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Girls who love French fries raise risk of breast cancer |
| 8/20/2005 |
Very young children who often eat chips have a much higher risk of breast cancer as adults, researchers said this week.
A study of American nurses found that one additional serving of fries per week at ages three to five increased breast cancer risk by 27 per cent |
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iPods dominate Amazon.com Top Sellers list |
| 8/20/2005 |
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes that Apple’s strong showing on Amazon.com is an indication that the iPod shows no signs of slowing down. Munster notes that iPod models hold the top 10 spots on Amazon’s Top Sellers list for MP3 players. |
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Microsoft has not, repeat not, patented Apple's iPod |
| 8/20/2005 |
"Given the intense rivalry between Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp., this recent revelation had a comedic tinge: Apple took too long to file a patent on part of its blockbuster iPod music players, so Microsoft beat Apple to it. Bloggers and other tech pundits snickered at the prospect of Steve Jobs having to pay Bill Gates |
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Cracking Apple's Mac OS X for Intel doesn't mean much now |
| 8/20/2005 |
"As was to be expected once the software got out of the lab, OS X for Intel has been hacked to make it run on generic Intel platforms, not just the Apple-approved Developer Transition Kit machines.
This is, at this stage, less of an event than it appears at first blush," Larry Loeb writes for eWeek. "Getting around the TPM (Trusted Platform Module)—one of the requirements of enabling OS X to run on a generic platform— basically just involves programming the system code to ignore any calls to the TPM."
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Apple to Open Second London Store |
| 8/20/2005 |
Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) is to open its second branded bricks-and-mortar store in London, as its sales focus shifts to a retail-led environment.
The store, at Brent Cross shopping center in northwest London, will bring the number of Apple retail outlets in the UK to six. |
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Google Out, Yahoo! In At iVillage |
| 8/19/2005 |
WOMEN'S INTEREST PORTAL IVILLAGE WEDNESDAY announced that it will enter an exclusive arrangement with Yahoo! Search Marketing's publisher network to serve contextual, keyword-based ads |
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How Hot Is Aerial Mapping Technology? |
| 8/19/2005 |
a la mode, a leading developer of desktop, mobile and Web tools for real estate professionals, today announced that in less than one month, 61 percent of its real estate agent customers have already begun using the recently introduced aerial-mapping technology |
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Google Invades Microsoft Word |
| 8/19/2005 |
Google is offering subscribers of its blog-hosting service add-in tools that let them edit and post blogs directly from Microsoft Word.
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Intel Plans Wireless Cities |
| 8/19/2005 |
Intel launched a “Digital Communities Initiative” Thursday to help cities across the globe build their own wireless broadband networks, an effort that will help the chip giant spread its Wi-Fi and WiMAX gospels. |
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Google to sell shares valued at over $4b |
| 8/19/2005 |
On the eve of its one-year anniversary as a public company, fast-growing Internet search provider Google Inc. yesterday notified regulators that it plans to fortify its cash hoard by selling up to 14.16 million shares of its common stock, currently worth more than $4 billion.
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Fatal mistakes that cost de Menezes his life |
| 8/18/2005 |
At 6.04am on July 22, a surveillance team consisting of undercover police officers and at least one soldier on secondment to the Met arrived to stake out 21 Scotia Road, the entrance to an apartment block in Stockwell, south London. The team had been led to the address by the discovery of a membership card |
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At $400, New Xbox 360 Is Shaping Up To Be Xpensive |
| 8/18/2005 |
Early adopters looking to snag an Xbox 360 with all the bells and whistles will find themselves paying for the most expensive home video game console in a decade.
At the German Games Convention in Leipzig on Wednesday (August 17), Microsoft announced that a 360 packaged with a wireless controller, 20 GB hard drive, headset ... |
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Game Boy Micro Date and Price Revealed |
| 8/18/2005 |
Nintendo has revealed that the company will release the Game Boy Micro handheld system on September 17th in North America. The unit, available in two different colors (Black and Silver, will retail for $99.99.
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Skype top of the charts for VoIP |
| 8/17/2005 |
Skype has reason to be happy over and above attracting multi-billion dollar buyout bids. New research shows it's the clear leader among Voice over IP (VoIP) providers in north America... |
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MP calls for oil companies to open books |
| 8/17/2005 |
With motorists being hit by record petrol prices, the Government should get tough on oil companies and demand they justify their profits, Te Tai Tokerau MP Dover Samuels says.
Mr Samuels said he was "sick and tired" of oil companies hiking their prices - blaming currency fluctuations and rising global prices - while raking in huge profits.
He said he approached Energy Minister Trevor Mallard
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Google halts library project - for now |
| 8/17/2005 |
Google will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books from libraries into its database, the company said late on Thursday.
The company's library project, launched in December, involves the scanning of out-of-print and copyright works so their text can be found through the search engine's database
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Apple Pesticide: OS X Security Flaws |
| 8/17/2005 |
The farmers out at Apple were sprayin' for critters when they released the new security update for OS X. Long thought to be near impregnable, the entity known as Apple had to root out some rot out of it's AppKit and Safari browser.
The big holes came in the form of vulnerabilities against .rtf files and .doc files in the Appkit |
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Microsoft Maps WiFi For Alternative GPS System |
| 8/17/2005 |
Trying to work out the law surrounding this Wi-Fi malarkey seems to be a tricky business.
As we reported earlier, it seems that walking around
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Boeing gets OK on blueprint for combat system |
| 8/17/2005 |
Boeing, will proceed to design and testing of the Army's $100 billion networked-warfare project after its blueprint for the system was approved.
Subcontractors, including General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Computer Sciences, will begin developing computer-linked manned and unmanned air and ground weapons systems that make up the Army's Future Combat Systems ....
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Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal |
| 8/17/2005 |
The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
In what could be a key move in its nascent wireless strategy, Google (GOOG ) has quietly acquired startup Android Inc., BusinessWeek Online has learne |
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