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Asian Commodity Stocks Rise, Led by BHP Billiton; Hon Hai Drops
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Asian commodity stocks rose after metals prices climbed, countering declines in technology companies on concern that slowing growth will damp demand for consumer electronics.
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Opinion: Microsoft-Lite
What on earth has happened to Apple? The company is growing its market share according to the latest figures but it seems it can’t handle the extra numbers.
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Australia has broadband vision, but Telstra in the way
Local telecommunications analyst Paul Budde claims, Australia is one of the leading countries to recognise the social and economic benefits of broadband infrastructure, however without a genuine participation from Telstra investment would be wasted.
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Man wins divorce from angry wife in YouTube video
NEW YORK (AP) — A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed Internet video was granted a divorce from her Monday.
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Virtual Attack
A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube. Now she’s a hot topic on one of the most influential Web sites in America.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Science, art combine for competition
Eddie Gifford started his career as a computer programmer for a life insurance company in Philadelphia.
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Predator sting sentencings among harshest in country
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- More than two dozen men have been arrested in three Internet sex stings in Kentucky with help from a watchdog group that tracks online predators.
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Harrington now aiming for greater glory after repeat
SOUTHPORT, England -- Padraig Harrington never tires of reading the fine print on the silver claret jug, and as he stood up from a table Monday morning at Royal Birkdale, he slowly turned golf's oldest trophy to see his name on consecutive rows.
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Icahn gets Yahoo board seats
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
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Group organizes for school plan
Citizens Supporting Schools is vowing to get the word out about the EVSC referendum via the Internet and other means.
Evansville Courier & Press |
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Top intelligence priority is cybersecurity
President Bush's single largest request for funds and "most important initiative" in the fiscal 2009 intelligence budget is for the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a little publicized but massive program whose details "remain vague and thus open to question," according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Oldest New Testament Bible heads into cyberspace
BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.
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Racy pictures of Ronnie Wood's Russian bargirl hit the Internet
London, July 21 : A set of racy pictures that show Rolling Stone star Ronnie Wood's Russian bargirl Ekaterina Ivanova lying naked on the bed are making rounds of the Internet.
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In a truce, Yahoo gives Carl Icahn three seats on board
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp. The compromise spares Yahoo from more bickering with Icahn, an acerbic billionaire who had spent the past two months spearheading a rebellion to ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Nov 2005 11:45 UTC
The Ubuntu Below Zero conference is in full momentum this week and Kubuntu has been prominent throughout. In his opening remarks at the start of the conference Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine and said he wanted Kubuntu to move to a first class distribution within the Ubuntu community.
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Ichiro's so bland, he's sensational
Why is it that every time I check the sporting Internet, I feel like I'm standing in the checkout line? The National Enquirers of the world have nothing on the ever-probing blogosphere. There's Matt Leinart, partying in a hot tub with some really cool...
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HK shares linger amid high oil prices; CNOOC gains
* HSI hovers as investors book gains on previous rally * CNOOC advances as oil holds above $130 per barrel * Lenovo slips on IBM share sale, JP Morgan downgrade
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HK shares linger amid high oil prices; CNOOC gains
* HSI hovers as investors book gains on previous rally * CNOOC advances as oil holds above $130 per barrel * Lenovo slips on IBM share sale, JP Morgan downgrade
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Recent Original Stories
Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops (sorry, I don't participate in the hype of calling them netbooks or whatever) - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC. Just like Xandros with the Eee, Mandriva is providing the operating system for the upcoming GDium system, produced by Emtec . The first GDium will be a netbook with a 10", 1024x600 ...
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Store's mistake nearly ends relationship
ROTHERHAM, England, July 22 (UPI) -- A Rotherham, England, woman said she almost split from her boyfriend of four years after a store's Web site said her card had been used to buy condoms.
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Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.
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Auto briefs
Volkswagen, Microsoft, Nissan, Hyundai, Peugeot.
Detroit News |
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Can I interest you in a pair of these and these ?
"Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's 'users are idiots' mentality.
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Recent Original Stories
"Sun and Red Hat have both submitted new versions of their trusted operating systems for Common Criteria certification evaluation. While these systems are being evaluated against the same CC protection profiles and at the same evaluation assurance level, these systems differ in significant ways that affect how a customer might choose to use such systems."
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Sharpen your ... laptops?
Hand sanitizer. USB flash drive. Magenta Sharpie. Clean socks. Quick -- what do they have in common?
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