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Bertelsmann Snaps Up NapsterFri May 17, 5:51 PM ETBy Andrew Quinn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Embattled Internet music upstart Napster (news - web sites) Inc. was handed a new lease on life Friday as German media giant Bertelsmann stepped in with $8 million to buy its assets and keep the online song-swap service in business. The surprise deal also brought Napster Chief Executive Officer Konrad Hilbers and founder Shawn Fanning back into the fold just days after they quit the company amid fears that mounting legal, financial and technical problems would silence Napster for good. "While this has been a...

I need help! For some reason my computer quit finding dns servers (I think). I can get to free republic or other sites that have the IP number address I think they're called. But anything with the name in the address like yahoo for instance, I can't get too. I keep getting that page that says page cannot be displayed? Oh I use explorer. Can anyone help?thanks, kelly in alaska

The technology behind Google's great resultsAs a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms....