Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
news.com: In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista.
For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
newsWeek.com: Back in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition was a byword for fear and terror in Europe. Its tribunals, set up by the Vatican to ensure that "heretics" did not undermine the authority of the increasingly powerful Roman Catholic Church, burned and tortured witches, blasphemers and members of other ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Iraqi officials say the government has approved the death sentence for "Chemical Ali," a cousin of Saddam Hussein, who is widely known for his role in poison gas attacks on Kurds in Iraq. It is expected that the execution will be carried within a month.
Iraqi officials said Friday the presidency ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
yahoo news: NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
reuters.com: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a quarterly loss of $29.45 billion on Thursday due to a huge goodwill write-off and forecast deepening subscriber losses, pushing its stock down as much as 13 percent to a five-year low.
The No. 3 U.S. mobile service ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
zen habits: No matter how much structure we create in our lives, no matter how many good habits we build, there will always be things that we cannot control — and if we let them, these things can be a huge source of anger, frustration and stress.
The simple solution: learn ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
laTimes.com: WASHINGTON -- President Bush today urged Congress to pass legislation that would give telecom companies immunity from class-action lawsuits for cooperating with U.S. intelligence services in monitoring terrorist communications.
"Allowing these lawsuits to proceed would be unfair," Bush said at a White House news conference. "If any of these ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
EU has fined Microsoft $1.35 billion (899 million euros) for failing to comply with the 2004 antitrust order. It is highest ever fine charged by EU and it is also the first time ever when EU has fined a company because of non-compliance with an antitrust decision.
The first decision in ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
portfolio.com: Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.
Some of those placeholders, however, did more than wait in line: They filled many of the seats at the ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
the independent: With her back against the wall, Hillary Clinton has been accused of turning to the sort of smear tactics more commonly associated with Republicans, in an attempt to block her opponent Barack Obama from getting the Democratic nomination. Over the weekend her campaign allegedly circulated a photograph ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
techCrunch.com: Network Solutions and ICANN are being sued over the “front running” domain registration practices that we covered last month.
“Network Solutions has forced millions of people to buy Internet domain names from them instead of cheaper competitors through a scheme that’s netted the firm millions of dollars,” according to ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Americans don't understand debt, which may be one reason that they have too much of it, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The survey presented 1,000 people with a hypothetical scenario about credit card debt and asked them to compute how long it would take to pay ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
yahoo news: NEW YORK - No good news today on the economic front. Consumer confidence plunged, the wholesale inflation rate soared, the number of homes being foreclosed jumped, home prices fell sharply and a report predicts big increases in health care costs.
Consumer confidence weakened significantly as Americans worry about ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Well, this one will make T-Blender extremely happy! It seems that the country of Pakistan has officially banned YouTube from being surfed in their country. The reason? There’s too much anti-Muslim content on the site, and that can’t be tolerated by the Pakistanis. It’s good to ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
yahoo news: ROCKY RIVER, Ohio - John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can't, "then I lose. I lose," the Republican said. He quickly backed off that remark.
"Let me not ...
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