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Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - It looks like MTV's "Rock Band" video game is the new jukebox hero. read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Google's philanthropic arm on Thursday said it is taking aim at global warming, poverty, and pandemics with millions in cash read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Many supporters of AT&T's plans to double dip in internet charges by ending neutrality claim that the internet has never bee read more »

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AP - Officials found six bodies Thursday inside a Tijuana house where gunmen took refuge during a shootout with soldiers and polic read more »

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AP - A judge says she wants more information before she decides whether to let rapper Foxy Brown get out of jail and go to Califor read more »

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AP - Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a com read more »

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Reuters - The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and TV studios on Thursday in a move likely to read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Last fall, we mentioned that the Supreme Court had agreed to hear yet another interesting patent case, looking at whether compani read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers sna read more »

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AP - Fueled by the success of Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Microsoft's "Halo 3," more video games were sold in the U.S. in 2007 than in read more »

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InfoWorld - Thirty thousand people have now signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition, which was launched four days ago. Roughly half read more »

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AFP - The Security Council has bemoaned the slow progress in initiating democratic reforms in Myanmar and pressed for an early vis read more »

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AP - United for urgent action, the White House and Congress raced toward emergency steps Thursday to rescue the national economy f read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Mozilla should soon be experimenting with some novel user-interface technologies for its browser and other products, ac read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - With protests rumbling, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said Thursday that he was wrong to say last week that the reason Hillary Clint read more »

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AFP - Britain's Gordon Brown arrived in China Friday for his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boos read more »

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InfoWorld - IBM provided more details of its robust fourth-quarter and 2007 financial performance on Thursday following an early p read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - IBM on Thursday forecast 2008 earnings well ahead of Wall Street expectations as strong growth abroad made up for wea read more »

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AP - Police cracked down fiercely on a second day of protests across Kenya on Thursday, firing bullets at opposition supporters an read more »

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Reuters - Rookie rapper Flo Rida's "Low" ruled the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth week Thursday, leading a remarka read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The same writers strike that transformed the Golden Globes into a news conference might bring smiles to the faces of agents a read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
ESPN has entered into a multiyear agreement with Major League Gaming to provide exclusive online coverage of MLG's upcoming video read more »

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AP - The Sudanese government released seven Darfur rebel delegates Thursday it had arrested despite their U.N. and African Union p read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A consensus that the struggling U.S. economy needs rescue emerged on Thursday as the powerful Federal Reserve chairman read more »

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AP - A tense standoff in frigid Antarctic waters ended Friday when two activists who had jumped on board a Japanese whaling boat w read more »

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AP - United for urgent action, the White House and Congress raced toward emergency steps Thursday to rescue the national economy f read more »

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AP - Fugitives, beware: The FBI is making your face a roadside alert. No longer relying on Web sites and post offices to display i read more »

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Reuters - Researchers should study more children and pregnant women in trying to figure out if cell phones or other wireless dev read more »

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AP - Still bleeding from a costly acquisition of a graphics chip company, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. slashed the value of that co read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on read more »

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AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that President Bush sent a "message of confrontation" during his recent M read more »

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AP - An Australian vessel on Friday picked up two activists who had jumped on board a Japanese whaling ship earlier this week, pro read more »

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AP - International Business Machines Corp. told Wall Street to raise its 2008 estimates Thursday, further boosting a stock that wa read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - A militant anti-whaling group said Friday it would immediately resume harassing Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters after d read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Washington Mutual Inc , the largest U.S. savings and loan, suffered a larger-than-expected $1.87 billion fourth-quarte read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - IBM on Thursday forecast 2008 earnings well ahead of Wall Street expectations as strong growth abroad made up for wea read more »

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Playbill - Television stars Gaius Charles, Gbenga Akkinagbe and James McDaniel will star in the upcoming Hurricane Katrina-based d read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Andrew Morton, author of "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography," published by St. Martin's Press, claims that the 45-year-ol read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - If David Letterman hoped a deal with striking writers would help him in his battle for late-night supremacy with Jay Leno, it read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern Africa Thursday, killing at least three people in Malawi and forcing Zambia read more »

