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Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - An overcrowded bus plunged off a highway and rolled into a gully on Friday, killing 45 people and injuring 20 more, authoriti read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - A teenage boy is accused of fatally shooting his mother and her two little girls, one of whom was the 4-year-old daughter of read more »

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AP - You just weren't generous enough, so ... you're fired! read more »

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AP - Kenya's opposition leader said Friday he expects a new power-sharing agreement to succeed, two months after a disputed presid read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Jeremy Jaynes, considered one of the biggest spammers in the US was sentenced to nine years in prison for violating a Virginia ant read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
While a bunch of consumer groups have come out in favor of keeping the internet neutral, a bunch of civil rights groups are taking read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
The Streisand Effect is getting a bit more coverage these days. After the Associated Press mentioned it the other day, I got to s read more »

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AP - Lebanon on Friday released 13 Iraqis who had been detained for staying in the country illegally. The move was expected to lea read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Northrop Grumman and Airbus parent EADS won a $35 billion U.S. Air Force refueling plane deal on Friday in a surprise read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Fashion Wire Daily - In an age when the vast majority of designers are hired guns for fashion labels whose founders are retired in read more »

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AP - Enrique Iglesias plans to leave the spotlight before he turns 50 — unlike his famous father, Julio, who is still crooning ro read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
We've been posting a ton of examples lately of authors giving away ebooks for free and seeing that it noticeably increases sales o read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - In a further sign that Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray has won the high-definition format war, Paramount Pictures home entertainment uni read more »

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AP - A federal judge who shuttered the renegade Web site Wikileaks.org reversed the decision Friday and allowed the site to re-ope read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Curl is linking RIAs (rich Internet applications) to SOA with an update to its Curl RIA Platform Version 6.0 software read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Friday quarterly profit fell 18 percent, hurt by lower earnings from i read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Police are no longer investigating Amy Winehouse on suspicion of attempting to interfere with a court case involving her husb read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow broadband providers to manage their networks and slow "bandwidt read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
The rather infamous Jack Thompson gained his fame by picking up various lawsuits that involved kids shooting people and trying to read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Playbill - It wasn't a good week for your father's musical, but a pretty darn good one for your son's. read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Playbill - A woman who has known violence floats away to a Brazilian dreamland in the world premiere of Charles Randolph-Wright's read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The Screen Actors Guild will not begin negotiating with studios until April, despite pressure to avoid a replay of the turmoi read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Investor's Business Daily - Cisco Systems may be suffering from a slowing economy, but the networking gear maker sees a potential read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Israeli writers will be the toast of the Paris international book fair in March but some Arab intellectuals argue that honori read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Asus' compact laptop debuted in October, but accessories aimed at the ultraportable have just started to ship. read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Treasury prices rallied Friday, benefiting from a sharp decline in equity markets as investors reacted to weak economic repor read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
A couple weeks after trying to shut down Wikileaks a federal judge in California, after hearing the various first amendment concer read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
We've been discussing how patents can have a serious economic downside (as was recognized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The U.S. Air Force has picked a Northrop Grumman-led transatlantic team over rival Boeing Co to start building a new read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks tumbled on Friday as another round of weak economic data added to U.S. recession fears and a record loss at ins read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The Federal Reserve's rapid-fire interest rate reductions were warranted, but the central bank must reverse course qui read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Mike McCue hasn't talked to Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang since Microsoft Corp. ambushed the Internet pioneer with an unso read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Prince Harry wanted to be "one of the lads," an ordinary soldier sharing risk and hardship with his men. For 10 weeks, he got read more »

