AP Top Technology News At 7:13 a.m. EDT

Big tech earnings week will reveal economic trends

By JESSICA MINTZ — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:13:41 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) -- The technology sector is often talked about as if it were a unified front, an easy-to-define monolith. People say technology stocks rose or technology stocks fell. Tech helped drive a huge boom in the 1990s, and when that collapsed in 2001, tech contributed to the last recession....

Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit

By MARCIA DUNN — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:13:35 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet. One of two commodes aboard the international space station malfunctioned, right in the middle of complicated robotic work being conducted by the two crews. The pump separator apparently flooded....

New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take models

By LOUISE NORDSTROM — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:49:02 GMT

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday....

Verizon offers small carriers fresher handsets

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:57:22 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Verizon Wireless is offering small cellular carriers a chance to get new phone models faster....

Spacewalk Day: Astronauts set for first outing

By MARCIA DUNN — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:37:13 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- It's spacewalking day at the shuttle-station complex. At high noon Saturday, two astronauts will venture out to help attach a platform for science experiments. It's the third and final piece of Japan's huge billion-dollar lab. And it's the first of five spacewalks planned for the shuttle flight....

Pirated copies of Orwell books pulled from Kindle

By HILLEL ITALIE — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:37:57 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- A pirated e-book of "1984" led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers....

Concerns raised as LA looks to Google Web services

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:29:22 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Security and privacy concerns have been raised over a multimillion-dollar proposal by Los Angeles to tap Google Inc.'s Internet-based services for government e-mail, police records and other confidential data....

Yahoo rallies on renewed hopes for Microsoft deal

By DEBORAH YAO — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:25:46 GMT

Yahoo Inc. shares rose 4 percent Friday amid speculation it will team up with Microsoft Corp. in an online search advertising partnership aimed at mounting a more serious challenge to Google Inc....

Google's slowing ad sales trump record 2Q profit

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:50:03 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. made more money than ever in the second quarter, even though its revenue growth slowed like never before....

IBM sees better profits for 2009

By JORDAN ROBERTSON — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:14:36 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- IBM Corp. has proved a rare animal in the recession....