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Yahoo Tech Analysts: iPod to rule holiday shopping again this year (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - Even with Microsoft Zune looking to knock the iPod from its lofty perch, Apple’s portable music player is expected to remain at the top of the charts for MP3 players during the holiday shopping season. In fact, mark...
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PCWorld news Outsourcing Comes to the Americas Businesses are starting to sour on Asia and turning to Latin America and the U.S. for IT services.
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BBC News world Hurricane sends oil prices higher The price of oil is on the rise as fears grow that Hurricane Ivan could disrupt oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico.
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PCWorld news Top 10 North American Wireless Broadband Networks A new report compiled by a wireless services consulting firm ranks Wi-Fi, WiMax, and third generation (3G) cellular networks in 16 North American cities.
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Reuters Business Stocks Fall; Techs Hit by EBay, Qualcomm NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, led by a sharp decline in the tech sector as shares of online auctioneer eBay Inc. EBAY.O and wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O took a beating a day after both companies reported disappo...
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Reuters Sports Australian Open Celebrates Its 100th Year MELBOURNE (Reuters) - It began at a humble suburban cricket ground, has been played twice in New Zealand and was even once held in a zoo.
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New York Times world November Sales Show Mixed Results for Retailers Consumers flocked to department stores but largely shopped right past specialty clothing retailers.
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Las Vegas Sun Nationals back in business Dousing a flicker of hope that Las Vegas could land the Montreal Expos baseball team, the Washington, DC council on Tuesday finalized a last-minute deal to bring the franchise to the nation's capital.
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Yahoo Sports No. 4 Oklahoma St.tops UNLV 79-67 (AP) AP - Joey Graham had 20 points, and John Lucas added 17 Saturday night as No. 4 Oklahoma State remained undefeated with a 79-67 win over UNLV.
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Boston Globe sports Gloria Conners | b. 1924: Mom vs. the World She taught Jimmy to play and to win.
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New York Times Science Building Codes Lag Behind Mayor’s Vision Bureaucratic delay and red tape can endlessly snarl a building project, even one encouraged by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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Yahoo Business Asia News Magazine Goes Monthly (AP) AP - The Far Eastern Economic Review will change its format from a news weekly to a monthly opinion journal in December, effectively marking the end of the region's leading English-language news magazine.
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Yahoo Sports No. 15 Texas Crushes Chaminade 84-62 (AP) AP - Texas withstood foul trouble and the 3-point shooting of Chris Reaves for an 84-62 victory over Chaminade on Monday in the opening round of the Maui Invitational.
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Bloomberg Ford Raises Profit Forecast, Makes Cuts at Jaguar (Update3) Ford Motor Co. raised its forecast for third-quarter earnings by 10 cents a share and said it would end unprofitable Jaguar car production at a Coventry, England, plant and pull out of Formula One racing.
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Reuters World Pakistan Ups Security, Shi'ites Mourn Bomb Victims SIALKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan beefed up security Saturday as minority Shi'ite Muslims prepared to bury victims of a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the eastern town of Sialkot that killed at least 30 people a day earlier.
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Boston Globe sports Seeing Vulnerability in N.F.C. Foes, Giants Are Confident Only the Giants seem to have noticed that other National Football Conference contenders, including the Cowboys and Packers, suddenly look vulnerable.
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Reuters PREVIEW-Els says heat will be a factor at Leopard Creek Heat could be a major factor when the field tees up for the 2005 Dunhill Championship at the Leopard Creek Country Club on Thursday, according to world number three Ernie Els.
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Reuters World Turks vote in referendum on presidential reform ANKARA (Reuters) - Turks began voting on Sunday in a referendum that will decide whether future presidents are elected directly by the people instead of by parliament.
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BBC News Sri Lanka rushes to bury its dead Urgent efforts are being made in Sri Lanka to bury the thousands of people killed by Sunday's sea surges to prevent the spread of disease.
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RedNova technology Iowa Telecom Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.405 Per Share Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. (NYSE: IWA) today announced its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.405 per share on Iowa Telecommunications common stock.
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Yahoo Tech NewsCorp won't pull videos from iTunes (Reuters) Reuters - News Corp. will not pull its television shows from Apple's iTunes as rival media group NBC Universal has done over a pricing dispute, President Peter Chernin said in an interview on Tuesday.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review American League Gold Gloves announced The American League Gold Glove awards were announced Tuesday and two went to the Seattle Mariners. Seattle second baseman Bret Boone and Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki each were honored for the fourth time.
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North County Times O'Connell gets start for Aztecs SAN DIEGO ---- The Kevin O'Connell era has at least temporarily begun. On Monday, the La Costa Canyon High graduate was officially promoted to starting quarterback by San Diego State coach Tom Craft.
