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The United States Food and Drug Administration issued Monday warnings to doctors and patients as well regarding the recent victims of Amylin Pharmaceuticals' Byetta. The FDA posted the warning on its Web site mentioning that patients suffering from type 2 diabetes were hospitalized due to the symptoms caused by treatment with Byetta. Since October 2007, the treatment with Amylin’s best-selling drug caused six patients hemorrhagic pancreatitis and necrotizing pancreatitis forcing them to check into hospitals. Two of them died. The FDA warnings caused Amylin shares to plunge 14.5%, or $4.92,...
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Toshiba announced the release of its first DVD player packed
with Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology. The device is called XD-E500 and will
provide a "near-HD" picture quality for the users’
standard-definition DVDs.
The official release date is scheduled for today, August 18
and the suggested retail price has been set at $149. Its added layer of
enhancement is expected to become extremely popular, as there are many movie
enthusiasts with significantly large DVD collections, who will surely rush at
the chance of viewing their favorite movies on a better image....
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As Apple realized that there is still a lot of work that
needs to be done for improving its MobileMe Internet services released last
month on July 10, the company decided on extending the free availability to its
users for another 60 days. The service was designed as the successor for the
company’s .Mac service, offering an e-mail account, address book, photos,
Safari bookmarks, Dashboard widgets, calendar applications, data
synchronization between desktops and several other features for Macs, the
iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Apparently, many subscribers reported a series of...
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As of today, American Airlines is the first company to offer
its customers onboard Internet access. The company announced that for now the
service will be available on its Boeing 767-200 aircrafts, running flight
between New York and Los Angeles, New York and Miami, and New York and San
Francisco.
The contestants in the race for providing the service
included Southwest Airlines, Virgin America, JetBlue Airways and Delta Air
Lines. Delta’s officials actually presented their upcoming offer, which will
include a fleet of 330 aircrafts, as the first such initiative, but it seems
that...
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It seems Apple is quite concerned with the stress MobileMe's problems have caused users since its release and has decided to extend the free account period by another 60 days. These two months add up to the 30 day extension users received last month. On Monday, MobileMe subscribers received an e-mail from the company, in which they were informed about Apple’s plans. In the same message, the company said although MobileMe has received many improvements, a lot more work is still required in order to eventually have a "great service". The MobileMe Team acknowledged the fact that...
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FedEx Corp. announced on Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter earnings dropped 6 percent...
Eaton Corp announced on Thursday its intention of purchasing two companies in Europe and Asia in...
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Oracle Corp., the biggest company developing database management systems, boosted its extended...
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plans of future investments in...
MGM Mirage and venture partner Pansy Ho, daughter of the
gambling mogul Stanley Ho, announced...
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc said on Monday it had reached a deal with Universal Music Group...
Unlike any of the specialists’ forecasts, United Kingdom’s inflation rate held steady in November,...
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