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The International Herald Tribune
IHT.com Tech Alert
Paris, Thursday, February 21, 2008
NBC abandons fall debuts for year-round schedule
NBC Universal took a big step toward undoing one of the television industry's oldest traditions by announcing Tuesday that it would move to a year-round schedule of staggered program introductions. The change is intended to appeal to advertisers, who crave fresh content to keep viewers tuned in.
- Back to work, writers search for new plots

After strike, 'Saturday Night Live' works to retrieve audience
The comedy show returns to NBC this weekend with the first of four consecutive new shows, the first time that breakneck schedule has been tried since 1976.

Security concerns sidetrack Bain deal for 3Com
Huawei Technologies, which has strong ties to the Chinese government, would have received 16.5 percent of the company.

DVD code cracker goes legitimate
Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian teenager who helped crack the code on copying DVDs almost a decade ago, has started a business whose goal is software that manages digital media and lets consumers move their files among any kind of hardware.

Cellphones are bringing Pakistanis together
About 65 million people are using mobile phones each day in Pakistan. For most Pakistanis, the wireless devices are the first phones they have ever had.

Toshiba saw the tide running against it in DVD fight
A growing number of movie studies had started to choose Blu-ray, the rival high-definition DVD technology from Sony.

European privacy advocates to issue report in April
Data protection officials from 30 European countries ended a two-day meeting and agreed that search engines needed to make changes.

U.S. orders shutdown of Web site specializing in leaks
Legal experts said the court move could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era.

With profit up, HP raises outlook
Hewlett-Packard has continued to take market share from other makers while increasing profitability.
- Hewlett-Packard settles 'pretexting' suit

Microsoft may begin proxy fight for Yahoo
Unless Yahoo quickly reverses course and enters into talks, Microsoft would seek to nominate a slate of directors to Yahoo's board.
- Ahead for Yahoo and Microsoft: Clashing cultures
- Yahoo in new bid to deflect Microsoft

Thomson and Reuters get approval to merge
The combination will create an enormous supplier of financial news and information.

Publisher at Los Angeles Times gets no benefit of the doubt
With the company scraping to meet heavy debt payments, the publisher, David Hiller faces the daunting task of showing his new bosses that he can turn around a paper hit by an industrywide contraction, a California real estate slump and internal dissension.
- New York Times to cut 100 newsroom positions
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