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New York Times Business Bush Presses House on Surveillance President Bush’s remarks came after the Senate handed the White House a major victory in a vote on spy powers.
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Independent Also from this section Fighting continued in Najaf late last night despite an earlier declaration that the Shia leader Muqtada Sadr had accepted a peace plan designed to end the two-week battle for control of the city.
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Yahoo Science Biologist accused of destroying plants (AP) AP - To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr. Once again, he's in court.
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New Ratings Deutsche Bank seeks dismissal of Yukos' US bankruptcy filing LONDON, December 29 (newratings.com) - Deutsche Bank yesterday sought the dismissal of Russian oil giant Yukos’ (YUSA.FSE) bankruptcy protection filing in a Houston court on grounds of lack of jurisdiction.
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Yahoo Politics Pelosi non-committal on US climate stance for G8 summit (AFP) AFP - US House of Representatives leader Nancy Pelosi refused here Monday to be drawn on whether the United States would back Germany's strong position on climate change at next week's G8 summit.
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PCWorld news Intel Outlines WiMax Plans Upcoming chips will lead to relatively inexpensive hardware, company says.
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Reuters World S.Korean tycoon gets suspended sentence for beatings SEOUL (Reuters) - One of South Korea's richest businessmen was handed a suspended 1-œ year sentence on Tuesday for beating up karaoke bar workers, the latest tycoon in the country to avoid jail despite a criminal conviction.
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Yahoo Tech Gartner Predicts the Blogosphere's Future (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - A set of blogging predictions from Gartner, a research firm that tracks all things technological, is making waves inside and outside the blogosphere. In its latest report, Gartner predicted that blogging -- the most loved, feared, and hyped Web trend since the emergence of e-mail -- will level off in 2007, leaving its startling growth rates behind.
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New York Times Business Greenspan Backs Idea of Accounts for Retirement The Federal Reserve chairman gave his blessing to individual investment accounts in Social Security but expressed unease about additional government borrowing.
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Reuters Business Airlines Agree to Cut Flights at Chicago O'Hare CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. airlines have agreed to limit flights into Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to 88 arrivals per hour between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. in an effort to cut congestion that has slowed the whole U.S. aviation system, federal officials said on Wednesday.
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New York Times Business At Home in the World G.E. is using strong overseas sales to reshape its image in Europe, where hard feelings still linger from its aborted effort to acquire Honeywell in 2001.
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Yahoo Tech Best Buy posts higher profit (Reuters) Reuters - Retailer Best Buy Co reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Tuesday, helped by strong international results and demand for notebook computers, flat-panel televisions and video games, pushing its shares up about 5 percent.
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Yahoo Science New X Prize Sets Sights on Science, Technology and Social Solutions (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - The X Prize Foundation and the World Technology Network announced today the formation of a joint venture to launch a series of technology incentive prizes to help spur innovation and breakthroughs in a range of scientific arenas.
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CBC News Panthers' Kolnik would skate with replacements: report CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Florida Panthers forward Juraj Kolnik reportedly said he might break union ranks if the NHL resumed with replacement players.
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Yahoo Tech Net File-Sharing Doesn't Hurt Most Artists - Survey (Reuters) Reuters - Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work despite online file-trading services that allow users to copy songs and other material for free, according to a study released on Sunday.
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Yahoo Business Honeywell profit up, shy of forecasst (Reuters) Reuters - Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International Inc said on Friday profit rose 14.2 percent amid continued strong demand from the aerospace and commercial construction sectors, but results were slightly below Wall Street's expectations.
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Eurosport Bremen ready to sell Charisteas "We've spoken to Ajax and they have expressed an interest," Klaus Allofs told German news agency SID on Wednesday. "Now we have to wait and see what this interest means in figures.
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Reuters World Long-neck refugees get Thai "human zoo" treatment MAE HONG SON, Thailand (Reuters) - For the past two decades, hundreds of ethnic Padaung "long-neck" people from military-ruled Myanmar have enjoyed relative peace and security as refugees in the hills of northern Thailand.
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Reuters World Australia Mediating U.S.-Iran Nuclear Stand-Off CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia had become a mediator in a nuclear stand-off between Iran and the United States, Prime Minister John Howard said on Sunday, in a move that mirrors Australia's role in the North Korea nuclear crisis.
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The Motley Fool The Best Time to Invest Demand lots of value at low prices.
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CNN/Money Sirius surpasses million subscribers Sirius Satellite Radio said Monday it surpassed its full year 2004 target of 1 million subscribers, boosted by the holiday shopping season.
