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Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - For Simple Plan, the multimillion-selling pop-punk band from Montreal, "The End" was also a new beginning. read more »

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Reuters - Indonesia's former President Suharto, who has been critically ill in hospital for more than a week, is conscious but r read more »

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TechWeb - A project sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security spotlights defects in popular applications such as Linux and read more »

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AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto showed slight signs of improvement, doctors said Saturday, a day after he suffered organ f read more »

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Reuters - Socialite Nicole Richie and her rock-star boyfriend became the parents of a daughter in Los Angeles on Friday, People read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A large Lockheed Martin contract to build a fleet of helicopters for the president could be in trouble, the Wall Stre read more »

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AP - Striking Hollywood writers said Friday they had decided not to picket the Golden Globe Awards because organizers of Sunday's read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It was only a matter of time before super-popular office productivity killer, Scrabulous, was sued by Hasbro for infringing upon read more »

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Reuters - She sported heavy eyebrows in her Oscar-nominated portrait of artist Frida Kahlo, and now actress Salma Hayek is embra read more »

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AP - The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, is leaving for a new assignment after six read more »

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AP - The mother of a former suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of American teenager Natalee Holloway said Friday she hopes a pr read more »

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Reuters - Thanks to breakout roles in Broadway blockbusters "Rent" and "Wicked," Idina Menzel has become one of the biggest star read more »

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Reuters - Almost a month after its digital-only release, the soundtrack to the hit movie "Juno" debuted at No. 8 on the Billboar read more »

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Reuters - Stocks fell sharply on Friday, capping a third consecutive weekly decline, on a warning by American Express Co of mou read more »

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AP - The United Nations Security Council opened the door Friday to new economic, political or military sanctions against Sudan bec read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Last November, we noted that the "under new management" major record label EMI was discussing the possibility of scaling back its read more »

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AP - A Peruvian businessman allegedly abducted in 1992 by security forces testified against Peru's former president on Friday, say read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Earlier this month, we wrote about Trent Reznor's disappointment in how his "free download" experiment with Saul Williams had pro read more »

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AP - A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel's Holocaust memorial and sai read more »

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Reuters - The U.N. Security Council on Friday strongly condemned an attack by Sudanese army troops on a peacekeeping convoy and read more »

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AP - An attorney for Kevin Federline wants the Police Department to release its investigative report on an incident at ex-wife Bri read more »

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AP - Militant French farmer Jose Bove and about 15 supporters called off their hunger strike in its eighth day after the governmen read more »

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AP - President Hugo Chavez, emboldened by his success in a hostage release, took the side of leftist rebels in neighboring Colombi read more »

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Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that any economic stimulus program should be temporary and designed to read more »

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Reuters - Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Citigroup's largest individual shareholder, will inject new cash to help Ame read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
A few years back, we noted that a Canadian court had ruled that the "private copying levy" (better known as "you must be a crimin read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Steve Jobs has a tough act to follow at the Macworld Conference & Expo on Tuesday: himself. read more »

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PC World - We don't need no stinking grid--at least not all the time. These devices use the elements to charge your laptop, cell p read more »

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Investor's Business Daily - Making the corporate climb hinges on observing common do's and don'ts, says Cathie Black, publisher of read more »

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AP - When operators of sex-oriented Web sites gather at the Internext convention starting Sunday in Las Vegas, a major leak at a l read more »

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InfoWorld - Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition bid for Oslo-based Fast Search and Transfer and a dour report on Amazon marked th read more »

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Fashion Wire Daily - Our favorite women's collection so far at Fashion Rio, even if it garnered tepid applause, has to be Cavendis read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Just last week we wrote about China's new laws for online video sites that would require those sites to be government owned, as w read more »

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AP - The U.S. Navy said Friday that one of its ships fired warning shots at a small Iranian boat in the Strait of Hormuz in Decemb read more »

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FT.com - Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Friday after a cautious earnings outlook at American Express (NYSE:AXP) added to worri read more »

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TechWeb - The server system is aimed at organizations with 50 to 300 employees. read more »

