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Pakistan: Militants suffer heavy casualties as fighting rages
Fighting raged Tuesday between security forces and militants in northwestern Pakistan, leaving 43 militants dead and two commanders captured, authorities said. The cause of the outage, which Google said lasted an hour and 45 minutes, was not apparent by early Tuesday evening.
Gmail outage deprives millions of e-mail
Gmail, Google’s popular free e-mail service, was inaccessible to many of its 36 million users Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread chatter on Twitter and other social networks.
Market slumps for $3,000 luxury cell phones
Got a few grand to spare for a $3,000 phone? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Nobody does — and that’s a problem for the makers of luxury phones, such as Motorola, Bang & Olufson, LG and Vertu.
Dear Grandpa, Here’s a Printout of My Facebook Updates…
At 90, Chandler Murray’s mailbox, not counting bills and solicitations, receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. “People just don’t write letters anymore,” says his daughter, Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt.
Microsoft will make Xbox games without controllers
Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its answer to the Nintendo Wii. The software maker said it will release technology that lets people play video games by moving their bodies instead of clicking hand-held controllers
Explainer: Why was Intel fined?
The European Commission handed down its ruling in a landmark anti-trust case against Intel Wednesday, fining the computer chip giant a record $1.45 billion for abusing its dominant position in the computer processing unit (CPU) market. The ruling, which Intel plans to appeal, may have future implications for American companies accused of “jurisdiction shopping” to avoid anti-trust verdicts against them, says CNN’s Jim Boulden, who explains the basics of the Intel case
Oprah coupon craze leaves KFC customers hungry for more
Never underestimate the power of Oprah or a free meal. That seems to be the lesson KFC is learning after talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey took to the airwaves Tuesday with an offer of a free grilled chicken two-piece meal. Hungry consumers could visit Oprah.com, where for the next 24 hours they were supposed to be able to download a coupon for the meal that included two pieces of the company’s new grilled chicken menu item, two side orders and a biscuit.
Dutch navy captures pirates after failed attack
Dutch naval forces captured seven pirates and freed 20 captive fishermen after tracking the pirates to their "mother ship" in the western Gulf of Aden on Saturday, a NATO maritime spokesman said. It happened after pirates launched an unsuccessful attack on a petroleum tanker called the MT Handytankers Magic, Cmdr