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AP - A U.S. official, in a rare public departure from Bush administration policy, criticized on Thursday the nuclear talks with No read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Fashion Wire Daily - In fashion, it's always about the next big thing - and the next "it" girl and face. So it's no surprise that read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Despite Britney Spears' erratic behavior, most people think the troubled pop star should be allowed to see her two son read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Fueled by insatiable consumer and business demand for storage, hard-drive maker Seagate Technology's fiscal second-quarter ea read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - A British Airways plane crash-landed at London's Heathrow airport on Thursday, slightly injuring 18 passengers and tri read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Earlier this week, some readers sent in the utterly ridiculous article from the Guardian in the UK working out all sorts of laugh read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - California should consider issuing debt to augment private investment in enhancing and expanding high-speed communicat read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Google Inc.'s philanthropic arm is making more than $26 million in new grants and investments in organizations and companies read more »

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AFP - Liverpool's American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whose relationship with the Anfield fans has become increasingly f read more »

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Reuters - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday that NATO must challenge its enemies in Afghanistan firmly a read more »

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AP - A French journalist and nine Africans have been arrested and charged with multiple crimes, including threatening state securi read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks fell on Thursday, with the benchmark S&P 500 plummeting to a 15-month low, as news of a plu read more »

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AP - Israel successfully tested a new long-range missile on Thursday, defense officials said, and reports indicate the missiles mi read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems' purchase of MySQL for $1 billion is not only the largest open-source deal yet, it's almost bigger t read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A suicide bomber struck Shiites as worshippers prepared Thursday for their most important holiday, killing at least 11 at a m read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing u read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar-code readers on cell phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - When 13-year-old Nelly Chepchumba returned to school this week, she found charred walls where her classroom used to be and tw read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - British Land bucked the trend as the London market failed to keep early gains. read more »

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AP - Europeans are paying high prices to send cell-phone text messages or use mobile Internet services outside their own country, read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
"Free" seems like a simple enough concept. As we've explained in the past, there's a huge number of successful business read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father — except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway do read more »

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AP - A U.S. couple was indicted Thursday on charges of sexually abusing children at a Brazilian nudist colony, a court official sa read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc reported about $16 billion in mortgage-related write-downs and adjustments on Thursday in the read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $15 million fi read more »

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AP - A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in violent Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 11 people and woundin read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Japanese game company Sega said Thursday it will help build a massive game arcade in Dubai in an under-construction shopping read more »

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AFP - Vietnam on Thursday denied reports of an alleged attack by Vietnamese fishing crews on Chinese fishermen after China request read more »

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AP - Police fired tear gas and live rounds to break up opposition rallies in several Kenyan cities on Thursday, killing at least f read more »

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AP - A suspected Sunni extremist opened fire in a Shiite mosque Thursday and then blew himself up, killing nine people on the eve read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father — except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway do read more »

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AP - When the delivery truck finally arrives, laborer Sher Nawaz joins about 400 Pakistanis scrambling to buy a sack of wheat flou read more »

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AFP - European Union lawmakers adopted Thursday a resolution criticising Egypt's human rights record, as Cairo threatened to sever read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Yahoo is moving in a big way to embrace the new OpenID 2.0 specification, which eliminates the need for Web surfers t read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Two stories popped up on the radar this morning that involve Gawker publisher/editor Nick Denton using threats of bans to get a l read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A U.S. couple was indicted Thursday on charges of sexually abusing children at a Brazilian nudist colony, a court official sa read more »

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AP - Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns in the Somali capital on Thursday, sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops an read more »

