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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — Muzak plans a special moment for 9-11 If anything, Muzak is not about the sounds of silence. But that’s just what the music company will offer next Tuesday as the United States and much of the world pauses to remember the terror of last 9-11. Muzak, which is based in Fort Mill, SC, says it will “initiate a brief pause” in the musical programming delivered to more than 350,000 locations out of respect for those who died that awful day a year ago. Additionally, Muzak will offer a selection of songs focused on “themes of...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — The final daily chapters in two of the better sports sites around were written last week as VilCom of Chapel Hill sold off its highly praised GoHeels and ACCToday Web sites. Today, click on GoHeels and you are taken to TarHeelBlue.com, the “official” site of Carolina athletics. Try ACCToday and you will be taken to CollegeSports.com. Both sites are owned by Learfield Communications of Missouri which is promising Tar Heel fans quality sports coverage. “I still think it stinks,” wrote one disgusted Tar Heel fan in an online forum. Amen, brother. The Internet and the...

CHARLOTTE — Local Tech Wire takes on a much different appearance today and includes several new features. “We take quite seriously the feedback we receive from our readers, and the site today reflects many of their requests,” says Andy Agrawal, LTW’s founder and chairman. “But what people see today is only the first in a series of steps we are taking to add more features, to make the site even easier to navigate, and to make registration easier and more intuitive. “We also will be adding more content and more coverage even as we continue to deliver exclusive and...

RALEIGH — As you will no doubt notice, we are making some additions to Local Tech Wire this morning, and we believe the changes will make the Web site more useful to our readers as well as easier to navigate. Searching our archives: As you will see on the left side of the page, subscribers can now read stories grouped by the day they were published. Simply click on the appropriate date to see what LTW published that day. The list will take you back six publishing days. To find earlier news by day, click on “More”, or simply...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — LocalTechWire.com is officially open for business today, offering readers a wide variety of stories about the people, the issues and the companies driving the high-tech economy in the Carolinas and Atlanta. We’re in for a wild ride, and we at LTW hope you enjoy the trip. And please pardon our dust. After all, we are a start-up. Also, please don’t number us among those who think that high-tech is dead, that entrepreneurship is threatened, that venture capitalists who will fund a startup are an endangered species. Why, we think there are many “dot coms” who...