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Randy Pausch talks to the crowd at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy auditorium in Pittsburgh in this Sept. 18, 2007 photo.

Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

Associated Press Writer

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

Pedestrians walk past Samsung Electronics advertisement banner in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 25, 2008. Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit grew 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels and mobile phones.

Samsung's second-quarter net profit surges

By KELLY OLSEN

AP Business Writer

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit grew 51 percent compared with the same quarter last year led by its liquid crystal display and mobile phone businesses.

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  • Bikers, pedestrians seeking better Web maps

    With the old gas-guzzler in the garage, you've got your bicycle ready and your sneakers laced up. Now all you need is a map of the quickest, safest routes for riding around town. Well, not so fast.

  • China says Web users top US at 253 mln

    China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

  • Japanese Internet mogul found guilty in appeal

    A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of flamboyant former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie on Friday in an ongoing case that has come to symbolize this nation's effort to deal with white collar crime at emerging dot-coms.

  • Italian media says Google video probe ends

    Italian prosecutors have ended their investigation of four Google Inc. executives over a video uploaded onto Google's Italian site that showed a disabled youth being abused, news reports said Friday.

  • Sector Snap: Handsets up

    Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and other handset makers rose along with the broader market Friday following Samsung Electronics' report that its mobile phone sales rose 22 percent in the second quarter.

  • Netflix 2Q profit up 4 pct, beats analyst views

    Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter profit crept up 4 percent, beating analyst expectations as the online DVD rental leader signed up 168,000 new customers while spending less money to attract them to the service.

  • Former Adobe CEO Chizen named to Oracle board

    Bruce R. Chizen, the former chief executive of Adobe Systems Inc., has been named to an expanded board of another software company, Oracle Corp.

  • AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs, focus on ads

    AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities.

  • ‘Civilization Revolution' works on console

    World-building games are nothing if not massive and involved.

  • Amazon shares leap on strong quarterly report

    Amazon.com Inc. shares leaped 13 percent Thursday after the Internet retailer showed that it doesn't seem to be bothered by the sputtering U.S. economy.

  • Satellite radio companies to pay $19.7 million

    A merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies moved closer to fruition Thursday after the pair agreed to pay $19.7 million to settle a case alleging violation of federal rules.

  • Facebook to help some programmers, punish others

    Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.

  • Embarq provides more details on Web tracking test

    Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers' Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers in a Kansas town.

  • Niche 'vertical sites' refine Web searching

    Center'd, with its friendly winking apostrophe, seems an apt name for a Silicon Valley start-up with the ambitious goal of becoming the go-to Web site for what it calls "local planning." It bills itself as a useful place for today's harried multi-taskers to become, yes, "centered."

  • Calif. group starts site as a muslim alternative to YouTube

    The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif. - A Temecula, Calif., group has launched a Muslim version of YouTube.

  • Nokia, Qualcomm settle long-running dispute

    The legal salvos between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. stopped months ago, part of what officials at the wireless industry heavyweights described as a truce in a long-running battle that spanned three continents.

  • Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks

    The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

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  • Sony opens up e-book Reader to other booksellers

    With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.

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