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Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A truck carrying Hindu pilgrims overturned on a northern Indian highway, killing 11 of them and injuring another 20, police s read more »

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AFP - MPs vote on Wednesday to decide whether or not to hold a referendum on the EU's controversial new Lisbon Treaty. read more »

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AP - A failed plot to bomb a Mexico City police commander has been traced to Mexico's Sinaloa state, home to one of the country's read more »

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AP - David Hernandez's stripper past didn't come back to haunt him on Tuesday night's "American Idol." Hernandez's three-year stin read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
We noted recently that a judge was so fed up with a pair of well-known patent attorneys that he not only overturned the verdict, b read more »

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AFP - In the days when Australia's environment minister was a rock star and Japan's whaling chief was a student, they sang from th read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - China's premier on Wednesday called for "powerful measures" to rein in inflation that is battering ordinary Chinese, saying t read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Showtime is turning its serial-killer drama "Dexter" into a videogame. read more »

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AP - Microsoft researchers from around the world gathered at the software maker's headquarters Tuesday to show off projects dealin read more »

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Reuters - New South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who has pledged a tougher policy in dealing with North Korea, rebuffed his c read more »

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AFP - Australia on Wednesday cancelled a one billion dollar (930 million US) contract for US-made Seasprite helicopters following read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
More than a year after Windows Vista was introduced, hackers have finally developed a clean crack of Windows Vista. There have bee read more »

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Reuters - Under mounting pressure from lawmakers and a top Pentagon leader, the Air Force on Tuesday agreed to speed up a briefi read more »

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AP - Colombia's vice president on Tuesday defended his country's attack on a rebel base on Ecuadorean soil, telling a U.N. disarma read more »

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AFP - Tributes poured in Wednesday for veteran Northern Ireland politician Ian Paisley, who has said he will stand down as First M read more »

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AP - Iran vowed to push ahead with uranium enrichment Tuesday, a day after the U.N. Security Council passed a third round of sanct read more »

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AP - Venezuela and Ecuador reinforced their borders with Colombia on Tuesday as the three nations traded increasingly bitter accus read more »

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AP - Anna Nicole Smith's daughter will inherit her late mother's estate. read more »

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AP - Lou Pearlman, the gregarious mastermind behind boy bands such as 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is now admitting his role i read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Yesterday we wrote about Trent Reznor launching his new Nine Inch Nails album online with a variety of interesting options that pe read more »

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Reuters - The vast majority of the 8.8 million Americans with no equity or negative equity in their homes will not walk away fro read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
TechWeb - The company releases its CAD files to the open source community in a technology that can create unique plastic parts for read more »

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TechWeb - Former startup ActiveGrid relaunches with an updated version of Visual Ajax Studio built around the open source LAMP sta read more »

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AP - Applied Materials Inc. snagged a $1.9 billion order to help build multiple solar panel factories, a major milestone in the ex read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Virtually anyone can edit an entry on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. But its founder is finding it's not so easy read more »

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AP - After James Freeman was vetted and approved for membership in what police describe as a highly sophisticated child porn netwo read more »

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AP - Jeri Ryan and her husband, French chef Christophe Eme, have a new family member. The 40-year-old actress gave birth Sunday to read more »

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AP - NBC is pumping up the return of "My Name is Earl" with a guest shot by Paris Hilton. Hilton appears as herself in a dream seq read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
One of the biggest signs that a business has trouble ahead is when it seems to be focusing on everything except the quality of its read more »

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Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 fell on Tuesday as bank stocks slid on a broker warning about more losses at Citigroup and the Fed read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Anthony Pellicano spent decades building his reputation in Hollywood as a crafty, bare-knuckled private eye who worked for a read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - A controller developed at Carnegie Mellon University allows computer users to manipulate three-dimensional images and explore read more »

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AP - Sometimes the fight against global warming can be downright pleasant. read more »

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Playbill - Tony Award winner Judith Ivey will play advice columnist Ann Landers in the Midwest premiere of David Rambo's The Lady read more »

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Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday opened an inquiry into a local television station in Alabama tha read more »

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Reuters - Apple Inc has no plans to declare a dividend or buy back its stock, Chief Executive Steve Jobs told the annual meetin read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc is unlikely to announce a capital raising deal on Tuesday, a person briefed on read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - "Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain" (Penguin, 256 pages, $25.95), by Martha Sherrill: In Japan, Akitas, a noble read more »

