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HP Dethrones Dell in U.S. PC Market
Hewllet-Packard became the top PC seller in the United States in the first quarter of this fiscal...
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83% of Enterprises “Dreading” the Release of Windows 7
Microsoft’s soon-to-come operating system, Windows 7 (the one which will hopefully wash away...
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Yahoo, Microsoft in Talks of Major Ad Partnership
Everybody who thought the Microsoft-Yahoo merger saga of last year ended though wrong. With Yahoo...
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U.S. Electricity Grid Breached by Cyber Spies from Russia, China
Government officials acknowledged the fact that our nation’s electricity grid has been...
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RIM to Launch BlackBerry Storm 2 with Wi Fi, 5mp Camera
Research In Motion (RIM) will soon launch a new version of the BlackBerry Storm. Most probably, the...
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MIT Researchers Develop Virus Batteries
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to turn the concept of a battery...
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Early foray into disc backups has limited household use
Hamburg - Computer users nowadays have a choice of hard drives for storing data - the computer's...
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Yahoo Unveils iPhone App at CTIA
Yahoo unveiled at the CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas trade show its new line of mobile apps for the...
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QuickPlay to Offer Full TV Shows on BlackBerrys
QuickPlay Media Inc announced it will soon deliver full length TV shows to Research In...
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Microsoft takes bite out of Apple
San Francisco - Can the tight US economy help Microsoft beat back the cavalry charge of its much...
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Honda Unveils Robot that Can ‘Read’ Your Mind
Imagine a world of robots doing everything people can do, from ordinary things like cleaning the...
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Smart Grid Is Hackable, Cyber Security Experts Said
Recent tests showed that the Smart Grid, which delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers...
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Pricey US cellphone plans on chopping block for pressed consumers
Washington - An estimated 19 per cent of consumers with a cellphone in the US, or about 35 million...
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Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer 8
Just one day after Google launched the Beta version of its Chrome Web browser, Microsoft...
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Bandwidth theft and data piracy: Protecting your WLAN from attackers
Wireless LAN (WLAN) is a convenient way of surfing the internet. The technology allows users to...
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Social networking beats email on the web
San Francisco - Social networking is a more popular online activity than email, according to a new...
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BlackBerry Store Is Now Called BlackBerry App World
Research in Motion (RIM) announced its upcoming app center will be called BlackBerry App World and...
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Windows 7 Intends to Satisfy Every Need
Microsoft Corp. yesterday quietly launched the release candidate of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to...
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Gartner: Phone Makers Struggling With Low Consumer Confidence
The competition among phone makers is as tough as it gets this year, a recent report released by...
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Gartner: 2009 Will See Worst Decline In PC Shipments In History
In its most recent estimations, Gartner Inc. warned that the PC market is in for the sharpest...
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Merkel and Schwarzenegger open CeBIT trade fair
Hanover, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and California Governor Arnold...
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Gartner Forecasts Sharpest Decline Of PC Sales
According to the research company Gartner, the PC sales will suffer a sharpest decline during the...
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Nielsen: Economic Context Forces People To Access Job Sites More
Career development websites have shown a 20 percent increase in the number of unique visitors on...
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Obama Includes Additional NASA Funding for 2010, As Promised
NASA’s $18.7 billion budget for the fiscal year 2010 reflects one promise that Barack Obama...
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Microsoft Demos Emerging Technology During TechFest 2009
Technology as we see it now is just a small glimpse of what technology will look like in a few...
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Users get rid of iPhone Apps in One Day, Study Says
It might be quite surprising to find out that a new research pointed out that users tend to throw...
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iPhone Apps Thrown Away by Users in No Time, Study Says
Back in the summer of 2008, when Apple rolled out its online marketplace for the iPhone and...
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Web Search Rankings: Yahoo Takes Small Bite from Google
Internet marketing research company ComScore revealed the latest numbers in the Web search market....
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Congress Urged To Support Reform and Funding Of New Forensics System
A strong set of evidence should be able to put the right people in jail, and absolve the innocents,...
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Western Digital Unveils Latest Home Network Solution
External storage solutions provider Western Digital today introduced its latest My Book World...
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U.S.
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Obama announces tougher corporate tax rules
Washington - US President Barack Obama outlined a new proposal on Monday to rein in tax...
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Food-Borne Illness Rates Still High in the US
Despite efforts to improve food safety in recent years, the United States is still confronting with...
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Czechs await Obama amid changing relations
Prague - The notorious Czech provocateur of an artist, David Cerny, had the privilege last summer...
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Obama keeps promise on California visit
Los Angeles - US President Barack Obama visited the Southern California town of...
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Obama appearance on talk show a mix of laughs and politics
Los Angeles - US President Barack Obama mixed jokes and politics Thursday night...
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US economic indicator fell in February
Washington - A key gauge of US economic performance fell in February after rising slightly in...
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Obama presses budget plan on California trip
Los Angeles - US President Barack Obama pushed his plans for economic recovery Wednesday on a...
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Vatican denies plans to meet with US President Obama
Rome - The Vatican on Sunday denied news reports of plans by Pope Benedict XVI to meet in the...
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Nancy Reagan praises Obama reversal on stem cell research
Washington - Former first lady Nancy Reagan welcomed President Barack Obama's decision Monday to...
