Bledsoe, top seed Kentucky breeze through East Tennessee State – CBS Sports
NEW ORLEANS — To call this one a yawner would be understating things. Kentucky’s blowout of E. Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA tournament was so thorough that fans were sleeping in the stands — and not even the collective laughs of conscious spectators could awaken some of those

US, Russia clash over Iran plant – Boston Globe
MOSCOW US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly yesterday over the planned launch this summer of Iran s first nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons. Clinton did not directly criticize

Ohio Stuns Georgetown In Tournament Opener – WJLA
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Armon Bassett scored 32 points to help No. 14 seed Ohio beat Georgetown 97-83 and become the second team seeded in the teens to win in the NCAA tournament on Thursday night. The Mid-American Conference tournament champion Bobcats (22-14) took the lead early on their 3-point

Parker, TVs Davy Crockett, dies at 85 – Bennington Banner
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV s Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and

Pondexter’s drive lifts No. 11 seed Washington past No. 6 seed Marquette – Washington Post
SAN JOSE — Quincy Pondexter drove to the basket and sank a layup with 1.7 seconds left to lift No. 11 seed Washington to an 80-78 victory over sixth-seeded Marquette in an East Region first-round game at HP Pavilion on Thursday. The Huskies (25-9) advanced to play the New Mexico-Montana winner on

Azriel Carver’s body found on Fox Island – kgw.com
TACOMA, Wash. — Lt. Chris Mealy of the Thurston County Sheriff’s office says he got a call from Pierce County officials on Thursday afternoon to say they are responding to a report that a child washed up on the island southwest of Tacoma. Just after 5 p.m. sheriff’s deputies confirmed that the body

Bruins’ Thornton fights Cooke 1:58 in – ESPN.com
In the teams’ first meeting since Savard was hurt by a shoulder-to-head hit March 7 in Pittsburgh, Cooke and Boston’s Shawn Thornton dropped their gloves at 1:58 of the first period Thursday night, 5 seconds after Cooke took the ice for the first time to loud boos. “For me, I didn’t intend on

Netanyahu calls Clinton to defuse tensions – YAHOO!
MOSCOW Hoping to defuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims . The Obama administration’s special envoy for

Canadian Solar, Inc. (CSIQ) Chief Executive Officer to Ring The NASDAQ – TMCnet
Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). This news release was distributed by GlobeNewswire, www.globenewswire.com SOURCE: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Nokia fighting to stay No. 1 as U.S. challenge grows – San Jose Mercury News
HELSINKI Nokia may be the world’s top cell phone maker, but it’s no longer a trendsetter, as a host of inventive and alluring technologies from North America is shifting the center of gravity in the cellular universe away from Europe. Despite

ACM SIGGRAPH’s Debevec and Team to Receive Academy Award for – TMCnet
LOS ANGELES, Feb 19, 2010 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) — For innovations in visual effects technology used on the films “Avatar” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is honoring Paul Debevec of the

NJ Sen. Lautenberg has stomach cancer – WPVI
Doctors for the Democrat found B-cell lymphoma that will require treatment over the next few months, spokesman Caley Gray said in a news release. He will not be resigning, Gray said. Independent doctors agree that Lautenberg’s type of lymphoma is

More IDG Headlines – San Francisco Chronicle
As winners of the competition, students from Shanghai Jiantong University have a guaranteed offer of employment or internship with IBM, according to a statement from S Navy Web sites and the Fox News Web site following the U.S invasion of Iraq in

El-Erian Says U.S. Not Agile Enough for Job Losses (Update1) – Bloomberg
Treasuries have dropped 0.7 percent this month, according to Bank of America Corp. s Merrill Lynch index data. U.S. government debt fell 3.7 percent last year, the biggest annual decline since the indexes began in 1983. If we continue to abuse

PREVIEW-Juniper to outline game plan against Cisco – CNN Money
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Juniper Networks Inc is set to outline next week how it plans to compete against much-bigger rival Cisco Systems Inc and win over Wall Street. Juniper shares have gained little in recent months, despite

