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Facebook to target ads based on user interests
NEW YORK -- Now that Facebook has unveiled plans to target advertisements by injecting them into its members' conversations, the popular online hangout must persuade its users to embrace the initiative. read story
Training, competing with GPS: Small devices popular among runners, cyclists
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- After a race through 15 miles of rock-laden, hilly trails in Wyandotte County Lake Park, Byron Rieper went online to discuss the competition with other runners. read story
Too cool to advertise: Google would rather sell ads than buy them
SAN FRANCISCO -- Like a gourmet chef who rarely eats out, Google Inc. feeds advertising services to hordes of other businesses while skimping on its own marketing. Google has become a household name without buying expensive ad campaigns on television or radio or in print. read story
Apple's Leopard finally ready for launch
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc.'s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X "Leopard," will be available Oct. 26 for $129, and Apple's online store is taking pre-orders, the company said. read story
Google leverages widgets
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. will try to cash in on the Internet's latest craze by distributing ads within "widgets" -- the interactive capsules designed to bring more pizzaz to Web pages. read story
New ad-supported music site offers free music and video downloads
LOS ANGELES (AP) - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing. read story
ID thieves hit Monster.com
Users of the online recruiting site Monster.com should beware because hackers have obtained information from 1.3 million registered job seekers and are using those details to ask for personal financial data, state officials say. read story
UW staff, students more wired than ever
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison continue to go wireless, and show increasing concern over computer security according to the most recent survey of student technology trends. read story
AT&T plan controls kids' calls
SAN ANTONIO -- It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads -- all at a parent's fingertips. read story
The rise and fall of Gateway
NEW YORK -- In the 1980s, the small South Dakota business selling computers through catalogs was called Gateway 2000. In 1998, the "2000" no longer sounded as futuristic and the now gigantic company was renamed Gateway Inc. read story
