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Date : 08 Jan 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Three U.S. residents and seven others linked to the powerful Gulf drug cartel were arrested following a deadly shootout just read more »

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Everyone knows that GPS devices have varying degrees of quality when it comes to providing routing directions. Generally speakin read more »

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Reuters - Former Indonesian president Suharto's condition remains critical, but has improved slightly overnight, a member of his read more »

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AP - The stars of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" were among the fan favorites at the 34th annual People's Choice read more »

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AP - The chief U.S. nuclear envoy for North Korea met South Korea's top diplomat Wednesday to fine-tune strategy for efforts to pu read more »

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Reuters - China is shutting down about 200 Web sites for carrying illegal sex-drug advertisements, state media said on Wednesday read more »

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AP - Eminem is recovering from a bout with pneumonia that sent him to the hospital. "Over the holidays, Marshall Mathers, aka Emin read more »

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AFP - Australia's plans to close a much-criticised detention centre for asylum seekers on Nauru will devastate its economy, the ti read more »

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AP - Jean-Claude Vrinat, who ran the renowned Paris restaurant Taillevent, has died at 71, his daughter said Tuesday. read more »

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AP - President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday swore in six new Cabinet ministers in a shake-up she said was needed for "the second s read more »

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As there appears to be a growing market for p2p lending services, that has some wondering if there's also a market for p2p ventur read more »

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Reuters - Hollywood scrambled on Tuesday to assess the fallout from the decision to scrap the glittering Golden Globe movie and read more »

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AP - Wesley Snipes' attempt to delay his federal tax-evasion trial was denied Tuesday by a federal appeals court in Atlanta. read more »

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AP - Best Buy Inc.'s chief executive said Tuesday that he is "very nervous" about being able to supply customers with the millions read more »

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AP - With just a few months to go before the launch of its next-generation wireless network, Sprint Nextel Corp. has a distinctly read more »

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AP - As of Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, at least 3,911 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in Mar read more »

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AP - It was just another night on the town Monday, and then another headline in the tabloids on Tuesday, for Britney Spears after read more »

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AP - A wireless startup company that planned to build a national public safety communications system has apparently bailed out of read more »

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Over in the UK, some proposals for copyright reform have been announced, and there's not much interesting there. It takes recomm read more »

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AP - Brazilian police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari that were stolen last month from the country's pr read more »

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InfoWorld - In a broad discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show, U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin M read more »

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PC World - Microsoft fixes a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-copyin read more »

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AP - President Bush said Tuesday that he is watching very carefully to see if the struggling U.S. economy needs a short-term boost read more »

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AFP - The Indian Test team resumed its crisis-hit tour of Australia Wednesday as world cricket chiefs defended their decision to s read more »

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TechWeb - Microsoft's video gaming unit still fully backs Toshiba HD-DVD high-definition DVD format. read more »

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Reuters - Best Buy Co Inc. Chief Executive Brad Anderson said on Tuesday that the electronics retailer plans to expand into Mex read more »

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Reuters - U.S. stocks tumbled on Tuesday after a warning by phone company AT&T of soft consumer spending sparked a new round of read more »

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AP - A decade after singling out the Spice Girls as fashion atrocities, Mr. Blackwell put just one of them — Victoria "Posh Spice read more »

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AP - A court convicted an accountant Tuesday of embezzling $1.8 million from the Helsinki Federation for Human Rights to support h read more »

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AP - The International Consumer Electronics Show is such a glitzy celebration of technology that it was striking to see a set of p read more »

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Reuters - Bear Stearns Cos Inc leader James Cayne, under fire for the collapse of two hedge funds, will step down as chief exec read more »

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Playbill - The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 is evoked in the Toronto world premiere of a nanking winter, launching Feb. 23 i read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
The FCC hasn't appeared to have much of an issue with the various telcos spouting off about how they need to block certain kinds read more »

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AP - "Come to Think of It" (Viking Adult, 400 pages. $24.95) By Daniel Schorr: Everybody remembers the good old days. Time tends t read more »

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Reuters - Kenya suffered fresh violence overnight as the African Union prepared for talks on Wednesday to end post-election turm read more »

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AP - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Tuesday to begin tackling the core issues of a peace agreement in a push to revive read more »