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Human Stem Cell Research Gains Grounds in the US
Stem cell research is making another step to the future in the United States. Geron Corp, a...
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Western Forests Are Dying At An Increasing Rate, Study Says
A recent study shows that trees on old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but...
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Western Forests Affected By Climate Change
The U.S. Geological Survey released a report presenting a worrying trend in western U.S. where the...
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Nationwide Digital TV Plan Postponed
President-elect Barack Obama requested the Congress to pass a bill in order to delay the digital...
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Bush Holds Final Address, Talks about His Legacy
In his final address to the nation last night before leaving the presidential office next week,...
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Fox Topped the Ratings with Football Broadcast
Fox won the biggest ratings last week because the network knew what to broadcast as to attract the...
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California Experts Puzzled By Mysterious Pelican Deaths
An estimated 270 dead or ailing California brown pelicans have been found in recent weeks from...
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Director of Disease Control Centers, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Resigns
Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned. Dr....
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Mystery disease leaves California pelicans bruised, disoriented
Los Angeles - A mystery disease is striking California's huge flocks of pelicans, which are being...
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New Study Shows That Global Warming Affects the United States
A recent White Paper issued by the Federal Government pointed out that...
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Controversy In Health Care – “Conscience Protection” Rule Passed
The Bush Administration is clearly taking advantage of the least few days in office to pass some...
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Woman Undergoing Face Transplant Feeling Well
The woman given a second chance to life thanks to a face transplant undergone at the Cleveland...
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"Deep Throat," who helped bring down Nixon, dead at 95
Washington - "Deep Throat," the secret source who helped bring...
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Epilepsy Drugs Need to Carry Suicide Warning
Epilepsy drugs must carry a warning saying that they increase risk of suicide, US...
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FDA Says Epilepsy Drugs Should Carry Suicide Warnings
The US Food and Drug Administration is ordering companies that make epilepsy drugs to add warning...
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First Face Transplant In The U.S.
Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have
performed the nation’s first partial face transplant. The...
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Gene Mutation Said To Combat Obesity
The presence of a gene mutation in the human body appears to lower levels of “bad” cholesterol and...
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FDA Intends To Modify Consumer Advice On Fish
Since March 2004, the federal government has urged women of childbearing years, pregnant women,...
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Elephants in Zoos Live Less
Recent research reported that both Asian and African elephants that live in captivity have a...
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U.S. Students Get Better at Math
A study
released on Tuesday pointed out that American 4th and 8th
graders significantly improved...
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How Prepared are the U.S. States for Actual Disaster?
Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia along with New Hampshire and Wisconsin are among the five...
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Business
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US consumer confidence jumps in April
Washington - Consumer confidence in the United States surged in April as governments have begun...
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Qualcomm, Broadcom Reach $891 Million Settlement
Qualcomm Inc, the wireless chip provider, agreed with rival company Broadcom Corp on a settlement...
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China anti-tobacco NGO condemns persuasive branding
Beijing - A Chinese anti-tobacco group is petitioning the country's...
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US ratings agency Moody's to quit Taiwan
Taipei - Taiwan confirmed Friday that US ratings agency Moody's plans to quit the country in...
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Will Wright Leaves Electronic Arts For Stupid Fun Club
Will Wright, the man who has revolutionized the way the video games are played and the mastermind...
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Slump has worsened, say three European nations' economists
Munich - The economic slump in the euro zone has worsened, economists from three nations said...
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RIM: Strong Financial Results, Shares Up 21%, Sells 50 Millionth BlackBerry
Research In Motion, the smartphone maker famous for its BlackBerry handset, recorded a surprisingly...
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Microsoft's Encarta falls victim to Wikipedia
San Francisco - Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it was terminating its Encarta online...
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US demands new chief for GM, Chrysler-Fiat marriage
Washington - The US is carrying out a major family shake-up in the...
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German business confidence slips to 26-year low
Berlin - Business confidence in Germany slipped in March to its lowest point in about 26 years, a...
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Report: IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems
San Francisco - Technology giant IBM is in talks to buy rival Sun Microsystems for 6.5 billion...
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German investor confidence posts surprise increase
Berlin - German investor confidence recorded a surprise increase in March to record its fifth...
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iSuppli Report: Smartphone Sales Will Rise 11% in 2009
According to a recent study by research firm iSuppli, the smart phone industry is among the few...
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Analysts: Apple Sees Slight Decline In ’09 Quarter Ending March
The economic shortage has taken its toll on many companies in the tech industry, and the latest...
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Microsoft Strikes Deal with LG Electronics
Monday, Microsoft Corporation announced that it had clinched a deal with LG Electronics...
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Google Is Opening Up Its Android Market
Looking to start bringing in significant revenue with its newest project, Google announced that it...
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Funding Received By Twitter Exceds $35 Million
Twitter Inc. announced that it managed to close a $35-million venture capital round led by...
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Facebook Prepares Deals With Phone Manufacturers
Facebook’s officials released a statement yesterday announcing that the...
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RIM Forecasts Decreased Profits
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its quarterly earnings and gross margin would...
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Amazon Offers The $99 BlackBerry Storm
Amazon is well known for its low-price offers and the one about to be presented could be considered...
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Ticketmaster-Live Nation Potential Agreement Does Not Draw Acclaim
Should Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation decide to merge, the alliance would become an...