Teams looking for all-star help as NBA Trade Deadline looms – TSN
DALLAS — Electrifying as teammates for one night, imagine LeBron James and Dwyane Wade together for an entire season. At least one of them does. “We can dream, can’t we?” Wade said. “I dream.” After watching them Sunday night in the all-star game at

Everyone around Miller says “rewrite” but Bode – ESPN.com
WHISTLER, British Columbia — No athlete probably wanted a medal more or pretended to care less when it arrived. But that’s Bode Miller. Four years after partying like an Olympian in Turin, he finally skied like one at the Vancouver Games, wrapping

Oscar-nominee luncheon has a school-days vibe – Bellingham Herald
LOS ANGELES With “Avatar” continuing to break global box-office records, James Cameron has the Hollywood clout to get just about any actor interested in his next film. But even the visionary director found himself a little wide-eyed when confronted

Stocks end shortened session at new 2009 highs – Boston Globe
NEW YORK Stocks ended a holiday-shortened session Thursday at new highs for the year following upbeat reports on unemployment and durable goods orders. A weaker dollar also helped buoy the market, lifting energy and materials stocks. Christmas Eve trading was extremely light. The encouraging

Tug grounds on same reef as Exxon Valdez tanker – Boston Globe
ANCHORAGE, Alaska A tugboat put in service to help prevent another oil spill disaster in Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef as the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago in what remains the nation’s worst oil spill. The Coast Guard said Thursday that the 136-foot tug with six crew aboard had

Angels lock up reliever Rodney for two years, $11 million – CBS Sports
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Reliever Fernando Rodney has signed a two-year, $11 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels . The 32-year-old right-hander spent his first seven major league seasons with the Detroit Tigers, including the last two years as their closer. He converted 37 of 38 save opportunities

Officials probe American plane wreck in Jamaica – Houston Chronicle
KINGSTON, Jamaica Jamaican and U.S. authorities launched a probe Thursday examining whether the pilot of American Airlines Flight 331 could have avoided an accident that cracked open the plane and sent nearly 100 people to the hospital. One alternative could have been to abort the landing and

NORAD tracking Santa on his sleigh – Syracuse Post-Standard
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is reporting the progress of Santa Claus’s annual visit to good boys and girls around the world. As darkness descended on the East Coast of the United States Thrusday, NORAD’s Web site for the mission, www.noradsanta.org , was reporting much of Europe and

Senate OK’s health care bill in victory for Obama – Boston Globe
WASHINGTON In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise talks with the House on a bill to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and rein in the insurance industry

Pope OK after woman knocks him down at Mass – USA Today
Pope Benedict XVI holds a cross as he leads the Christmas Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday. VATICAN CITY (AP) A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday

Guitarist for Janis Joplin’s Big Brother band dies – KMOV
LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69. Gurley was pronounced dead

The VDI Guide – Computerworld Australia
Session links from client to VM are accomplished via Java (JRE 1.6). The host session can be Windows XP, Vista or Windows 2003 Server. Ericom WebConnect: Lots of promise, still needs work Ericom’s ’secret sauce’ is a transportation protocol called

Peak 10 Acquires South Florida-based 1Vault Networks – pressreleasepoint.com
CHARLOTTE, N.C. and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Dec. 22, 2009) Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, today announced its acquisition of 1Vault Networks, a South Florida-based business continuity and data services

City of Angels moves to the Google clouds – Examiner
Get alerts when there is a new article from the LA Business Tech Examiner. Read Examiner.com’s terms of use. The city of Los Angeles is making a move to the cloud by equipping 34,000 city employees with Google Apps for email, documents, and

Fed Cloud Blog – FederalNewsRadio.com
Welcome to the Fed Cloud Blog (FCB). Each week we’ll take a look at the issues surrounding cloud computing through the eyes of those who are using it everyday. We’ll share with you the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned from some of the

The VDI Guide – Computerworld Australia
Session links from client to VM are accomplished via Java (JRE 1.6). The host session can be Windows XP, Vista or Windows 2003 Server. Ericom WebConnect: Lots of promise, still needs work Ericom’s ’secret sauce’ is a transportation protocol called

