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Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will on Wednesday announce that the two U.S. mortgage finance companies read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
There have been various accusations in the US that the techniques used by various P2P monitoring firms that the entertainment indu read more »

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Reuters - The Japanese central bank will be run by a temporary leader in the midst of a credit crisis, after parliament rejected read more »

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AP - A British judge ruled against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday, tossing out an order to freeze $12 billion in assets belonging to read more »

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InfoWorld - Adobe Systems is announcing availability Wednesday of Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server software, a content p read more »

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AP - Belgium's political parties announced Tuesday they had reached a deal to form a new national government, ending a nine-month read more »

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Reuters - Taiwan goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president, its third in the island's brief democratic history, per read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
I've explained why I'm not comfortable with the proposed patent reform effort, as there are a number of changes in it that could p read more »

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AP - Shia LaBeouf could pay a hefty price for smoking. read more »

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AP - Dick Van Dyke may be 82, but he can still get 14 syllables into a single word. Van Dyke sang "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoci read more »

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AP - Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone W read more »

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Reuters - Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" will live on with "Caprica." At its "upfront" presentation to advertisers Tues read more »

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AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community Tuesday to build the foundations for peace in Somalia by stre read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Last week, one of the stories that got a few headlines and made the rounds concerned the news that some popular heart monitors cou read more »

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Reuters - At the barracks nestled in the Caucasus mountains, the Chechen military officer popped a chunk of moist, fatty mutton read more »

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Reuters - When Kellogg launched breakfast cereal in India 14 years ago, it underestimated the stranglehold of traditional cooked read more »

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AP - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" and won worldwide acclaim with more th read more »

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AP - New Jersey prosecutors have subpoenaed records of JuicyCampus.com, a Web site that publishes anonymous, often malicious gossi read more »

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AP - Robin Williams will guest star on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," but don't expect him to bring laughs to the NBC crime read more »

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AP - Halle Berry's newborn daughter is named Nahla Ariela Aubry, her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told The Associated Press on Tu read more »

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Reuters - The Federal Reserve slashed U.S. interest rates on Tuesday, boosting Wall Street, which was already higher on stronger read more »

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Reuters - Visa Inc burned its name into the record books for U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday, raising $17.9 billion as read more »

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PC World - Facebook plans to roll out new privacy features that will give users more control over who sees the data stored on thei read more »

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AFP - Facebook said Tuesday it is giving users more control over who gets to see personal information posted in profiles at the ho read more »

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Reuters - A U.S. government auction of wireless airwaves ended on Tuesday raising a record $19.59 billion, but winners of the va read more »

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AP - Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boyc read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Here at Techdirt we have over ten years worth of content, all available for anyone to read, and as we certainly get a fair amount read more »

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AP - Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. beat Wall Street's expectations in the first quarter with profits that rose 52 percent on c read more »

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AP - Three mortar rounds targeting the U.S. Embassy crashed into a high school for girls next door Tuesday, killing a Yemeni secur read more »

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InfoWorld - More than one-third of the ultramobile PCs coming later this year on Intel's Atom Centrino platform will offer a combi read more »

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AP - It was during the card approval process that more than 4 million customer accounts at grocery stores in the Northeast and Flo read more »

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Reuters - AAR Corp , a provider of parts and maintenance services to the aviation industry, posted a 32 percent rise in third-qu read more »

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AP - Facebook Inc. is tweaking the privacy settings on its popular online hangout to let users exert greater control over which of read more »

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AP - The Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by three-quarters of a point Tuesday, capping its most aggressive two months read more »

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Reuters - New York City's comptroller, who helps oversee the city's pension funds, on Tuesday said he will investigate whether t read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
While it's difficult to believe some of the more conspiracy-minded theories that have gone around concerning voting results from O read more »

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AP - The United Nations accused Serbian officials Tuesday of complicity in the violence in northern Kosovo that left a U.N. police read more »

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AFP - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said Tuesday his government would not hold peace talks with separatist militants fighti read more »

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Playbill - Lee Blessing's drama Two Rooms gets a brief showcase revival in Manhattan by a fledgling company called Three's Company read more »

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Reuters - Adobe Systems Inc reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street expectations, citing strong sales of Acrobat docum read more »