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Google's New Latitude Service Is Now Available
Google rolled out its new service called Google Latitude, which allows...
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Google Presents Its New Latitude Mobile User Locator
Google Inc. just released its newest software, which is designed to help users of mobile phones but...
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Google Presents Its New Measurement Lab
Google announced the release of the Measurement Lab, which is an open research platform used for...
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RIM's Storm Is Not Yet A Match For The iPhone
The sales of the BlackBerry Storm reported this week, point out that the device failed to step in...
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IBM Lotus And Research In Motion Announce Partnership
IBM Lotus and Research in Motion announced yesterday at Lotusphere their new collaboration through...
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Amazon.com Offers Cheap Xbox Live Gold Subscription
Amazon.com released yesterday a brand new offer for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold Subscription...
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Vicks VapoRub Linked To Breathing Problems In Infants
A new study has recently revealed that Vicks VapoRub, a popular cold remedy, could cause airway...
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Palm's New Pre Smartphone Was Received With Great Enthusiasm
The release of Palm’s new Pre was received with great enthusiasm at the International...
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Video Games
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Sony Breathes New Life Into PS2, Cuts Price To $99
Although the PS2, the older brother of PS3, is already nine years-old (which is quite...
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Amazon Offers Cheap Xbox Live Gold Subscription
Amazon.com released yesterday a brand new offer for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold Subscription...
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Nielsen Says PlayStation 2 Most Played Console
It seems like the biggest enemy of PlayStation 3 is no other then its older brother: PlayStation...
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Sony Cuts The Production Cost Of PS 3
Sony's new generation of PS 3 video game consoles now costs 35 percent less than the...
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Not So Encouraging Results for Xbox 360
Even if Xbox 360's sales
were really high on Black Friday, that didn't help Microsoft close
the...
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Video games make killing even in bleak season
San Francisco - The economy is in the doldrums, and shoppers everywhere are cutting back on...
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The Video Games Battle Has Begun
The final preparations for the holiday season seem to have occupied video game makers’ time. They...
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Video Games Makers Are Ready For The Holiday Season
Video games makers are making the final preparations in order to ensure that they are ready to...
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Video Game Industry Seems To Ignore Economic Downfall
It seems that in rough times, people spend money on entertainment, and that as entertainment goes,...
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Video Game Industry Up 18% on Strong Console Sales
The video-game industry recorded an 18% growth in October which is a critical month of the fourth...
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October: Gaming Industry Not Affected By The Economic Crisis
The video game industry seems to have grown in October, despite the forbidding economy, according...
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Second Life: Virtual Reality Can End Real Marriages
Games used to be about entertainment, about blowing off some steam after a hard day at work or,...
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Massive Entertainment Moves 'World in Conflict' in Ubisoft’s Backyard
Massive Entertainment, one of the victims of the Activision
Blizzard merger, found a new home with...
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Study Says Gaming Has Beneficial Effects
A study published today by non-profit Pew
Research Center
shows that video gaming is widespread...
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“Spore:” One Star Reviews On Amazon And Soaring Piracy Due To DRM
The much
anticipated new Electronic Arts game “Spore” has managed to stir up quite a
storm on...
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Nintendo Rules When It Comes To August Gaming Sales
The never-ending battle between the game consoles makers
brings out the best from the companies...
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Dave Perry: Sony PS3 Losses Are Greater Than PS2 Revenues
On Tuesday, during the Games Convention Developers Conference, Dave Perry, of the Shiny...
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Update 1: Kazuo Hirai Hopes PS3 Will Eventually Outsell PS2
It seems like one good month in terms of sales was enough to raise the optimism of Sony’s officials...
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Nintendo Shows Off At E3 2008
Nintendo’s press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo Business Summit in Los Angeles...
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Wii to Get New Peripherals
During the E3 press conference, Nintendo’s most important announcement was made with regard to...
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Teens Love PS3, Habbo Says
Maybe the sales of PlayStation 3 are trailing behind Xbox 360 and
Wii, but it seems like Sony’s...
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Update: GTA IV Allegedly Will Give An Edge To Xbox 360 Sales
During an interview with Next-Gen, Aaron Greenberg, director
of product management for Xbox 360...
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Video Game Sales Surge in March
Sales of video games and gaming consoles have surpassed analyst expectations by far, rising a...
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Activision Asks for Ruling on Gibson Guitar Patent
Activision, the publisher of the popular Guitar Hero games, asked a federal court to declare that...
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Microsoft Downplays The Rumors About BluRay Drive For Xbox 360
Although it was widely rumored that Microsoft is in talks in
Sony to unveil a BluRay unit for its...
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Microsoft About HD DVD: We Wait
In an official statement, Toshiba announced that no decision
has been taken regarding the future...
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Activision Announces New Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Activision announced today that Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will be launching in June for the PS3, Xbox...
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iSuppli Predicts PS3 Will Lead The Gaming Market. In 2011
The research company iSuppli has made today some interesting
forecasts about the evolution of the...
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The Folding@home Reaches 1 Million PS3 Users Milestone
Sony announced today that the total number of users who
donated their PlayStation 3’s power for...
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Rock On! Guitar Hero Tops One Billion Mark
Activision has all the reasons to celebrate as its Guitar
Hero franchise is on the way to become a...
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World
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Vietnam golfers deny golf courses waste space
Hanoi - Vietnamese golf promoters Thursday rejected claims made at a recent...
