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Saul Centers declares quarterly dividend of 36c
Saul Centers Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of 36 cents per common share. The dividend will be paid on April 30, 2010 to shareholders of record on April 16, 2010.
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HickoryTech to pay dividend of 13 cents
HickoryTech Corp., which provides Internet access and other digital services, said Friday its board declared a quarterly dividend of 13 cents a share.
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Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest
DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers.
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Internet fraud losses doubled last year
The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI.
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Apple takes pre-orders for April 3 iPad launch
Apple is accepting pre-orders for the iPad, its new touch-screen gadget for reading books, watching video and surfing the Web.
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Digital River up on possible McAfee deal
Shares of Digital River Inc., which provides technology and services for companies that sell products online, got a boost Friday after an analyst said McAfee Inc. may be testing out its e-commerce technology.
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LTX completes repurchase of notes
Chip testing equipment maker LTX-Credence Corp. reported Friday that it has completed the repurchase of $34.9 million of notes.
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Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision
A federal court has upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make channels they own available to satellite TV providers and other rivals on equal terms.
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Nokia revises 2009 market share down to 34 pct
Nokia Corp. on Friday revised its global market share estimate for mobile phones in 2009 to 34 percent, from an earlier 38 percent, and said it expected no growth this year.
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Chinese minister insists Google obey the law
China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.
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Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet
Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.
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InfoGroup's founder resigns from company board
The founder of database provider InfoGroup Inc. has resigned from the company's board.
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A look at February's top-selling video games
The top-selling video games in the U.S. in February, by number of copies sold, according to NPD Group:
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Weak economy means it’s a freebie nation
You know the saying, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch?” Well, in this economy, getting a free lunch, a free book or even a free dress shirt may be easier than you think.
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Twitter unveils tool to share tweeting locations
Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.
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February video game sales drop 15 percent
U.S. retail sales of video games declined 15 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower sales of the Wii system.
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VeriSign to spend more than $300M on tech upgrades
VeriSign Inc., whose technology is key to allowing Internet users to access Web sites with names ending in ".com" and ".net," plans to spend more than $300 million over the next decade to upgrade its systems.
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RadiSys acquires Pactolus; terms not disclosed
RadiSys Corp., a maker of servers that support wireless phone networks, said Thursday it acquired privately held Pactolus Communications Software Co. Terms were not disclosed.
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Glance: Countries in Internet censorship report
Reporters Without Borders issued its annual report on countries least tolerant of Internet freedoms:
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Report finds online censorship more sophisticated
Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday.
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Feds pledge tough review of Comcast-NBC deal
Federal regulators are pledging rigorous reviews of Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of NBC Universal to ensure that it would not stifle competition or harm consumers.
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Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales
Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.
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Sony unveils new motion contoller to slow Nintendo
Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us.
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Huge 'botnet' amputated, but criminals reconnect
The sudden takedown of an Internet provider thought to be helping spread one of the most promiscuous pieces of malicious software out there appears to have cut off criminals from potentially millions of personal computers under their control.
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Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth
Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
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