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Yahoo World Sri Lanka truce monitors hold crisis talks (AFP) AFP - Five Nordic nations held talks to try to salvage Sri Lanka's faltering ceasefire, as the slaying of a top army general underscored the threat of full-scale war.
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Financial Times Google to scan universities' library books By Paul Taylor in New York and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Google, the leading service for finding information on the internet, yesterday set out ambitious plans to become a catalogue and digital library for world literature.
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New York Times world Once Ravaged by War, Now Vacation Spots Hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality, countries once torn by war are seeking to boost tourism.
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Yahoo Sports Mariners clobber Red Sox 9-4 (AP) AP - Jeff Weaver won his second straight outing after a dismal start to the season, pitching the Seattle Mariners to a 9-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.
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Houston Business Journal Continental posts third-quarter loss Continental Airlines on Tuesday said it swung to a third-quarter loss from a year-ago profit primarily due to special charges related to the retirement of three leased MD-80 aircraft.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Jag X-Type gets worst side-impact rating The 2004 Jaguar X-Type got the worst rating of any midsize sedan in side-impact crash tests conducted by the insurance industry. The X-Type, which starts at $31,000, fared worse
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Gambling Gates.com Who Els but Golden Goose(n)? Sun City, South Africa, Dec. 6 - Retief Goosen showed his awesome class to run away from challengers Lee Westwood and Ernie Els to win the £630,000 Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City on Sunday, where a closing 69 gave him victory by six clear shots.
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The Statesman Samarra sees repeated attacks BAGHDAD, Dec. 8. - Insurgents launched a string of assaults around Samarra today, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armoury, officials said.
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Yahoo World Scandal tails death of Turkey journalist (AP) AP - The Turkish media published photographs and video on Friday of police posing with a teenager charged with killing an ethnic Armenian journalist, and newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a "hero."
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Yahoo World Federal finance minister expecting 'significant increase' in revenues (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - CALGARY (CP) - The federal government is expecting a "significant increase" in revenues for the current fiscal year and next year, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday.
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CNET personal technology news 'Grand Theft Auto' meets Google Street View Blog: Hackers offer their take on Google's Street View feature.
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CNET security news On Adobe's Lightroom radar: panoramas, HDR Adobe says high dynamic range photography and panorama creation are in Lightroom's purview. Also: why the software development kit isn't as easy as you might think.
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New York Times Tech Spectrum Auction: Now Comes the Action-Packed Bonus Round The Federal Communications Commission said that, starting Wednesday, new rules will apply that will encourage more bidding and hasten the auction’s end.
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Washington Post Business High Voltage, High Tension Once every 10 years or so, something like this happens.
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Yahoo Politics Rice: U.S. Was Prepared for War in Iraq (AP) AP - Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice gave no ground in Senate confirmation questioning Tuesday, insisting the United States was fully prepared for the Iraq war and its aftermath and refusing to give a timetable for U.S. troops to come home.
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Yahoo Science Shuttle astronauts make third and last spacewalk (Reuters) Reuters - Two astronauts floated out of the International Space Station on Friday to complete work on new solar energy panels in the third and final spacewalk of a shuttle mission to restart construction of the half-finished outpost.
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Futbolera We Are Title Contenders - Moyes Everton manager David Moyes believes his "small and committed" squad have every right to be considered serious title contenders after they won a highly significant Merseyside derby against Liverpool.
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New York Times sports Celtics finding a second wind WALTHAM -- The education continues for the Celtics' second unit, primarily a collection of young, athletic, and energetic players taking a survey course in NBA basketball with every game. With midterms still months away, the reserves have proven themselves quick stu...
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Yahoo Business Growth in consumer credit slows (AP) AP - Consumers kept charging at a rapid pace on their credit cards in July although their overall borrowing slowed a bit.
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Yahoo World Election Heralds Start of Endgame in UN-Run Kosovo (Reuters) Reuters - Kosovo's general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N. protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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Information Week 7-Eleven Turns To HP To Streamline Operations The rollout of new servers and networking switches in stores is part of a five-year agreement supporting 7-Eleven's Retail Information System.
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Yahoo Politics Senior House Repulican in Re-Election War (AP) AP - Having served 17 terms, Illinois Rep. Phil Crane is the most senior Republican in the House. His quest for an 18th is proving difficult and has party strategists scrambling to fend off a challenge from Democrat Melissa Bean.
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RedNova science Egypt Among Earliest Arab, African Countries Protecting Environment Egypt is among the earliest Arab and African countries that gave special attention to the environment issue and enacted environmental laws, said Minister of State for Environment Affairs Maged George on Sunday.
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Reuters Sports Woods surprised at own title wins DUBAI (Reuters) - Never in his wildest dreams did Tiger Woods guess he would have 13 major championship titles at the age of 32, the world number one said on Wednesday.
