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Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - You might think of "Cashmere Mafia" as oddly related to "Lipstick Jungle," which, also set in the Manhattan business world, s read more »

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AP - When newspaper editor Lou Ureneck took his teenage son Adam on a 110-mile river journey through the Alaskan wilderness in Aug read more »

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TechWeb - IBM claims the Taiwan-based computer and components manufacturer infringes on three of its patents. read more »

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Reuters - Japan's Sony Corp plans to add an Internet phone function to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) game player in cooperation read more »

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AP - Britney Spears was derailed yet again in her struggle to get her life back on track, losing custody of her two sons to ex-hus read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
What is it about turning on a GPS system that makes people lose just about any bit of common sense they may have had? Last year, read more »

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AP - Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Hamill said in a statement Friday that she is read more »

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AP - Somalia's president has flown to Ethiopia for a medical treatment a month after being hospitalized with a chest illness, offi read more »

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AP - Libya on Friday denied that discussions in Washington between its foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice br read more »

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AFP - British voters are likely to go to the polls in mid-2009, one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's closest allies indicated in a read more »

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AP - Stinking mounds of garbage piled up on the streets of Naples on Friday and officials around the country blamed organized crim read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We've noted a few times that people have gotten way too trigger-happy about invoking antitrust law any time a company does so read more »

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AP - Golden Globe-nominated actors are expected to snub the awards in support of striking Hollywood writers, the actors union said read more »

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AP - Results of a DNA test on Friday revealed why leftist rebels failed to deliver this week on their promise to free a 3-year-old read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. changed course on an update to Office 2003 that blocked certain older file types from opening, after receivin read more »

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AFP - The future of ailing British bank Northern Rock -- including possible nationalisation -- is to be decided in the next six we read more »

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PC World - From sexy monitors to sleek laptops, from new tech for cars to new ways to watch your HDTV, the 2008 International Cons read more »

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Reuters - A revolutionary plan that would effectively legitimize file-sharing here has been slammed as "a pipe dream" by Canadia read more »

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AP - Britney Spears was derailed yet again in her struggle to get her life back on track, losing custody of her two sons to ex-hus read more »

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AP - Hooded men with machine guns burst into a Lima tenement and killed 15 people at a barbecue, including an 8-year-old boy, two read more »

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AP - As of Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at least 3,908 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in Marc read more »

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AFP - Computer chip giant Intel said Friday it has severed its alliance with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative aimed at g read more »

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Playbill - Musical theatre students at Pace University in Manhattan will explore College: The Musical, a little-known new work tha read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Well, well, well. This morning when we pointed out that the RIAA's responses to the whole Howell affair were rather lacking, we read more »

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AP - Goldie Hawn says she can't go into Aspen from her nearby ranch because of aggressive paparazzi who pursue her car and stake o read more »

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AP - Young men stormed the streets of Guinea, hurling rocks and setting tires ablaze as labor unions called for a strike Friday, t read more »

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AP - Wary employers clamped down on hiring and pushed the unemployment rate to a two-year high of 5 percent in December, an ominou read more »

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AP - A look at key dates in the kidnapping of Clara Rojas by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and attempts to read more »

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TechWeb - A noted spyware researcher claims the retailer is installing online tracking software from ComScore without adequate con read more »

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AP - Former "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher is joining her husband in trying to market a sex tape, saying, "I always wanted to be read more »

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Reuters - A North Carolina state judge ruled against Wal-Mart Stores Inc in a tax shelter case where the retailer paid itself r read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
I have to admit that I was sorry to see that my fellow Techdirt blogger Julian had beaten me to the punch, writing a characterist read more »

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AP - A ban on bird imports to Puerto Rico has forced the cancellation of more than 100 cockfights, dealing a blow to a lucrative i read more »

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AFP - A Moroccan court sentenced 51 Islamists of the Ansar El Mahdi group to between two and 25 years in jail Friday for plotting read more »

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AP - It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Investor's Business Daily - Mobile Internet devices, next-generation high-definition TVs and new and improved systems for watching read more »

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AP - The Dakar Rally, the epic motorcycle, car and truck race across the Sahara desert, was canceled Friday by organizers citing " read more »

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AP - The United States on Friday disputed North Korean claims that Pyongyang had given the U.S. a list of its nuclear programs in read more »

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Reuters - Singer and songwriter Stephen Stills, best known as one-third of rock trio Crosby, Stills and Nash, has undergone succ read more »

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Reuters - ABC won the evening newscast race for the first time since 1996 last year, as "World News With Charles Gibson" edged o read more »

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Reuters - More than 1 million U.S. households have requested $40 government coupons since Tuesday to help pay for converter boxe read more »