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AP - Truckloads of weary and unshaven Turkish troops returned Friday from Iraq as Turkey ended an eight-day cross-border offensive read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Consumer spending is threatening to stall out while consumer confidence, battered by soaring energy costs and falling home pr read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Wells Fargo & Co, the fifth-largest U.S. bank, said on Friday it has recorded a $39 million loss tied to some complex read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Worldwide sales of mobile phones skyrocketed to 1.5 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner, a 16 percent read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
The LA Times has a story about a Japanese man who has been wanted on charges of murder for over 25 years, who was finally arrested read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Wells Fargo & Co , the fifth-largest U.S. bank, on Friday said it has recorded a $39 million loss tied to some complex read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks sank on Friday as another round of weak economic data added to U.S. recession fears and a record loss at AIG , read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
A new Internet Safety Technical Task Force will be led by the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The task read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
As if Microsoft's takeover bid wasn't enough, Yahoo now faces two more lawsuits from Chinese dissidents. In November Yahoo settled read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
When you sign up for an e-mail account at Google's Gmail, you have to navigate past a CAPTCHA -- squiggly words and letters that n read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Billionaire Wilbur Ross has agreed to invest up to $1 billion in Assured Guaranty Ltd , bypassing big bond insurers li read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - A divided Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the nation's first felony conviction for illegal spamming on Friday, ruling that Vi read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA told a UK court on Friday that a $12 billion freeze on its assets should not have been read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
My friend Reihan Salam has an interesting piece in Slate that nicely pulls together much of the discussion at Princeton's Computin read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - The online networking site LinkedIn was inaccessible for about an hour Friday just a day after a major update with new featur read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Google Inc's ongoing efforts to improve the effectiveness of advertisements it shows viewers is largely responsible fo read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - China's top search engine, Baidu.com, has been sued by a music industry group in China over an alleged copyright violation, a read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to slash prices on its Windows Vista operating system sold through retail channel read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Worldwide sales of mobile phones skyrocketed to 1.5 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner, a 16 percent increase fro read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Stock investors in recent weeks have been more willing to brush off a drumbeat of negative housing and inflation news that ha read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The alarm bells of U.S. recession rang louder on Friday as reports showed business activity in the U.S. Midwest plumme read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
It's a refrain we've been repeating year after year: patent examiners don't scale. While some patent system supporters continue t read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Apple has scheduled an event to present the Software Development Kit (SDK) that can open up its iPhone to third-party read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Shares of 3Com Corp rose over 20 percent on Friday on investor hopes it could revive a proposed $2.2 billion buyout b read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - American International Group , on the heels of reporting its largest-ever loss, said on Friday the subprime crisis had read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AFP - German consumers returned to the shops in January, fresh data suggested on Friday, raising hoped that Europe's biggest econo read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - U.S. and Canadian law enforcement authorities have seized more than $78 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems net read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
A large organization decides that blogs cut productivity, provide misleading information and could compromise security. It discont read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Inte read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The latest stage in the ongoing saga of Julius Baer v. Wikileaks was to take place Friday morning as a federal judge considered wh read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Swiss Reinsurance Co. reported an 87 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit on Friday, blaming massive write-downs linked read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Japanese authorities on Friday freed a US Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl after her family dropped the case that read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks fell on Friday after data pointed to more deterioration in the economy and the largest loss in insurer American read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
David writes in to point us to Jim Manzi's guest post at Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish suggesting that a way to deal with privacy i read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to slash prices on its Windows Vista operating system sold through retail channels. The compan read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Bizarre little creatures that look like walking eyeballs and a puzzle-cracking professor may not seem to have much in read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Fidel Castro said Friday that his younger brother was fully in charge as Cuba's new president, apparently trying to dispel sp read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Consumer spending rose more than expected in January, but the gain was eaten up by swiftly rising prices, the governme read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes will read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Apple has scheduled an event to present the Software Development Kit (SDK) that can open up its iPhone to third-party native appli read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Turkey's military said Friday it has ended a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq, but said that foreign influence read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - LG.Philips LCD Co. shareholders approved a proposal Friday to change the liquid crystal display maker's name to LG Display Co read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie put on a record opening stand as South Africa seized complete control of the second Test agai read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - The military decided Friday to pull Prince Harry out of Afghanistan "immediately" after news of his deployment leaked out in read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Wilbur Ross agreed to buy up to $1 billion in shares of bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd , the company said on Friday read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes wil read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Israeli leaders warned Friday of an approaching conflagration in the Gaza Strip as Israel activated a rocket warning system t read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
For all the talk about how Apple patented so many different aspects of the iPhone, it really hasn't stopped a ton of iPhone-relate read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Google Inc. will not use advertising to support its new Internet health service, CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday in the search comp read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Britain's defense chief decided Friday to immediately pull Prince Harry out of Afghanistan after news of his deployment was l read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft Corp.'s big bet on Facebook's online social network isn't stopping Chairman Bill Gates from promoting other popular Inte read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Two decades ago, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a printer that would create global demand for what would become one of its most prof read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
There are tech products most gadget reviewers and I are not equipped to review. Primary among them is antivirus software. If you'r read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Yahoo will turn off its subscription music service and refer customers to RealNetworks' Rhapsody, the companies announced Monday. read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Iraq's presidential council has endorsed the execution within a month of Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," fo read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - China's top search engine Baidu.com Inc said it plans to launch an instant messaging service, called "Baidu Hi." read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary, the renowned adventurer who became the first to conquer Mount Everest, were scattered into t read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Paris judicial police say the body of former top model Katoucha Niane has been found in the River Seine. read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Hezbollah on Friday denounced the deployment of U.S. warships off the coast of Lebanon, calling it a threat to the country's read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Seems like everything went down this past week -- YouTube, Hotmail, iTunes DRM, and Google's stock price among them. C read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Iraq's presidential council has endorsed the execution within a month of Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," fo read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - Thousands of people streamed into Manila's financial district on Friday calling for the resignation of Philippine Pres read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Captain Graeme Smith struck an unbeaten century to put South Africa on course for a huge first innings total on the opening read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Hezbollah on Friday rejected the deployment of U.S. warships off Lebanon, calling it a threat to the country that will not af read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Opponents of President Pervez Musharraf are wooing Islamist politicians to bolster their drive to curb the powers of the U.S. read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Techdirt
Google got a bunch of press earlier this week for giving out "free voicemail accounts" to the homeless. I tried to ignore the sto read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Luke Donald fired a six-under-par 64 to take a one-shot lead after Thursday's opening round of the 5.5 million dollar PGA Ho read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Media giant Time Warner Inc. said Thursday its Warner Bros. Entertainment studio would absorb its New Line Cinema unit, an in read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A shrimp fisherman who swam 12 hours to shore to get help after his trawler sank, leaving him and his two crewmates clinging read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Rod Stewart will kick off a North American tour at a state fair in the central California city of Paso Robles on July read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - China's top Internet search engine Baidu, already targeted by international music firms over alleged copyright infringement, read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - TruTV, the cable channel formerly known as Court TV, is ready to pit "Man vs. Cartoon." read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Vivendi on Friday posted an 8.3 percent rise in adjusted full-year net profit, pulled by Maroc Telecom, its pay-TV gr read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The first oddity (but certainly not the last) about the eight-week Oprah Winfrey infomercial "Oprah's Big Give" is tha read more »

Date : 29 Feb 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Four more aspiring singers failed to convince viewers that they have what it takes to win the star-making talent contest "Ame read more »