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AP - An ounce of gold has passed $880 for the first time. Here are some questions and answers about what the metal's record high m read more »

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Reuters - AT&T Inc said on Tuesday it saw softness in its consumer business, spooking investors who thought telecoms would be s read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to buy a Norwegian search company for $1.2 billion, aiming to shore up its search tech read more »

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InfoWorld - In November, Microsoft representatives began to comment that the enterprise search market had reached "a tipping point read more »

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AP - The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffi read more »

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AP - The deep bass sound vibrates your breastbone as you meander through a corner of the massive International Consumer Electronic read more »

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Reuters - A computer systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for trying to sabotage his company's read more »

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AP - How many more gadgets do we need to help us pretend to play guitar? At least one, apparently. read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Back in 2006, Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Joel Zumaya almost missed the ALCS playoffs due to an injury, caused not by hurling b read more »

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Fashion Wire Daily - What happens when America's movie critics throw an awards party? Everyone comes, of course! read more »

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AP - A new technology unveiled Tuesday would show what's being said on the radio using a receiver with a screen that would scroll read more »

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Reuters - Microsoft Corp bid $1.2 billion to buy Norwegian business search software company Fast Search & Transfer in a deal foc read more »

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Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Xbox video gaming unit still fully backs Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) HD-DVD high-definition DVD format b read more »

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AP - They can plumb the Internet for the latest movie times, news headlines, stock figures and gas prices. They'll even help you s read more »

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AP - The number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland has declined in recent months, primarily because neighboring countries refuse to read more »

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InfoWorld - Open-source strategies are gathering steam in the mobile computing realm with companies like Wake3 and Funambol levera read more »

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AFP - Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist tapped to head a new French study, said Tuesday he sees gross domestic product read more »

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InfoWorld - Microsoft has fixed a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-c read more »

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AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy hinted Tuesday he may soon marry former model Carla Bruni, but polls suggest he's heading toward di read more »

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AP - Sudanese troops shot at a "clearly marked" United Nations convoy in Darfur, apparently mistaking it for a group of rebels in read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
theodp writes "In mid-December, the NY Post credited an endorsement from Oprah on her 'Favorite Things' show for making Plan read more »

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AP - Kenya's president named half his Cabinet Tuesday, angering opposition leaders who accuse him of stealing the recent election read more »

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Reuters - Clearing debris from a bombing, residents of the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast say they are weary read more »

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AP - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London h read more »

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AP - Britney Spears' car was impounded after police found it abandoned on the street. read more »

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AP - The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann have held talks with a U.S. entertainment company regarding the making o read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Countrywide Financial Corp on Tuesday denied market speculation it might seek bankruptcy protection, after shares of read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It's amazing how much stuff gets blamed on the iPhone on a regular basis. The latest is that some "industry experts" (which, in read more »

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AP - President Bush gave Turkey's bid to join the European Union a glowing endorsement on Tuesday and called the Islamic nation a read more »

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AFP - The pound reversed earlier gains which came after a much stronger-than-expected Halifax house price survey Tuesday raised ho read more »

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AP - At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic ch read more »

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AP - The U.S. military has video and audio recordings of Iranian high-speed boats that threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. con read more »

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FT.com - European equity markets bounced on Tuesday led higher by pharmaceutical companies and telecoms stocks as investors contin read more »

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AP - Kenya's opposition leader rejected a presidential invitation for talks, calling the offer "public relations gimmickry" that w read more »

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AFP - The new coach of the World Cup winning Springboks is expected to be named here on Wednesday. read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Despite what some claim, Radiohead made it abundantly clear from the very beginning that the "name your own price" download offer read more »

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AP - Gunmen ambushed a United Nations convoy in Darfur in the first attack against the peacekeepers since their mission began this read more »

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AP - Hollywood scribe Nancy Anderson wasn't expecting much when she first interviewed Elvis Presley in 1956 on the set of his movi read more »

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AP - Madonna visited a crowded Mumbai slum Tuesday, where impoverished residents showered her with rose and marigold petals. read more »

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AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday his relationship with model-turned-singer Carla Bruni is "serious," and he sugg read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
Well that didn't take very long at all. Late last week, it was revealed that Sears.com was revealing past purchases to anyone wh read more »