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AFP - Efforts to promote democracy in Myanmar must remain a priority for the international community, European Union special envoy read more »

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AP - Warner Bros. Entertainment said Friday it will release movie discs only in the Blu-ray format, becoming the latest studio to read more »

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AP - Poppy Montgomery and her boyfriend, Adam Kaufman, welcomed a son, Jackson Phillip Kaufman, on Dec. 23. read more »

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Reuters - Her latest movie "Rendition" flopped at box offices, but fans still love Reese Witherspoon. read more »

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AP - The exiled leader of Hamas said Friday the militant Palestinian group rejected a European offer for an indirect meeting with read more »

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AP - A federal corruption probe can be career-ending for U.S. politicians — but in Puerto Rico it could help Gov. Anibal Acevedo read more »

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Reuters - The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul adds another jewel to her crown, as Mary J. Blige captures her fourth career No. 1 on the Bi read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday, with the Nasdaq logging its sharpest decline in nearly a year, after data showing risin read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Back in October, we had mentioned that Trent Reznor was producing an album by Saul Williams and had decided to mimic the Radiohea read more »

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AP - Britney Spears was derailed yet again in her struggle to get her career and personal life back on track. Hauled away from her read more »

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Reuters - U.S. jobs growth skidded to a near-halt in December and the unemployment rate hit a two-year high, according to a gove read more »

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Reuters - Spark Networks, home to popular Jewish online dating site JDate.com, is looking for a buyer and talking to leading soc read more »

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AP - The founder of the One Laptop Per Child project claimed Friday that Intel Corp. undermined his group's effort to sell $188 co read more »

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Reuters - General Motors Corp on Friday said it had terminated a $4.1 billion standby credit agreement with a syndicate of bank read more »

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AP - A woman apologized Friday for a "bad decision" in helping her 6-year-old daughter win tickets to a Hannah Montana concert wit read more »

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Reuters - Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros studio on Friday said it would exclusively release high-definition DVDs in Sony Corp's B read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Employees at car dealerships, furniture stores, gas stations and clothing retailers were among the hardest hit by job losses read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The pace of job losses in mortgage lending slowed in December, as some companies shifted workers to other areas of fin read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
The Patent Troll Tracker is back from holiday vacation and he's got quite a post listing out a bunch of interesting (i.e., depres read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Attorneys for Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were in court Friday for a closed-door meeting in the former couple's child read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Meraki, a wireless-networking startup, announced plans on Friday to deploy a citywide wireless network that will prov read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will give Xbox 360 owners a free video game to make up for poor performance over the holidays read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - With its plethora of gadgets that become outdated almost as soon as they are sold, the consumer electronics industry i read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - As the House of Bhutto copes with its latest violent death, hope is growing that Benazir Bhutto's killing could help mend old read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Stephen Stills, who had surgery for prostate cancer on his 63rd birthday, was expected to return home Friday, his wife said. read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
If you've followed the spam world at all over the years, you know the name Alan Ralsky. He was considered a top spammer for many read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - New Motorola Inc. CEO Greg Brown doesn't have the secret weapon his predecessor Ed Zander possessed when he arrived at the ce read more »

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AP - Software maker Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Friday — his fourth day on the job — that he's angling for a showdown w read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - For the 10th time, Bill Gates will inaugurate the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by touting new Microso read more »

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AP - Goldie Hawn says she can't go into Aspen from her nearby ranch because of aggressive paparazzi who pursue her car and stake o read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Weren't we just discussing the idea of criminal liability for egregious security problems with data? And... weren't we also just read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Red Hat's new chief executive said on Friday that the company will continue to pursue a business model under which it read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's upstart Fox Business Network drew an estimated 6,000 average weekday viewers in its first few months read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - A good example is the high likelihood of a loss from January 5-13. Since 1990, the FTSE 100 rose just once during this pe read more »

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InfoWorld - A class-action suit filed against Apple alleges the company unfairly uses technological restrictions with its iPod l read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Wireless networking startup Meraki plans to deliver free wireless Internet access, supported by advertising, across San read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The Nasdaq composite index fell more than 2 percent on Friday, hit by concerns about weak job growth and a brokerage d read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Last year, Mike made the point that saying you can't compete with free is saying you can't compete, period. Every busines read more »

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AFP - Europe's main stock markets performed mixed Friday at the end of a tough week for global equities owing to record-high oil p read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from it read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. employers added a scant 18,000 jobs in December and the national unemployment rate kicked up to five percent, its read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Wireless networking startup Meraki plans to deliver free wireless Internet access, supported by advertising, across Sa read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that c read more »

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PC World - Intel's resignation from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors will have "no impact" on the group's ope read more »

