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Database can crack missing person cases ? if used (AP)

FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)

AP - A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

FCC to propose revamping Universal Service Fund (AP)

AP - Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government program that now subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas. Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies (AP)

AP - It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away.

ABC returns to Cablevision, but talks go on (AP)

A Cablevision sign is seen in New York, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Cablevision subscribers were scrambling Sunday to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's parent company Walt Disney Co. switched off its signal in a dispute over fees. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

AP - Cablevision and ABC were negotiating a deal Monday that tentatively ended a dispute over fees and restored millions of viewers' access to the Academy Awards telecast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the broadcast began.

AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on 'black box' data (AP)

AP - Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline "black boxes" that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

New Windows phones won't run current apps (AP)

AP - Microsoft Corp. has said its new software for smart phones, Windows Phone 7 series, is a "clean break" with the past. Now it's clear just how clean that break is: The new phones, expected late this year, won't run any applications written for older versions of Microsoft's phone software. US to allow web service exports to strict nations (AFP)

File photo shows a woman using her laptop computer. Washington will allow technology companies to export Internet services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan in a bid to exploit their libertarian potential, The New York Times has reported.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

AFP - Washington will allow technology companies to export Internet services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan in a bid to exploit their libertarian potential, The New York Times reported late Sunday.

Gadgets galore as Somali pirates spur booming sector (AFP)

A pirate boat in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia in 2009. Somali pirates raked in an estimated 60 million dollars in 2009 but the Indian Ocean's ransom hunters have also spurred a much larger industry of ship protection devices.(AFP/HO/File)

AFP - Somali pirates raked in an estimated 60 million dollars in 2009 but the Indian Ocean's ransom hunters have also spurred a much larger industry of ship protection devices.

Appcelerator releases Titanium cross-platform app dev technology (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Appcelerator will release on Monday version 1.0 of Titanium, its cross-platform system for building native mobile and desktop applications.

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