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Google Health Expands Partnership with CVS Caremark
Rhode Island Company CVS Caremark Corp. said it has expanded its partnership with Google Health by...
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ADHD Kids Much Less Consistent in Their Response Times
New research published in the journal Child Neuropsychology suggests that children with...
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Obama’s Budget Outline
President Obama promised more money for conservation and renewable energy in his budget outline...
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Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda
Health care reform and the controversial stimulus bill continue to be crucial issues on...
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Economic Stimulus Bill Raises Concern over Rationed Health Care
Opponents to the new economic stimulus bill are concerned that the plan could result in the...
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Early Alzheimer’s Linked to Poor Driving Skills
According to a new study from the University of Iowa, poor driving skills may be considered one...
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Checklists Might Reduce Risks During And After The Surgery
Simple checklists before, during and after the surgery might reduce the number of surgery-related...
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Surgeon’s Checklist May Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Medical Residents To Get More Sleeping Hours
A national report has shown that the lack of sleep between shifts can disturb a doctor's work and,...
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Panel: Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors
A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed
serious medical errors....
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Chronically Ill Americans Experience More Medical Errors
Chronically ill U.S. residents are more likely to forgo medical care on account of high costs or...
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U.S. Chronically Ill Patients More Likely to Be Subjected to Medical Errors
A recently carried out survey reached the conclusion that the United States patients are the...
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Michigan Physicians Expand Electronic Records To Save Money
The Michigan State Medical Society is working to create a new Web-based system for its...
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Pediatricians More Likely to Admit Error When Obvious
A report in the October Issue of Archives of Pediatrics
& Adolescent Medicine, one of the...
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Medicare Won’t Pay For Certain Hospital Errors Anymore
Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying hospitals...
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Medicare to Halt Hospital Payments for Medical Errors
On
Wednesday, a Medicare resolution that entails stopping hospital payments for
costs of medical...
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Study Finds Anthrax Vaccine Works In Fewer Doses
Giving fewer doses of the anthrax vaccine
could be just as effective, offering protection from the...
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Joint Commission Issues Alert on Blood Thinners Use
Trying to prevent more deaths due to anticoagulant
medication errors, the Joint Commission, an...
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4 Doctors Receive Genius Grants
Among the 25 recipients of $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants”, there were four...
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Older fathers Are More Likely To Have Children With Bipolar Disorder
Older fathers are more likely to have
children with bipolar disorder, a mental illness also known...
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US Medical Errors Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion a Year
According to a new US government
report released on Monday medical errors during or after the...
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Rx Drugs, Street Drugs & Alcohol Misuse Leads To More Deaths Than Ever
Over the past two decades the number of Americans who died
at home after combining street drugs...
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The Joint Commission: Hospitals Must Stop Tolerating Bad Behaviors!
The Joint Commission, a national hospital-accrediting
agency, warned Wednesday hospitals, clinics...
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WHO: New Molecular Test to Detect TB Faster Gives Sufferers Hope
The World Health Organization unveiled on Monday a new
diagnostic test that will give doctors the...
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CDPH Finds High Occurrence Of Patient Errors In Calif. Hospitals
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released a
troubling report on the California...
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Few Doctors Adopt Electronic Health Records
In a world of technology, the computer seems to be the
answer to all our problems saving us a lot...
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California: Thirteen Hospitals Fined over Risking People’s Lives
California Department of Public Health fined or sent
citations to thirteen hospitals for...
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1,200 People Rinstated With Medical Insurance
Kaiser Permanente and Health Net agreed to return the medical coverage to nearly 1,200 Californians...
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Survey Warns on Hospitals’ Disability to Handle Terrorist Strike
A new report released by the U.S. House of Representative on
Monday clearly states that emergency...
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Viagra Ad Not Mentioning Health Risks Prompts FDA Warning
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Pfizer Inc. on
Monday for not mentioning the risks of...
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Hotmail Inboxes Outage Scares E-mail Users
Imagine signing in to check for new e-mails and finding out you don’t have an e-mail inbox...