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Prince Charles visits Nefertiti's new home during German trip
Berlin - Britain's Prince Charles visited Berlin's newly renovated New Museum on Thursday,...
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Prince Charles mixes sport with culture during Berlin visit
Berlin - Britain's Prince Charles watched a football match between different religious groups at...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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Japanese fleet kills 680 whales, misses target
Tokyo - Japan's whaling fleet failed to achieve its target but still returned to...
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Japan fails to reach whale hunt target due to obstruction
Tokyo - Japanese whaling ships returned Monday after a so-called scientific...
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French bishop sparks new row on condoms and AIDS
Paris - The bishop of the French city of Orleans, Monsignor Andre Fort, rekindled a row...
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Climate Change Is Irreversible, Scientists Say
A recent research points out that the current effects of global warming are virtually irreversible,...
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Tintin, The Ageless Boy Reporter, Turns 80
Paris - He began life 80 years ago at the age of 15, and when his career ended nearly 50 years...
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German Unemployment Jumps As Economic Downturn Gains Ground
Berlin - German unemployment rose for the first time in nearly three years in December, data...
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Vietnam Matures Into World's Second-Largest Coffee Exporter
Buon Me Thuot, Vietnam - "The Germans are particularly picky when it...
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Vatican Enters 2009 With Ambivalence Towards Obama
Rome - Outgoing US President George W Bush's visit to Rome in June culminated in talks with Pope...
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UN Nuclear Watchdog Leaves Much To Do For New Director
Vienna - As Mohamed ElBaradei is about to enter his last year as head of the International Atomic...
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Dutch Lawmakers Debate Financial Support For Newspapers
Amsterdam - The Dutch government and opposition members have joined forces to boost the financial...
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Iran In 2008: Inflation At Home, Isolation Abroad
Tehran - It was not the best of years for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As 2008 drew to...
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Pyongyang Mobile Deal Rings In New Era
Seoul - North Korea's urgent need to trigger economic growth and an Egyptian telecommunications...
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Study Concludes That Elephants In Zoos Live Less
Recent research reported that both Asian and African elephants that live in captivity have a...
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Survey: Many Americans Turning To Complementary, Alternative Medicine
More and more Americans choose complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat their health...
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Airports Closure Casts Long Shadow On Thai Tourism
Bangkok - The week-long closure of Bangkok's two airports has left the capital's hotels empty,...
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US In Year-Long Recession, Top Economic Arbiter Declares
Washington - The United States has been in a recession since December 2007, the country's official...
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Catholic charity Caritas calls for children-specific HIV drugs
Vienna - The Roman Catholic charity network Caritas called on pharmaceutical companies Monday to...
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Indian probe points to links with Pakistan; warnings ignored
New Delhi - Investigations have shown those behind Mumbai terrorist attacks that left 188 people...
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Brazil floods are early sign of global warming, expert warns
Rio de Janeiro - The rains that devastated 30 towns in the southern Brazilian state of Santa...
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ESA Starts Research Centre In Oxfordshire
Space exploration is beginning to be more and more complex as people start discovering new things...
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Europe's Highest Railway Station - How Do You Say That In Japanese?
Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland - The strangest questions can cross your mind sometimes, such as how...
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German Exports Slump While Consumers Defy Gloom
Berlin - A slump in exports and a contraction in investment pushed Germany into a recession during...
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Crisis Means Good Deals In Asia For Flashpackers
Hong Kong - "It's a buyers market," Malcolm O'Brien said. "There's bargains out...
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IMF Hopes To Improve Reputation With Expanded Lending Role
Washington - As leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather for Saturday's historic meeting, one of...
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Greenpeace sees beginning of the end of Japanese whaling
Wellington - Greenpeace, an international environmental organization, hailed the beginning of the...
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Nepal's Himalayan glaciers at risk due to global warming
Kathmandu - The rise in global temperatures and climate change caused by greenhouse gases are...
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Science
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South Korean scientists create glowing cloned dogs
Seoul - Scientists in South Korea have become the first to clone dogs with...
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We're Half Way to a Dangerous Climate Change
With the issue of global warming and climate change in prime focus over the past years, some...
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Researchers Decode the Genome of the Cow
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture have been...
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Researchers Decode Cow Genome
Good news for the cattle industry. A team of scientists managed to complete a research study which...
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Cow Genome Decoded, Could Improve Beef, Milk
A scientific breakthrough was achieved by researchers in the filed of animal genetics, namely: the...
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Coral Reef-Based Study Suggests Rapid Sea Level Rise Possible
A recent study focusing on climate change brings evidence that the sea level will most likely rise...
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Dubai scientists clone healthy, female camel, says newspaper
Dubai - Scientists in Dubai have created the world's first cloned camel, a local newspaper...
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Arctic Sea is ‘on Thin Ice’, Survey Shows
The latest findings from scientists that have been monitoring the Arctic region show that the ice...
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Update: Antarctic Bridge that Was Holding Wilkins Ice Shelf Ruptures
The rupture of the ice bridge that was holding Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf in place will...
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Taiwan scientist claims breakthrough in earthquake early warning
Taipei - A Taiwan scientist has made breakthrough in earthquake early warnings, allowing the public...
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Antarctic Bridge that Was Holding Wilkins Ice Shelf Ruptures
An ice bridge that was holding an ice shelf (that has been disintegrating since the 1960s) in place...
