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Reuters World Hezbollah-led opposition set to protest in Beirut BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-Syrian Hezbollah-led opposition is set to protest in central Beirut on Friday aiming to bring down the U.S.-backed government, which has vowed it will not yield to the pressure.
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Butterfield Advocate Flu shot vaccine shortage felt here When British regulators shut down Chiron Corporation’s (an Emeryville, Calif. biotechnology company) Liverpool, England factory on Tuesday, Oct. 5, citing concerns about bacterial contamination, they cut
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Yahoo Business Merck wins Vioxx trial in Alabama state court (Reuters) Reuters - An Alabama state court jury on Friday handed Merck & Co. its second victory this week in a Vioxx product liability trial, finding the drugmaker did not hide the health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis drug, or knowingly market a faulty product.
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Yahoo World Indian manufacturers seek role on global stage (Reuters) Reuters - Just three years ago, Tata Motors Ltd., the flagship of India's second-largest private conglomerate, was mired in red ink and caught in the grip of a prolonged industrial slump.
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ABC Online Train crash passengers still receiving treatment Two dozen people are still being treated for injuries after the derailment of a high-speed train in south-east Queensland overnight.
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Yahoo Health Antipsychotic Drugs Raise Death Rates in Elderly (HealthDay) HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new study adds to growing evidence that antipsychotic drugs raise death rates among elderly people, who are sometimes given them when their behavioral problems become too much for doctors or families to handle.
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Guardian Top News Magna Carta fetches £10m at auction A copy of the Magna Carta has been sold for more than £10m to an American tycoon
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CNN Top News ADV: Trade Shares and Currencies Commission-Free GCI offers commission-free online trading in shares, indices and major currencies. Register today for a free demo account - including charts, quotes and internet trading software.
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New York Times Arts Art Review | 'Jeff Wall': Eyes Wide Open, With Stories to Tell Jeff Wall’s photography mines a welter of traditions and is favored by both critics and the market.
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Bloomberg India Rallies as Australia Slumps; Warne Ties Record (Update1) Anil Kumble led a fightback by India, trailing 1-0 in the four-match cricket series, as Australia slumped to 235 all out on the first day of the second Test.
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Yahoo World Explosions strike Baghdad's Green Zone (AP) AP - A series of mortars or rockets slammed into the U.S.-controlled Green Zone on Thursday, and an official said at least one round struck a parking lot used by the Iraqi prime minister and his security detail.
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Reuters Business Court orders Skilling to jail HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ordered ex-Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling to begin serving immediately a 24-year prison sentence after a one-day reprieve, according to court documents.
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The Motley Fool Jersey Junk Bill Debate on a New Jersey bill provides a glimpse of a battle likely to be fought in many capitals and boardrooms.
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CBC Manitoba Bombers attack Saudi security offices RIYADH - Insurgents bombed Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry office and a security unit in Riyadh on Wednesday, injuring at least 17 people in what appeared to be the latest strike by al-Qaeda.
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Guardian Top News Airlines and activists unite to fight Stansted plan · Inquiry into 10m increase in Stansted passengers· Airlines say BAA scheme would put up prices
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Search engine journal Ask.com’s Ask X : Search Testing Ground Lisa Barone, super search blogger, has the beef on Ask.com’s search interface & user experience testing ground, Ask X. Google has its SearchMash to test new Ajax and Java powered search tools, and now Ask has Ask X. And Lisa has this to say about Ask X: The difference between Ask X and Google’s SearchMash [...]
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Yahoo Entertainment CBS buys online music site Last.fm for $280 mln (Reuters) Reuters - CBS Corp. said on Wednesday it has purchased Last.fm, the online music service that allows fans with similar tastes to connect, for $280 million in a bid to attract young audiences.
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RedNova science The Travels of Tripletail: Tagging Will Help Researchers Study Blackfish By Al Jones, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Sep. 10--OCEAN SPRINGS -- The Mississippi Sound is home to some of the best fishing the Gulf of Mexico has to offer. From cobia to redfish, anglers have a smorgasbord to choose from. Add blackfish, also known as tripletail, to the mix.
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BBC News world Fifa 'drops World Cup rotation' Fifa unanimously agrees to drop its World Cup rotation policy from 2018, according to vice-president Chung Mong-Joon.
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Guardian Top News Brevity brings reward for Chinese-born author Guardian first book prize for tales of everyday lives.
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BBC science Last foot-and-mouth controls end Animals from all parts of the UK can be exported live to EU countries, after the last foot-and-mouth controls ended.