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Google Error Flags Internet as Malware
On Saturday morning, for a period of almost an hour, Internet surfers who performed Google...
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Surgeon’s Checklist Could Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery
Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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Dangerous Programming Errors Exposed
Software makes our lives easier every day; it simplifies things in an astonishing way, but...
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Everybody Is Expecting Obama’s Health Care Reform
It’s not a secret to anyone that healthcare in the U.S. is currently flawed. Healthcare...
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Military Jet Crash Kills Three
A residential neighborhood from San Diego was struck by tragedy as a military jet lost power to its...
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OJ Simpson Sentenced to 33 Years in Prison
Friday, O.J. Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison,
with the possibility of becoming...
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O.J. Simpson’s Future Hinges on Appeal
More than a decade after O.J. Simpson was acquitted of all
criminal charges in the so-called...
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Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors
A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed
serious medical errors....
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Medical Residents Need a Sleep-Break after 16 Hours of Work
Medical residents should work no longer than 16 hours in a row without a five-hour break for sleep...
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US Chronically Ill Patients Complain More about Health Care
US
chronically ill patients often skip medical care due to high costs or medical
errors compared...
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Many U.S. Patients Dissatisfied with Their Pain Care
According to a national survey of patients’
experiences, patients in many U.S.
hospitals are not...
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Update: Critical Microsoft Bug Discovered And Patched
Microsoft released a security bulletin early on Thursday, detailing and offering a patch for a...
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Google Chrome: The Browser Battle Is Heating Up
Just when we thought that the browser battle will remain the
exclusive territory
of Firefox and...
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Microsoft’s New "Spokesperson" Is None Other Than Jerry Seinfeld
Microsoft’s quest for improving its public image led to the
decision to hire a new and popular...
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NASA Terminates The Contract With Oceaneering International Inc.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
terminated its $180 million contract with...
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Dennis Quaid Tells Congress About Twins Overdose
Appearing before Congress on Wednesday, American actor Dennis Quaid testified about the nightmare...
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Yale University Demands Abortion “Performance” Carry Disclaimer
Yale
University said on Monday
that the controversial art project of a senior would not be...
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Rowling Tells Court of “Heartache” Caused by Plagiarism
Famed British writer J. K. Rowling, who is trying to stop the
publication of an unauthorized Harry...
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Appeals Court Favors NASA JPL Employees
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles awarded a temporary injunction against...
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Wikia Search: Search With A Human Twist
Today, Jimmy Wales, the famous founder of Wikipedia, has launched
its search project, Wikia...
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Knol Or How Google Wants To Organize The Knowledge
In an effort to organize human knowledge, Google unveiled
its plans to build a new Web destination...
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Sports
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Federer to face Djokovic after tight win over Roddick
Miami - Roger Federer honed his game at the expense of Andy Roddick, defeating...
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Serena recovers from horror start in Miami
Miami - Serena Williams retained a grip on her top ranking with a crucial victory over China's Li...
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Bolelli Bowls Over Simon To Draw Outsider Italy Level With France
Perth, Australia - Simone Bolelli scored a breakthrough victory over world...
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Italy Stun France In Hopman Cup Comeback Upset
Perth, Australia - Simone Bolelli and Flavia Pennetta staged an upset to...
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Davydenko to duel with Djokovic for year-end Shanghai title
Russian Nikolay Davydenko will face Novak Djokovic for the second time this week as the pair meet...
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Satisfied Tsonga Beats Djokovic - Davydenko In Semis
Shanghai - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga claimed his third revenge win in two months over Novak Djokovic as he...
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Federer Takes Down Niemien for 10th Time to Advance at Home
Basle, Switzerland - Roger Federer stretched his dominance over Finland's Jarkko Nieminen Thursday,...
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Espanyol Go Top as Real Madrid Win Seven-Goal Thriller
Madrid - Espanyol bounced to the top of the Spanish first division with a late 1-0 win Sunday at...
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Federer, Roddick rip opponents to reach New York second week
New York - Former champions Roger Federer and Andy Roddick turned in impressive straight-set wins,...