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Arctic summer ice may vanish in 30 years, study finds ahead of summit
Washington - Ice in the summertime could be a thing of the past in the Arctic in as soon as...
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Scientific Breakthrough: Robot Scientist That Can Conduct Research
A new breakthrough in science has been achieved by both robots and scientists this time. Soon we...
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Shuttle Discovery returns safely to Earth
Washington - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida...
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Discovery Space Shuttle to Touch Down Today
After a 13-day mission in space during which it completed the International...
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Scientists: Sea levels could rise 1 metre as Antarctic ice melts
Wellington - A large amount of permanent Antarctic ice could melt in the next 100...
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French physicist wins million-pound Templeton Prize
Paris - French physicist Bernard Espagnat was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize, worth 1...
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Dutch researchers discover sudden heart failure gene
Amsterdam - Researchers have discovered the gene responsible for sudden heart failure among young...
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NASA Delays Discovery Launch Again
NASA delayed the launch of space shuttle discovery for the fifth time. This time the space agency...
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NASA’s Discovery Shuttle to Launch Tonight
NASA’s space shuttle Discovery is set for launch on Wednesday on a mission that aims to...
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Superman's foundation welcomes Obama's stem cell move
Los Angeles - The foundation started by former Superman star Christopher Reeve has applauded...
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Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change Kicks Off Today
More than 2,000 climate scientists and researchers will gather today in Copenhagen, Denmark, to...
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British scientists trace early horse domestication to Kazakhstan
London - Horses were domesticated around 1,000 years earlier than previously believed and...
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Kepler Ready To Begin Search Mission For Earth-Like Planets
NASA’s ambitious mission to find other Earth-like planets orbiting stars in habitable zones...
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Evidence Points To Horse Domestication As Early As 5,500 Years Ago
The theories regarding horse domestication have been quite controversial among scientists, however,...
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NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Will Be Launched on Friday
A U.S. orbiting telescope designed to help answer one of the oldest and deepest questions of...
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Tomorrow, NASA Launches Kepler to Find Earth-Like Planets
Tomorrow, NASA will launch the Kepler space telescope, an ultra-sophisticated machine that was...
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Cassini May Have Found the Source of Saturn’s G Ring in Tiny Moon
Cassini’s mission around the sixth planet from the Sun and its moons has so far...
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Researchers Find Virus-Free Way Of Reprogramming Stem Cells
Stem cells have always been controversial, from ethical and biological point of view, but the...
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Obama Raises Hope On Tackling Climate Change Issues
These days, talks of efficient energy policies and reforms are once again in the spotlight, and the...
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People
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Charles Darwin's Gift To the World Celebrated This Month
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who realized and demonstrated that all species of life...
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Heath Ledger’s Daughter Matilda To Keep His Golden Globe Award
She may be a little too young to know what exactly a Golden Globe Award means, but the 3-year-old...
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Edna Parker Dies At 115
Edna Parker was born in 1893, and was part of the American supercentenarian group. The group was...
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Stephen Hawking Appointed To Canadian Research Post
Stephen Hawking is one of today’s brilliant minds, being well known by his fascinating studies...
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Suri Cruise And Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Switch Places Is Hollywood's Hottest Tot Top
Beating strong competition from Brangelina's children, TomKat's two-year-old daughter Suri Cruise...
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Aiming For The Stars Runs In The Family
Richard Garriot, son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriot, the
creator of some famous RPG games like...
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Google Cofounder Launches Blog by Revealing His Parkinson’s Predisposition
Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders, has launched his personal blog. The first of Google’s...
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Identity of Sarah Palin Hacker Revealed By His Own Dad
State Representative Mike Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, made
a statement to the Tennessean
in...
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Police Says Jerry Lewis Cited For Gun In Luggage
Funny man Jerry Lewis was making his way through security at Las Vegas' McCarran International...
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Yes, We All Care About Sarah Jessica Parker’s Possibly Missing Mole
Where is it? Sarah Jessica Parker’s so-called trademark
mole, the one she rigorously refused to...
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Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong: Charity And Heavy Metal
Following their return from the charity ride in Canada, Kate
Hudson and Lance Armstrong were...
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Sharon Stone Apologizes Once More to China
The criticism keeps coming and so does the apologizing. After being un-invited from the Shanghai...
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Tatum O'Neal Learns Life Lesson from Drug Arrest
One does not expect a person who has just been arrested for cocaine possession to offer words of...
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Tatum O’Neal Arrested For Cocaine Purchase
Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal was arrested last night
in New York City, after she was caught...
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Lindsay Lohan Has the Best Mom
Who would be
better suited to earn the best mom award than Dina Lohan, mother of drug-addict
and...
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Gisele Bundchen Is World's Top-Earning Model
Gisele Bundchen is the world's top supermodel with estimated
earnings of $35 million during the...
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Barbra Streisand Donates $5 Million to Cardiac Center
The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles
said Wednesday that Barbra Streisand had donated...
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Radio Talk Show Host Faces Child Pornography Charges
Bernie Ward, a San Francisco radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, was indicted on child...
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Actor Dick Wilson aka ‘Mr. Whipple’ Dies
One of the best known personalities in TV advertising, Dick Wilson, who played "Mr....