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AP - Life imitating art or just a coincidence? A study of campaign coverage found the media took a sharper look at Barack Obama th read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Last summer we noted that the Content Distribution Network (CDN) space was getting crowded with competitors, which was seriously c read more »

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AFP - The renegade Comoros island of Anjouan is heading for armed combat with the African Union within days, the African Union's s read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 fell on Tuesday as bank stocks slid on a broker warning about more losses at Citigroup and the Fed read more »

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AP - Costa Rican police detained 14 people Tuesday, including a family court judge and a lawyer, on suspicion of participating in read more »

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AP - An era ended in Northern Ireland on Tuesday as Ian Paisley, the fiery evangelist who long personified Protestant resistance t read more »

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AP - Hundreds of Venezuelan troops moved Tuesday toward the border with Colombia, where trade was slowing amid heightening tension read more »

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Reuters - Banks may have to swallow reductions in the principal of some troubled home loans to ward off greater losses that coul read more »

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AP - Police arrested 64 members of Egypt's largest opposition movement on Tuesday, the first day for registration of candidates fo read more »

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AP - David Hernandez won't be stripped of his chance to compete on "American Idol." A person close to the show, who is not authori read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Facebook said on Tuesday it had named Google Inc's global sales head, Sheryl Sandberg, as the social networking site's read more »

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AP - Kenny Chesney received a leading 11 Academy of Country Music nominations Tuesday, including entertainer of the year and top m read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The only foreign radio programming in Armenia's native language was taken off the air and its Web site blocked as part of the read more »

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AP - Books, TV movies, a presidential candidate and now a philanthropic reality show. Maybe everything Oprah Winfrey touches reall read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
VentureBeat is running an opinion piece suggesting that Facebook's platform strategy is a strategic mistake which got me thinking. read more »

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AP - About 25 Israeli armored vehicles rumbled into southern Gaza and clashed with militants after nightfall Tuesday. A 1-month-ol read more »

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Reuters - Ambac Financial Group Inc , the second-largest bond insurer, is progressing toward a deal to raise capital but has not read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and pe read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Apple Inc has no plans to declare a dividend or buy back stock, Chief Executive Steve Jobs told the annual meeting of read more »

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AP - Even before its troops got lost and came under fire this week in Sudan, Europe's mission to protect some half-million uproote read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
The death of audio DRM continues apace, as major book publishers begin following the lead of record labels and phasing out copy pr read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Apple's plans to give third-party developers access to its iPhone will be unveiled Thursday at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Malicious-code attacks are being aimed at mobile devices, security researchers say. The malware, which comes hidden inside legitim read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - The Rwandan government and the United Nations on Tuesday signed a deal allowing detainees sentenced by the UN-backed court o read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - NBC is pumping up the return of "My Name is Earl" with a guest shot by Paris Hilton. read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AFP - Rolling Stones guitarist and rock-and-roll bad boy Keith Richards is to become the new public face of Louis Vuitton, the Fre read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The networks are trotting out their big stars for Tuesday's key primaries in Texas and Ohio, as the duel between Democ read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The Iraqi parliament building is a former convention center, a place that might host a high school graduation or a health fai read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Brian Deagon from Investor's Business Daily spoke to me last week to discuss the details behind the Techdirt Insight Community, an read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Six years ago, Shifa al-Qudsi was plotting to strap on explosives under a maternity dress and blow herself up among Israelis. read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Nokia plans to include Microsoft's Silverlight on its S60 software platform for smartphones running the Symbian OS, beginning late read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
It's repeated so often that it has almost become a cliché: the Internet is a dangerous place for children. We're regularly read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft said Monday that it will make the current Web standard for rendering browser content the default in Internet Explorer 8. read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Nearly 70 years later, Jimmy Carter — the last active, original member of the Grammy-winning Blind Boys of Alabama — still read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Kenny Chesney leads all nominees for the Academy of Country Music Awards with 11 nominations, including entertainer of the ye read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc is considering joining a dozen banks and trading firms working to launch read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday it is developing a new business plan for Volvo that will include the Swedish luxury bra read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. stocks extended losses on Tuesday, sending major indexes down 1 percent, as financial shares sunk on concerns abo read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Slashdot points us to the story of how Hunter College agreed to create a "sponsored" class with money from the industry group the read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Cisco's latest routers focus on data, voice and video. Developed over five years at a cost of $250 million, the Cisco ASR 1000 Ser read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Staples Inc , the No. 1 office supply retailer, on Tuesday posted a flat quarterly profit and cut its full-year outloo read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - Staples Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit dipped as the world's largest office products supplier suffered declining North American read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft and Yahoo are competing again, but this time it's not about a takeover but the mobile Web. While Microsoft has partnered read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. stocks opened lower on Tuesday after chip maker Intel Corp cut its gross margin forecast, adding to worries abou read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday warned mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures were likely to rise an read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Kenny Chesney easily snagged 12 nominations on Tuesday to lead contenders for the annual Academy of Country Music awar read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
With all the attention the Streisand Effect is getting these days, don't be surprised when we see more people trying to use it on read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Economic uncertainty is forcing U.S. shoppers to consider low prices and bargains above all else for the first time in read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft took another step Monday toward its goal of being a "Software plus Services" company, as it opened its beta version of a read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Alison Lohman will replace Ellen Page in Sam Raimi's horror film "Drag Me to Hell." read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - General Motors Corp Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said on Tuesday that U.S. auto sales have been weak in the first two read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Louis de Bernieres has always considered himself a foreign writer, so setting his latest novel in native Britain is so read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Ukraine's natural gas company on Tuesday warned that if Russia further cuts its gas supplies, it could begin diverting shipme read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Barack Obama has sent a letter saluting his supporters in a Japanese town that shares his name, delighting residents who are read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Staples Inc on Tuesday said its quarterly profit was roughly flat as international sales helped offset a slowdown in read more »

