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Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp unveiled a new initiative on Monday that will give college and high school students around the world f read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
As publishers continue to fight Google over its efforts to scan books for searchability purposes, we're still seeing more and more read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Like father, like son? The 4-year-old son of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin wasn't at all alarmed when he was recently bitten read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Mauritanian authorities have released all eight people who had been detained after an attack on the Israeli Embassy earlier t read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
I don't follow the process behind earnings conference calls too closely, but apparently there's an element of trust involved. Peo read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - A national autism advocacy group is demanding an apology from CBS over a disparaging remark a contestant on the reality show read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - Some experts in India's thriving advertising industry are skeptical about whether the cricket board's multi-million do read more »

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AP - President Pervez Musharraf appealed for national unity Monday as early unofficial returns showed the opposition taking comman read more »

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Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is the country's most popular leader in two decades after apologizing to Aborigin read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Lindsay Lohan is following in the footsteps of the most famous blond bombshell of them all — Marilyn Monroe. read more »

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AP - Improved efficiency has helped airlines better prepare for a possible global economic slowdown compared to the last major rec read more »

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AP - Merck KGaA, the German drug and chemical company whose products include the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif and cancer treatmen read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
We recently noted the challenges facing Motorola, as it's been unable to continue to innovate in a way that customers desire in th read more »

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Reuters - President George W. Bush, basking in a hero's reception from Tanzania, on Tuesday commemorates one of the darkest epis read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) will announce plans to cease production and sales of HD DVD players on Tuesday, the Nikk read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - The typical online sexual predator is not someone posing as a teen to lure unsuspecting victims into face-to-face meet read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Police on Monday captured the top boss of a powerful organized crime syndicate whose clan feuds have bloodied southern Italy read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and rival Motorola have sued each other over what they say are patent infringeme read more »

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AP - Iraq's government and international community must give more funding and support to resettle Iraqi refugees displaced by sect read more »

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AFP - The chief US negotiator on talks to scrap North Korea's nuclear programme arrived in Beijing Monday ahead of a visit by Secr read more »

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Fashion Wire Daily - Expect a return to classy elegance this fall, especially if you are a fan of Missoni, which on Sunday night i read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Sharon Stone believes the Sept. 11 attacks should not have been used as a pretext for the United States to launch wars in Afg read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
There's a lot of buzz going around concerning reports that Yahoo has deleted The Pirate Bay from its search index, though it appea read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The driver of a tour bus for the Spice Girls has helped police in Michigan arrest a man suspected in a carjacking. Police say read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - A strong performance from the heavyweight banking sector helped the FTSE 100 rise 150 points. read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Alain Robbe-Grillet, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new nove read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and rival Motorola have sued each other over what they say are patent infringeme read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - More than 1,000 police officers swooped in on housing projects outside of Paris Monday, detaining 35 people in pre-dawn raids read more »

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AFP - East Timor will no longer negotiate with renegade soldiers accused of attacking the nation's two top leaders last week, the read more »

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AP - The man who claims Princess Diana and his son were killed in a wide-ranging conspiracy led by Britain's royal family said Mon read more »

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AP - Pakistan's embattled president appealed for national unity Monday after parliamentary elections aimed at bolstering democracy read more »

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AP - The U.S. and the European Union's biggest powers quickly recognized Kosovo as an independent nation Monday, widening a split read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Italian police on Monday arrested Pasqualle Condello, 57, one of Italy's most wanted bosses of the southern 'Ndrangheta Mafi read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Over a year ago, we wrote about the Wikileaks project, designed to allow government and company officials to anonymously leak docu read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Early results show Pakistani opposition parties have made "big gains" in elections that could determine the future of Presid read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp does not expect sales of its Xbox 360 game console to suffer if Toshiba Corp (6502.T) discontinues HD read more »

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AP - Palestinian officials angrily denied on Monday a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that they had agreed to delay ta read more »

