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Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Biggie is coming to the big screen. read more »

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AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Soccer moms of the world, unite! And jog over to off-Broadway's Snapple Theatre Center to enjoy Kathleen Cla read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A Hercules cargo plane delivering food and diesel oil to Indonesia's remote province of Papua burst into flames after touchin read more »

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AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday called a Colombian raid that killed two dozen rebels in Ecuador a "war crime," read more »

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AP - The U.S. military will court-martial four Marines in Japan for the alleged rape of a Japanese woman, a Marine Corps official read more »

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AFP - A battle over a US Air Force tanker contract heated up Wednesday, with vanquished Boeing hinting it would protest and winner read more »

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Reuters - Australian tourists briefly held hostage in China by a lone man armed with explosives on Thursday told of their ordeal read more »

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AP - A court commissioner has granted Britney Spears' father control of the singer's estate for another five months. read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
I recently flew on Richard Branson's new Virgin America airline, and one of the nice features was the fact that you could order fo read more »

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AP - A U.N. diplomat sought to coax democratic reforms out of Myanmar's military rulers Thursday in his third trip to the country read more »

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AP - Ziff Davis Media Inc., publisher of technology and video game magazines, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday and cited a decrea read more »

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AP - Colombia is worried about a document on the laptop of a slain rebel leader indicating the guerrillas were trying to obtain ur read more »

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AP - The United States is spearheading an initiative to get a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force on the ground in Darfur. read more »

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AP - Files in a laptop computer seized from the wreckage of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador offer new insights into Venezuelan P read more »

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AP - The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 20 read more »

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AP - The Defense Department said Wednesday it has finalized war crimes charges against a Sudanese citizen accused of working for O read more »

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AP - Scott Weiland has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of drugs when he crashed his car in November. An attorney read more »

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PC World - On Thursday, Apple holds court with the media to outline its plans for the iPhone, starting with news of the iPhone Dev read more »

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Reuters - Seth Rogen is readying his walkie-talkie for "Observe and Report," a comedy about a deluded, self-important mall secur read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. gave early testers their first glimpse of its next-generation Web browser Wednesday, and said Internet Explor read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
The New York Times has a write up about Check Out, the new Wal-Mart blog that has been making waves with its blunt style. The blog read more »

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Reuters - The owner of Penthouse magazine, once known for its hard-core brand of porn, plans to hit up Wall Street this year for read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A human rights coalition charged Thursday that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has reached its worst point since read more »

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AP - Patrick Swayze's doctor is "optimistic" about his prognosis for battling pancreatic cancer, and the "Dirty Dancing" actor's u read more »

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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Costner has wrapped up his latest role — plaintiff in a lawsuit. Costner, 53, has settled his 2 1/ read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Chip-maker Intel Corp.'s CEO, Paul Otellini, vowed Wednesday to shore up the company's defenses against steep drops in memory read more »

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AP - Microsoft Corp. raked in tens of billions of dollars selling software last year. read more »

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AP - Portraits of such cultural luminaries as Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway are on display with such bizarre objects as a blu read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
The Swiss firm Bank Julius Baer learned all about the Streisand Effect last week, after somehow convincing a judge to force Wikile read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Patrick Swayze is being treated for pancreatic cancer but is doing well enough to continue working, his representative said W read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Sovereign wealth funds, which have drawn criticism for recent multibillion-dollar injections into battered U.S. banks, read more »

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Investor's Business Daily - The economy slowed during the first two months of this year while inflationary pressures increased, th read more »

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AP - No finalist as ever been portrayed as openly gay during the past six seasons of "American Idol." With more details about cont read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - TiVo Inc. beat analysts' estimates Wednesday with a fourth-quarter loss of $6.4 million as expenses fell and sales of older-m read more »

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Reuters - U.S. songwriter and record producer Linda Perry is suing Warner Music Group for not turning over millions of dollars i read more »

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Reuters - Walt Disney Co plans to make animated films in Japan to cater to Asian tastes, as it moves core production outside the read more »

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AP - A Swiss bank quietly dropped its lawsuit against renegade Web site Wikileaks.org on Wednesday, days after a judge reversed hi read more »

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AP - The Ohio and Texas primaries turned out to be more super than Super Tuesday for CNN. read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Over the last few months, I've been doing research on a forthcoming paper for the Cato Institute on the network neutrality debate. read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp asked software developers to "bet on us" as it began making test versions available of Internet Explore read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as evidence the services sector may not be as weak as feared allayed investors' concerns read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Warren Buffett, the famed U.S. investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), replaced his friend and Microsoft C read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Playbill - Few theatre composers are introduced to the public with the sudden adulation that has been bequeathed on The Adding Mac read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Investor's Business Daily - Guy Pope loves misery. "I try to take advantage of fear and pessimism around stocks," said the manager read more »