Archive for April 2004 – The Spokesman-Review
Among the many web site registration forms and other minutiae presented as evidence in court on Thursday to tie Sami Al-Hussayen to various web sites, there were four documents he signed, giving various titles showing he had responsible positions

Peak 10 Acquires South Florida-based 1Vault Networks – pressreleasepoint.com
CHARLOTTE, N.C. and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Dec. 22, 2009) Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, today announced its acquisition of 1Vault Networks, a South Florida-based business continuity and data services

Fed Cloud Blog – FederalNewsRadio.com
Welcome to the Fed Cloud Blog (FCB). Each week we’ll take a look at the issues surrounding cloud computing through the eyes of those who are using it everyday. We’ll share with you the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned from some of the

City of Angels moves to the Google clouds – Examiner
Get alerts when there is a new article from the LA Business Tech Examiner. Read Examiner.com’s terms of use. The city of Los Angeles is making a move to the cloud by equipping 34,000 city employees with Google Apps for email, documents, and

Browns lead Steelers 13-6 through 3 quarters – AOL
CLEVELAND -Chris Jennings ran 10 yards for a touchdown, the first by a Cleveland running back in more than a year, and the Browns held a 13-6 lead against the Pittsburgh Steelers through three quarters on Thursday night. The touchdown was the first of Jennings’ career and the first by a Browns

House eases restrictions on derivatives trades – Washington Post
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan coalition in the House voted late Thursday to make it easier for corporations to engage in complex derivatives trades without government restrictions, eroding the reach of proposed regulations to govern Wall Street. Democratic attempts to toughen the legislation failed

Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon – Raleigh News & Observer
PORTLAND, Ore. — The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River. Museum President Nancy Stueber said the fossilized bones of a 40-foot-long predator dinosaur that weighed 7.5 tons and lived 66

Cherokees buy Blue Ribbon Downs racetrack in Okla. – Seattle Times
The Cherokee Nation has bought Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw, Okla., less than two weeks after the previous owner shuttered the horse racing track. The Cherokee Nation announced its purchase in a Thursday news release, but didn’t disclose the sale price or say whether the track would reopen. The

Brian Kelly hired at Notre Dame; Cincinnati players bitter over coach’s departure before the Sugar Bowl – Contra Costa Times
CINCINNATI Notre Dame has settled on Brian Kelly as the man who can restore its faded glory, just as he turned Cincinnati into a national title contender. Just 10 days after Charlie Weis was fired, it’s up to Kelly to revive the fortunes of a team that just completed the worst decade of football

Slideshow: Nobel Peace Prize banquet in Oslo: Full text of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech – Examiner
OSLO, Norway – Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world: I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations – that for all the cruelty

Man agrees to plead guilty in ESPN reporter case – WJLA
LOS ANGELES – An Illinois insurance executive agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking after secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, according to court documents filed Thursday and first obtained by The Associated Press. Michael Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Ill., will plead

Texas’ McCoy named best all-around player – CNN Sports Illustrated
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Colt McCoy’s near blunder in the final seconds of the Big 12 title game hasn’t cost him on the awards circuit so far. It hasn’t hurt the conference, either. McCoy capped a big Thursday night for the Big 12, winning the Maxwell Award honoring the nation’s best all

Pistons Beat Billups, Nuggets 101-99 – CBS News
(AP) AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – Charlie Villanueva scored 27 points, and Rodney Stuckey had 26 to help the banged-up Detroit Pistons hold on for a 101-99 victory over former teammate Chauncey Billups and the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night. Billups missed a layup in the final seconds, allowing the

Future Hosting Offers Hybrid Virtual Private Servers – WebHosting.Info
The company introduces Hybrid VPS in its London data center facility, which provides greater power than traditional VPS. Future Hosting , an internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer

Phishing attack aimed at cPanel users – Thetech Herald
If you host a website online, then you are likely familiar with cPanel and WHM. cPanel is a backend administration service that allows a site owner to manage FTP access, Email access, SQL administration, and several other aspects of control. More