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Federer Wins His Fourth Masters Cup
Roger Federer showed his class again and won his fourth Tennis Masters Cup out of six possible so...
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Henin Reaches Stuttgart Final after Defeating Jankovic
World’s top tennis player Justine Henin increased her winning streak by beating Jelena Jankovic 7-6...
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Jankovic Beats Davenport to Reach the China Open Final
Second seeded Jelena Jankovic beat Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-5 for the first time in her career to...
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Landis Loses Tour De France Title after Doping Scandal
Cyclist Floyd Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title and will serve a two-year...
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Nationals Rally past Struggling Mets
The Washington Nationals hammered the New York Mets 12-4 on Monday night. This is Mets’ fourth...
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Pacers’ Williams Suspended, No Possession Charge
Indiana Pacers suspended Shawne Williams for three games of the upcoming NBA season after his...
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Federer Wins 12th Grand Slam Title
Federer Wins 12th Grand Slam Title World No. 1 tennis player Roger Federer won his 12th Grand Slam...
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Henin Shows Her Class and Wins US Open
Justine Henin completed a nearly perfect performance by wining the final of the US Open 6-1, 6-3...
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Federer Cruises Into US Open Semifinals
Two sets decided by tie-break and an outstanding final set for Roger Federer is the history of the...
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Serena Williams Steps Out of US Open
Two-time champion Serena Williams couldn’t get past the quarter-finals this year at Flushing...
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Federer and Roddick Meet Again at Flushing Meadows
Andy Roddick and Roger Federer continue to face each other at major tournaments, the latest clash...
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Isner Steals Set From Federer Before Being Crushed Into Submission
American John Isner was two sets away from making history at the US Open, but his enthusiasm...
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Sharapova Stunned by Exuberant Teen
Spectacle is at home in New York and tennis fans are enjoying every bit of the dazzling performance...
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Williams Sisters Advance at US Open
Venus Williams advanced into the fourth round after smashing 30 winners to beat Alona Bondarenko,...
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The Williamses and Other Favorites Go Through
The Williames, Rafael Nadal and Justine Henin showed why they are favorites at this tournament as...
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Federer Outclassed by Serbian Rising Star Djokovic
Roger Federer’s glamour faded in the face of young Novak Djokovic on Sunday, the Serb managing to...
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Russian Supremacy at Acura Classic
This year’s edition of the Acura Classic has fallen under the supremacy of Russian players, no more...
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Technology
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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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Facebook Users Tricked By Rogue Third-Party Applications
After staying in the spotlight for terms of service policy changes and re-changes, Facebook came to...
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Google to Mistakenly Label All Websites as Malware
According to numerous reports, all web searches did through Google on January 31 between 6:30 AM...
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Google Offers Tools To Check Your ISP For Traffic Throttling
With all the recent scandals about how some Internet Service Providers block or throttle the...
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Hoax Story About Steve Jobs’ Death Hits Wired
Wired.com has become the victim of a prankster who published a hoax story saying that Apple CEO...
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Worm Infects 9 Million PCs So Far
Disturbing as it sounds, experts have just announced that a malicious worm which exploits a...
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Top 25 Programming Errors Released
A media event in Washington, D.C., will probably include the disclosure of 25 of the most dangerous...
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Firefox Security Flaws Patched
Tuesday, Mozilla fixed several security flaws in their Firefox web browser, including six that...
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OS X 10.5.6 Gets The Blue Screen Of Death
Just a few hours after Apple released an important update
for its OS X Leopard operating system,...
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CNN Says Sony PS3 Is a “Sinking Ship”
Drawing on last Thursday’s NPD Group sales
results that revealed a 19 points steep decline for...
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Microsoft Releases December Patch
Microsoft has just
released eight security bulletins and one security advisory, as part
of its...
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Hubble Snaps An Exoplanet
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in 1990, by the Space Shuttle Discovery. It was...
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Critical Microsoft Bug Discovered, Patched
Microsoft released a security
bulletin early on Thursday, detailing and offering a patch for a...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Fix Leads to Other Errors
NASA engineers have managed to power up the Hubble Space Telescope’s backup computer, but new...