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AFP - Apple on Thursday is to unveil a "software roadmap" for outside developers interested in making programs for its hip, hot iP read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - The motion-sensing and "bump" feedback of Nintendo's Wii video game is only a baby step compared to a magnetic-levita read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released Wednesday initial public beta read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
The folks over at Against Monopoly alert us to the fact that a Finnish software/gaming development company has applied for a US tr read more »

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AP - Apple Inc. has fallen substantially short of its target of having 1,000 movies available for rent on its Apple TV set-top box read more »

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AP - Slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday postponed a key deadline in a looming battle with spurned suitor Microsoft read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - The economy has weakened since the start of this year as shoppers turned even more cautious given the severe housing slump an read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Humorist Garrison Keillor put his historic St. Paul home up for sale, a few weeks after a dispute with his neighbor over her read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Stocks closed higher on Wednesday as evidence the services sector may not be as weak as feared allayed investor concer read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
PC World - During a discussion hosted by Morgan Stanley today, Apple hinted that the iPhone might become more useful to business w read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - A Finnish court on Wednesday dismissed charges against the prime minister's former girlfriend, who wrote a kiss and te read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
CNet reports on a talk by Department of Homeland Security official Stewart Baker, in which he defended the Real ID Act against its read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Federal Reserve districts all saw decelerating economic growth in early 2008, even as prices pressed upward almost eve read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - OPEC ministers agreed to hold output steady and said oil prices which hit an all-time high on Wednesday were driven by read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc said on Wednesday it plans to sell at least $1.5 billion of stock and converti read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie attempted to clarify Microsoft's Web-based advertising and services strat read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Over the years, we've seen a ton of jurisdictional questions raised by the internet. After all, since the internet is available j read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Americans have become more dependent on their cell phones than conventional phones. read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - Yahoo on Wednesday extended its deadline for nominating board members as the Internet giant maneuvers to thwart a hostile ta read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
AP - The economy has weakened since the start of this year as shoppers turned even more cautious given the severe housing slump an read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Most people gave up on their vinyl music collection two decades ago, when compact discs all but nudged LPs off store shelves read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - When a small padlock appears in the corner of your Web browser's address bar or the entire bar turns green, it seems like a p read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - If $200 laptop computers are good for kids in Peru and Mongolia, why not Alabama? read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Yahoo has amended its bylaws to extend the deadline for nominating directors to its board from March 14 to 10 days after the publi read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The Motion Picture Association of America says moviegoers around the world pushed box office revenue to a record $26.7 billio read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The Motion Picture Association of America says moviegoers around the world pushed box office revenue to a record $26.7 billio read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AFP - Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, the recently-divorced second wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, will marry her lover in New read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Despite its status as the nation's most popular sport, the National Football League suffers from discrimination at the hands read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Google has launched Google Gears for mobile -- an open-source browser extension for wireless devices that will enable read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Yahoo Inc extended a deadline to nominate board directors, buying the company time to pursue alternatives to Microsof read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
I've been puzzled by a lot of the coverage of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger talks. Take yesterday's write-up of the story in the New read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - The state of New York fined the personal corporation of Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken $25,000 for not carrying worke read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - The slumping U.S. service sector and weakening job market dealt further blows on Wednesday to an economy teetering on read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - In brief remarks Wednesday to publishing executives, first lady Laura Bush called books her "greatest love affair" and warned read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Travelers using Denver International Airport's free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
InfoWorld - While wireless Internet access has become a virtual commodity in homes and offices, exhibitors at this week's Cebit sh read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Four years after they disbanded, the guys from Phish are getting a lifetime achievement awards from the Jammys — but don't g read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
You certainly see some bizarre stories about older cultures adapting to newer technologies, but this might be one of the most biza read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
NewsFactor - Like gunfighters in the Old West, Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry are taking positions that many observers think read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
At Apple's annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, CEO Steve Jobs reiterated the company's goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Intel Corp. lowered its profit forecast for its fiscal first quarter Monday, blaming the shortfall on a steeper-than-expected drop read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Intel Corp. lowered its profit forecast for its fiscal first quarter Monday, blaming the shortfall on a steeper-than-expected drop read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Product Manager, Google CalendarI've suffered major headaches trying to sync all my calendars. I used the read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Ben Lee, Software Engineer, and Jack Menzel, Product ManagerHave you ever forgotten the exact address of a site that you read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Yahoo! News: Business
Reuters - Costco Wholesale Corp and BJ's Wholesale Club Inc posted higher quarterly profits and better-than-expected February read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Google has launched Google Gears for mobile -- an open-source browser extension for wireless devices that will enable developers t read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Here's a story that follows nicely on our recent post about Trent Reznor quickly selling out his $300 "Ultra-Deluxe" limited editi read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - American shock jocks, dirty tricks masterminds and political bloggers: Beware the wrath of an 86-year-old Kenyan villager. read more »

