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[June 10, 2009]

AP Technology NewsBrief at 12:19 a.m. EDT

(Associated Press Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Study: Craigslist revenue to climb 23 pct to $100MSAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Craigslist, one of the Internet's top sites for classified ads, is thriving while newspapers and other marketing-driven media are reeling from huge revenue losses, according to a report to be released Wednesday. Launched as an e-mail list in 1995, Craigslist's revenue is on pace to rise 23 percent this year to reach $100 million for the fist time, based on an analysis by classified advertising industry consultants Advanced Interactive Media Group.

Friday is final curtain for analog TV signalsNEW YORK (AP) _ The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it. The original Feb. 17 deadline for the shutdown was delayed by the Obama administration after funding ran out for $40 coupons the government offered to help people buy converter boxes for old TVs.

Bing swing: New search engine ups Redmond's shareSEATTLE (AP) _ In the week since Microsoft Corp. launched Bing, its new search engine, the software maker's share of U.S. Web searches has crept into double digits for the first time in two years. But Bing's early gain is no predictor of future success. After all, the last time that happened, Microsoft had resorted to paying people to use Bing's predecessor, known as Live Search.

APNewsBreak: Group says poker winnings are frozenWASHINGTON (AP) _ An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. The Justice Department has long maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges.

'Guerrilla drive-ins' turn nostalgia on its headPHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Think the only way to see a big-screen movie is while slurping a 64-oz. soft drink, eating a $5 candy bar and shushing the wannabe film critic behind you? That's not the case anymore, thanks to people like John Young, creator of the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In and part of a loosely knit network of celluloid renegades resurrecting the drive-in for a new age.

Apple drops entry iPhone to $99, unveils new modelSAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half and lowered some laptops by $300 Monday, the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago. With co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs absent until his medical leave is over at the end of June, Apple's biggest unveiling at its annual conference for software developers was a new model of the iPhone, the 3G S. It looks the same but sports a faster processor, longer battery life, an internal compass, a video camera and a photo camera with better resolution and auto-focus.

Music industry battles Spanish computer buffMADRID (AP) _ Pablo Soto's story may be every computer whiz kid's dream _ or nightmare. After leaving school at 16 to support his family, he managed to eke out a living doing what he loves most: designing computer programs. Then in 2001, the Madrid native launched Blubster, one of the world's most popular peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing programs of recent years _ with no training and operating out of his grandmother's apartment.

China defends Web-filtering software requirementBEIJING (AP) _ China on Tuesday defended a new requirement that personal computers sold in the country carry a software that filters online content, saying the program is targeted at preventing the spread of pornography and other "unhealthy" content. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology posted on its Web site Tuesday a notice to all PC makers that they will be required to pre-load the "Green Dam-Youth Escort" filtering software on units to be sold in China as of July 1, including imported PCs.

T-Mobile: No security breach in alleged hackingBELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) _ T-Mobile USA Inc. said Tuesday that it did not suffer a security breach after a blogger this weekend claimed to have hacked into the company's servers. T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG in Germany, said it's investigating the allegation and has found no evidence that hackers got any customer or company information.

Minn. regulators drop bid to block online gamblingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Minnesota regulators may have been outplayed when they bet a decades-old federal law would lend itself to an online gambling crackdown. Following a lawsuit by the gambling industry, which considers the push a violation of federal commerce and free-speech protections, state officials said Monday they'll withdraw a demand that Internet service providers block access to hundreds of sites.

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