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Bloomberg Rice Says US Couldn't Underestimate Threat From Hussein US President George W. Bush couldn't afford to minimize the threat from Saddam Hussein when determining whether he was rebuilding Iraq's nuclear weapons capability, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said.
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Yahoo Europe Boris Johnson wins Tory nomination for London Mayor (AFP) AFP - Boris Johnson will be the Conservative candidate for London mayor next year, taking on Ken Livingstone, the Tories announced Thursday.
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Yahoo World Clinton: Afghanistan needs more troops (AP) AP - Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday the resurgence of the Taliban and growth of the poppy harvest in Afghanistan are signs there are insufficient coalition troops in the country.
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Yahoo Europe Iran Seen Using EU to Buy Time to Get Atomic Bomb (Reuters) Reuters - Iran is using negotiations with the European Union's "big three" on suspending sensitive nuclear activities to buy the time it needs to get ready to make atomic weapons, an Iranian exile and intelligence officials said.
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ABC Online Three British soldiers killed in Iraq TONY EASTLEY: To Iraq now, where three British soldiers have been killed and a number of others injured in an ambush by insurgents.
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San Francisco Chronicle NBA Capsules LeBron James scored 26 points to become the youngest player in NBA history to reach 2,000 in a career, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 96-74 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night.
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BBC - Front Page Clean houses 'may trigger asthma' Parents who keep a clean house may unwittingly be developing asthma in their children, research suggests.
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Bloomberg Jobs of British Airways Directors Under Threat, Telegraph Says Three senior directors at British Airways Plc face pressure as Chief Executive Rod Eddington starts an investigation into last week's flight delays, the Sunday Telegraph said, citing an unidentified executive at the airline.
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Yahoo Europe Bank of England holds interest rate at 5.50 percent (AFP) AFP - The Bank of England held its key interest rate at 5.50 percent, the highest level for six years, the central bank announced on Thursday.
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Yahoo Entertainment Lists of Best-Selling Books (AP) AP - 1. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
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Yahoo Health Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 9, 2004 (HealthDay) HealthDay - (HealthDayNews) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
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Syfy.com Lohan hires ex-Israeli army specialist as security Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has hired an ex-Israeli Army specialist as her new bodyguard. Now she can shop and go partying in peace.
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Reuters U.S. Qaeda recruit Padilla sentenced to 17 years MIAMI (Reuters) - Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism.
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BBC News world Sharif 'taken to Pakistan jail' Pakistan's ex-PM Nawaz Sharif is arrested and flown to prison after returning to challenge the president, officials say.
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Yahoo Entertainment Longoria Gives Outfit for Tsunami Auction (AP) AP - Celebrities including actress Eva Longoria and singer Avril Lavigne will auction off personal items on eBay to raise money for survivors of the Asia tsunami.
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Reuters Top News Waldheim, ex-UN leader and Nazi, buried in Austria VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday.
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Kataweb Calcio Rio de Janeiro, 13:58 - CALCIO, BRASILE A ZURIGO PER MONDIALI 2014: PELE' NON C'E' Non c'è Pelè nella delegazione del Brasile che domani arriverà in Svizzera nel ...
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Reuters Top News Group to Kill U.S. Hostage if U.S. Doesn't Quit Najaf DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraqi militants who said they captured a U.S. journalist last week have threatened to kill him within 48 hours, if U.S. forces do not pull out from the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
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VNUNet.com HP drops Itanium workstations HP is dropping its line of Intel Itanium-powered workstations to concentrate on chips capable of running both 32-bit and 64-bit software.
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Boston Herald Pop goes your waistline: Soda ups risk of diabetes, weight gain Things don't go better with Coke. Or Pepsi. Or any sugar-sweetened soft drink. That's according to a new study that links significant weight gain and higher risk of type 2 diabetes in women who drink soda daily.
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Ansa Italia Rifiuti: Prodi al Quirinale Sircana: stop a polemiche, soluzione una volta per tutte
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Yahoo World Serbs vote in watershed presidential vote (Reuters) Reuters - Voting began on Sunday in Serbia's presidential election, a tight race between pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hard-line challenger Tomislav Nikolic.
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Yahoo Politics Bush, Kerry Exchange Bitter Words on Iraq (AP) AP - President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry traded biting accusations over the war in Iraq on Monday as early Florida voting produced scattered complaints that stirred memories of the state's chaotic 2000 recount.
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Yahoo Sports Sportsview: Dodgers' Season Mysterious (AP) AP - The first tipoff came from the stands, not the locker room. The playoffs were in sight, and up in the massive decks of Dodger Stadium, fans weren't racing to their cars during the seventh-inning stretch.
