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Amazon hopes to simplify Web shopping - with words

SAN FRANCISCO - You’re probably used to typing your name, address and credit card number when you buy things online. Amazon.com is guessing you don’t enjoy it, though, and wants to simplify the process by letting you purchase items with a short phrase such as ‘Shopping Fanatic’ and an identification number.

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Lala heralds MP3-killing iPhone app

LOS ANGELES - Online music retailer Lala is preparing to launch an iPhone application that its co-founder says paves the way for the end of downloading songs in the MP3 format.

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Abu Dhabi SIC Signs agreement with Microsoft

ABU DHABI – The Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC) has signed a Master Business and Services Agreement (MBSA) to set the contractual framework under which Abu Dhabi local government affiliates can purchase Microsoft licenses and engage Microsoft Consultancy Services.

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'Swap your Yahoo shares for Google'

Investors should swap their shares of Yahoo Inc for those of Google Inc because Yahoo’s advertising revenues are on the decline while Google’s are rising, Barron’s reported in its Oct. 26 edition.

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Theatres build momentum for home 3D

Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” in theaters this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they’re surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.

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Internet ‘a teenager’ at 40

SAN FRANCISCO - Leonard Kleinrock never imagined Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that day 40 years ago when his team gave birth to what is now taken for granted as the Internet.

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