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AP - Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was sorry for appeari read more »

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AFP - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki signed into law two bills passed by parliament Tuesday that put in place a power-sharing deal read more »

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AP - Iraqi extremist groups are now tapping into the nation's vast antiquity smuggling networks to help finance their attacks, a U read more »

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AP - Anthony Minghella, a screenwriter, opera director and the Oscar-winning filmmaker of "The English Patient," died of a hemorrh read more »

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AFP - US stock markets staged a powerful rebound Tuesday as the Federal Reserve slashed its main interest rate by 75 basis points read more »

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AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao accused supporters of the Dalai Lama on Tuesday of organizing violent clashes in Tibet in hopes of read more »

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AP - Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday the risks of civil war have been averted after five years of "tears and blood." But he w read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
News.com is running an interview with an up and coming hip hop artist named Flo Rida who appears to clearly grasp the concept of T read more »

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AP - Tibetan exiles saw a chance to put China on the spot ahead of the Beijing Olympics, but never expected their protests to spre read more »

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AP - "Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance" (The Penguin Press, 324 pages, $25.95), by Dean Wareham: This counterintuitive rock read more »

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AFP - Tension is growing at Hugo Boss against its new owner, the British investment fund Permira, with some accusing it of pillagi read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The European Commission has added the DVB-H mobile-TV specification to the European Union's list of official standards. Tailored t read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Apparently, NASA is getting worried that the kids these days aren't interested in outer space, preferring to do their "travels" th read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Ravi Yadavilli, Geo Content Operations Manager, and Alok Goel, Product Manager- Do you own a restaurant in Delhi and wis read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
China has succeeded in blocking the flow of news about its crackdown on Tibetan protesters. While China has traditionally exerted read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court's ruling that Novell can proceed with an antitrust suit against Microsof read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft Corp. posted a major package of updates and security fixes for its Windows Vista operating system for download starting read more »

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NewsFactor - Apple released a 3.1 version of its Safari Web browser on Tuesday with several improvements. Apple said the new versi read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. posted a major package of updates and security fixes for its Windows Vista operating system for download star read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Madonna is squashing suggestions that her marriage may be ending. read more »

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AP - For the moment, Jaffa oranges and Uzis are no longer Israel's most famous export. That title belongs to a TV shrink and his r read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Over the past few years, we've seen so many "calls" to label the use of certain technologies as "addictions" that we've noticed so read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Yahoo Inc. has released a rosy outlook for the next two years, hoping to give investors a better understanding of why the Int read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Mark Burnett is returning as executive producer of the MTV Movie Awards. read more »

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AP - Thomas Jane is facing drunken driving charges after being pulled over by the California Highway Patrol near Buttonwillow. read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Intel revealed more details Monday about its plans for upcoming microprocessors, including the Dunnington server chip read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Apple released a 3.1 version of its Safari Web browser on Tuesday with several improvements. Apple said the new version loads Web read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - International human rights and journalism advocacy groups called Tuesday on President Raul Castro's government to free critic read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - CBS Television Stations on Monday launched a local ad network with blogger and social-media sites. Dubbed the CBS Loc read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Many of the folks around here are surely aware of the name Ed Felten, the Princeton professor who runs the fantastic blog Freedom read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - JasperSoft, the open-source business intelligence vendor, is claiming that it is now the world's most widely deployed B read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AFP - Lawyers for the father of princess Diana's last boyfriend will again try and force Queen Elizabeth II and husband Prince Phi read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - Current mobile information offerings don't really take advantage of the two-way nature of phones or relay information a read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - British film director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for "The English Patient," has died aged 54, a spokeswoman f read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - More and more vendors are rolling out technology that will allow consumers to use cell phones to do their banking. Th read more »

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AP - Heather Mills was a less than candid court witness whose $250 million divorce claim was exorbitant, a judge said in his rulin read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - BMC Software said Monday that it intends to purchase BladeLogic, a maker of data center automation software, for US$28 read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Intel revealed more details Monday about its plans for upcoming microprocessors, including the Dunnington server chip and the much read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Northern Rock PLC will slash one-third of its staff and cut its home loans book by half as it phases out financial support fr read more »

