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Now, a sample of speeches made at the time — by Peter Neupert, drugstore.com's chairman; Bob Herbold, former Microsoft executive vice president; and wireless pioneer Craig McCaw — is available in a five-minute video on the president's campaign site at www.georgewbush.com/VideoAndAudio/.

The video starts with scenic shots of Pike Place Market and downtown office buildings. With patriotic music playing in the background, the three pick their topic of choice.

Herbold talks about how broadband is being rolled out in some countries faster than it is here. "We are blessed with a president that really cares about issues important to us," he says.

McCaw discusses how entrepreneurship creates security. "We are a country of innovators — mavericks — that come up with ideas and put them into practice. ... There can't be peace without prosperity. Bush understands that," he said.

Neupert says he agrees with Bush's decision to back electronic access to consumer health records. He would like to see files be transferred to the people who need them most: among hospitals and nurses and labs.

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Getting broader The number of broadband subscribers in the United States is expected to surpass the so-called narrowband (principally dial-up) count by the end of 2006. Source: Yankee Group

After years of getting needled for running Hotmail servers on open-source software, Microsoft can say "neener neener" to the Linux crowd.

Last week's Linux World Expo conference in San Francisco ran its Web site on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, according to the Netcraft research firm.

Much ado about nothing

The hullabaloo about an English slaying being prompted by a violent video game turned out to false, according to a report in The Register.

Major retailers in the United Kingdom stopped selling the game "Manhunt" after it was found during the investigation of a case in which a 17-year-old boy was accused of killing a boy three years younger.

The parents of the victim alleged the killing was inspired by the game. But last week police disclosed that the copy of "Manhunt" belonged to the victim, not his killer, The Register reported. The police said the motive was robbery.

Oz phone freaks

First kids were corrupted by drugs. Now mobile phones are eroding the moral fiber of the younger generation.

At least that's the take of an Australian judge overseeing a case involving a group of juveniles who stole more than $30,000 worth of stuff, in part to finance their addiction — to mobile phones. "I bet that will be the new trend: stealing money to finance mobile phones rather than drugs," Brisbane District Court Judge David Robin said, according to a report in The Australian.

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New products: Bellevue-based MessageGate announced the availability of its Intelligent Archiving technology that helps large businesses in regulated industries handle e-mail that must be saved to meet government regulations. ... Pacific Edge Software, based in Bellevue, introduced Portfolio Edge 3.0 and Governance Accelerator, software that helps companies manage their activities and their information technology investments.

Partnerships: Knowledge Anywhere, an online training company in Bellevue, has formed an alliance with Sales Performance International, a Charlotte, N.C., provider of sales training and consulting.

Download, a column of news bits, observations and miscellany, is gathered by The Seattle Times technology staff. We can be reached at 206-464-2265 or biztech@seattletimes.com.

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