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Inflation: Price jump worst since '91
"Record gas and higher food prices drove inflation to the biggest annual jump since 1991 and fanned fears about growing pressures on consumers.The Labor Department reading on Wednesday is another sign, along with mounting job losses and declining home prices, of the economic...Websites Suddenly Blocked in China? This may be Why -UPDATED
UPDATE: The Great FireWall of China website is no longer offering a test, since the test is no longer reliable.There is another site you can try to see if your site is blocked: Website TestGot a question below about what to do about it, from a webhost provider, the only idea...Twitter Acquires Summize; Launches Official Twitter Search
As NowPublic speculated last week, Twitter has been getting set to purchase Summize, a search tool built on the Twitter API. Today, it was announced that the acquisition has been made official -- and Twitter...
Dollar plumbs new low versus euro
Homework for US Govt to find a solution..."The dollar sank to a new all-time low against the euro Tuesday as concerns about the health of the U.S. banking sector and economy deepened.The 15-nation euro rose as high... Anheuser-Busch agrees to $52B takeover
"The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev.Anheuser Busch Cos (BUD, Fortune 500). said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from Inbev, heading off what had promised to be a long and acrimonious fight...Yahoo! Not Quite Ready To Make Nice With Microsoft, Rejects Latest Offer
..It's been a roller coaster at the office lately with all of this buyout talk by Microsoft, but I am happy to have read this story. I'm not quite ready for a hostile takeover and certainly not ready to work for the... VaTech, D.O.E, Russians, collaborators study rare microorganism that produces...
"An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow's hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the process refined by a billions-year old archaea. The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute... Most Powerful Business Woman touts McCain on the Net
UPDATED The Christian Science Monitor, has posted video of the event. Here's the link. When it comes to presidential politics, Barack Obama has all the buzz on the Internet. He has raised record amounts of money online. He hired a Facebook co-founder to help leverage... DNA Proves Texas Man Innocent Nine Years After he Died in Prison
Timothy Cole was serving 25 years for a rape he didn't commit.How did the State of Texas manage to convict so many wrong people?DNA does not help if they have already been executed?"New DNA tests prove that... MIT goes AbuDhabi Masdar green city
" Abu Dhabi's green ambitions don't end with the city. It has persuaded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a graduate school and research institute... Withdrawn: Govt. to Canadians...
" Update: I apologize for this document and withdraw it. The research needed for this post was not done properly and the resulting material should not have been posted. The media and internet sources that provided... BC Homeowners urged to Check Titles: Fraudsters
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly makes you wonder, you come home from work and find another family in the process of moving into your home. Unrealistic? Yes! Possible? Most...Pursuing a Tech Career in Southeast Asia
This is an informative blog by John Rajeski, writing about the ins and outs of living and working in Southeast Asia (but he uses South Korea as a case study here). His bottomline is that working in any new, alien culture boils down to how one uses the experience...Samsung Instinct Challenges Apple's IPhone Via Sprint Nextel
"Sprint Nextel Corp. will offer the Samsung Instinct phone, which can access e-mail and get live television programs, starting today for $129.99 each, according to Sprint's Web site. That's below larger rival AT&T Inc.'s $199 price for the iPhone. Unlike Apple's latest...HP Unveils New Touch-Screen Desktops
This looks pretty cool." YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- Following the wave of awe and acclaim over the iPhone's distinctive touch-screen, PCs are joining the latest "hands-on" revolution in tech, led by Hewlett-Packard. The question is whether the innovation will catch on as well...
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