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International Herald Tribune PeopleSoft board rejects bid PLEASANTON, California The board of directors of PeopleSoft has rejected Oracle's $9.2 billion takeover bid, continuing its resistance a day after the company's own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of stock to Oracle.
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Yahoo Tech IBM Intros Semantic Search for E-Mail (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - With new search software for Lotus Notes announced Thursday by IBM, users will be able to find information in what the company described as "the vast personal database that e-mail has become."
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RedNova technology Schwarzenegger Rival Defends Campaign By MICHAEL R. BLOOD LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Democratic rival Thursday defended his campaign's decision to download a recording of a private meeting in which the governor chattered about "very hot" mixed-race personalities.
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Winnipeg Sun 'Peg psychologist helps Ford focus ATHENS -- Of the 10,000 athletes in the Athens Olympics, David Ford may be the only one who brought his own personal psychologist. "Probably," Roger Friesen said.
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The Age Soldier gets 8 years for prisoner abuse The highest-ranking US soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was sentenced to eight years in prison, the severest punishment meted out so far in the case.
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Yahoo World Al-Sadr overhauling his Shiite militia (AP) AP - Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia leader is turning to his commanders who distinguished themselves fighting U.S. troops in 2004 to screen fighters, weed out criminals and assume key positions in an effort to build a more disciplined force, two of his key lieutenants say.
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RedNova technology Most Want Voucher Issue Simplified By Copyright 2007 Deseret Morning News By Jennifer Toomer-Cook and Bob Bernick Jr.
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ComputerWeekly.com Outsourced crash holds up benefits payments A routine software upgrade of desktop PCs at the Department of Work and Pensions has left 80% of the ministry's computers unable to send or receive e-mails.
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Yahoo Sports No. 9 North Carolina Tops Indiana 70-63 (AP) AP - Rashad McCants scored 19 points and Raymond Felton added 18 points as No. 9 North Carolina fought off Indiana 70-63 on Wednesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
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Reuters Entertainment Oops, There It Is -- Best Film Flubs of '04 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Buried under the avalanche of year-end lists is one that won't make moviemakers very happy. MovieMistakes.com has named and shamed its 15 favorite continuity errors of 2004.
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BBC UK Tsunami families in 'legal limbo' Officials investigate the plight of Britons left in legal limbo after their relatives went missing in the Asian tsunami.
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Ansa Italia Avvocati, al via 6 giorni sciopero L'astensione riguardera' tutte le udienze
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phillyburbs.com For gamers, a midnight wait in line for 'Halo 2' In just a few minutes, "Halo 2" would officially be released, and these gamers couldn't wait to get their first taste of the most marketed, and perhaps most anticipated, video game ever.
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Kataweb Calcio Colorno (Parma), 19:26 - CALCIO, AMICHEVOLE: PARMA-COLORNO 5-1 Il Parma ha battuto in amichevole il Colorno (Promozione) 5-1. I gol: doppiette di Corradi e Regina...
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The Washington Post sports Trail Blazers Buy Out Francis Contract The Trail Blazers have agreed to terms on a buyout with guard Steve Francis, who was acquired in a draft night deal with the Knicks.
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BBC - Front Page UK Muslims offer Bhutto prayers British Muslims are expected to offer prayers on Friday for the assassinated Benazir Bhutto.
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Boston Globe 2 camps gird for tonight's big debate President Bush and Senator John F. Kerry will step into an auditorium on the campus of the University of Miami tonight
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The Register Game over and over again Classic video games dusted off for new exhibition If you miss the thrill and retro skill of maneuvering your way through Space Invaders, or the excitement of out-smarting those pesky little Pac-Men, then the Science Museum might just be worth a visit over the coming months.

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New York Times Ohio Fire Kills 10 Who Lived in Same Apartment A fire raced through an apartment complex in a Columbus suburb on Sunday, killing 10 people who lived together and forcing others to jump from third-story windows to escape.
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Kataweb Sport Miami, 13:05 - VELA, CLASSE YNGLING: ITALIA QUALIFICATA PER PECHINO Chiara Calligaris, Francesca Scognamillo e Giulia Pignolo hanno conquistato ai Mondiali di Miami uno...
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New York Times Science Safety: Nonstandard Work Shifts May Hinder Recovery Working a nonstandard shift increases the chances that a worker will be injured on the job and how long it might take to recover, researchers say.