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Reuters - Stocks fell sharply on Friday, capping a third consecutive weekly decline, on a warning by American Express Co of mou read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The number of men held at Guantanamo Bay is declining rapidly, but there is no way out for most of the Yemeni detainees becau read more »

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NewsFactor - Mozilla has tapped John Lilly to become its new chief executive officer. Lilly, who served as the CEO of software-mak read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Federal Reserve officials on Friday said falling home prices and financial market turmoil are big risks to the U.S. ec read more »

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AFP - Chief US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill called Friday for movement from North Korea on the long-running international row ov read more »

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Reuters - Twins who were separated at birth and raised by different families met later and married but were forced to break up w read more »

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InfoWorld - Two business school academics who have disagreed over the viability of social networking in enterprises touched gloves read more »

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AP - The U.S. Navy said Friday that one of its ships fired warning shots at a small Iranian boat in the Strait of Hormuz in Decemb read more »

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AP - Which A-list celebrity is the target of some over-the-top allegations? What real-life competition was more talked about than read more »

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AP - "Very often," says Martin Scorsese, "anybody who will listen to me, I'll start talking about a picture." read more »

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Reuters - "The Little Mermaid" could struggle to find legs in the transition from screen to stage after critics on Friday panned read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - European equities slid to a 13-month low on Friday after a volatile week in which investors fled towards defensive stocks read more »

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AP - The flakes melted quickly. But the smiles, wonder and excited story-swapping went on throughout the day: It snowed in Baghdad read more »

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AP - An Egyptian who fears he will be tortured for his Christian beliefs cannot be deported without full court review just to furt read more »

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AP - It was ever so brief, but the use of a body double by Miley Cyrus on her best-selling "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus 'Best of Bo read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Over the summer, there was a flurry of press coverage over the fact that, with the help of the EFF, a mother was suing Universal read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks fell sharply on Friday after American Express Co warned of mounting credit-card defaults, adding to expectatio read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson were among the celebrities who celebrated the 10th anniversary of V-Day, a global effort to e read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - The U.S. trade deficit in November rose to the highest level in 14 months, reflecting record foreign crude oil prices. The de read more »

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Reuters - After years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs and the Internet, the adult film industry is being challeng read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Federal Reserve policy-makers will act decisively to reduce the growing risks that financial market turmoil pose for t read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - President Hugo Chavez defended Colombia's leftist rebels as armies — not terrorists — on Friday, a day after triumphantly m read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Fifty years later, the man who first stood on the roof of the world lamented how Mount Everest had changed since his historic read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Despite the Golden Globe Awards being reduced from a swanky dinner party to a no-frills news conference because of the writer read more »

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TechWeb - A British educational report suggests the upgrade would increase costs and create software compatibility problems while read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Fashion Wire Daily - Oversized handbags, candy colored patent leather, delicate gold filament jewelry, vintage brass and plastic o read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - When world marathon champion Luke Kibet goes running, he likes to focus on finishing first. But on one run during Kenya's pos read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
For years, we've been pointing out that innovation is an ongoing process rather than a distinct event. While this may sound some read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Two firms are racing to map the world as the Internet goes increasingly mobile with ever more sophisticated gadgets for peop read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks fell on Friday after American Express Co was the latest company to warn of mounting credit-card defaults and s read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to liv read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - The company behind the popular Mac desktop virtualization software, Parallels, is now offering what it calls the firs read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Seeking to take the lead on economic issues, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton on Friday proposed a $7 read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Concert promoter Live Nation Inc said on Friday it will launch its own ticketing business next year after it ends a re read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Retail spending by Americans was little changed in December as consumers anxious over the housing slump and high oil p read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Shares of McDonald's Corp fell nearly 7 percent on Friday, leading a downturn in many other U.S. restaurant stocks, a read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
My esteemed co-blogger Adam Thierer points out that General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner is touting a future of "autonomous drivi read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - If you think you've been spending more time watching video online, you're not alone. A new report from the Pew Intern read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Top consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co on Friday posted slower growth in same-store sales for December as weak read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Best Buy Co. Inc. said on Friday its comparable-store sales rose 1.5 percent in December on strong sales of video games and n read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - With a little help from his friends, ex-Beatle Ringo Starr returned home Friday to kick-start Liverpool's year in the spotlig read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Intel has developed a white-box blade server based on standardized components, instead of specialized parts usually us read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - British celebrity journalist Tina Brown is writing a book about Bill and Hillary Clinton, aiming to repeat the success read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
What would you a call a company that allows users to search for domain names and then registers those names to itself? Some would read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Friday amid fears of bigger-than-expected writedowns and loan-losses at financial comp read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Textually points us to a movie critic speculating that so many new thriller movies are set in the recent past because of the lack read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the Britis read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the Briti read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The company behind the popular Mac desktop virtualization software, Parallels, is now offering what it calls the first virtualizat read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - Wall Street stocks were set to open lower on Friday amid fears of bigger-than-expected writedowns and loan-losses at fina read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - President Bush sought Arab support on Friday for a U.S.-backed Mideast peace deal, but the Bush administration said not to ex read more »