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AP - Gary Busey has apologized for embracing Jennifer Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month. read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
CBS Television Stations on Monday launched a local ad network with blogger and social-media sites. Dubbed the CBS Local Ad Network read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Wholesale prices rose again in February as another hefty increase in energy costs offset falling food prices. Outside of food read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks were set to open sharply higher on Tuesday, with financials set to rebound after quarterly earnings from Goldma read more »

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AP - France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the European Union should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Bei read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Tuesday said first-quarter earnings fell by half after recording more than $2.5 billion of read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Chris Busselle, Investments Manager, Google.orgMany of you spend your days making this world a better place, and we want read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella has died, his agent said Tuesday. read more »

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Reuters - A Pakistani al Qaeda-linked militant, sentenced to death this month over a 2006 suicide attack that killed a U.S. dipl read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The flagging U.S. economy got more mixed news from its troubled housing sector on Tuesday, while evidence of inflation read more »

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AFP - Egypt's uncontrolled population explosion is draining the state's budget, President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Tu read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said on Tuesday first-quarter earnings dropped 57 percent as bond trading revenue plumme read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Dell Inc.'s business is growing fast in Asia and the outlook for laptop computers continues to be bright, CEO Michael Dell sa read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored by the gay media watchdog group GLAAD on Monday for her reporting on read more »

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AP - A mortar shell exploded Tuesday by a high school next to the American embassy, killing one Yemeni guard and wounding three st read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
More and more vendors are rolling out technology that will allow consumers to use cell phones to do their banking. They're just wa read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
On Mar. 10, Texas Instruments, a leading supplier of semiconductors for cell phones, set off shock waves in the multi-billion-doll read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Iomega Corp., a data storage company best known for the Zip drive, said Monday it considers a revised $205.5 million takeover offe read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Every year around this time, you can be sure of two types of stories: the first will be about how much productivity is lost thanks read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The prospect of starting out on your own in business should not be a decision made on a whim. And it is usually not. But despite t read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The technology best known for pirating movies, music and software online is increasingly being adopted by businesses as a cheap wa read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & SafetyWe recently began a series of posts on how we harne read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Anna Nicole Smith was concerned about her adult son's friends and drug use before he died, though she also once apparently ga read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to slash interest rates by as much as a whole percentage point at its policy meet read more »

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AP - Jackie Chan and Jet Li say they had so much fun making their first movie together they are planning a second one. read more »

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AP - Brooke White's friends say she never had pop-princess fantasies as a little girl. She never saw herself crooning soulful melo read more »

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AP - Britain's Northern Rock bank said Tuesday it plans to cut its staff by one-third as it downsizes its asset base by half and a read more »

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AP - China's premier warned Tuesday already high inflation may accelerate as the country prepares to host the Beijing Olympics. Bu read more »

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AP - The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in read more »

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AP - Rallying troops after an overnight stay at an air base, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that as long as freedom is su read more »

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AFP - Imtiaz Patel's appointment as the next chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is "not a done deal" accor read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
We've made it clear from the beginning that the whole debate over net neutrality is really a red herring. It's really an issue ab read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to slash interest rates by as much as a whole percentage point at its policy meet read more »

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AP - A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the slaying of a Scottish tourist in New Zealand, police said Tuesday. read more »

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Reuters - Metro AG plans to turn around its Real hypermarkets within two years and could sell its Galeria Kaufhof department st read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The departure of Carolyn Strauss, a longtime HBO executive and its current programming chief, is the latest indicator read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Since Kevin Martin took over the FCC, one area where he's been especially active is in trying to get "indecent" material off telev read more »

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AP - A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, kill read more »

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Reuters - Malaysia's premier made sweeping changes to his cabinet line-up on Tuesday, dumping his long-serving trade minister, a read more »

Date : 18 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - China is deeply concerned about the potential global economic fallout from the U.S. subprime crisis, which could make read more »

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AFP - India have picked three spinners including left-armer Murali Kartik for the first two Test matches against South Africa star read more »

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AP - A painful breakup with his wife has prompted a man to put his entire life — his house, his car, his job, even his friends — read more »

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AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao denounced supporters of the Dalai Lama as separatists and instigators of violent anti-Chinese riot read more »