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AP - U.N. peacekeepers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks whizzed into this refugee camp. A dozen women came to meet them, brin read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who helped found the read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby U.S. military base on Monda read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Never let it be said that the entertainment industry lobby isn't comprehensive. Over the past decade plus of watching them at wor read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Research In Motion Ltd. is suing Motorola Inc. over several patents used for wireless devices such as RIM's BlackBerry e-mail read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - A file described as the database for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Web site shows up for sharing. read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A suicide car bomber killed 38 Afghans at a crowded market Monday, pushing the death toll from two days of militant bombings read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc is in discussions to split itself up in a move aimed at ensuring that municipa read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - The RHQ project tackles IT infrastructure management issues and will be available under the GPL v2 license. read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A cashiered army lieutenant colonel and 14 soldiers were convicted Monday of murdering 10 elite counternarcotics police agent read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
For years now, ISPs have been searching for alternative revenue streams to avoid just being "dumb pipes." A few years ago, they p read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - Banks led a FTSE 100 rally on Monday at the start of a busy week for the sector. read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Here we go with yet another ridiculous patent hoarding company trying to sue anyone and everyone. This time, it's Rembrandt IP, a read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - It's noon on a weekday, and Kosovo fashion designer Krenare Rugova's sewing machines are strangely silent. read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
The International Olympic Committee is known for their ridiculously overreaching attempts to claim intellectual property rights ov read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - President Bush on Monday recognized Kosovo's bold and historic bid for statehood, saying "The Kosavars are now independent." read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - At least three Maoist rebels and five paramilitary soldiers were killed in renewed fighting in eastern India on Monday, days read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday that the people of Kosovo are independent though he stopped short of f read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Banks drove European shares higher on Monday ahead of this week's key earnings data which will show their progress in read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his reputation for sound economic management on Monday in the face of mou read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Sony's Blu-ray technology is emerging as the likely winner in the format battle for the next generation of DVD players after read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Shipments of cell phones compatible with Japan's mobile digital TV service have surged to more than 20 million units in read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Kosovo's leaders sent letters to 192 countries Monday seeking formal recognition of independence, and suspense gripped the pr read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Kenya's rival politicians Monday that a power-sharing solution to a bloody political read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Pakistanis fearful of militant attacks voted Monday for a new parliament in a key step toward democracy after eight years of read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
It's no secret that every time ISPs look to filter or degrade the performance of a certain kind of traffic, it only increases atte read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan, a pol read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Hollywood film-maker Steven Spielberg has been ridiculed in the Chinese media and on the Internet for living in a "sci-fi" d read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says stricken mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC will remain nationalized until adverse ma read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Just in time for Presidents Day comes a new album saluting Abe Lincoln. Honest. Chris Vallillo's "Abraham Lincoln in Song" is read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — If it truly is a pleasure just to be nominated for an Oscar, Alan Menken must be Hollywood's ha read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Just a few years ago, the world of open source packages for generating database reports was a quiet secret shared by p read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's poss read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Even when experts were declaring the economy healthy, many Americans voiced a vague, but persistent dissatisfaction. True, jo read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Sony's Blu-ray looks set to become the standard for high-definition DVDs after Toshiba signalled Monday that it may give up read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Australia should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions years ago instead of becoming isolated read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - French bank Societe Generale , at the centre of a huge trading scandal, began investigating trades executed by Jerome read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
A few weeks ago, when we noted that it really looked like HD DVD might finally be done for, we were surprised to see the number of read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - An impending end to a format war over next-generation DVDs boosted shares in both victorious Sony, in the Blu-ray corn read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet firm, will seek a stronger voice for its management team in Microsoft's talks to a read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Gunmen killed at least three police officers and several civilians in an assault Sunday night on a small town in Guyana, auth read more »

Date : 18 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Iraqi military officials expressed hope Sunday that security gains from a yearlong crackdown against extremists will allow th read more »