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Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The Black Crowes are lashing out at Maxim magazine for reviewing the band's new album — apparently without actually hearing read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Macworld.com - Macgamestore.com and Hidden Objects has announced the release of The Count of Monte Cristo, a new casual puzzle gam read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A rescue for bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc may be announced on Monday or Tuesday, a person familiar with the read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - A federal judge said Friday that consumers may go ahead with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. over the way it a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Bill Gates has been an incredibly successful businessman, but that doesn't mean he's particularly good at predicting the future of read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Kevin Federline has agreed to give ex-wife Britney Spears visitation rights with their two young sons, his lawyer said Friday read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Google's OpenSocial initiative to simplify the creation and adaptation of applications for social-networking sites need read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Canada's top general warned lawmakers Friday that prolonged debate over the military mission in Afghanistan could be encourag read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Lawyer Raj Kumar Pandey says he has filed at least 200 court cases in the past 10 years accusing people of disrespecting the read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Jewels and parties. Stars and stand-ins. Rehearsals and news conferences. So much swag even Hollywood canines could rack up f read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Now that online dating has become commonplace, would-be suitors are having a hard time making themselves seem interesting in an in read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Brazil's debt crisis is over and the country has emerged as a net foreign creditor for the first time, the Central Bank said. read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opted Friday to keep the cease-fire order for his Mahdi Army militia in place for anot read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
One of the key themes around here for a while has been that technology has a way of making certain laws either obsolete or antithe read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - When Internet users in Latin America logged on to Facebook during Valentine's Day week, they found a site that needed read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Elishia Stevenson wanted an apology when she was bitten by a swan. So she wrote to Queen Elizabeth II. read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Friday it won't totally uproot Yahoo Inc. from its Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters if it succeeds in its read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Microsoft Corp suggested on Friday that it had no plans to make major lay-offs if it succeeded in buying Yahoo Inc , read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - In a packed square, the candidate from the Democratic Party delivers his message: "Vote for Change." Supporters hold up banne read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Google's OpenSocial initiative to simplify the creation and adaptation of applications for social-networking sites pur read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - As of Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at least 3,969 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in Mar read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A Venezuelan passenger plane slammed into a steep mountainside in the Andes, killing all 46 people on board, officials said F read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Violent protests rocked Serb-dominated northern Kosovo on Friday, as mobs chanting "Kosovo is ours!" hurled stones, bottles a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday she would explore how to use a mix of carrots and sticks to ad read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The U.S. economy is in a slowdown that could steepen but inflation is also a threat that must not be ignored, the pres read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Last month, we noted that a lawyer wasn't just trying to trademark the term "cyberlaw" but was already threatening other lawyers f read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Friday that Iran is defying a U.N. Security Council ban on uranium enrichment and accusing the read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A top Microsoft Corp executive on Friday assured Microsoft and Yahoo Inc employees that there would not be a massive read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Saved at the 11th hour when writers ended their strike, Sunday's Oscars promise plenty of glamour, but dark films, pos read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Novelist Stephen Marlowe, best known for a series of books featuring private detective Chester Drum, died Friday at a hospita read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Many teachers in Puerto Rico ignored a call to strike Friday, but public schools across the island canceled classes anyway as read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. regulators approved Genentech Inc's cancer drug, Avastin, for the treatment of breast cancer, the company said o read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The already difficult humanitarian situation in the Darfur region of Sudan has worsened further as a result of new fighting a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. stocks rallied late on Friday on news that banks were near an agreement to bail out bond insurer Ambac Financial, read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Kosovo's prime minister on Friday denounced the violent protests in Belgrade as reminiscent of Slobodan Milosevic's wartime r read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Playbill - The producers of Is He Dead?, the obscure 1898 comedy by Mark Twain that tickled 21st-century critics this season, are read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Nintendo wants to turn a movement that is a key part of its Wii video-game console into an exercise program with a ne read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Supported by air power, Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Friday in their first major ground incursion against Kur read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Soybean futures continued their upward climb Friday, hitting a new record as investors bet that dwindling stockpiles coupled read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A rescue for bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc may be announced on Monday or Tuesday, a person familiar with the read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - US stocks rebounded in late trading on Friday on hopes that a plan to bail out troubled bond insurer Ambac Financial woul read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Recently founded Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) closed in on Ericsson's lead in the cutthroat global market for wireless read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Want to break into a computer's encrypted hard drive? Just blast the machine's memory chip with a burst of cold air. read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
