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Track your kids via mobile phone |
| 7/21/2005 |
A SERVICE which enables parents to track their children via their mobile phones is launched in the UK this week.
Called KidsOK, it sends text directions to the parent's phone along with a small map of their offspring's whereabouts
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Research firm: PS3 to lead over Xbox 360, Revolution |
| 7/21/2005 |
According to London-based research firm Strategy Analytics, Sony will dominate the next-generation console war with the Playstation 3, followed by Microsoft's Xbox 360
and Nintendo's Revolution.
In a report today titled, "Game Consoles For the Digital Home: Assessing The Prospects For PS3, Xbox 360 And Revolution," the firm predicts that Sony's Blu-Ray and Cell equipped PS3 will lead with 121.8 million PS3s sold worldwide, followed by Microsoft's Xbox 360 with 58.8 million and Nintendo's Revolution at 18 million.
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Mobile phone sales to reach 779 million units in 2005 |
| 7/21/2005 |
HELSINKI, JULY 20: Global mobile phone sales will rise faster than previously expected this year as consumers snap up handsets with cameras and music players and demand goes up in countries such as India, researcher Gartner Inc said.
Handset makers Nokia and Motorola will sell 779 million mobile phones in 2005, up 16% from 2004, the Stamford, Connecticut-based researcher said in a study. The researcher in May lifted its forecast to 750 million from 720 million. In 2004, sales rose 30% to 674 million units.
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Explore the coast by mobile phone |
| 7/21/2005 |
From this week, visitors to some of the country's best-loved seaside towns will be able to download guided tours by swiping their mobile phone cameras over bar codes positioned along the route ...
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Muslims React Against Tancredo's Remark, 'Bombing Mecca' |
| 7/21/2005 |
US Muslims have fiercely reacted against the remarks made by the Republican House of Representative Member Tom Tancredo who said during a radio program that even Mecca may be bombed in retaliation against extremist Muslims.
The council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that is the largest association on Muslim civilian freedoms in the US called on the leader of the Republican Party Ken Mehlman and Tancredo to apologize to the Muslim society. Tancredo made
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Tancredo nice, but uninformed |
| 7/21/2005 |
Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado appears to be a nice man, a well-mannered man, an educated man who has only one minor defect—on Immigration, he is, perhaps, the most uninformed man in the Congress of the United States. Either he is uninformed, or he is a blatant liar.
For example, in a long speech he delivered to an
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Tancredo's Contempt for Us All |
| 7/21/2005 |
Last week Congressman Tom Tancredo took his immigrant-hating show on the road to New Hampshire, a tiny New England state where immigration is limited at best.
Why in the world would a Colorado Representative travel across the United States to New Hampshire?
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China removes its currency peg |
| 7/21/2005 |
China announced today that it is scrapping the yuan’s peg against the dollar in favour of a basket of currencies, the first step in a long anticipated move to float the currency. |
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Google map service covers lunar surface |
| 7/21/2005 |
JUL. 20 9:54 P.M. ET Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface.
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Underwater fashion show |
| 7/21/2005 |
South Korean models wearing swimwear pose at an aquarium during a fashion show in Seoul July 19, 2005. A sports wear company's promotional drive to target this summer's season was held at a large fish globe of an aquarium.
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SEACREST UNVEILS FASHION LINE |
| 7/21/2005 |
LINDSAY LOHAN and WILL SMITH have given American TV personality RYAN SEACREST's fashion label a boost, by wearing his designs before they are released to the public |
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Xbox Live hits 2m user milestone; X360 transition will be "s |
| 7/21/2005 |
Microsoft has announced that its Xbox Live online gaming service now has two million members and insisted that transferring accounts from Xbox to its next-generation Xbox 360 system |
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Tancredo's racist pals |
| 7/21/2005 |
Tancredo's racist activities this week gave one of our network members an idea. He remembered seeing the above photo and suggested we have a contest to come up with our own T-shirt for the Congressman.
To submit your own T-shirt caption for Tancredo, click on the link below and enter
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Unocal accepts new Chevron bid |
| 7/20/2005 |
Unocal's board of directors has endorsed a sweetened, $17-billion (U.S.) takeover bid from Chevron, rejecting a higher offer from one of China's state-owned oil companies.
The decision by Unocal's board late Tuesday could signal an end to China's most ambitious attempt yet to acquire an American corporation
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Top Spin Nets Federer, Sharapova |
| 7/20/2005 |
July 12, 2005 - Tennis champions Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova will jointly serve as spokespersons and cover stars for the PS2 version of Top Spin, Take-Two Interactive announced on Tuesday....
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Microsoft sues Google, former exec |
| 7/20/2005 |
Microsoft is suing Google and Kai-Fu Lee for breach of contract. Kai-Fu Lee has been hired by Google to lead research and development at a facility in China.
The problem? Lee last worked for—you guessed it—Microsoft, as as VP of Microsoft's Interactive Services Division. As you might expect, Lee signed a contract |
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Singapore Fashion Week |
| 7/19/2005 |
Singapore Fashion Week 2005 (SFW05) will feature a series of international exhibitions catering to the complete modus operandi in the fashion, garment and textile industry.
From raw materials to machinery, from the completed apparel to high-end fashion design, SFW offers a fully comprehensive scope of the various industries.
Now in its 18th year, SFW05 will see, for the first time
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Firefox Community Site Hacked |
| 7/18/2005 |
The Mozilla Foundation's community marketing site Spread Firefox has been hacked. According to an announcement on Spread Firefox about the attack, it appears that the site was compromised in an attempt to use it to send spam. "It doesn't look like the attacker accessed any personal data |
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Music videos may be coming to iPods |
| 7/18/2005 |
NEW YORK — An iPod with video?
Apple Computer Inc. has been talking to several major recording companies, looking to license the sale of music videos through the popular iTunes music site,
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Tennis Superstars Roger Federer And Maria Sharapova Named Co |
| 7/17/2005 |
Windsor, England – July 07, 2005 –
2K Sports, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO), is pleased to announce that international tennis champions Roger Federer, the reigning Wimbledon champion and no.1 ranked men's player and Maria Sharapova, the no.2 ranked women's tennis player in the world will be the official spokespersons and cover athletes for Top Spin on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system |
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