Top Midwest Contractor Merryman Excavation Partners with BID2WIN – PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) Dec 10, 2009 Woodstock, Illinois-based construction firm Merryman Excavation has recently partnered with BID2WIN Software Inc. to standardize their estimating, bidding and field tracking. As one of the leading

Cirrus Tech Ltd. Slashes the Price on Their Dedicated Servers – PR-USA.net
Are you looking for the performance and exclusivity of a dedicated hosting environment but don t want to break your IT budget? If so, now is the time to take advantage of Cirrus Tech s newly launched Budget Server Sale. With high performance

‘Shattered Horizon’ Gets Updated And Dedicated Server – WorthPlaying.com
Shattered Horizon is a new multiplayer FPS game where teams of players experience realistic zero gravity combat and fight to survive in the aftermath of a catastrophic Moon mining accident which throws billions of tons of rocky debris into near-Earth

Get a Sophisticated and Reliable Tool for Free PC Remote Control – Earthtimes
Remote-Control-PC.com has announced the release of Remote Control PC 4.9, a new free program for remote desktop control and monitoring. What is really surprising about this tool? The free edition of Remote Control PC is as powerful as similar

Infinitely Virtual Releases VMware Fault Tolerance – PR.com
Los Angeles, CA, December 10, 2009 –( PR.com )– Infinitely Virtual, a rapidly expanding provider of high quality and affordable virtual server technology, now offers its clients VMware Fault Tolerance for their virtual machines, delivering 100

Black Lotus Announces LotusCloud VM Service – WebHosting.Info
Offers environmentally-friendly cloud hosting with built-in DDoS protection services to website owners. Black Lotus , a DDoS protection services company, today announced its new LotusCloud VM service, the first environmentally-friendly virtual server

Infinitely Virtual Releases Up to 8 Core Virtual Dedicated Servers – PR-USA.net
Infinitely Virtual, a rapidly expanding provider of high quality and affordable virtual server technology, now offers clients support for up to 8 core Virtual Dedicated Servers. Until now, Virtual Dedicated Servers were limited to 4 cores. Infinitely

Amanda Knox: A timeline of the Meredith Kercher murder case – Seattle Times
Amanda Knox: A timeline of events in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Nov. 1, 2007 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher is found dead in the bedroom of the apartment in Perugia, Italy, that she shared with 20-year-old University of Washington student Amanda Knox. The cause of death is a

CDC: Swine flu is widespread only in 25 states – Washington Post
ATLANTA — Swine flu infections continue to wane, just as vaccine is becoming plentiful enough that some communities are allowing everyone to get it, not just those in priority groups. Swine flu was widespread in only 25 states last week – mostly in the Northeast and Southwest, officials at the

Uchitel lawyer cancels press conference – AOL
LOS ANGELES(AP) A lawyer for a New York woman who has denied having an affair with Tiger Woods has canceled a news conference that had been scheduled for Thursday in Los Angeles. Attorney Gloria Allred says the news conference has been canceled due to what she terms unforeseen circumstances. Allred

Transcript shows man claiming to be spy helped FBI – Boston Globe
WEST COVINA, Calif. A Southern California man who claimed to spy on mosques for the FBI provided the agency with valuable information for a federal prosecution, a court transcript showed on Friday. The transcript from an August 2007 hearing states that Craig Monteilh (MON’-tay) provided “very

Devils Beat Lightning With Goal in Final Minute – New York Times
Jamie Langenbrunner scored with 38.1 seconds left in regulation to give the host Devils a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday night. Andy Greene fired a shot from the point that Langenbrunner deflected past Antero Niittymaki to give the Devils their seventh win in the last eight games at

Obama: Jobs plan will ‘jump-start’ hiring – Houston Chronicle
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Even as he trumpeted a slowdown in the nation’s job losses Friday, President Barack Obama put finishing touches on a proposal he’ll unveil next week to “jump-start” business hiring across America. In a speech from Washington on Tuesday, Obama plans to send Congress an initial list

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com – NewOrleans.Com
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened “the end of the MP3″ with its fast song-streaming application. A person familiar with the matter confirmed the talks with The Associated Press but was not authorized

