Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd and Taiwan's Amtran Technology agreed on Monday to set up a joint venture in China to produce flat screen modules and manufacture TV sets for brand makers.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Up to five million birds a year may die by crashing into cell phone towers at night. After a court order, the wireless industry has been meeting with the FCC to work out the least painful rules for making new transmitter towers avian friendly.Read More...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
After a Russian television station sidetracked a documentary about the razing of historic buildings, the filmmaker’s point found outlets in print and online.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
In modern politics, where the struggle is to “define” yourself before your opponent “defines” you, Wikipedia has become an important part of political strategy.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
KAMPALA, Uganda -- Meet Denis Ruharo, an entrepreneur with a master's degree, a man who carries a BlackBerry and two Nokia cellphones, buys organic greens at a grocery store and sometimes does business over a cold Nile beer at a club called Silk.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31 -- Anyone who thought the Democratic convention would be a dull and choreographed affair clearly didn't count on the bitter, ego-fueled clashes that marked the week.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
On Thursday at 11:50 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, GeoEye chief executive Matthew O'Connell plans to be at Vandenberg Air Force Base, watching a Boeing Delta II rocket roar into the California sky, carrying GeoEye's new imaging satellite -- and the hopes of his company's future. If all goes well, h...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Advertisers are grappling with the idea of Google, which spent many of its early years avoiding — and infuriating — advertising agencies, now shifting to embrace them.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
The new media players who came to the Democratic convention were not there just to annotate mainstream coverage: they’re in the hunt themselves.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Intel snaps up Linux mobile developer Opened Hand, but continued validation bottlenecks are constraining the company's ability to sell Atom processors. Relief could still be a year away, and that gives competitors a (tiny) window of opportunity.Read More...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Can ISPs that receive National Security Letters legally be prevented from talking about them? In oral arguments before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week, ACLU attorneys urged a three-judge panel to uphold a lower court ruling invalidating NSL gag orders.Read More...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
CNET - The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's volatile Ingushetia region was shot and killed Sunday after being detained by police.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
AFP - Microsoft will slash the price of its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan by almost 30 percent to try to boost sales amid tough competition from rivals Sony and Nintendo, a report said Monday.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
DETROIT (AP) -- For the most part, the callers were calm, patiently asking for the fastest path out of New Orleans or some other Gulf Coast city as Hurricane Gustav twisted its way to the northwest....
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
DETROIT (AP) -- For the most part, the callers were calm, patiently asking for the fastest path out of New Orleans or some other Gulf Coast city as Hurricane Gustav twisted its way to the northwest....
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