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AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone reported that it had attracted 4.5 milion new customers during the first quarter of its financial year.

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AFP - EU competition regulators are taking a look into the commercial practices of Japanese electronics giants Sony and Toshiba in their battle over DVD formats, a European Commission spokeswoman has said.

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AFP - US software colossus Microsoft and Bouygues Telecom will collaborate to launch a new mobile music service in France in 2007, the companies announced.

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AFP - Communications company Sprint Nextel said it was investing up to three billion dollars in what it claimed would be the United States’ first nationwide 4G high-speed wireles broadband network.

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AP - Two teenagers were arested Saturday in the theft of a laptop and hard drive containing sensitive data on up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel, authorities said.

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AP - AOL said Thursday it would drop as many as 5,000 amployees, or a quarter of its global workforce, within six months as the company restructures its business to draw more online advertising dollars.

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AP - When Microsoft Corp. said it planned to begin checking for pirated copies of its Windows operating system using the method it set up to send people security fixes, even some of the company’s traditional critics could sympathize.

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AFP - India's cricket chiefs are negotiating with Microsoft for new software aimed at raising umpiring standards in the country, an official said.

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AP - Incoming college students are hearing the usual warnings this summer about the dangers of everything from alcohol to credit card debt. But many are also getting lectured on a new topic — the risks of Internet postings, particularly on popular social networking sites such as Facebook.

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AP - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January.

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