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AP - Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's di read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
If you think you've been spending more time watching video online, you're not alone. A new report from the Pew Internet & American read more »

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AP - Militants said Friday they remotely detonated an explosive device placed on a docked ship, and authorities said two people we read more »

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AP - Japanese prosecutors have decided not to press charges against four military instructors investigated over the leak of sensit read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
USATODAY.com - After a 12-year slumber, ethereal jester NiGHTS returns to the Nintendo Wii in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, a nightm read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
USATODAY.com - If your children are fans of Jean Marzollo's I Spy books, they will feel right at home with I Spy Fun House on t read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Swiss banking giant UBS on Friday warned of a "difficult" year ahead after losing 10 billion dollars (6.8 billion euros) in read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
It was hard to miss the fact that Hollywood got star billing at the geekfest that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show. TV star read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - With open-source software being formally introduced Monday, WSO2 seeks to bridge the Ruby programming language and the read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Suharto's family and doctors rushed to his bedside on Friday after the former Indonesian dictator's lungs showed the dangerou read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Bank of America Corp said on Friday it agreed to acquire Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lende read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the top executive in its business software division, will retire in September. S read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Merrill Lynch is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost twice the read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Further interest rate cuts may be in the offing and money market rates may be easing but news from the world's major b read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stock futures fell on Friday as a report that Merrill Lynch & Co will incur mortgage-related losses of nearly twice w read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - London's FTSE 100 fell on Friday, after stronger banks failed to offset weakness in the food and beverages sector. read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - One of the largest bombing campaigns of the war destroyed extremists' "defensive belts" south of Baghdad, allowing American s read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AFP - Europe's main stock exchanges diverged on Friday after an unconvincing overnight rally on Wall Street and a number of broker read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It's pretty common for polticians to have an extremely superficial understanding of the real issues involved with copyright these read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AFP - Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia on Friday lost a court bid to block the release of a book in which she is quoted as descri read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of Sta read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - "The Devil Came on Horseback," a harrowing Darfur memoir that served as the basis for a 2007 documentary, will hit the read more »

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AP - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of Myanmar's ruling junta Friday for the first time read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest software company, Friday posted a better-than-expected third quarter profit aft read more »

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AFP - Jewish, Muslim and other schools in Australia at risk of race-hate attacks will receive millions of dollars in special fundi read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Top Japanese finance officials gave conflicting economic assessments Friday, with the central bank chief predicting a slowdow read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - A man who tried to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise in exchange for stolen wedding photographs of the actor and Katie Holm read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - It probably goes without saying that no one actually needs a dancing MP3 player or a music-playing Taser holster or a drink c read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - If anyone is looking for signs that we may be headed into a recession, look no further than the dismal December sales results read more »

Date : 11 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - President Bush set out U.S. expectations for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, saying the two sides need to g read more »

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AFP - Nepal's Sherpas went into mourning Thursday at the death of Sir Edmund Hillary and pledged to ensure his legacy lives on in read more »

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AFP - A historic passenger jet flight from Australia to Antarctica touched down smoothly on a blue ice runway Friday, launching th read more »