We've talked in the past about how both DirecTV and the RIAA have used a borderline legal version of a shakedown to get people to read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Deborah Voigt has withdrawn from this spring's new production of Wagner's "Siegfried" at the Vienna State Opera, which would read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Barbados has named Rihanna as an honorary cultural ambassador for her native Caribbean island. read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
TechWeb - The software may also be used to move workloads around, allowing for some of the servers to undergo downtime for mainten read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Microsoft made a mountainous down payment on its high-profile pledge Thursday to improve interoperability and warm up read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said Friday it is offering a software tool that lets people use Go read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - D.B. Zwirn & Co., a $5 billion hedge fund group managed by investor Daniel Zwirn, will liquidate its two largest hedge read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - As I head down to Wall Street, I am a little anxious about which Jim Cramer I'll be dining with today. Will it be the scr read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - New Web-based solutions from Symantec aim to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to back up data and be pre read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
As more entrepreneurs set their sights on the potential to make money (and ostensibly do some "good" in the process) in the solar read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A record number of homeowners thought their homes decreased in value in February, according to a Reuters/University of read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Enterprise storage giant EMC has acquired a small start-up that hasn't released any products. Pi Corp. was founded by Paul Maritz, read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Nintendo wants to turn a movement that is a key part of its Wii video-game console into an exercise program with a new Wii Fit pro read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
One small step for man and one giant leap for robots. You could feel that sentiment from one of the first 10 teams to register for read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - East Timor extended Friday a state of emergency put in place after attacks last week on its top two leaders and boosted the read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Major Japanese electronics stores have stopped selling HD DVD machines after their maker Toshiba conceded defeat to Sony's B read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - "The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History" (Borealis Books, 196 pages. $24.95), by Warren Read: As W read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Saved at the 11th hour when writers ended their strike, Sunday's Oscars promise plenty of glamour, but dark films, pos read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - A U.S. judge sentenced three former British bankers, known as the "NatWest 3," to three years and one month each in pr read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
The Motley Fool - In 1913, the income tax was simple, with a one-page form. Taxes ranged from 1% to 7%, and less than 1% of the po read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - One-tenth of U.S. homeowners hold mortgages that are larger than the worth of their homes, Moody's Economy.com said on read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - US stocks look set to end the week in a funk on Friday as worries about a domestic recession and creeping inflation harri read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Last week, we noted that there was some draft legislation in the UK making the rounds that would have ISPs ban people found to hav read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Coca-Cola Co said on Friday it would continue to make acquisitions, but they were not necessary for the world's large read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - T-Mobile wants you to talk forever. The wireless provider is testing its Talk Forever Home Phone plan in two cities, read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
New Web-based solutions from Symantec aim to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to back up data and be prepared for dis read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks extended losses on Friday as financial shares sold off on fears of more credit losses and the outlook for the e read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - The U.S. telecommunications industry will grow at a slower rate than the global industry in the coming years as the wi read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - London equities ended lower on Friday after a clutch of broker downgrades hit the retail sector, while falling metals pri read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - In a move to appease European antitrust officials, Microsoft on Thursday promised to open its products. It said its f read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Fashion's fun side took the limelight at the Romeo Gigli show on Friday, with models smiling, dancing and twirling dow read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Back during the RIM-NTP patent battle, one of the sleazier moves pulled by NTP was to have the widow of the patent holder write a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The slow rollout of Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 has confused nearly everyone, with Microsoft announcing it had released SP1 to read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Landing a Lifetime Achievement Award and performing at the BRIT Awards gave a 500 percent boost to sales of Paul McCar read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Lawyers for a disgraced Internet mogul insisted on his innocence Friday at the start of a court appeal of his securities frau read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Lat Long Blog.)Google Moon and Google Mars are great e read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - To "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody, the attention she and three other women are getting for their Academy Award nominations i read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Encrypting your hard drive has been touted as the ultimate in data protection. But new research shows that a savvy attacker with a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairma read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - The hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) this week released a tool that turns Google into an automated vulnerabili read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - They may not leap off the shelves into the best-seller category, but the books shortlisted for the oddest book title p read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Fidel Castro said Friday that he's relieved to be stepping down as Cuba's president, complaining that the process of selectin read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Turkey gave the United States and Iraqi authorities advance notice of its incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - Seaside amusement arcades could be wiped out within a year, the slot machine industry will tell the government on Friday read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Searchers spotted the wreckage of a plane carrying 46 people in the mountains of western Venezuela on Friday. All aboard were read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
