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When two leading Republican presidential candidates started to squirm last week about attending a Sept. 17 YouTube debate, in which the public would ask them questions via video, they faced a surprising backlash from their ideological allies in the blogosphere.

The candidates’ failure to embrace the new [...]

WASHINGTON - Warning: Copyright threats on DVDs and TV broadcasts might be misstating the law.

A high-tech trade group made that charge Wednesday to the Federal Trade Commission, alleging deceptive trade practices for the copyright warnings before movies and during sports broadcasts.

The Computer and Communications Industry Association [...]

Electronic Arts’ fiscal first-quarter losses widened by 63 percent amid a seasonal slowdown, with the world’s largest video game maker launching only one major title in three months. But the company - undergoing a sweeping reorganization - still managed to exceed Wall Street’s tepid expectations by 10 cents a share.

EA said [...]

The virtual world “Second Life” has banned gambling, a cautious legal maneuver that could dent revenue and spark anger among fans.

Although “Second Life” is home to large corporations such as Toyota Motor and Intel, which have virtual ads and marketing promotions, thousands of gambling shops dominate commerce. Virtual characters, known as [...]

Nuvelo, a drugmaker that in June ended its collaboration with Bayer on a treatment for blood clots, is cutting 30 percent of its workforce effective Friday, leaving about 80 employees. The San Carlos company also said Chief Financial Officer Ward Wolff is leaving Aug. 14 as part of a restructuring. Lee Bendekgey will become CFO [...]

Apple has issued a software patch to fix some security holes that independent security researchers recently discovered for the company’s vaunted iPhone. The software update Apple said it released late Tuesday addresses several bugs and security issues but, most notably, a flaw that could have allowed hackers to take control of the multimedia cell phone [...]

Apple has issued a software patch to fix some security holes that independent security researchers recently discovered for the company’s vaunted iPhone. The software update Apple said it released late Tuesday addresses several bugs and security issues but, most notably, a flaw that could have allowed hackers to take control of the multimedia cell phone [...]

Microsoft will delay the release of Office 2008 for Apple’s Macintosh computers until the middle of January 2008 to fix lingering bugs in the software. The company previously said the new suite, which is to include Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Entourage e-mail program, would go on sale in the second half of 2007. [...]

Quadrangle Group, the buyout firm run by Steven Rattner, hired former Yahoo executive Daniel Rosensweig to help pursue private-equity deals in the media, technology and communications industries.

Rosensweig, who resigned this year as Yahoo’s operating chief, will open a Quadrangle office next month in Silicon Valley, the New York-based firm [...]

There aren’t many places where you can see the gray space between the good guys and the bad guys in the cybercrime wars. But the Black Hat and Defcon conferences coming up this week in Las Vegas are a study in contrasts where criminal hackers and Feds can stare each other down.

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