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AP - Russia's state gas monopoly Gazprom is announcing an end to the reduction in natural gas supplies to Ukraine. read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Yahoo Inc. has extended a deadline for nominating candidates to its board, giving the struggling Internet pioneer more time t read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice persuaded Palestinians to return to peace talks with Israel Wednesday after a br read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Road warriors who are tough on notebooks have reason to rejoice. On Tuesday, Dell unveiled its first fully ruggedized laptop, the read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A single laptop can reveal much, and so it is with the digital treasure chest that Colombian commandos found in the jungle qu read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Back in December, we wrote about a company that was selling a product it claimed would provide you with a facelift in an hour. No read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq less than a week after the end of a large-scale ground read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Like gunfighters in the Old West, Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry are taking positions that many observers think will end up i read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Venezuela and Ecuador took their growing conflict with Colombia to the diplomatic front, seeking international condemnation o read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Humorist Garrison Keillor put his historic St. Paul home up for sale, a few weeks after a dispute with his neighbor over her read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Radio broadcaster Cox Radio Inc narrowed its quarterly loss as it benefited from strong local revenue growth in its la read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - A film about violent U.S. anti-Vietnam War protests in 1968 is not just another nostalgic Sixties movie, says director read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The alerts look authentic, but don't let that fool you. Any financial warning you get over the Internet is probably bogus -- espe read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
We've all heard the expression: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That's certainly true of computer hard drives because t read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AFP - EU competition regulators approved on Wednesday the US technology giant IBM's takeover of Swedish software firm Telelogic af read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Tommy Hilfiger Group said on Wednesday it will bring its men's and women's footwear business in-house, ending a licens read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
The chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, said Monday that his company's legal woes in Europe, which have so far resulted i read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Mitsubishi Electric said Monday that it planned to get out of its unprofitable cell phone business, becoming the latest Japanese e read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology NewsFactor Network
Samsung, the world's largest electronics maker, said Monday that it was starting a major push into the personal computer and offic read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Iraq's cabinet has given the green light to the Oil Ministry to sign agreements with international oil companies to help incr read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Official Google Blog
Posted by Ryan Tabone, Product ManagerDesktop's last beta release made the beautiful gadgets in our Desktop gallery available for read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
Computer science professor Matt Blaze critiques a recent New Yorker profile of Michael McConnell, the man who is leading the Bush read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Thai students will be barred from wearing watches in national university entrance exams this weekend after a student w read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The final epilogue to the tumultuous writers strike has been written, but Hollywood is bracing for a possible sequel t read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Finland's GeoSentric unveiled on Wednesday its mobile social networking service GypSii for Apple's iPhone. read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The video for Gnarls Barkley's new single, "Run," may feature a cameo from Justin Timberlake, but it's still not quite read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission is investigating a mysterious signal loss by an Alabama CBS affiliate during a " read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 World Yahoo! News: World News
AP - "Poor Lebanon" is a much-loved preface to a litany of the country's troubles. Parliament has been deadlocked for a year. A qu read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - "American Idol" producers are shrugging off the latest sex scandal to hit the top-rated U.S. television show, saying c read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
About a year ago, we saw UK politicians complaining that the iPod's white earbuds made it an attractive target for criminals. The read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Yahoo Inc and media conglomerate Time Warner Inc have stepped up talks to create an alternative to Microsoft Corp's read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - Social networking site Facebook has approached major music labels about launching a music service, the Financial Times read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Entertainment Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Irish actor Ciaran Hinds, best known for portraying Julius Caesar in HBO's "Rome," will play a villain in "Race to Wit read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead fo read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Technology Yahoo! News: Technology News
Reuters - About 23 percent of U.S. mobile phone users have seen advertising on their cell phones in the last 30 days and about h read more »

Date : 05 Mar 2008 Business Techdirt
You may have noticed lately that whenever a story breaks about a young person doing something bad (say, shooting up a school or lo read more »