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WLNS Japan Importing US Beef Again 10/23/04- Japan will soon import US beef again. This follows a tentative agreement between America and Japan to end a 10-month ban after concerns of Mad Cow Disease.
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BBC News world Record hurricane losses predicted Insurers could face their biggest-ever hurricane damages bill following a spate of storms in the Caribbean, an industry body says.
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New York Times Tech Bush Presses House on Surveillance President Bush’s remarks came after the Senate handed the White House a major victory in a vote on spy powers.
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Reuters World Tempers fray as Iraqi lawmakers discuss federalism BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament abruptly adjourned on Thursday after several Shi'ite lawmakers tried to force debate on the divisive issue of federalism, which Sunnis fear could lead to the breakup of the oil-rich country.
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Channel News Asia Almost a million Britons an hour pledging aid for tsunami victims LONDON: The British public has donated 32 million pounds (45 million euros, US$62m) for victims of the Asian tsunami, with calls to an aid line hitting a peak of almost a million an hour, charity organisers said Friday.
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Yahoo Politics Obama: Honesty on Social Security (AP) AP - In another jab at his chief rival, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says in an ad released Sunday that the country needs an honest dialogue about Social Security in order to fix the system.
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The Motley Fool Why'd Foreign Stocks Go Up So Much? Yet another reason for you to become a global investor.
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RedNova science By Any Name, Squid a Giant Attraction Humboldt squid, incorrectly called giant squid, moved in to the Santa Monica Bay for the first time in 2007 on Wednesday. The first two squid caught out of Redondo Sportfishing were taken on the half-day boat Redondo Special on the morning run.
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Daily Star Bahraini king to Saudi in row on US trade pact BEIRUT: Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday for talks with Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz.
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CBS MarketWatch Regis Corp. in deal to buy Hair Club for Men and Women WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Regis Corp. (RGS) announced a deal to acquire Hair Club for Men and Women in which it will pay $210 million.
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Yahoo Science Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water (AP) AP - It could be called a mechanical miracle — a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs.
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New York Times Business Study Finds Less Youth Antidepressant Use While the FDA contends otherwise, new data show that sales of the antidepressants known as SSRI’s have declined.
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Reuters Business Directors Guild, studios reach contract deal LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and TV studios on Thursday in a move likely to renew momentum for settling a 10-week-old writers strike that has crippled the industry and clouded the year-end Oscar season.
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Xinhua Man hammering gates of Downing Street arrested British police said they have arrested a man who launched a sledgehammer attack on the security gates at the entrance of Downing Street early Friday morning.
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The Register Ex-judge jailed for child abuse Vigilante hacker claims scalp after six year legal wrangle A former senior judge from California has been jailed for 27 months for possession of child pornography in a case initially based on evidence from a vigilante hacker.

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Puget Sound Business Journal Delayed Starbucks music stores finally debut CD-burning stations located inside Starbucks Corp. stores finally made their debut in Seattle Monday after six months of design and other delays.
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Yahoo Tech Internet free speech laws, Chapter Whatever (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Maybe you were out of town last week, or maybe you just weren't paying attention. That's OK. Here's a quick rundown of what you missed, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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The Motley Fool Coach Flies First Class Leather specialist Coach continues to produce welcome surprises.
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Yahoo Tech Google enhances document search service for businesses (AFP) AFP - Google released enhanced search tools that let companies sift through as many as 30 million documents kept on networks or websites.
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InternetNews.com Stone Rolls Away From Novell Chris Stone, who was instrumental in Novell's acquisition of SUSE Linux, has left for other pursuits, the company said Thursday.
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RedNova science Wrong Roads to Transportation Funding Tapping into the military The proposal to fund transportation by taxing landlords, and thus tenants, appears to be an attempt by the Virginia legislature to finally tap into the area's military resources.
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Washington Post Business Suburban Soul Sometime in the past few years, an interesting thing happened in the Northern Virginia real estate world: Reston overtook Tysons Corner as the choice address.
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New York Times Business New Homes Set Record: Sales Fell 26% in ’07 The decline was the steepest since records began in 1963, the Commerce Department said.
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Yahoo Tech Japan Slow to Catch on to Smart Transport (AP) AP - Japan has some of the most congested, confusing and cramped streets in the world. It also boasts some of the latest technology in zapping computerized data to millions of cars, delivering what may be the world's smartest way to drive.
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BBC News Business Strike shuts down Indian states A strike called by India's biggest trade unions shuts down two communist-ruled states.
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Yahoo Sports McHale Gets 1st Coaching Win With Minn. (AP) AP - Kevin McHale already has had an impact on the Minnesota Timberwolves: They're listening to their coach for once.
