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Malaysia won't close Thai border amid rift |
| 12/25/2004 |
Brunei Online.com: Malaysia said Wednesday it will not seal its border with Thailand despite allegations Thai Islamic militants are conducting arms training in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is also Malaysia's defence minister, said closing the border would seriously hurt the local population and trading activities on the border.
"It can be taken but sealing off the border is a very drastic step. It would be considered a very radical step," Najib said when asked whether closing the frontier was a solution to cross-border movement.
"It will lead to the total collapse of the local economy particularly on the Thai side. It will also disrupt the normal flow of trade and movement of people between
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HMV to take on Apple in online music market |
| 12/25/2004 |
HMV to take on Apple in online music market ...General
Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 at 17:28 by Laurence Norah
The HMV Group plc, one of the UK's leading retailers of music, have announced a partnership with Microsoft which will allow them to offer a music download service. They will be investing around £10 million to launch the service, so this is clearly a serious move into the traditionally Apple dominated market place.
The HMV service will offer a customised jukebox, and music will naturally be in the Windows Media audio format. There is no talk on pricing as yet. Alan Giles,
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Japanese Wireless Operator Invests In U.S. Linux Vendor |
| 12/25/2004 |
Linux as a platform for mobile devices received another boost Tuesday when Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo announced that it has invested in U.S. Linux vendor MontaVista Software.
The companies announced last month that MontaVista's Linux would be used as the operating system for three new 3G phones from DoCoMo. The Japanese wireless operator also has said it plans to use the Symbian OS for some of its other 3G phones.
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TAG Heuer signs Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova |
| 12/25/2004 |
BrandRepublic.com: Luxury Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer has signed Wimbledon tennis champion Maria Sharapova as a brand ambassador, in a three-year deal believed to be worth about £500,000 a year.
The 17-year-old Russian won this year's Wimbledon Championship and is currently ranked fourth-best womens' tennis player in the world.
The player will feature in TAG Heuer's press campaign "What are you made of", shot by photographer Patrick Demarchelier |
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Russian cargo ship heads for space station |
| 12/25/2004 |
A Russian cargo ship carrying badly needed food supplies for a U.S.-Russian crew on the international space station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome early Friday.
The Progress M-51 took off from the Russian-leased launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan and entered orbit 124 miles above the earth about nine minutes later, Russia's Federal Space Agency said in a statement.
The ship was scheduled to arrive at the station
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Does Linux really need a "killer app" to succeed? |
| 12/25/2004 |
In the late 1990s, we thought Linux needed a "killer app" that would make general PC users view Linux as a necessity the same way they first viewed Windows as a necessity due to Microsoft Office. However, a new direction in open source adoption seems to be emerging that might require a re-think and a change in our perspective.
Many popular open source programs like the GIMP, OpenOffice.org, MPlayer, and VideoLAN now natively support Windows instead of only supporting Linux. With the old way of thinking, having these great applications only available on the Linux platform would be the way to draw users to Linux. Now, thinking seems to have shifted.
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Apple To Use Multi-OS Chip in Future Macs, IBM Reveals |
| 12/24/2004 |
macnewsworld.com: Apple will use a new PowerPC 970 processor in future Macs that will run multiple operating systems simultaneously, an executive of IBM's (NYSE: IBM) server technology division has revealed. Development of the new processor is close to being finished and will ship sometime in 2005, the company said. |
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US contractor leaves Iraq |
| 12/23/2004 |
News.ocm.au: US contractor Contrack International has pulled out of a $US325 million ($425 million) Iraqi transportation project because of violence, a US official said today.
The company is the first US contractor to leave Iraq totally. Instability and the anti-American insurgency have delayed an $US18.6 billion ($24.3 billion) US-funded rebuilding program |
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Boeing secures giant Japan order |
| 12/23/2004 |
Boeing is to supply Japan Airlines with up to 50 of its forthcoming 7E7 planes in a deal that could be worth as much as $6bn (£3.1bn) for the US giant.
Japan Airlines has made a firm order for 30 of the aircraft, at $120m each, with the option to buy 20 more
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Japan Airlines To Buy 30 Boeing 7E7s |
| 12/23/2004 |
Airwise: Japan Airlines (JAL), Asia's biggest airline, said on Wednesday it will buy 30 Boeing 7E7 Dreamliners and will take an option to buy an additional 20.
