The dog days of August lend themselves to kicking back and letting the world slide by. Since the advent of the Web 2.0 ecosystem, they?ve also been the province of a tech company version of the summer shows the networks play off - failed pilots, reality programming being tried out for the Big Show or another writer?s strike, and ratings stinkers that can be buried outside of Sweeps months.

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Six years after labeling Steven J. Hatfill a person of interest in the anthrax attacks, the Justice Department formally exonerated him on Friday and told his lawyer it had concluded that Dr. Hatfill was not involved in the anthrax mailings. The department agreed in June to pay $4.6 million to settle Dr. Hatfills lawsuit against the government, but until Friday it had conspicuously avoided declaring that he had nothing to do with the attacks.

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For the Beijing games, NBC has partnered with Microsoft design one of the most sophisticated video players yet created. The NBCOlympics.com player has a slew of functions — some more useful than others — but its real value is in the flexibility it gives online viewers to watch a wide variety of sports and events on demand.

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Swiss investment bank UBS on Friday became the latest financial firm to say it would buy back billions of dollars of bonds from customers who have been unable since February to cash in their investments, known as auction-rate securities. Under a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators including New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, UBS agreed to refund clients up to $18.6 billion, the biggest repurchase offer extended since authorities began investigating the auction-rate market meltdown.

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