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The Washington Post sports Monster Chaser Loses Seeyoubychance holds off Monster Chaser by a neck in a back-and-forth race Saturday in the H. Steward Mitchell Stakes at Pimlico.
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CNET personal technology news MySpace, Facebook bantering at Web 2.0 conference A recap of some of what was said at the event on Wednesday night.
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Reuters Roddick Has No Trouble with Henman at Masters Cup Andy Roddick squeezed past Britain's Tim Henman, 7-5, 7-6, at the Masters Cup on Tuesday, giving his fellow Texans the win they came to see.
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Channel News Asia Rescuers seek survivors as Phillipines storm leaves 300 dead, 150 <b>...</b> REAL, Philippines : Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors Tuesday after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of
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The Washington Post sports Red Sox Sign Wells The Red Sox lure left-handed pitcher David Wells to Boston with a two-year, $8 million contract, pending a passing grade during a physical.
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Boston Globe business New overtime regulations take effect today Highlights of the Labor Department's overtime regulations taking effect today: Workers earning $23,660 annually or less are eligible for overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week. The department says about 1.3 million workers will be newly eligible.
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New York Times Four Walks Can Be as Good as a Home Run he big, bad Yankees, who have bashed more home runs than any other big league team this season, scrounged up a victory yesterday without getting a hit in a decisive ninth inning.
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Yahoo Politics Sudan tells EU and Canadian envoys to leave (Reuters) Reuters - Sudan has expelled the European Union and Canadian envoys from the war-torn African country, state radio and Western officials said on Thursday.
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Yahoo World Somali lawmaker shot dead outside mosque (AP) AP - A Somali lawmaker was fatally shot outside a mosque Friday, the latest blow to a virtually powerless administration that has watched helplessly as Islamic militants have taken over much of the country.
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BBC News Queen due at climate conference The Queen is beginning the second day of her official visit to Germany, with a major conference on climate change among her engagements.
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New York Times world U.S. Reports 4 More Soldiers Were Killed Monday The report brought the total number of American troops killed on Monday to at least eight.
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USA Today Boston takes upper hand The Boston Red Sox might have taken a step Wednesday night toward finding the dominating Pedro Martinez of old. By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY.
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Yahoo Tech Apple, mobile firms agree UK deal on music royalties (Reuters) Reuters - Apple's iTunes and European mobile operators including Vodafone on Thursday agreed on royalty rates to pay song writers and music publishers for digital downloads in Britain to partly resolve a dispute.
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BBC News Business Dairy boss faces share deal probe Regulators are investigating share dealing by the chief executive of Scottish dairy firm Robert Wiseman Dairies.
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The Motley Fool How to Spot Great Stocks You won't get great performance unless you invest in great companies.
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The Washington Post sports Owens Practices Terrell Owens gave up his spot at the Pro Bowl because of his ankle injury, but participated in the NFC squad's practice anyway.
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BBC science Space tourist in Earth touchdown The first female space tourist lands in northern Kazakhstan after a 10-day visit to the International Space Station.
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RedNova science City Hopes to Fill Key Position: Council Cut Funding for Salary By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Jun. 2--GULFPORT -- For most cities, crafting an astute public message is so vital a position such as public information officer would rarely be vacant for more than a few days.
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NEWS.com.au Soccer stars caught in bomb hoax MORE than 70,000 fans were forced to evacuate Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium after a bomb scare today. It came in the name of ETA Basque separatist guerrillas and forced the game with Real Sociedad to be abandoned three minutes from time.
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Tehran Times Iraq declares state of emergency Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has declared a state of emergency for 60 days, his spokesman said on Sunday. The emergency declaration excludes Iraqi regions run by Kurdish peoples
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GCN.com MSN Search debuts today Microsoft Corp.’s proprietary new search engine is scheduled to go live today in a beta version, at beta.search.msn.com. Like its rival, Google.
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Yahoo Politics Rodriguez Announces He Will Stay in Texas 23 Race (CQPolitics.com) CQPolitics.com - This story was writen by Bob Benenson and Matthew Spieler.
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Washington Post Business Father of Nike, Marketing Guru Gives Up Post Philip H. Knight resigned yesterday as head of the Oregon sneaker company that he built into Nike Inc., a global sportswear powerhouse that made everyone want to soar in Air Jordans, Wear Yellow and Live Strong Like Lance and, most of all, Just Do It.
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Wired Tech CES Video Gallery: Neonode, OLED, Mylo 2 and 150-inch Plasma Wired News reprises the week at CES in video: lots of eye candy.