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CNET networking news Rooting out top green-tech hotspots in the U.S. Green technology is clearly a hot area for new companies. What regions have had the most start-up activity so far?
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Boston Globe business Real estate process explained clearly Real estate process explained clearly I just wanted to say that I thought Andrew Caffrey's article was the best I have read explaining the complex dynamics of the current real estate market ( "Who'll Blink First?" Nov. 26 ). There are so many factors that go...
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InfoWorld news Indian bank site restored after malware attack ( InfoWorld ) - The web site of Bank of India, one of India's leading banks, was restored early Tuesday. The bank had closed the site on Friday after it found that the site had been hacked, and was dispensing malicious code. Sunbelt Software Inc., a provid...
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Yahoo Science Significant weekend storm system (weather.com) weather.com -
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Washington Post Business House Panel Votes to Extend Controversial Farm Subsidies, Signaling Battle to Come Setting the stage for a contentious congressional debate over farm subsidies, a House panel voted unanimously yesterday to extend for five years the current system of payments to farmers and rejected a series...
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Hi Pakistan Italian hostage among 12 killed in Iraq BAGHDAD: At least 12 people, including an Italian hostage, were killed in Iraq on Thursday as violence continued. An Islamist group claimed that it had killed an Italian hostage identified as Salvatore Santoro
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Yahoo Sports Frustrated Cardinals Can't Hit in Series Loss to Sox (Reuters) Reuters - While the Boston Red Sox celebrated the end of 86 years of frustration by winning the World Series on Wednesday, the St. Louis Cardinals had to deal with some new frustrations of their own.
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Reuters Algerian terror suspect to be freed The government says it will free an Algerian terror suspect held for more than two and half years under tough laws brought in following the September 11 attacks, after saying it can no longer justify holding the man.
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New York Times Tech F.C.C.'s Chief Turns Into Pitchman for Converting Nation to Digital TV Michael K. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has been at the forefront of efforts to get consumers to buy high-definition TV’s.
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Boston Globe business Bad loans slash Freddie Mac profit YESTERDAY Close $60.07 Change -$3.18 52-WEEK High $71.92 Low $54.97 Freddie Mac, the nation's number two buyer and backer of home mortgages, set aside more than $300 million in the second quarter to account for bad loans, contributing to a 45 percent drop in pr...
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Yahoo Sports Cards activate 1B Pujols before game (AP) AP - Albert Pujols came off the disabled list Thursday and returned to the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup for their series finale against the Chicago White Sox.
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Keralanext Europe ; EU will not lift China arms ban The United States, which sees China as a long-term strategic rival, has lobbied the EU against lifting the ban, citing a potential threat to Taiwan and to US interests in Asia.
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RedNova space Japan Uses Satellites to Track Disasters TOKYO -- Japan launched a satellite-based alert
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InfoWorld news Adobe AIR fulfills hopes for cross-platform developers ( InfoWorld ) - Developers have high hopes for Adobe's newly named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software, but reservations remain about the technology's cross-platform capability and learning curve. Formerly called Apollo, AIR is described by ...
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Reuters Business Credit Suisse names new CEO as profits surge ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse made the surprise appointment of investment banking head Brady Dougan as new chief executive after posting stronger-than-expected results on Thursday, sending its shares sharply higher.
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Yahoo Sports French paper: Armstrong admitted doping (AP) AP - A French newspaper claimed Friday that Lance Armstrong admitted to doping three years before the first of his seven Tour de France wins in 1999.
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Yahoo Tech Smile! Big Brother software is watching you (Reuters) Reuters - A Japanese company has developed "smile checker" software that can tell whether someone looks happy, sad or somewhere in between.
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Motley Fool A Fantastic Cancer-Drug Deal Medarex (Nasdaq: MEDX) is best known for being a leader in antibody technology with its capabilities for generating human antibodies in mice.
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Deepika Yugansk sale may delay Russia's Gazprom plans The nationalisation of Russian oil major YUKOS's main unit has cast doubt over the timing of plans to create a huge state energy holding and liberalise trade in the shares of gas monopoly Gazprom, analysts said on Friday.
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BCC Technology Yahoo's China policy rejected Yahoo shareholders reject plans for the company to adopt a policy opposing censorship on the internet.
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New York Times Tech Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle has intrigued academic researchers who study the mating game.
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Reuters Sports Clark maintains lead in Colonial Invitational FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - South African Tim Clark held on to a one-shot lead as the water-logged second round of the Colonial Invitational tournament finally finished on Saturday, nearly 24 hours behind schedule.
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Boston Globe sports Artest Puts Spin on Brawl and New Album As fans and pundits plunged into a fourth day of dissecting the player-fan brawl that shook the sports landscape, Ron Artest took refuge in a radio studio.
