Video may have killed the radio star, but a North Carolina-based company wants to shove the final stake into Internet radio, that scratchy bargain-basement medium that has yet to penetrate to mainstream Internet users.

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Priceline.com's new program that will allow consumers to bid on gasoline prices is taking off on May 20 with or without the involvement of major oil companies, the Internet discounter said.

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Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) launched its new PlayStation 2 games console on Saturday morning here to large crowds and excited domestic media coverage that easily eclipsed that of Windows 2000 just two weeks earlier.

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Beef up your music collection with this handy assortment of MP3 tools. With MP3 encoders and all-in-one players, you can compress (or rip, in MP3 parlance) music from audio CDs into MP3 files. You can use the players to compile a playlist of Grammy Award winners, organize old favorites, or search the Internet to find and upload music files.

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