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AP - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation to strike against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists, the U.S. military s read more »

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AP - Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who won acclaim in Hollywood and built an international cosmetics brand under his name read more »

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AP - James Bond is on Her Majesty's Postal Service. read more »

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AP - Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are expecting their first child together. read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a pote read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Oil halted a three-day slide to rise above $96 a barrel on Tuesday on expectations of a continuing drop in crude stock read more »

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Reuters - Fears of a deteriorating U.S. economy and falling DVD industry sales helped drive Warner Bros's decision to back Sony' read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Bear Stearns Cos Inc leader James Cayne will relinquish his title as chief executive, but remain chairman, the Wall S read more »

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Reuters - Microsoft Corp has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for 19 crowns per s read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AFP - Retailers in the countries using the euro saw sales slip in November despite expectations for an increase in the run-up to t read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
The Thai sure do love their king; anyone who has visited on a Monday surely has noticed the sea of yellow shirts in celebration o read more »

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InfoWorld - Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kro read more »

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Reuters - China Eastern Airlines (0670.HK) shareholders rejected a deal to sell a 24 percent stake to Singapore Airlines for US read more »

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Reuters - SanDisk Corp , a maker of flash memory and consumer electronics, has driven growth in sales outside the United State i read more »

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Reuters - Viacom Inc's MTV Networks Group has signed deals to make videos available on five online video services and Comcast Co read more »

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Reuters - U.S. software giant Microsoft said on Tuesday it would bid 19 crowns per share for Norwegian Internet search software read more »

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Reuters - Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman is pregnant and has pulled out of shooting her next film "The Reader" w read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
We first discussed this a while back, but it appears that more US courts are agreeing that customs agents have every right to sno read more »

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Reuters - Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp is teaming up with Oshkosh Truck Corp in a bid to supply military vehicles read more »

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Reuters - Yahoo Inc will create versions of its mobile Internet services to run on various phone platforms, potentially includin read more »

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AFP - Nationwide violence since a disputed presidential poll may have cost the Kenyan economy close to a billion dollars, the fina read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - CBS, seeking to fill programming holes left by the writers' strike, said on Monday it will rerun the entire first seas read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Bo Cowgill, Economics GroupEarlier on this blog, we shared some exciting early results from our firm's implementation of read more »

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Reuters - "Girlfight" filmmaker Karyn Kusama is in negotiations to direct "Transformers" vixen Megan Fox in "Jennifer's Body," a read more »

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AP - As the curtain rises on Wagner's "Die Walkuere," the opera's hero, Siegmund, stumbles exhausted into a stranger's hut. read more »

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Reuters - Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday it plans to invest $500 million in India to double manufacturing capacity by 2010 and m read more »

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PC World - First, it was the "clapper". Then came the Nintendo Wii. Now gesture control seems to be on the verge of being used in read more »

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AP - HDTV manufacturers are trying to make the task of buying an HDTV set much more difficult than just choosing between LCD and p read more »

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AP - Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even read more »

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AP - "No Country for Old Men" was the big winner at Monday's Critics' Choice Awards, winning best picture, best director for broth read more »

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Reuters - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday it is targeting a 15 percent rise to 30 trillion won ($32 billion) in read more »

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AP - A Sri Lankan government minister and seven others were wounded Tuesday in a roadside bomb explosion in a suburb north of the read more »

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Reuters - Taiwan cannot match China's reported $6 billion aid offer to Malawi, but hopes a legacy of goodwill can convince the A read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Oil rebounded on Tuesday after falling nearly 3 percent a day earlier, as the specter of a recession in the United Sta read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Business Techdirt
It took them a week of columnist Marc Fisher defending his incorrect story on what the RIAA actually said in the Howell case befo read more »

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AP - The Golden Globes, the ceremony known for getting Hollywood's awards season off to a rollicking start, will be reduced to a n read more »

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AP - General Motors Corp. will unveil a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Cadillac crossover concept vehicle at the Consumer Electronics read more »

Date : 08 Jan 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Cable companies aren't known as nimble innovators, but Comcast Corp. is out to change that perception this year with ultra-hi read more »