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RedNova science State Panel Likely to Block Regulation of Farm Chemical By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep. 6--Wisconsin appears unlikely to regulate a controversial and widespread farm chemical that state environmental officials say is the most prevalent synthetic farm chemical found in the state's groundwater.
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Yahoo Politics Kerry to Go Hunting for Conservative Votes (AP) AP - John Kerry planned to go hunting Thursday, showing he's a regular guy to voters who might harbor some doubts.
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RedNova science 10 Killed By Typhoon in Japan A strong typhoon hit southwestern Japan late Sunday, leaving at least 10 people dead or missing and 200 injured in heavy rains and fierce winds. A volunteer fireman was found dead in a river in the city of Hiroshima.
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RedNova technology Ex-Sony CEO Idei Hopes World-Class Japanese Net Company Will Emerge By Takuya Karube, Kyodo News International, Tokyo Jun. 25--TOKYO -- Nobuyuki Idei, former chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corp., said Monday that he is hoping that a world-class Internet company will emerge from among the younger generation in Japan.
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Yahoo World Sudan Police Again Raid Camp in Darfur, UN Says (Reuters) Reuters - Sudanese police raided a camp in Darfur on Wednesday during which they destroyed makeshift homes, fired into the air and shouted at terrified villagers, the United Nations said.
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InfoWorld news JBoss alumni launch open-source startup A startup founded by former JBoss developers will come out of stealth mode Monday to announce a new product designed to help businesses zero in on their best sales leads. The startup, called LoopFuse, has developed a lead generation product that is offered as a paid on-demand service or as open-source software that can be downloaded for free and installed on-site. The Atlanta-based company is entering a growing market where it will compete with several other small providers, along with established players like Eloqua, based in Toronto. LoopFuse hopes to distinguish itself with its open-source model, which it said will allow it to price its service lower than rivals' services. Lead generation products track the activities of potential customers on a company's Web site and use factors like their job titles and activities on the site to assign "lead scores," which help salespeople to target their efforts. The products work in tandem with customer relationship management software. Kim Collins, a research vice president with Gartner, said interest in such products is growing in all industries. The challenge for new companies like LoopFuse -- and for customers -- is that many small companies are offering similar products, each with a slightly different twist. "They each do things a bit differently and utilize different channels for [lead] generation and distribution (e.g., Web, sales, e-mail). Some focus more on workflow and process. Others focus more on analytics and scoring. It makes the vendors and their solutions hard to directly compare," Collins said via e-mail. LoopFuse was founded early last year by Tom Elrod and Roy Russo, who each spent three years at JBoss, the Java server vendor acquired by Red Hat. Elrod was lead architect for JBoss Remote and Russo cofounded the JBoss Portal, according to LoopFuse's Web site . The company has quietly rolled out its product to a handful of customers over the past year. On Monday it plans to launch a new release and start marketing itself more actively. The product, called LoopFuse OneView, includes tools for e-mail marketing, Web analytics, managing campaigns and scoring and prioritizing leads, among other things. The new release, version 3.0, will add lead management and lead nurturing tools, a spokesman said. The software is released under the GNU General Public License. LoopFuse hopes to shake up the economies of the market. The open-source model can help vendors reduce their costs by drawing on existing software components and contributions from users. LoopFuse OneView will be priced at $300 per month for an unlimited number of users, although usage will be capped at about 2,500 e-mails and 100,000 page hits, said Matt Asay, an adviser to LoopFuse who is also a vice president with content management company Alfresco. Users will be able to pay more to lift the cap, he said. That pricing compares favorably to Eloqua. Its service starts at $3,000 per month for a team of about five users, but with no limits on e-mail or page views, said Thor Johnson, Eloqua's senior vice president of marketing. Still, Johnson said he was unconcerned with LoopForce, noting that he already has a plethora of smaller rivals. Eloqua has a battle-tested service that is being used by more than 400 customers, he said, including Nokia Enterprise Solutions, Sybase and Red Hat. It also has some capabilities that LoopFuse does not, such as direct-mail marketing, he said. Eloqua was founded in 2000 and recently closed a $23 million funding round, which it will use to expand in Europe and Asia. Johnson questioned the ability of startups like LoopFuse to serve global businesses, or to scale quickly enough to handle big customers. "We're processing more transactions than the Nasdaq," he said. LoopFuse will be hoping to parlay its JBoss connections and the rising confidence in open-source software to its advantage. It has partnered with open-source company SugarCRM, allowing customers to use a complete open-source stack for marketing and sales. "While our proprietary competitors tread water, and ask you to empty your wallets for 8+ year-old brittle-ware, we're busy innovating, innovating, and innovating, by applying open source principles and methodologies to every facet of our products and business," LoopFuse said in its blog last year.