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Guardian Painkiller shortage hits health service Doctors were told yesterday to restrict the use of the NHS's frontline painkiller for very sick patients in an attempt to eke out supplies.
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BBC - Front Page Presenter cleared of raping man BBC Radio 4 presenter Nigel Wrench is cleared of raping a man he met at a New Year's Eve party.
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Yahoo Europe Chirac criticises "interference" in Iraq hostages' release bid (AFP) AFP - French President Jacques Chirac has lashed out at a private initiative to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq as "interference" and said he hoped it would not thwart the delicate process, aides said.
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BBC News world Pitt and Aniston announce split Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston say they have separated after "much thoughtful consideration".
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CNN Top News Tourists flee as volcano erupts Read full story for latest details.
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New York Times Another Effect of Drug Use WE sat there on the dusty knoll of Ancient Olympia Stadium and watched the first women to compete in that hallowed place. Maybe because of the Greeks' love of their history, we suspended the
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Ansa Italia Myanmar: Prodi, viva preoccupazione Palazzo Chigi in contatto con presidenza Ue e Ambasciata
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Yahoo Entertainment Burberry Freshens Up Its French Property (Fashion Wire Daily) Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily December 2, 2004 - PARIS - Property though thankfully not its price dominated talk as a gang of French actresses led the celebration of the redesign of Burberry’s French flagship store in Paris Wednesday night.
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Reuters Top News U.S. hopeful as North Korea talks open in China BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.S. envoy was hopeful and his South Korean counterpart wary as delegates from six countries opened talks on Thursday aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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ic Newcastle.co.uk Wenger keeps up Red Devils attacks Ruud van Nistelrooy's apology to Ashley Cole does not look like ending his feud with Arsenal after Arsene Wenger launched another bitter attack on the Dutchman - and his club.
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Repubblica Myanmar, monaci buddisti ancora in piazza 30mila manifestanti in marcia contro il regime I religiosi disobbedendo agli ordini hanno ripreso anche oggi il corteo di protesta a Yangon Alla marcia pacifica contro il governo militare si sono uniti migliaia di civili Myanmar, monaci buddisti ancora in piazza 30mila manifestanti in marcia contro il regime (09:39 24/09/2007)
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Big News Network.com Report shows why women decline tamoxifen Boston researchers say many women at high risk for breast cancer are declining tamoxifen, the first approved drug for prevention of breast cancer.
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BBC - Front Page Hunt for George Michael intruder Police look for a woman who broke into pop star George Michael's north London home earlier this month.
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InfoWorld news Qualcomm sees wireless device boom ( InfoWorld ) - A perfect storm is brewing in wireless communications, which may soon boom like the PC business did in the 1990s as the Web took off, a Qualcomm executive said Wednesday. Ubiquitous high-speed wireless data, mobile applications, and browsing ability will soon drive demand for 1GHz processors in handheld devices, said Sanjay Jha, executive vice president and group president of CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) technologies at Qualcomm, in San Diego. Speaking at Bank of America's annual investment conference in San Francisco, he compared today's wireless industry to the PC business when 64Kbps modems and the Netscape browser appeared in the mid-1990s. Those, too, helped drive demand for chips with 1GHz speeds and above, he said. Within a few years, wireless broadband of 300Kbps to 600Kbps will be widely available and people on the go will demand more processing power in devices to take advantage of new services, he said. To fill this need, device makers will have to fill in the comparatively empty market space between notebook PCs on the high end and cell phones on the low end, Jha said. Particularly in less developed countries, notebooks won't work as the next step up from phones for mobile data, he said. Growing demand for processing power on mobile devices plays into Qualcomm's business plans. The pioneer of CDMA has aggressive  plans for new silicon  to be introduced over the rest of this year and 2007. Manufacturers are already working with one Qualcomm chip set, the MSM (Mobile Station Modem) 7200, that has almost 1GHz of speed: The chipset includes both an ARM 11 chip of 400MHz to 500MHz and an ARM 9 running at about 250MHz, Jha said. That chipset will support HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access), a next-generation version of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) with a higher upstream speed, and will be able to handle VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls, he said. WiMax will help to change the game on mobile wireless as Intel integrates it into chip sets for notebook PCs, Jha said, though he downplayed the rival wide-area wireless technology. WiMax could become a good technology but needs work, Jha said, particularly in its support for voice and real-time applications. Flash-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing), a rival to WiMax, has advantages because it was developed within a single company instead of by a committee, Jha said.  Qualcomm acquired  that company, Flarion Technologies, last year. In an interview following his presentation, Jha said Qualcomm is already talking with Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN), a group of mobile operators that last week demanded better licensing terms for network technology. Qualcomm has come under fire for its royalty practices. Jha said his company already meets the industry standard for fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing terms but NGMN wants something beyond that.
