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PHOENIX - Police are crediting a Phoenix-area mother's tip for the dismantling of an drug ring that even had a price list posted on MySpace.

NEW DELHI - Certiport today announced the launch of a pilot that will enable 500 eighth- through twelfth-grade students with little or no computer experience to develop and certify critical digital skills in Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3) and the official Microsoft Office certification programs.

BANGALORE - How to browse the net, search, e-mail, social networking, browse maps or track stock market trends - this is what global web-based search engine Google is going to teach people as its custom-built Internet bus drives through 15 towns of Karnataka to expose the people to the digital world.

TOKYO - When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash.

NEW YORK - U.S. companies remain generous with the perks they give to CEOs, including some that are unfathomable to the average American worker: chauffeured cars, bodyguards, club memberships and free travel in company jets.The median value of these and similar perks rose nearly 7 percent in 2008, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory filings from 309 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500.