Ga. speaker resigns after lobbyist affair claim – Findlaw.com
ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a suicide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife of an affair with a lobbyist. Glenn Richardson, the state’s first GOP speaker since Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political enemies when he revealed last month

EMC sustainability czar explores cloud computing’s green credentials – ZDNet Blogs
As we entered 2009 (I m ready to leave it behind, how about you?), many of my industry contacts questioned the relevancy of green IT discussions and why, exactly, I continued to be so excited about this blog gig. The economy will trump all other

Intel 48-Core CPU Improves Power Efficiency – Industry Standard
The implications for organizations to maximize processing capacity in smaller data centers, requiring less cooling, and reducing power consumption all at the same time are significant. Commercial production of a chip like the 48-core SCC is a long

185,000-SF Data Center Fetches $90M – GlobeSt. com
SANTA CLARA, CA-The fully-leased, 185,000-square-foot Bayshore Data Center here changed hands in November for $90.5 million in cash and assumed debt. Locally based Digital Realty Trust acquired the two-building asset from Inland Western Retail Real

$90.52 Million Sale of Bayshore Data Center in Silicon Valley Closed – Investors Business Daily
LOS ANGELES, Dec 03, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that they have closed the sale of Bayshore Data Center, a two-building, fully-leased, 185,000-square-foot

NHL looks to Web video, mobile to further popularize game – IDG NEWS
Sports fans demand a lot more than game tickets and newspaper box scores these days they want constantly updated game information and access to high-quality video no matter where they are. That’s why the National Hockey League’s technology team

Could later versions replace datacenters? – DailyTech
Several years ago, Intel showed off its 80-core Teraflops Research Chip . That chip was highly experimental, with only simple floating-point cores . Three years later, Intel has something much more advanced. Intel calls its new 48-core IA32 processor

Seven Keys to Better Blade Management in the Data Center – eWeek
The Total Environment Many data centers already are tight on space, and are dealing with power and cooling issues. Putting new blades in inefficient facilities will hamper their ability to solve those problems, Hanna said. Assess the data center’s

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Sails with Safe, Reliable Power from Eaton – pressreleasepoint.com
PITTSBURGH When the world s largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, departs on its maiden voyage Saturday, December 5, a cadre of electrical power supply systems from diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation (NYSE:ETN) will help

Google aims to unclog Net’s DNS plumbing – Zd Net Asia.com
Google wants to speed up a key part of the Internet’s inner workings called the Domain Name System and is inviting technically savvy folks to try their ideas out. The DNS is a crucial part of the Internet. It converts the text addresses people can

More IDG Headlines – San Francisco Chronicle
It’s intended to assist in evolving data centers to wide-scale virtualization and cloud computing “without forcing certain technologies or operating methodologies” on users, says Gordon Stitt, Extreme chairman and co-founder. Extreme’s plan is built

Data Centers Canada, Toronto North – Introduces Private Network Access – PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) Nov 27, 2009 Data Centers Canada has partnered with Atria Networks and Allstream to allow its clients the ability to deploy private network connectivity between DCC s Toronto North facility and its clients endpoint

i/o Data Centers to Sponsor FBR Open Tournament – WHIR
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator i/o Data Centers ( www.iodatacenters.com ) announced on Friday it has signed a one-year agreement to sponsor the 2010 FBR Open ( www.phoenixopen.com ) professional golf tournament. i/o Data Centers

www.bharatbook.com : Green Telecom Networks – TMCnet
Energy consumption is one of the leading drivers of operating expenses for both fixed and mobile network operators. Reliable access to electricity is limited in many developing countries that are currently the high-growth markets for

Deutsche B rse connects 100th participant to Proximity Services – WebWire
Deutsche B rse: 100 Eurex and Xetra participants, vendors and service providers already use the two Proximity data centers in Frankfurt, benefiting from the low latency and the high bandwidth of the Enhanced Broadcast Solution and Enhanced