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‘The View’s’ Newest Face: Sherri Shepherd to Start Next Week
Putting an end to weeks of speculation, actress-comedian Sherri Shepherd will reportedly take on...
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News Legend, Hal Fishman Left An Irreplaceable Anchor Position
The 75 year news legend, Hal Fishman passed away on Tuesday,
3 a.m., in less than a week after...
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Sharon Stone Auctions George Clooney Kisses At Cannes
Together with Kylie Minogue, Julian Lennon and burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, Hollywood vixen...
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Specials
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Twitter's Retention Rate Is only 40%
According to data from a company that monitor Internet traffic, there is a great number of Twitter...
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Obama's Tech Panel Includes Google CEO, Microsoft Executive
President Barack Obama has named a technology panel and on Monday unveiled is included. Among the...
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17-Year-Olds Now Have Access to Emergency Contraception
Seventeen-year-olds will have access to emergency contraception without a prescription, the US Food...
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Stephen Hawking set for "full recovery" after hospital tests
London (dpa) - British physicist Stephen Hawking is expected to make a "full recovery" after...
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Bone Fractures May Soon Have a Cure
A drug currently prescribed for osteoporosis may be available soon for people suffering from bone...
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Neither Viagra nor Cialis Causes Vision Damage
Neither Viagra nor Cialis taken on daily basis for sexual impotence damage men’s vision,...
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Depression Boosts Risk for Heart Failure
Heart disease patients who are depressed are at a greater danger of developing heart failure,...
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Severe Hypoglycemia in Older Diabetics Tied to Dementia
Type 2 diabetics who suffer hypoglycemia crises serious enough to need emergency care may be at...
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Broccoli Might Reduce Your Stomach Cancer Risk
The summer is that time of the year when you can get advantage of everything that nature has to...
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RIM Launches the BlackBerry App World
Research In Motion today released the BlackBerry App World, an application store for the RIM...
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Study: Playing Shooter Video Games Improves Eyesight
A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reached the conclusion that playing...
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Male Circumcision May Prevent Two Common STDs
Male circumcision appears to offer more protection to men than previously estimated, according to...
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Earth Hour: lights, camera, but where's the action?
Sydney - It's easy to poke fun at Earth Hour, an Australian initiative now into...
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India launches world's cheapest car: The Nano
New Delhi - The Nano, the world's cheapest car, that has been billed by its manufacturers as having...
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FDA Expands List of Risky Weight-Loss Products
Millions of people confront themselves with the No. 1 threat to their health, namely obesity....
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FDA Advisory Panel Supports J&J, Bayer Anticlotting Drug Rivaroxaban
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted on Thursday to recommend that the agency...
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New Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Proves Successful in Mice
A study published in the 20 March issue of the journal Science concluded that by electrically...
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The Necessity of PSA Test in Prostate Cancer Questioned Once Again
Two new studies appearing online in the March 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
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Get Rid of Extra Pounds! They Shorten Your Life!
British researchers at the University of Oxford, through a new study, have warned once again...
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Social Networks, Blogs More Popular than E-mail
Online activities such as social networking and blogging are now more attractive and time-consuming...
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Unhappy Marriages May Hurt Women’s Heart, Literally
Marital stress raises health risks for women, but nor for men, according to a new study presented...
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Chang'e-I Ends Its Lunar Mission With Planned Crash
With a controlled crash-landing on the surface of the moon, China's first lunar probe, the...
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Want to Lose Weight? It’s All about Calories!
When it comes to losing weight everyone is an expert. Everyone, and here I mean women, knows at...
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Ancient Footprint Suggests H. Erectus Had Developed Modern Gait
Nearly 1.5 million years ago, human ancestors living in Kenya walked in a manner similar to ours,...
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Want to Lose Weight? Stick to Your Diet, Researchers Say
New research in this week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals the secret...
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Yves Saint Laurent Artworks Collection Smashes Records
An auction comprised of artworks and treasures amassed by the late designer Yves Saint...
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Academy Awards Ratings Went Up
For the 81st Annual Academy Awards that were held Sunday night, the ratings registered a...
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New Flu Vaccine Based on Human Antibodies May Come in Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Oscar Ratings Saw 13% Increase
In spite of the fact that this year’s Academy Awards ceremony did not register a thunderous...
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Microsoft Asks Ex-Employees to Return Part of Severance Money
Microsoft accidentally paid the 1400 workers it laid off on January 22 more than it should have and...
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Gadgets
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Google’s Android Cell Phones for Sale at Huawei and Vodafone
Maybe Google’s Android software will be successful after all as Huawei Technologies from...
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iPhone’s Components – Cheaper Than Storm’s
According to the market research firm iSuppli, the sum of BlackBerry Storm’s parts is worth...
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Apple Wal-Mart Deal Boosts iPhone’s Position
Wal-Mart holds a sizeable reputation, aside from its massive market share, as the world’s top...
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BlackBerry Curve 8900 Expected in February
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Curve 8900, also known as the BlackBerry Javelin, is...
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People More Satisfied By iPhone
Research In Motion’s blackberry Storm was supposed to be an iPhone killer, a phone intended...
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2008 - The Smartphone Year
Even if 2008 can be called many names, it is certainly the smartphone year, as more and more iPhone...
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BlackBerry Storm Available On Telus
There has been known for quite a while that the BlackBerry Storm, research In Motion’s first...