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Reuters - France asked Sudan on Tuesday to help find one of its soldiers serving in the European Union force in Chad who went mi read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Yahoo , still fending off a $42 billion takeover bid by Microsoft , unveiled a bookmarking tool on Tuesday that lets u read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has the "might and power" to defend itself against any threat from Iran, read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, an online knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with more than 700,000 player read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 14 in the read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Microsoft and News Corp. have offered many reasons behind their desires to team up with Yahoo -- its brand name, its popularity, c read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Amid the sharp displays and booths offering up the latest gadgets and gizmos at the annual CeBIT trade and technology fair, the ke read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - SAP and Intel are teaming up to sell an Xeon-based appliance geared to run SAP's Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise r read more »

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AP - Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squa read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
USATODAY.com - In the late '70s, the only way to catch Steve Martin's wild-and-crazy Saturday Night Live performances was to stay read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Ambac Financial Group Inc , the second biggest U.S. bond insurer, has decided against splitting in two as part of a $2 read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Sony said on Tuesday it will add the Skype telephone service to its slim PlayStation Portable handheld console in Japan this read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Moviegoers won't to have wait long to see the next film from Joel and Ethan Coen, the Oscar-winning brothers behind "N read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks were set to open lower on Tuesday, with investors wary of any more signs of trouble for the economy and the ban read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Sites like RateMyTeacher.com and RateMyProfessor.com have been around in the US for ages, but it appears that some other countries read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - SAP and Intel , the world's biggest makers of business software and microchips, will jointly offer servers pre-packag read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails has wasted no time releasing its first album since becoming a free agent last Oct read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus will perform at rival network Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards in Los Angeles on March read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - Bat an eyelid to replay your favorite iPod tune with a new Japanese remote control that works in the blink of an eye. read more »

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AFP - Hundreds of pig farmers plan to demonstrate in Westminster Tuesday in protest at falling pork prices that are forcing them o read more »

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Reuters - The British government is considering banning all Zimbabwean sports men and women from competing in any sporting event read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Slashdot has an interesting post about some research about strategies for getting people onto airplanes quickly. This is a big dea read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Sony Corp said it would add a Skype Web phone function to its PlayStation Portable later this month in Japan in a bid read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler's unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to writ read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief EconomistWe often use this space to discuss how we treat user data and protect privacy. With the post read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
The Register has a story about how the guy who ran the website mildenhall.com (which promoted the village of Mildenhall in the UK) read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Gulf investment agency Dubai International Capital (DIC) said on Tuesday it would take "a lot more money" to rescue Ci read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Citigroup Inc and Wachovia Corp are facing separate lawsuits filed in a U.S. Federal court in New York by a small fu read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday said he would visit the United States later this month for talks with read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Nokia opened on Monday its online music store in Germany, the second such store for the world's largest cell phone mak read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Bai Ling says she made an "innocent mistake" when she allegedly took a pack of batteries and two tabloid magazines at Los Ang read more »

Date : 04 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Israel has said Hezbollah is rearming and has an arsenal that includes 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rocke read more »