The contract will be signed next spring and the new planes will be introduced from 2008 to replace JAL's 36 Boeing 767 jets and 22 Airbus A300-600s.
"We chose the 7E7 after carefully considering both it and Airbus' aircraft," a JAL spokesman said. "The 7E7 fit better for what we needed and it could be delivered when we hoped to get it."
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Airbus wins first contract for planned 7E7 challenger |
| 12/23/2004 |
IHT.com : Airbus won its first contract on Tuesday for the A350, the plane it is designing to compete with the Boeing 7E7 Dreamliner, as the Spanish carrier Air Europa signed up for 10 A350s worth a total of $1.5 billion |
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Malaysia denies training Thai dissidents |
| 12/23/2004 |
Al Jazeera :There are no guerrilla training camps in Malaysia, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said, firing off the latest volley in a row over dissidents in southern Thailand.
Thailand, however, says it has photographs showing dissidents responsible for various acts of violence being trained in hideouts
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Washington Post buys online magazine Slate |
| 12/23/2004 |
Senverpost: Microsoft Corp. sold its popular Slate online magazine Tuesday to The Washington Post Co., a move that makes Slate's political commentary and quirky feature articles more broadly available across the Internet.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Slate editor Jacob Weisberg said the amount was "a very respectable, impressive price
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Experts Say India's Cyber Law is Outdated |
| 12/23/2004 |
An Indian court may have granted bail to the India head of eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) auction house in connection with a sex video being sold on the Web site , but the captains of information technology industry are seething with anger over the ambiguity of nation's cyber law.
On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court released Avnish Bajaj, a U.S. citizen, on bail and asked him to surrender his passport and not leave the country without the court's permission. He was also asked to pay two sureties of US$2,300 each.
Bajaj, head of eBay's India portal, bazee.com, was arrested Friday
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Tiger admits frustrations over swing struggles |
| 12/23/2004 |
DailyTimes.pk : Tiger Woods admitted his frustration with his swing struggles this year in an e-mail newsletter sent on Tuesday but said two late-season victories have boosted his confidence for greater success in 2005.
Woods won in Japan last month and at the World Challenge event he hosts earlier this month against 15 elite rivals. But it came after a PGA season where his only victory came in the World Golf Championships Match Play event. “It is frustrating |
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PV Narasimha Rao: Modern day Chanakya |
| 12/23/2004 |
IndiaTimes.com :Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, the ninth Prime Minister of India, was one of modern Indian politics' most mysterious leaders.
The first person outside Nehru-Gandhi family to occupy the hot seat and complete five years in power |
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New rocket fails to get dummy satellite into proper orbit |
| 12/23/2004 |
Tallahasse.com: A dummy satellite carried into space by the new Boeing Delta 4 Heavy rocket failed to reach its intended orbit, officials said Wednesday.
Boeing said the failure was apparently caused by a shorter-than-planned firing of the rocket's three Rocketdyne-built RS-68 main engines after its launch Tuesday
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Sun TV in content deal with Astro |
| 12/23/2004 |
Rediff.com :South Indian television network Sun TV has entered into a $25 million joint venture with Astro All Asia Network to originate, aggregate and distribute television programming and channels for a global audience.
Both parties will aim for working together in content creation for filmed and other entertainment products in Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali for distribution to international markets. |
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Lee Kuan Yew warns foreign media not to meddle in Singapore |
| 12/23/2004 |
INQ7: Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has brushed aside Singapore's dismal ranking in a global press freedom survey and renewed a warning to foreign media against interfering in the city-state's affairs.
"Do you really believe that we are equal to North Korea ?" the 81-year-old Lee said in a forum late Monday with the Foreign Correspondents Association of Singapore. "Oh, come on."
Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders has ranked Singapore, where local media have close links
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PeopleSoft agrees to Oracle bid |
| 12/22/2004 |
ISTART.co.nz :After 18 months of bickering, litigation, executive shuffling, antitrust rulings, and revised offers from Oracle, the PeopleSoft Board finally decided to accept Oracle's most recent offer of $26.50 per share. At that price, the deal is worth about $10.3 billion, and gives Oracle access to the much-coveted PeopleSoft customer base of nearly 13,000 as well as $3 billion in annual revenues.
For PeopleSoft and its customers, the big question is Oracle's attentiveness to this new part
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