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AFP - Indian batsman V.V.S. Laxman was winning his war with the Australian bowlers in an exciting display of strokemaking on the s read more »

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AFP - Sven Goran Eriksson has urged Newcastle United to stick with Sam Allardyce after the Manchester City manager helped increase read more »

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Someone from the CenterforSocialMedia writes in to let us know about a new report from American University professors Pat Aufderh read more »

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AP - Entertainment highlights during the week of Jan. 6-12: read more »

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Reuters - OPEC may decide to increase oil output at its February 1 meeting in Vienna if supply is not sufficient, Indonesia's OP read more »

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AP - A cold front moved over most of Mexico Wednesday, leaving coastal cities chilly and windy, and dusting mountaintop towns with read more »

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From the fine folks over at Pew Internet, a new study reports that young adults are most likely to visit a library when confronte read more »

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Reuters - Officials for the Golden Globe Awards said on Wednesday they are in talks with striking TV writers to allow the widely read more »

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AP - Relatives of a boy at the center of a hostage saga awaited the results Wednesday of DNA tests to determine if the child had b read more »

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AP - From baggy briefs to the ultimate hotpants: A British woman's underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanke read more »

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Reuters - The gambling drama "21," starring Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess, will open the 15th annual South by Southwest Film Co read more »

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Reuters - Late-night TV comedian David Letterman on Wednesday kicked off the return of his show from a two-month hiatus in suppo read more »

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AP - Late-night TV hosts returned to the air Wednesday after a two-month hiatus, showing support for their striking writers, plent read more »

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AP - Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Wednesday for clean campaigning during March parliament elections, urging can read more »

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AP - Britney Spears' lawyers in her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline are quitting. read more »

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AP - The governor of one of Nigeria's oil-rich states said Wednesday he planned to arrest the parents of suspected militants to de read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Yet another study has come out on people driving while talking on their mobile phones, and I doubt many people will quibble with read more »

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Reuters - Oil prices dipped on Thursday after leaping to a lifetime high of $100 the day before amid a new-year rush of investor read more »

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AP - Start spreading the news: Liza Minnelli will sing again. Almost three weeks after collapsing during a show in Sweden, the 61- read more »

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" is apparently over for Bobby Banhart. The 25-year-old male film student s read more »

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AP - No president will be elected in Lebanon unless the Hezbollah-led opposition gets veto power in the future government, the lea read more »

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AP - As of Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2007, at least 3,904 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in M read more »

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AP - President Pervez Musharraf announced Wednesday that Scotland Yard will help investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, read more »

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Reuters - Oil prices vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as violence in Nigeria, tight energy stockpiles and a weaker read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Considering that the only real tool politicians have is t read more »

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Reuters - Private equity firm Bain Capital said on Wednesday it continues to have "constructive" discussions with the U.S. commi read more »

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Reuters - Overstock.com Inc said on Wednesday that co-founder Jason Lindsey resigned his positions as chief operating officer, p read more »

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AP - Construction spending edged up slightly in November as a continued steep slump in housing was offset by record spending on go read more »

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AP - Kenya's opposition leader vowed to go ahead with a "million man" protest rally Thursday that many fear could worsen a wave of read more »

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Reuters - Post-holiday discounts and shoppers redeeming gift cards helped boost retail sales 14 percent for the last full week o read more »

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InfoWorld - The Eclipse Foundation with its Swordfish project is developing an open source SOA framework intended for applications read more »

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InfoWorld - US-CERT is warning computer users of a possible problem with the latest version of RealPlayer after a Russian security read more »

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The One Laptop Per Child project has announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, is leaving the project to focu read more »

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AP - Sixteen-year-old Dan Mugambi stands guard at a bridge in his Nairobi slum, one skinny hand on his machete, ashes caught in hi read more »

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Reuters - Retail stocks fell on Wednesday as a lackluster holiday shopping season and shrinking U.S. factory production stoked f read more »

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Reuters - U.S. stocks sank on Wednesday, with the Dow getting off to its worst-ever start to a year, after data showed a surpris read more »

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Reuters - Federal Reserve policy-makers worried that a credit crunch could sharply brake economic growth and require big interes read more »

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AP - Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study. read more »

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Reuters - Retail stocks fell on Wednesday as a lackluster holiday shopping season and shrinking U.S. factory production stoked f read more »

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AP - The U.S., British and Israeli embassies each received packages containing a suspicious powder Wednesday, creating a security read more »

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Reuters - Oil prices vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as violence in Nigeria, tight energy stockpiles and a weaker read more »

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Reuters - The French Health Ministry on Wednesday issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children, t read more »

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Reuters - U.S. factory production shrank in December for the first time in nearly a year, sparking fears the economy may be head read more »

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AP - Electronics maker Haier claims its Ibiza Rhapsody media player "requires no PC hookup — ever!" because it can wirelessly tap read more »

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InfoWorld - Bain Capital, a U.S. equity investment firm, declined to comment Wednesday on news reports that a U.S. government pane read more »

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AP - Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & G read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Last month we wrote about how Sears and K-mart's websites both were urging people to join a "community," but that community didn' read more »

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AP - The AP takes a look at some of 2007's overlooked albums: read more »

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AP - Children skip across a stream of raw sewage on a side road, trash piles up in a dusty lot and there are few desks — and even read more »