There's been some controversy surrounding the group Connected Nation, as some have accused it of basically being a front group for read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - U.S. and European customs officers seized more than 360,000 counterfeit computer chips and network components in a joint oper read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran has dismissed allegations that it tried to make nuclear weapons, claiming they are basele read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
T-Mobile wants you to talk forever. The wireless provider is testing its Talk Forever Home Phone plan in two cities, Seattle and D read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
FT.com - London equities were little changed on Friday after a clutch of broker downgrades hit the retail sector, but strong newsf read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Morgan Stanley upgraded Discover Financial Services and said the credit-card firm would outperform rivals Capital One read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Serbs protesting Kosovo's independence for a fifth straight day Friday attacked U.N. police guarding a key bridge in northern read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Macworld.com - Jumsoft has released Relationship 1.1, an update to its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for Mac OS read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - If there's anything Hollywood loves more than the spotlight, it's a glamorous party — and it doesn't get more glamorous than read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - African Union Commission chief Jean Ping pushed Friday for a quick resolution of Kenya's political crisis, which has claimed read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
In a move to appease European antitrust officials, Microsoft on Thursday promised to open its products. It said its four-pronged a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - LG Electronics Inc. halted sales of one of its laptop computer models after a report of a battery meltdown, the company said read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stock index futures were little changed on Friday, signaling a steady open on Wall Street, with investors cautious abo read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Storage giant EMC continues to push into the consumer territory: Its latest move is to acquire Pi, a company whose sof read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
USATODAY.com - The creative energy of the video game industry descended on San Francisco this week for the annual Game Developers read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Saul Hansell at the NY Times has an interesting blog post about how various value added resellers (VARs) of Postini's anti-spam em read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Wanted: computer virus writers. Must be fluent in Mandarin. Or Russian. Or Portuguese. These hacker help wanted ads are appearing read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AFP - Hollywood diva Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins early Friday, a boy and a girl, People magazine said. read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Top U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy Co , facing stagnant sales at home, said on Friday it would ramp up its expansi read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Japan Airlines Corp is considering buying Airbus's midsize A350 XWB planes following production delays to Boeing Co's read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere wi read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
European Union regulators were skeptical Thursday on Microsoft Corp.'s offer to share more information about its products and tech read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Sylvester Stallone's Rambo character looks like a fat lunatic in his new movie, a Myanmar magazine said this week, bucking lo read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Work began Friday on redeveloping English county cricket side Somerset's picturesque Taunton ground, but taking the unusual read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Buyout firm Terra Firma and French utility Suez are in talks to trump an agreed 1.2 billion pound ($2.4 billion) bid read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A bomb hidden under a horse-drawn cart exploded in downtown Baghdad on Friday, killing three civilians, while two policemen d read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Chinese aluminum giant Chinalco, which this year led a $14 billion acquisition of 12 percent of Rio Tinto , said in re read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Police on Friday guarded U.S and other Western embassies in Belgrade, a day after rioters stormed and set fire to the America read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Turkish troops have launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the mili read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Friday that he has extended a cease-fire order to his Shiite Mahdi Army by another read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology in an effort to make it work b read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - East Timor's Parliament on Friday extended by 30 days a state of emergency imposed after attacks by suspected rebels on the c read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Britain will impose legislation on Internet service providers (ISPs) by April 2009 if they do not work with the music read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Kenya's opposition leader unexpectedly left the country Friday, one day after government negotiators and their rivals edged t read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Lawyers for a disgraced Internet mogul insisted on his innocence Friday at the start of a court appeal of his securities frau read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins early Friday, making the singer and husband Marc Anthony the parents of a boy and a girl a read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Ed Felten, and the various grad students who work for him at Princeton, have done plenty to contribute to the computer security fi read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Juan Bautista Gonzalez's living room was already crowded with customers when still more shuffled in, clutching gold necklaces read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - British actor Rufus Sewell will play the lead role in producer Jerry Bruckheimer's CBS sci-fi series "Eleventh Hour." read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Operator BP expects to wring at least 2 billion barrels more crude from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oilfield, even after the read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - A federal judge on Thursday ordered Britney Spears' pal Sam Lutfi to stay away from the struggling pop star. read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Former "Lord of the Rings" hobbit Dominic Monaghan has joined the cast of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," Fox's "X-Men" sp read more »

Date : 22 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Sony Pictures has picked up disaster-movie king Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic script "2012," one of the first big proj read more »