to make living with your portable computer easier on both of you. - HP to buy EDS for about $13.2 billion in cash
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM. - Firms Seek Patents on 'Climate Ready' Altered Crops
A handful of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered crops designed to withstand drought and other environmental stresses, part of a race for dominance in the potentially lucrative market for crops that can handle global warming,... - Marketing Costs Boost XM Radio Losses
XM Satellite Radio, the District pay-radio company planning to combine with smaller competitor Sirius Satellite Radio, reported a wider first-quarter loss yesterday as it increased spending to attract more subscribers. - They Arb What They Arb
There are different kinds of investors in the world. One kind is a long-term, patient type who runs mutual funds for the average Joe. A second is a risk arbitrageur -- known on Wall Street as an "arb" -- who speculates on pending deals. When a proposed takeover surfaces and the target's stock price... - Perilous Landings by Soyuz Worry NASA
Two consecutive chaotic and dangerous landings by Soyuz space capsules, including one with an American astronaut aboard, have NASA and space experts concerned about the spacecraft's reliability in ferrying astronauts to and from the international space station. - Colleges Putting Their Own Spin on YouTube
One of the first things that pops up if you check YouTube to find out about a public school in Western Maryland is a video that starts: FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY. ITS GREAT!!! An edgy new-wavy punkish Electric Six song cranks in, and the camera lurches as people down shots, chug beer and do keg ... - Rumor Has It
"I am suggesting that language evolved to allow us to gossip . . . to facilitate the bonding of social groups . . . it mainly achieves this aim by permitting the exchange of socially relevant information." - U.S. Legal Work Booms in India
GURGAON, India -- When Aashish Sharma graduated from law school two years ago, his father had visions of seeing him argue in an Indian court and eventually become an honorable judge. -
Q How can I keep a backup copy of Microsoft updates I've downloaded so I won't have to get new copies of them if I have to reinstall my software? - NBC's Numbers Geek Makes His Mark
NEW YORK--In a borrowed office at 30 Rock, Chuck Todd is on his cellphone, telling a Barack Obama strategist that his boss will probably fall just short of winning Indiana that night. - Some Heroes Want to Get Real
Myrna Sislen, the owner of Middle C Music in Tenleytown, figures Guitar Hero is here to stay. - At D.C.'s Phelps High, A Return to the Future
The greenhouse at Phelps High School is a shell of exterior brick walls and exposed steel beams. But by August, when a $63.8 million renovation of the school in Northeast Washington is finished, the space will have computer-controlled window shades and watering systems. - Icahn Enters Fray For Circuit City
Circuit City announced yesterday that it will open its books to Blockbuster and billionaire Carl Icahn in a step toward a possible sale of the company.
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