Facebook Follows Google to Data Center Savings – Data Center Knowledge
A graphic of the new data center power distribution system being implemented at Facebook, which replaces a central UPS with a battery built into the power supply. Facebook is stepping up its efforts to make its data centers cheaper and more

CommerceGate Showcases Powerful Processing Solutions at Affiliate – TMCnet
LOS ANGELES, CA, Nov 27, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — CommerceGate will be attending the upcoming Affiliate Convention tradeshow in Los Angeles from December 3rd to December 4th, 2009, and exhibiting their award-winning leading edge online

Should Servers Come With Batteries? – Data Center Knowledge
Will the data center of the future have no central UPS units, and be filled with servers with on-board batteries? The data center team at Facebook believes it should, and is pledging to share its best practices – and perhaps wield some of its

Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes – YAHOO!
Obesity and diabetes “are basically the two conditions of greatest concern for U.S. adults right now,” said study lead author Edward Gregg, chief of epidemiology and statistics in the CDC’s division of diabetes translation. “They have been increasing for the last 10 to 15 years,” he said. “This is

South Korea Trade Pact Is Revived by Obama – New York Times
WASHINGTON President Obama opened a potentially bruising battle within the Democratic party on Thursday when he pledged to complete a long-stalled trade agreement with South Korea that he inherited from President George W. Bush . President Obama and Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea

France’s Sarkozy apologises to Ireland, dismisses replay – ESPN.com
BRUSSELS, Nov 20 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy apologised to Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen for France’s controversial victory over Ireland in their World Cup play-off on Wednesday, but would not agree to a replay. Cowen raised the issue of replaying the match with his French counterpart at a

Reid rolls out Senate healthcare bill – Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday unveiled his long-awaited plan for expanding medical coverage to millions more Americans over the next decade, setting the stage for a historic Senate debate on a healthcare overhaul. Reid’s legislation would cost

Man faces murder charge in NC girl’s disappearance – AOL
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday. Mario McNeill is being charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told

Man who claimed disability spotted on TV show – AOL
LOS ANGELES -California tax officials say an interior designer’s false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show. Fifty-six-year-old Ronald Hunt of Los Angeles was sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $180,000

AOL to reduce work force – Chicago Tribune
Internet company AOL LLC is planning to shed as much as 36 percent of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month. Major job cuts had been expected, but the magnitude hadn’t been known until Thursday. AOL, which now employs 6,900 workers, is asking for 2,500 volunteers

Heidi Klum wows crowd at Victoria’s Secret show – AOL
NEW YORK -Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road. The lingerie retailer inducted five more women into its “Angel” ranks a designation reserved for top models

Atlantis pair replace antenna in first space walk – YAHOO!
AFP/ NASA TV This NASA tv image shows Atlantis astronaut Bobby Satcher(C-back to camera), on the robotic arm, working After “camping out” overnight in the Quest airlock, which purges nitrogen from their bloodstream to prevent decompression sickness, Foreman and Satcher moved out into the

Competency hearing opens for accused Maui spy – Billings Gazette
Expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense have testified a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. The forensic psychologists also said during a federal court hearing Thursday in Honolulu that Noshir Gowadia of Maui

Microsoft Ups Cloud Computing Ante with Azure and ‘Dallas’ – PC World
To meet the anticipated demands of delivering the capacity, availability, and scalability that customers will expect from a cloud computing platform , Microsoft is hosting Azure in three regional pairs of data centers. The data centers are

Net Optics Extends Monitoring Access Platform – NewsFactor Network
Net Optics Extends Monitoring Access Platform to Meet Increasingly Complex Data Center Management Requirements — Industry First High-Density iBypass Switch and New iLink Agg Improve Network and Application Performance While Mitigating Business Risk

Microsoft To Launch Azure Cloud Service Early Next Year – Post Chronicle
Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will launch its long-awaited Windows Azure cloud computing system on Jan 1, as it looks to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services. Azure, which provides an online platform for

SugarCRM Announces CRM Applications on Windows Azure – TMCnet
“With Windows Azure, Microsoft has built a true cloud computing platform going well beyond the simple hosted infrastructure that most service providers offer today,” said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM. “Windows Azure enables SugarCRM value-added

Microsoft to start charging for access to cloud computing system – Chicago Tribune
SEATTLE (AP) Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to keep those programmers working with its

Zeichick s Take: Windows Azure and zero-day flaws – SDTimes.com
represents Microsoft s extension of Windows into the cloud, which means that more and more companies will be outsourcing their enterprise applications and data beyond their own data centers. The second story was in Computer Reseller News.

