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Lower-than-expected demand for flat-panel TVs is spurring makers to cut prices - setting the stage for a bargain-filled back-to-school and holiday shopping season. A year ago, a 37-inch flat-panel model typically cost about $4,000. Now, some can be found for as little as $1,100.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. warned about a new computer virus that exploits a vulnerability in its PowerPoint presentation software to allow hackers to infiltrate computer systems.

LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers and young adults who listen to MP3 players too loudly and too often risk going deaf 30 years earlier than their parents' generation, a charity warned on Thursday.

New handsets will allow Skype users to access the phone service from wireless hotspots.

SAN FRANCISCO - It has been clear to investors for some time that eBay Inc. has been losing the luster that turned the online auctioneer into an e-commerce bellwether. Now, CEO Meg Whitman is finally acknowledging things have been off kilter and is hoping to set things right by raising fees on the online stores that had been diverting traffic from eBay's auctions.

BOSTON - If you spot any errors in this paragraph, don't be dismayed. It was written with new voice-activated software that is billed as a way to operate computer while rarely laying hands on it.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. has begun testing a new version of its search system that makes finding information on the Web easier for the blind or visually impaired, its creator said on Wednesday.

Buoyed by ever increasing shipments of Macintosh computers, Apple has quieted its Intel transition detractors by posting double-digit market share increases. Two market research firms have pegged Apple’s growth at over 15 percent with one giving them a 16 percent increase.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to ban Internet gambling faces opposition in the U.S. Senate, but backers still hope to win passage of it within a few weeks, a top aide to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - When they play Chips Ahoy Soccer Shootout and Pop-Tart Slalom, kids aren't just having fun. They also are subjects in marketing efforts to sell food, a study finds.

BEIJING - Amnesty International accused Yahoo, Microsoft and Google on Thursday of violating human rights principles by cooperating with China's efforts to censor the Web and called on them to lobby for the release of jailed cyber-dissidents.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Verizon Wireless has obtained a permanent injunction blocking a Miami telemarketer from making automated calls to its customers, the cellular phone company said Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc., the world's largest Internet media company, and Motorola Inc., the second-biggest maker of mobile phones, said late on Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo services on tens of millions of phones.

Helped by strong sales at its retail stores, Apple saw it shipments increase significantly.

The first electronic medical records products to win government approval were announced Tuesday, a step toward encouraging doctors to switch from paper systems. Doctors buying the software can expect it to collect data, secure that data and work with other products so that records can eventually transfer among doctors.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Motorola will pre-install Yahoo's Internet search facility, e-mail and address book on its new mobile telephones from the first half of next year, the companies announced.

Microsoft Corp.'s research lab has developed technology that lets people navigate through 3D holographic-like computer images projected on a glass screen.

WASHINGTON - Bloggers are a predominantly young group of Internet users who are novice storytellers, enjoy describing their own experiences and have a growing audience in the online world.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Now might be a good time to put the Apple back into the investor's cart.

A French start-up created to build autonomous, easily programmable, affordable humanoid robots has emerged from stealth mode.

CHICAGO - E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder — a parent, teacher or a boss — or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favor to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

A report indicates prices are going down across the board for flat panel TVs, and analysts expect them to stay that way.

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A Singaporean blogger has received a stern warning but escaped possible imprisonment after posting cartoons mocking Jesus Christ on his online journal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.