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Last week we wrote about David Lazarus's latest column suggesting that newspapers collude and all agree to stop putting content o read more »

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AP - Diane Keaton says she planned to wait until she was in a "strong and substantive" relationship before becoming a mother — bu read more »

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Reuters - Gold swept to a record high on Wednesday above the key $850-an-ounce mark, driven by surging oil, a weaker dollar and read more »

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Reuters - Stocks dropped 1 percent on the first trading day of the new year on Wednesday after U.S. factory activity data unders read more »

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Reuters - National City Corp , one of the 10 largest U.S. banks, said on Wednesday it will cut its common stock dividend 49 perc read more »

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PC World - The $205 acquisition nets Nokia a software suite for managing mobile phone subscriptons. read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
My Cato colleague Sallie James describes the ongoing standoff between the US and the rest of the world at the World Trade Organiz read more »

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Reuters - Factory production shrank in December for the first time in nearly a year as tighter lending conditions and a slowing read more »

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Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co plans to submit a U.S. application next week for its experimental blood-clot preventer prasugrel, th read more »

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AFP - The White House said Wednesday that it was "skeptical" that North Korea would provide a full accounting of its nuclear progr read more »

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AFP - At least 12 people were killed over New Year in Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt when gunmen attacked two police stations read more »

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AP - Fire broke out on the top floor of a historic cancer hospital in west London on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of patients read more »

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AP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that he had requested a team of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yar read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - The founder of Wikipedia says taking the online encyclopedia's collaborative approach into the field of search won't dethrone read more »

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AP - International pressure mounted on Kenya's leaders Wednesday to end postelection violence that has killed more than 300 people read more »

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AP - Individual privacy is under threat around the world as governments continue introducing surveillance and information-gatherin read more »

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PC World - IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a st read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - London equities were higher on the opening trading day of 2008, as a measure of bid speculation centred on Alliance & Lei read more »

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Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. said on Wednesday it had acquired XIV, a privately held storage technology comp read more »

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PC World - A Harvard researcher is criticizing Sears of failing to meet FTC guidelines with marketing software it installs on user read more »

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AP - Pakistan's elections will be delayed six weeks until Feb. 18 because of unrest following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Australia has a long history of trying to censor the internet. As far back as 2002, we were talking about the infamous list of b read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - David Letterman and Jay Leno were set to return to the air Wednesday night, two months after writers went on strike. read more »

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Reuters - There is a reason people still buy CDs more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several, but viruses that read more »

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AP - Hundreds of people fled their homes overnight Wednesday as a volcano erupted in southern Chile, rocking the area with explosi read more »

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Reuters - S&P 500 index futures briefly turned negative and the market looked set to open flat on the first trading day of the y read more »

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AP - Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was. read more »

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AP - Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent read more »

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AP - A suicide bombing Wednesday in the city of Baqouba killed seven people and wounded 22, police said, while authorities increas read more »

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AP - MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him — onl read more »

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AP - Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year's Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds. read more »

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AP - Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants in a pre-dawn clash Wednesday, pressing forward with their war against armed read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We've covered in too much detail how it's some sort of "open season" on Vonage when it comes to VoIP patents. After dealing with read more »

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Reuters - Mortgage and vehicle fleet company PHH Corp said on Tuesday it terminated its nearly $2 billion sale to General Elect read more »

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Reuters - Wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. said on Wednesday new chipsets, designed to comply with a court's patent infringeme read more »

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InfoWorld - In early December, InfoWorld Senior Writer Matt Hines had the opportunity to sit down with John Thompson, chief execut read more »

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AFP - Singapore's economy shrank in the fourth quarter of 2007 as manufacturing growth shuddered to a near halt, official data sho read more »

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Reuters - International Business Machines Corp said it will hold a news conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday afternoon but gave read more »

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Reuters - Australian police launched a criminal investigation on Wednesday after the Israeli, U.S. and British embassies were se read more »

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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year's Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds. read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Back at the beginning of December, we helped debunk a story making the rounds claiming that the RIAA was going after a guy named read more »

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AP - KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese authorities on Wednesday questioned witnesses in the slaying of an American diplomat who was shot read more »

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AP - KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese authorities on Wednesday questioned witnesses in the slaying of an American diplomat who was shot read more »

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AP - Elections will be delayed by one month following the turmoil sparked by Benazir Bhutto's assassination, despite opposition th read more »

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Reuters - The first few months of the year are an ideal time for rising acts to grab their share of attention and, they hope, sa read more »

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AP - It was one of the boldest initiatives yet for Latin America's emerging leftist alliance and it didn't even get off the ground read more »

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AP - The head of the African Union was traveling to Kenya on Wednesday for crisis talks as an explosion of ethnic violence followe read more »

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AFP - Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Kenya's political leaders to "engage in read more »

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Reuters - Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial is in no rush to refinance the 10 billion pounds ($20.05 billion) of debt take read more »

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AP - A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people — including children — read more »

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AP - Malaysia's health minister, a married man with three children, stepped down Wednesday amid a scandal over a secretly filmed s read more »

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AFP - An Australian government plan to filter the Internet Wednesday drew criticism from privacy advocates who said it represented read more »

Date : 02 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Without warning, Myanmar's military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy read more »