36 counties are now under advisories, watches, or warnings.
  1. Facebook to let users carry profiles with them

    Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites.

    1. Updated at 7:31 p.m.
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  2. EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire

    EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.

    1. Updated at 6:56 p.m.
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  3. Apple agrees to settle iPod lawsuit

    Apple Inc. has agreed to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device.

    1. Posted at 7:20 p.m.
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  4. Microsoft appeals $1.4B EU antitrust fine

    Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has appealed a $1.39 billion fine imposed in February by the European Commission for the company's failure to comply with a 2004 antitrust order.

    1. Posted at 5:06 p.m.
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  5. 70 people sickened during San Francisco conference

    It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc.

    1. Posted at 7:13 p.m.
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  6. Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident

    Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.

    1. Updated at 3:19 p.m.
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  7. Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes

    Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.

    1. Posted at 12:50 p.m.
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  8. Retailers can use DNA tracing to track meat

    Meat retailers can now trace their wares from the ranch to the refrigerator case using DNA analysis.

    1. Posted at 1:26 p.m.
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  9. Gates: Microsoft to go its own way

    Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday.

    1. Updated at 3:58 p.m.
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  10. Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards

    Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies under an agreement with officials nationwide that was announced Thursday.

    1. Updated May. 8 11:42 p.m.
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