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Reuters - North Korea said on Friday it had already given an account of its nuclear arms program as required under an internatio read more »

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FT.com - European equity markets fell on Friday afternoon after a smaller-than-expected rise in job creation in the US knocked con read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The troubled life of Britney Spears added a new chapter when the intoxicated pop star was whisked away in an ambulance after read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - London lost intraday gains on Friday, after news of weaker-than-expected job creation in the US resurrected fears of a r read more »

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AP - The annual Dakar Rally was canceled Friday on the eve of the race across the Sahara Desert because of terror threats and the read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Apparel retailer Talbots Inc said on Friday it will exit its Talbots Kids and Mens lines and warned of weaker-than-ex read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
For years, we've been a fairly persistent critic of the RIAA's tactics. It's not, as some incorrectly suggest, because we are "a read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - In four previous seasons, "The Wire" chronicled this city's failing or corrupt institutions — the police department, labor u read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - He's the host of one the world's most popular television programs and now many people in Britain apparently want him t read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Retailer Talbots Inc. said Friday it will close 78 kids' and mens' stores by September and discontinue those businesses as pa read more »

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AP - Iraqi authorities ordered a one-day vehicle ban in Baqouba on Friday in response to a series of deadly suicide bombings and o read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Oil eased below $99 a barrel on Friday as investors took profits from a record rally that swept prices above $100 a ba read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
USATODAY.com - SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Chip giant Intel has a new industry to conquer: consumer electronics. CEO Paul Otellini is ex read more »

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AP - North Korea said Friday the country still hopes for a smooth implementation of an aid-for-disarmament deal with the United St read more »

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Reuters - A group led by U.S. investment firm Aetos Capital LLC has outbid Morgan Stanley and others by offering 300 billion ye read more »

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AP - Kenya's opposition party called for a new presidential election to settle a dispute over the vote that has sparked days of de read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Jay Leno kept the jokes coming his second night back on the air, even as the striking writers union and his network sparred o read more »

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AFP - Bangladesh's army chief has expressed concern at the spiralling cost of rice in the impoverished country following the destr read more »

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AFP - India's Tata Motors, named preferred bidder to buy Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover units, could make a huge technological leap read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The U.S. unemployment rate likely hit its highest in more than a year in December, evidence of the rising difficulties read more »

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AP - Kenya's opposition party called Friday for a rerun of the country's disputed election, as political deadlock between the pres read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Having just run into its own problems with false advertising, Verizon Wireless is now suing competitor Alltel, claiming false adv read more »

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AP - Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to read more »

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Reuters - How's this for a grisly coincidence: The violent climax to "There Will Be Blood," featuring Daniel Day-Lewis as an age read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Gretta Cook, Software Engineer, Google SeattleIn late 2004, Google opened an engineering office near Seattle, and my son read more »

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AFP - A diarrhoea outbreak has hit Zimbabwe's capital Harare following weeks of uncollected garbage, sewer blockages and erratic w read more »

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AP - Police have detained four people after a bomb attack targeting Turkish soldiers killed five civilians and wounded 68, a prose read more »

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AP - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 rattled the western coast of Sumatra Friday, the local Meteorological and G read more »

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AP - China has pulled a movie already censored for its sexually explicit scenes from theaters and banned its producer for two year read more »

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Reuters - A 102-year-old will become Britain's oldest emigrant this weekend when he leaves to start a new life with his wife in Ne read more »

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Reuters - Britney Spears was taken to a Los Angeles hospital early on Friday, after police spent about four hours at her house t read more »

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AP - British anti-terror officers came to Pakistan Friday to join the investigation into Benazir Bhutto's assassination, a day aft read more »

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AP - Kenya's embattled opposition vowed another day of rallies Friday, setting the stage for more violence amid a political deadlo read more »

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AP - Police were called to Britney Spears' home Thursday night in a custodial dispute that lasted nearly three hours before an int read more »

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AP - Israeli troops on a night mission in the Gaza Strip killed two Hamas gunmen early Friday as Israel responded to Palestinian r read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles su read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We're beginning to get quite sick of companies claiming that having a trademark give them total control over a trademarked phrase read more »

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AP - Taiwan's ties with its ally Malawi were shaky Friday after the African country snubbed the island's top diplomat in an aborte read more »

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AP - North Korea's state media warned Friday the communist nation would bolster its "war deterrent," accusing the United States of read more »

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — The striking writers union told member Jay Leno on Thursday that he violated its rules by penning and delive read more »

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Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles s read more »

Date : 04 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - From menacing Spartan warriors to chipper singing chipmunks, 2007's boxoffice attractions spanned the gamut. read more »