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New York Times Business A January to Remember as a Dismal Start Wall Street sent Washington a message: the recession that Ben S. Bernanke said can be averted is already here.
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The Washington Post sports Williams Calls on Baseball Supporters In an interview on WTOP radio, Mayor Anthony A. Williams said a deal to bring baseball to D.C. is "close to dying" but can still be realized with more hard work.
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Ansa Economia Borse: asiatiche, apertura positiva Tokyo +1,45,Hong Kong +7,4,Shangai +2,69,Sydney +6,1
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Reuters World Blasts rock Mogadishu market MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Several explosions ripped through Mogadishu's sprawling Bakara Market on Tuesday, killing at least two people in a fifth day of violence in the area.
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Reuters Business Charges hit Pfizer and Wyeth, Lilly shines NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc, Novartis AG and Wyeth all saw quarterly earnings hit by charges on Thursday, while Eli Lilly and Co exceeded Wall Street expectations as third-quarter sales of several of its drugs outpaced analysts' estimates.
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The Scotsman Windies book final against England as Pakistan flop WEST Indies beat Pakistan by seven wickets at the Rose Bowl yesterday to reach the final of cricket’s Champion’s Trophy and set up a showdown with hosts England at the Oval on Saturday.
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Yahoo Entertainment Goldman sues O.J. for book-deal bucks (AP) AP - Ronald Goldman's father sued O.J. Simpson on Tuesday, seeking any money the former NFL star received for a canceled book deal and TV interview that told a hypothetical tale of how he would have killed his ex-wife and Goldman.
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BBC UK 'Profound loss' of Afghan victims Tributes are being paid and flags are at half-mast after 14 UK troops were killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan.
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Telegraph.co.uk FA hierarchy squander their moral duties Such are the warped judgment values presently infecting Soho Square that the main surprise at Adrian Mutu's drug hearing yesterday was that the Football Association didn't offer the cocaine
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Yahoo Business Citigroup Profit Rises 13 Percent (Reuters) Reuters - Citigroup Inc. on Thursday said third-quarter profit rose 13 percent, topping most Wall Street forecasts, as growth in consumer businesses offset declining stock and bond market revenue.
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Reuters World Settlement activity endangers Mideast talks: Abbas PARIS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday new Israeli settlement activity was posing an obstacle to revived Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts launched in the U.S. town of Annapolis last month.
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Motley Fool Genzyme Breaks Into Cancer Arena Biotech titan Genzyme (Nasdaq: GENZ) has its roots in the treatment of rare genetic diseases and also has a significant presence in the treatment of renal diseases and providing diagnostic testing services.
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Yahoo World Philippine vessel sinks, 18 missing (AP) AP - A Philippine ferry sank early Thursday southeast of Manila, leaving four passengers dead and 18 missing, the coast guard said.
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The Register Easynet trims losses Rapid return on DSL unbundling
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette Leap year again as Americans go 1-2 in long jump The biggest smile in track and field got a little bigger last night, and the long jump gold medal is solidly back in American hands.
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BBC News world Al-Qaeda in Iraq 'reduced by 75%' Three-quarters of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been destroyed over 2007, the Interior Ministry in Baghdad says.
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Washington Post Business Generations of Change When the Corporate Executive Board throws its annual black-tie bash, staffers call it "the prom." At last month's company-wide yearly review meeting, bosses decked out in goofy get-ups did YouTube parodies. A recent staff meeting ended with an office bowling party, open bar included.
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Reuters Top News The Who star at Glastonbury mudbath GLASTONBURY (Reuters) - Rock godfathers The Who headline at Glastonbury on Sunday with persistent rain turning the rural English meadows which host the world's biggest greenfield music and arts festival into a high-spirited mudbath.
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Reuters World Mortar blasts rock Mogadishu, 10 killed MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Mortar bombs hit several parts of Mogadishu before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people in one of the fiercest bombardments since an Islamist movement was chased from Somalia's capital last month.
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Stuff.co.nz Russia says Conoco mooting $US2b Lukoil stake MOSCOW: Oil giant ConocoPhillips looked close to taking a $US2 billion ($NZ3.11b) stake in Russian major Lukoil on Thursday after Russian officials confirmed the US firm's interest in the auction of a 7.6 per cent stake.
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