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Storm Users Disappointed Over Lack Of Wi-Fi
Research In Motion is the company that produces the BlackBerry one of the most reliable and popular...
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BlackBerry Presents The Curve 8350i
BlackBerry will launch its most advanced push-to-talk smart phone, the Curve 8350i. Recently,...
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Palm’s Nova OS = BlueBerry + iPod?
Things haven’t exactly worked well for Palm. In fact, the company is almost on the verge of...
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Smaller iPhone Coming for Christmas
Wal-Mart, the top U.S. retailer is saying nothing, but rumor
has it that a smaller, $99 4GB iPhone...
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Happy 40th Birthday, Mr. Computer Mouse!
We use it every day at the office, at home, and we are so
used to it that we tend to forget it’s...
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Intel Announces Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Development
Researchers at the Intel Laboratory published a paper in the December 7 issue of the scientific...
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BlackBerry Storm Bugs To Be Fixed
Verizon has launched on the Internet and through the air waves software updates that have the goal...
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BlackBerry Storm And Bad Impressions
Research In Motion is the company that produces the BlackBerry one of the most reliable and popular...
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Users Complain About BlackBerry Storm
The Blackberry storm, the newest phone released by research in Motion, has been on the market for...
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Nokia To Enter Touch-Screen Phones Competition With N97
There’s a
new touch-screen phone in town, now that Nokia has pulled the wraps off their N97...
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RIM's BlackBerry Storm With Goods And Bads
The release of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm was
received with mixed reactions. The...
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Bad Weather For The Storm
Research In Motion is the company that produces the BlackBerry one of the most reliable and popular...
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Apple To Fight In Two Lawsuits
Apple is once again targeted by a lawsuit that claims a technology the iPhone uses to surf the Web...
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RIM's BlackBerry Storm Makes Good Impression
It seems that mobile phone manufacturers are busy designing and preparing “iPhone killers”, mobile...
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New BlackBerry, BlackBerry Storm, Finally Arrives
The release day for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm
has finally arrived and the device will...
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BlackBerry Storm Expected On November 21
The BlackBerry Storm 9540 will be available in Verizon Wireless stores and online for $199.99...
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BlackBerry Storm Expected On November 21
Verizon Wireless presented new details about the release of
Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry...
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iPhone Outsells Motorola RAZR
Despite an $800 off-contract price tag, Motorola RAZR became hugely popular in 2003. A few years...
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Apple’s iPhone 3G Is the Top-Selling Phone in the U.S.
Monday, wireless
research group NPD released a report revealing that Apple Incorporated’s...
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RIM’s BlackBerry Bold Finally Launched
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Bold was finally launched today by AT&T. The high-end...
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Netflix Streaming Service Now on Macs Too
Netflix, the largest online DVD rental service that offers users in the United
States flat rate...
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Update1: The G1 Makes Its Way On The Market
Entering its third day on the market, the G1 phone is
without a doubt on the right track. Sales...
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BlackBerry Announces Application Storefront
Research in Motion has announced on Tuesday that a new, online application storefront will be...
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Health
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WHO reports 1,658 confirmed cases of swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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Pregnant women and heart patients should not smoke hookahs
Berlin - Smoking a water-pipe carries the same health risks as cigarettes. With that in mind, the...
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FDA Calls for New Warnings for OTC Painkillers
Over-the counter painkiller will get new labels warning consumers of the potential risks of liver...
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Autistic Kids Display Common Genetic Variations
Researchers have long blamed genetics for autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) but no study...
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New virus is not "swine flu", Paris-based health organization says
Paris - The virus currently circulating in Mexico and the United States and which has killed at...
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Statins May Reduce Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer
According to new studies presented at the American Urological Association’s annual meeting...
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Fructose-Sweetened Drinks Tied to Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes
Many studies have shown that sugared beverages are not healthy, but we’re still consuming...
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New Method to Create Stem Cells Revealed
US researchers on Thursday reported that they found a safer way to create embryonic stem cells...
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FDA Approves Simponi for Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved rheumatoid arthritis drug golimumab marketed...
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Stem Cell Therapy May Reverse Symptoms of MS
Findings of a preliminary study give hope to people suffering from multiple sclerosis showing that...
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Walnuts May Prevent Breast Cancer
A new study by researchers from Marshall University of Medicine in Huntington reveals that eating...
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FDA Makes Plan B Available for 17-Year-Olds without Prescription
The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it will allow 17-year-olds to get the...
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Breastfeeding Found to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
Women who breastfeed their babies appear to have a reduced risk of developing heart disease when...
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More Americans Living with Paralysis than Previously Thought
New research by the University of New Mexico suggests that the number of people in the United...
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Psoriasis May Lead to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
A new study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Dermatology concludes that...
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FDA Asks Coast IRB to Stop Review New Studies Due to Violations
The Food and Drug Administration sent Tuesday a formal warning letter to Coast Independent Review...
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Osteoporosis Drug Effective in Healing Bone Fractures
People suffering from devastating bone fractures won’t have to go through so much pain or...
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Severe Hypoglycemia May Increase Risk for Dementia in Diabetes Patients
Older people suffering from diabetes are more likely to be diagnosed with dementia when they...
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Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Don’t Cause Eye Damage
Men using erectile dysfunction drugs face no risk for vision problems, according to a study in the...