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Witnesses Share Green Light Facts On Deadly Train Collision
The investigation in the deadly train collision that killed 25 people and injured many more...
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Who’s To Blame In Deadly Train Collision?
Not long after the terrible train collision last month which
resulted in 25 deaths, the...
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Chrome Lost A Battle, But The War Continues
Even though Google’s Chrome browser keeps slipping in market
shares, the company’s mission to make...
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California Prohibits Cell Phone Use For On-Duty Train Operators
Last week’s train collision that killed 25 people and
injured over 130 more called for new rules...
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LA Train Crash Preventable: PCT Deployment Progressing Too Slow
The death toll in the Los Angeles train collision last week
climbed to 26 on Monday, while over...
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Google's Chrome Gets Polished, But Not Enough
Google’s new beta version browser, Chrome, is out now for
all interested Windows users. The...
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Best Buy Becomes First U.S. Retailer to Sell iPhone 3G
Best Buy Co., Inc., the largest specialty retailer of consumer electronics in North America, will...
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Next cool trend: GPS tags from new phones and data loggers
Berlin - Watch out for geo-tagging. A previously nerdy hobby that aims to map and describe every...
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Google Suggest Helps Formulate Queries, Saves Keystrokes And Time
Google rolled out a new search tool this week, meant to help
people find what they’re looking for...
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Apple to Sell 5 Million iPhone 3Gs, 3 Million Macs this Quarter
Despite numerous complaints of dropped calls and other few errors with its iPhone 3G, Apple Inc...
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Apple Sued By Customer Unsatisfied With iPhone 3G
An Alabama woman who bought the new iPhone 3G sued Apple Inc. for misleading her with their...
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Google Says Sorry For Monday’s Gmail Outage, Solves Problem
On Monday, Google’s very popular Gmail service experienced some problems and users were unable to...
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EFF to Fight Order Forcing Students to Cancel Subway Hacking Presentation
Three college students were ordered by a federal judge to
call off a presentation at a computer...
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Map Maker Tele Atlas and Google Renew and Broaden Deal
Belgium-based digital maps company Tele Atlas and search engine leader Google have renewed their...
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It's Time To Let Windows XP Go
The day has come to say our official good-bye to Windows XP.
Microsoft announced its decision for...
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Doctors Are Not Ready For Electronic Medical Records
According to a national survey conducted by the U.S. government, doctors have a hard time switching...
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Business
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Societe Generale chairman to quit
Paris - Daniel Bouton, chairman of the French bank Societe Generale, was to quit...
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 Gets An Update
Microsoft confirmed the rumors about its Xbox 360 Arcade
consoles, which will be available from...
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Update: Netflix's Online Player Opens Up Beta For Mac Users
Netflix delivered on its promise and its Watch Instantly service is now also available for all Mac...
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Google Is Looking Into Gmail's Errors
The recent issues reported by some Gmail users are currently being checked by the company’s...
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Microsoft's New OS Is Officially Called Windows 7
Microsoft decided on the name of its upcoming operating
system. We believe that the company...
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Microsoft, Washington State Crackdown on Scareware Vendors
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Washington State
today, to pursue legal action to...
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Windows 7 Could Be Microsoft's Turning Point
Microsoft announced that new details about the upcoming
release of its Windows 7 will be made...
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Google's Chrome Is The New Face On The Web
Just a few days ago, Google released its new Web browser, Chrome, designed to take a swing at the...
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Chrome Needs A Bit More Polish, But Surpasses Opera
Google’s Chrome browser might not be as ‘bullet-proof’ as advertised, with numerous reports on...
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NASA Terminates The Contract With Oceaneering
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
terminated its $180 million contract with...
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Apple Working To Fix iPhone 3G’s Hiccups
AT&T and Apple Inc developers are currently seeking solutions to solve the faults of the latest...
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Vattenfall Europe CEO Klaus Rauscher Steps Down Amid Criticism
Klaus Rauscher, the chief executive of Vattenfall Europe AG submitted his resignation after two...
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