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AP - A British Airways jet carrying 152 people crash landed Thursday at Heathrow airport, tearing its underbelly, damaging its win read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - A Japanese whaling ship late Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed abo read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
In all of the discussions we've had over various business models that could help make the entertainment industry even bigger than read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Four paparazzi have been arrested for reckless driving while chasing Britney Spears' car in the San Fernando Valley. read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Jack Nicholson, the legendary ladies' man, says he'd like to fall in love again. read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - A leading Indian Muslim group threatened to boycott a major conglomerate's products Thursday after its owners hosted author S read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Prosecutors have dropped a drug charge against David Faustino, best known for playing Bud Bundy on the TV series "Married Wit read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - German unions on Thursday called for a consumer boycott of Nokia (NOK1V.HE) products to protest against the cellphone read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Prince William was surprised, a bit nervous and finally elated by his first solo flight. read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Video gamers, finally emerging from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's bumper crop of best-selling titles, a read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Johnson Controls, a leading provider of automotive sub-systems, has been granted a patent for a "Wireless Communication System Th read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Network security vendor Arbor Networks has reached an agreement to acquire Ellacoya Networks, a provider of broadband read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Intel's Classmate PC isn't just for students anymore. HCL Infosystems plans to sell a version of the Classmate PC to co read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Italian fashion house Valentino has taken a first step into China with the opening of a boutique at a Beijing hotel, t read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - The DGB confederation of German trade unions called Thursday for a boycott of Nokia, the world's leading maker of mobile tel read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
"C-E-A-S-E" and "D-E-S-I-S-T" aren't particularly high-scoring Scrabble words -- just 7 points each -- but in the real world they read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Two new reports by leading industry research firms, Gartner and IDC, show the PC market is still strong, following a good fourth q read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday proposed to eliminate commercials from state-owned radios, having already read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
A weak dollar, a looming U.S. recession, and a sagging stock market may foreshadow a gloomy new year for the tech sector, but don' read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The European Union is challenging Microsoft on antitrust laws again, but legal experts warn the ongoing investigations against Red read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Selected home-video releases: read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Britain accused Russia of "reprehensible" conduct Thursday and announced it was closing offices of the British Council becau read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
It's funny how perceptions can vary so widely. After spending a day at San Francisco's Moscone Center on Jan. 15 covering Steve Jo read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We've covered the first and second parts of the NY Times "debate" over copyright issues between Rick Cotton and Tim Wu. In both read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Australia sent a customs ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists held on board a Japanese whaler as Prime Minister Kevin read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
We think a lot about getting new gadgets, but not so much about getting rid of old ones. The result: old cell phones, defunct lase read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel fr read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Bhutan will hold its first democratic elections on March 24, ending nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the isolated Him read more »

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AP - Sri Lanka's military said air force jets destroyed a hideout used by senior Tamil Tiger rebels Thursday and soldiers captured read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
With Apple fans focused on the buzz surrounding Macworld this week, news of vulnerabilities and attacks that could wreak havoc on read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder — that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeti read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The rapid growth curve for computer shipments in last year's third quarter extended into the year's final months, two technology r read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging custo read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Pakistani troops abandoned an outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Thursday after receiving threats from Islamic milit read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Amid iPod upgrades, movie deals and Apple TV price cuts, there was a tinge of politics at the Macworld Conference & Expo. But it read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - LONDON (AP) — The Rolling Stones announced Thursday they have signed a deal to release the soundtrack to their Martin Scorse read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - China had 210 million Internet users by the end of 2007 and will soon have more web surfers than any other country on the pl read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
USATODAY.com - Digital cameras tend to be delicate. The LCD display and lens on my pricey Canon point-and-shoot were damaged recen read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza bombarded southern Israel with rockets Thursday and Israel pounded back with air and ground fir read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - If you had any doubts about Sun Microsystems??? commitment to open source, it???s time to set them aside. read more »

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AP - Young men armed with machetes hurled stones at police who fired back tear gas in a slum in Kenya's capital Thursday, but most read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Broadband Reports notes that internal memos from Time Warner Cable suggest the company is experimenting with overage fees for the read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - France could tax new computer, television and mobile phone sales by 1 to 2 percent to help fund its state-owned TV cha read more »

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AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare on Thursday as part of efforts to mediate be read more »

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AP - He once carried an assault rifle and planned attacks on Israelis. Now, the retired Palestinian militant breaks up fights betw read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - China is struggling to contain a surge in online piracy, specifically cases involving the illegal downloading of movie read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
As some of you know, we've done a few "Techdirt Greenhouse" events over the past few years with tremendously positive feedback. read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Sheryl Sandberg, VP, Global Online Sales & OperationsJust over two years ago, I wrote here that we were taking a broad a read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - China said Thursday it faced "very big difficulties" coping with rampant piracy on the Internet and called for international read more »

Date : 17 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - We think a lot about getting new gadgets, but not so much about getting rid of old ones. The result: old cell phones, defunct read more »