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Yahoo Science Russia May Have to Delay Space Launch (AP) AP - Russia may have to delay October's planned launch of the next International Space Station crew by up to 10 days to fix a problem on the spacecraft that is to carry them into orbit, Russian news agencies reported.
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Reuters Business Lear shareholders reject Icahn bid BOSTON (Reuters) - Auto parts maker Lear Corp. said on Monday its shareholders voted down a buyout offer from an affiliate of billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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ZDNet.com Novell lays out infrastructure, identity wares This fourth priority's main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Novell on Monday used its annual
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InfoWorld news Intermec unveils first multi-protocol RFID printer Intermec Technologies on Monday unveiled a prototype version of a multi-protocol RFID printer in its PM 4i Smart Printer product line at the Frontline Solutions Conference & Exposition in Chicago. Company officials said it is the first multi-protocol printer in the market.
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New York Times sports Devils' shootout goals sink Sabres Patrik Elias and Zach Parise scored shootout goals in New Jersey's 3-2 win over Buffalo last night in Buffalo, extending the Sabres' winless streak to nine games.
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Boston Globe business TAP agrees to $150m settlement TAP Pharmaceutical Products has agreed to pay $150 million to consumers and private insurers to settle claims they overpaid for its drug Lupron because the company artificially inflated the price.
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The Daily Star Abbas begins election campaign PLO chief Mahmud Abbas began his campaign Saturday to become president of the Palestinian Authority with a one-minute silence for the late Yasser Arafat.
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Yahoo Sports Dmitri Young looks forward to 2nd chance (AP) AP - Dmitri Young was not allowed to forget what he lost last fall, not allowed to escape reminders of the one thing that always came easily and gave him a sense of purpose, even as the rest of his life fell apart: baseball.
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The Washington Post sports Louisville Is Told Officials Erred On Punt Return Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese calls Louisville Athletic Director Tom Jurich Sunday, saying referees erred during a disputed punt return for a late UConn touchdown.
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Time World North Korea Raises the Stakes Analysis: More tough talk, another provocation. What's behind Pyongyang's threat to test a nuclear weapon?
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The Motley Fool Sony Should Say Sayonara Japanese electronics giant may cease selling plasma TVs.
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The Motley Fool Inverness Trades Stock for Revenue Matritech becomes the latest of Inverness' acquisitions.
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Goal.com Magath Hopes For Scholl Luck Bayern Munich coach Felix Magath hopes that Mehmet Scholl can stay clear of the injuries that have debilitated his career in recent times.
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Yahoo Politics Kyl vows to block open government bill (AP) AP - Advocates of a bill promoting openness in government are fuming that a Republican senator is blocking a vote.
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Boston Globe sports Hasselbeck Quietly Proves He Is One of Elite In an N.F.L. postseason heavy on quarterbacks of national renown, in a Seahawks season hinging on his right arm, Matt Hasselbeck exudes a less-celebrated, self-deprecating cool.
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The Times Wave kills granddaughter of Lord Attenborough In a statement last night the 81-year-old actor-director and Lady Attenborough said that Lucy had “died at the scene” as a wall of water engulfed the resort of Phuket, where
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The Motley Fool JPMorgan's Credit Question Mark JPMorgan announces its second-quarter 2007 earnings.
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The Washington Post sports Rockets' Alston Arrested Houston guard Rafer Alston is released without bail on Tuesday after being charged with stabbing a man at a Manhattan nightspot.
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Yahoo World Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Everest, dead at 88 (AFP) AFP - Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday aged 88.
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New York Times Business Merck to Settle U.S. Claims for $671 Million The drug company will settle claims it overcharged government health programs and improperly enticed doctors to prescribe its drugs.
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Boston Globe sports Mercury 77, Shock 76: Mercury Forces Deciding Game Cappie Pondexter scored a game-high 26 points, including a driving bank shot with 21 seconds to play to force a deciding fifth game in the W.N.B.A. finals.
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Yahoo World Somali Islamists said to be regrouping (AP) AP - Somalia's government is not in control of most of this war-ravaged country, and a radical Islamic group that was driven out last year is regrouping, a Somali official said Thursday.
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ESPN Saints to start Brown at cornerback Chicago Bears: Their quarterback situation a mess, the Bears will bring in Tim Couch for a physical and a tryout Friday. Starter Rex Grossman is out for the season with a knee injury and backup Jonathan Quinn has struggled in two starts.
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