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Reuters World Militants hold up to 250 Pakistani children ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen took hostage up to 250 Pakistani schoolchildren in the northwestern town of Bannu on Monday after taking refuge in the school following a clash with police, officials said.
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The Register Naked builders hate ugly logos, but don't frequent Google Maps A lucky escape for the rest of us? Comments Friday again, folks, and you, our very own chattering masses, have been pressing enter like crazy. We'll start with an issue that seemed to unite us all for a few days.

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Reuters World Janjaweed militias massing in Sudan: AU source KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.
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New York Times sports Terriers eye fresh start The expectations have been tempered by a season filled with "what ifs." Six losses in an 11-17 season of 4 points or fewer; five of those one-possession games in the final seconds.
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Yahoo Tech Gallup: Online News Hasn't Beaten Old Media -- Yet (Editor and Publisher) Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Americans are more likely to get their news from local TV and newspapers than national sources, according to a Gallup Poll released today. But of all sources, only news on the Internet is gaining in po...
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Yahoo World Arabs: Terror War Has Spread Instability (AP) AP - Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were mourned worldwide Saturday, but in the Middle East, amid sympathy for the dead, Arabs said Washington's support for Israel and the war on terror launched in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse have only ...
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Yahoo Sports Purdue, Central Mich. to match offenses (AP) AP - When Joe Tiller came to Purdue in 1997, he was told his high-octane offense would never work in the Big Ten.
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New York Times Science Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries Using the photosynthesis of spinach to produce electric current.
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Reuters World Indonesia's Suharto to get state funeral in royal city JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's autocratic former president Suharto, whose legacy was marred by graft and human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, will be give state funeral in royal city of Solo on Monday.
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Yahoo Science Bio-diesel film not to everyone's tastes at Sundance (AFP) AFP - Activist Josh Tickell has been using and promoting bio-diesel for about 10 years as an alternative to fossil fuels, helping America lessen its dependence on foreign oil.
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New York Times Tech Eclipse Reeling in Swordfish as SOA Framework The Eclipse Foundation is developing an open source SOA framework intended for applications ranging from enterprise environments to embedded systems.
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Reuters World Chinese author at war with censors BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese author of a book about long-dead Peking Opera stars has become the latest challenger to the ruling Communist Party's censors, daring them on Friday to explain their secretive ways before the law.
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New York Times world Noontime Web Video Revitalizes Lunch at the Desk For Web video, lunchtime has become the new prime time, and media companies have started responding.
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Reuters World Strong earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck Indonesia's Mollucas islands, but no tsunami warning has been issued, the country's meteorology and geophysical agency said on Tuesday.
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New York Times Tech T-Mobile Introduces New Sidekicks T-Mobile is adding a high-end model, the Sidekick LX, with a screen with more than twice the resolution of the previous top-of-the-line model, the Sidekick 3.
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Reuters Tech Mobile TV requires higher, costly frequencies BARCELONA (Reuters) - The European telecoms industry is looking for new, higher frequencies to make up for a shortage of airwaves that can be used to enable consumers to watch television on the go.
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Yahoo Tech Open And Shut (TechWeb) TechWeb - Analytics: The next stop for open source?
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Yahoo Politics Sept. 11 Looms Large Over GOP Convention (AP) AP - Republicans are holding their national convention at Madison Square Garden for one reason, and it is four miles away at Ground Zero.
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InfoWorld New Santy worm poses threat to sites The flaw exploited by the most recent versions of the worm such as Santy.C or Santy.E is more general than the original, and can occur anywhere a site designer has left the door open for the inclusion of arbitrary files into PHP scripts, reports IDG News
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CNET personal technology news What holds back electric cars? Car dealers, says VC Those dealer contracts have to be broken or skirted for electric cars to get to the mass market.
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RedNova technology U.S. Probes Google Deal on DoubleClick The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into Google's plan to purchase DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion, The New York Times said.
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Keralanext World ; Cali Cartel Boss Sent to US on Drug Charges But on Friday evening he was escorted, handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof jacket, by heavily armed police to a Bogota police airport and handed to US Drug Enforcement Administration officers.
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BBC News world Rocks reveals Mars' watery past Exquisite colour images of the Martian surface give a tantalising glimpse into the Red Planet's watery past.
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BBC News world Treasure sequel tops box office National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, strikes gold at the US and Canada box office.
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Yahoo Sports Pressure all on United says Wenger (AFP) AFP - Arsene Wenger insisted the pressure is all on Manchester United after Arsenal preserved their two-point lead over their Premier League title rivals with a 2-0 victory over West Ham on New Year's Day.
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Redsox.com Red Sox rally falls short They came out wanting to set a tone. They wanted to keep the hostile crowd of 56,135 as quiet as possible. More than anything, the Red Sox wanted to jump out front in this
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