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Do You Know What Diet To Follow?
Following a diet is not easy, especially if you choose it on your own. Why? Simply: because people...
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Heart Disease Patients Going Through Depression At Risk Of Heart Failure
Heart disease patients going through depression are at greater risk for heart failure, according to...
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New Technique to Detect Cancer May Soon Be Available
New research in the online issue of the journal Nature Medicine suggests that a new technique to...
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Women Fertility May One Day Be Restored through Stem Cell Treatment
Reporting in the journal Nature Cell Biology, Chinese scientists suggest that women may one day be...
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Drinking coffee could lower stroke risk for women
Boston/Berlin - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke,...
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Shriners Hospitals May Close a Quarter of Their Facilities
Shriners Hospitals for Children is considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations...
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Children May Drive Parents apart
Children are not for everyone! This is an old saying, which appears to be confirmed once again by...
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Unapproved Morphine Remains on the Market, FDA Rules
The Food and Drug Administration on March 30 requested manufacturers of 14 medications based on...
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57 Percent of Nonsmoking New Yorkers Have High Levels of Nicotine in Their Blood
A study by New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene noted that 57 percent of...
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Acid Reflux Drugs Do Not Improve Asthma
A new study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treating...
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Brown Fat May Help People Fight Obesity
How many times have you heard your friends complaining of being fat? Or how many times you wished...
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Movies
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Lincoln’s 200th Birthday, an Occasion to Re-Examine Abe the Man and the Myth
The Abraham Lincoln bicentennial on February 12, the birth date of one of America’s most...
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CSI’s William Petersen Reveals Reason For Leaving The Show
Actor William Petersen, who departed with his longtime role as Gil Grissom on "CSI: Crime...
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Heath Ledger Honored At The Golden Globes For ‘Dark Knight’ Performance
Almost a year after his tragic death, actor Heath Ledger was honored with a posthumous best...
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On Kate Winslet’s Hanna Schmitz
It is definitely a Kate Winslet end of the year, as the 33 year old actress will be in cinemas...
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Laurence Fishburne's CSI Debut Scores Huge Ratings For CBS
CBS hit the jackpot with the casting of Laurence Fishburne in "CSI: Crime Scene...
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The Day The Earth Stood Still and Keanu Reeves
Robert Wise’s science-fiction classic “The Day the Earth
Stood Still” made the most of Americans’...
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Joe Johnston Agrees to Direct ‘The First Avenger: Captain America’
Joe Johnston, who is well known for directing hit movies "Jurassic Park III" and...
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Oliver Stone Spells Most Famous "W" in the World
You have to be cheeky enough to make a movie about the most
famous “W.” in the world. In addition,...
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Natalie Portman Is the Absolute Star of The Venice Film Festival
Hollywood movie star
Natalie Portman made her debut as a film director at the Venice Film...
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“West Wing” Writer Aaron Sorkin To Make Film About Facebook
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is currently working on a project
about the founders of social...
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Batman Is No Longer Number One
While "Pineapple Express" failed at knocking
"The Dark Knight" from its first...
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A New Charming Woody Allen Movie
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" is Woody Allen’s latest
film starring Javier Bardem, Penelope...
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Christina Applegate Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
Former “Married with Children” actress Christina Applegate
has been diagnosed with an early form...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army Rules This Weekend Box Office
With $35,885,000 the latest creation of Guillermo Del Toro,
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”, has...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army Beats Hancock In Friday Box Office
With $13,777,000 in ticket sales, Hellboy II: The Golden
Army has managed to earn the first spot...
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Hellboy Gives Them Hell At The Box Office
The release of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army managed to attract massive crowds to theatres all across...
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Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy II: Stunning Visuals But Weak Storyline
Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army is, as expected, visually stunning as are all his...
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"Camp Rock" Attracts 8.86 Million Viewers
“Camp
Rock” was expected to be
a big hit and it was. Teens tuned in Friday and watched the Jonas...
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Tatum O'Neal Released, Future Looks Ominous
Troubled former child star Tatum O’Neal was caught red-handed, tried to make a vague excuse...
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Tatum O'Neal Arrested, Released on Cocaine Buy
Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal was arrested last night in New York City, after she was caught...
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Madonna Presents Her Malawi Documentary at Cannes
Madonna was present on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival this week to present her...
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Britney's Back With A Bang And Top Ratings
"Britney Spears' career comeback" was almost becoming a myth before it finally started...
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Brangelina Gave $8 Million To Charity In 2006
Hollywood's most charitable couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $8 million to various...
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HBO Reveals the Real John Adams in the New Miniseries
Although he is not as famous as his predecessor George
Washington, or his successor Thomas...
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Quarterlife Fails On NBC
The drama series which made
headlines about its transition from internet to TV, “Quarterlife,”...
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Two-Time Oscar Nominee Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Two-time Academy Award nominee, Roy Scheider, whom everyone remembers from his role as the fearless...
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Scarlett's Nanny Diaries
Scarlett Johansson stars in a discreetly tender adaptation of the 2002 novel “The Nanny...
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The Latest Hit Movie: “The Bourne Ultimatum”
The third
movie from the “Bourne” series has just hit the big screens and it has hit them
hard!...
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Scholars Dismiss Cameron Documentary on Jesus' Tomb
Scholars around the world, from Israel to the United States, have almost unanimously labeled James...
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