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MEXICO CITY – Mexico said it will withdraw its ambassador and sever diplomatic ties with Venezuela if that country’s president doesn’t apologize Monday for warning Mexican leader Vicente Fox: “Don’t mess with me.” In a late-night statement Sunday, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said that because Hugo Chavez‘s comments “strike at …

New digital rights management (search) technology shipping on music CDs by Sony Corp. of America/Bertelsmann AG artists employs stealthy, rootkit-style techniques to hide from users, according to a security expert. The new technology, which Sony has dubbed “sterile burning,” manipulates the Windows core processing center, or “kernel,” to make the …

CHICAGO – Luxury clothing maker and retailer Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. (RL) on Friday said quarterly profit rose 31 percent as it sold more products at full price. The company, whose shares edged up slightly in trading before the market opened, said earnings increased to $104.2 million, or 97 cents …