Azure shines over Microsoft PDC – SDTimes.com
LOS ANGELES It s Windows Azure, front and center at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, which began today in Los Angeles. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft s chief software architect, took the keynote stage to announce the pending

F5 Enhances IP Geolocation Capability through Partnership with Quova – PR Inside
F5 Networks, Inc. : (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) and Quova, Inc. : , the leading provider of IP geolocation data and services, today announced a partnership and OEM agreement. The partnership will enhance

Infinity Ward: “We don’t know what our next game is” – CVG Online
Infinity Ward doesn’t know what its next game is going to be, it’s claimed in an interview (read: if it’s not Modern Warfare 3 we’ll capture and eat a live badger). Community man Robert Bowling told MTV : “We don’t know what our next game is. Once we

Cloud Provider GoGrid, and EdgeCast Networks Release Zero-Commitment – TMCnet
(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) EdgeCast’s content delivery network (CDN) pairing with GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure hosting service offers many best-of-class features for infrastructure hosting and content streaming. San Francisco, CA (Vocus

Host Color Added More Resources To VPS Hosting Plans – PRLog (free press release)
com ) reported to web hosting media that the monthly data transfer quota of its premier Virtual Private Server allows us to give our VPS customers more resources without increasing the prices of our Virtual Private Servers”, said Host Color’s CTO

Hot Off the Wire – dBusinessNews.com
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), and GoGrid, the cloud infrastructure hosting service from ServePath Hosting, today announced GoGrid CDN, a hybrid cloud hosting

Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the internet here is a daily headache. It’s not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video sharing site that’s affected by being blocked; blank

Could Car Batteries Back up Our Electrical Grid? – Design News
In the quest to supply electricity for millions of future electric cars, engineers have stumbled upon the most unlikely of energy prospects the car itself. If that sounds like a bit of tangled logic to you, then you’re not alone. The very idea

Could Car Batteries Back up Our Electrical Grid? – Design News
In the quest to supply electricity for millions of future electric cars, engineers have stumbled upon the most unlikely of energy prospects the car itself. If that sounds like a bit of tangled logic to you, then you’re not alone. The very idea

EdgeCast Networks and GoGrid Launch No-Commitment, on-Demand Cloud – PR Inside
Organizations can now provision cloud computing infrastructure (in the form of servers, load balancers and cloud storage) and content delivery services moments delivery service that gives our customers and partners competitive advantage in the

Hot Off the Wire – dBusinessNews.com
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), and GoGrid, the cloud infrastructure hosting service from ServePath Hosting, today announced GoGrid CDN, a hybrid cloud hosting

Cloud Provider GoGrid, and EdgeCast Networks Release Zero-Commitment – TMCnet
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a broad healthcare reform bill later this week and it has enough support to pass, House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday. The Democratic-controlled House plans to open debate on its 1,990-page version of a healthcare

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Clinton diverts to Egypt for Mideast peace talks – Boston Globe
CAIRO U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a hastily arranged stop in the Egyptian capital Tuesday to consult with a longtime Arab ally amid indications of a shifting U.S. strategy for getting Israel and the Palestinians back to peace negotiations. Instead of returning to

Kirstie Alley to star in A&E reality series – WJLA
LOS ANGELES – Kirstie Alley is going to star in a new A&E reality “docu-series” about her life as a single mom and her efforts to lose weight.The network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the untitled series from “American Idol” producer FremantleMedia North America. The show will follow the

The Economist: Fertility rates fall; still, it’s a tiny planet – Minneapolis Star Tribune
T homas Malthus first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population,” in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing was unfortunate, for something started happening around then that made

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The proposed renewal of a long-term lease with Delta Air Lines has major implications for the world s busiest airport, the planet s biggest airline and possibly for millions of passengers who fly out of, or through, Atlanta. The proposed seven

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‘This Is It’ Tops Box Office At $101M Global Sales – KDKA
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It (movie) – Daily Press
LOS ANGELES “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days, and distributor Sony is extending the farewell performance film beyond its planned two-week run. The film was the No. 1 Halloween thriller

‘This Is It’ tops charts with $101M worldwide – NewOrleans.Com
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days, and distributor Sony is extending the farewell performance film beyond its planned two-week run. The film was the No. 1 Halloween thriller

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Weather Channel to air movies for first time – Boston Globe
NEW YORK The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history and it’s easy to guess which one is leading off. “The Perfect Storm,” of course. The George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg movie about a horrific storm off the New England coast will air on Oct. 30, the 18th

Accused Scientist Appears in Court – AOL
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UConn coach: Players didn’t fight before stabbing – AOL
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Apple’s $19 remote gets aluminum refresh; control iPod, iPhone, Mac – ZDNet Blogs
Yep, in addition to all the other Apple announcements today, the company s remote also gets a refresh and it s aluminum. No longer glossy white, the remote is styled in all-aluminum, and controls your iPod, iPhone or Mac from the couch. Buttons on top include play/pause, menu, volume and track

Angels’ Kendrick on Rebound Against Yankees – ABC News
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Froot Loops, Cocoa Puffs are ‘Smart Choices’? FDA warns food producers about inaccurate claims – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Well, federal health officials are having similar thoughts, and they’re warning food manufacturers. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that nutritional logos from food manufacturers may be misleading consumers about the actual health benefits of cereal, crackers and other processed foods

On Media – American Reporter
LOS ANGELES — Over one recent weekend, I experienced how this new communications medium known as the internet is changing the political culture. It’s not just the internet by itself, but the ways it is being manipulated by political activists that

Workforce Management Software Simplifies Scheduling of Seasonal Staff – TMCnet
It s late summer and that means merchants are gearing up to staff their call centers with seasonal help. For merchants that do most of their business during the holiday season, that can mean doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the number of call

Sprint Will Bring Android-Based HTC Hero To U.S. – Sci-Tech Today
Sprint Nextel will be the first U.S. wireless carrier to offer the Android-based HTC Hero smartphone with built-in Google mobile services. The HTC Hero comes with HTC Sense for customizing with “scenes.” An analyst said Sprint is late in offering

Florida State College established as Apple Authorized Training Center – Jacksonville Daily Record
Florida State College at Jacksonville is now established as an Apple Authorized Training Center, offering the only available training between Atlanta and Orlando. This training is open to novice users and seasoned professionals at the school s

Reportlinker Adds Healthcare Information Technology Report – TMCnet
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H3C Selects Chelsio High Performance 10GbE for Network IP Storage – Earthtimes
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Bombings kill dozens in Baghdad and northern Iraq – Lexington Herald-Leader
BAGHDAD — Early morning bombings Monday in Baghdad and Mosul killed at least 49 people and wounded 231, the third large-scale attack on civilians in the last 10 days. In the first attack, two truck bombs exploded about 4 a.m. in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood north of Mosul, killing 30 people and

UPI NewsTrack TopNews – United Press International
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aug. 10 (UPI) — The U.S., Mexican and Canadian heads of state vowed Monday in Guadalajara, Mexico, to cooperate on climate change, trade and the swine flu . Wrapping up a quick, two-day summit, U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican

Results of Michael Jackson autopsy to remain sealed – San Jose Mercury News
LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says it has finished its probe into what killed Michael Jackson but will not release the results yet. The coroner’s office said today that police have asked for the cause and manner of Jackson’s death to remain sealed while detectives

Divers find wreckage of plane in midair collision – The Daily Advertiser
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) Hudson River divers on Monday found the wreckage of a private plane that collided with a sightseeing helicopter and killed nine people over the weekend, and they hoped it would lead to the recovery of two bodies that remained in the river. The wreckage of the single-engine