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Top Stories: Melbourne, Nov 30 (IANS) West Indies captain Chris Gayle has slammed the newly introuduced vedio referral system, saying that the new technology is still not fool-proof. IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:03 -0500Melbourne, November 30 : Publishers of adult magazines are gradually witnessing their businesses being shrinked, thanks to the unlimited moving pictures available on the Internet. ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:10:09 -0500London, Nov 30 (IANS) Criminals are having a harder time hiding themselves, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate images and recognise suspects relying on principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:50:01 -0500London, Nov 30 : Today has been dubbed as "Cyber Monday" by Brit Internet retailers, who reckon that it will be their busiest Christmas shopping day. ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:20:04 -0500Nanjing (China), Nov 30 (DPA) Chinese and European Union leaders signed five agreements on trade and environmental technology on Monday as they held a summit focussing on global economic issues and climate change. IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:02 -0500Android devices have quickly been embraced by hundreds of thousands of smartphone users, but Google's answer to Apple's iPhone is decidedly not getting the same reaction from application developers, a... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:02:12 -0500Early Monday morning, the problem-plagued Large Hadron Collider (LHC) set a world record in Switzerland when it accelerated twin proton beams to an energy of 1.18 TeV (teraelectronvolts), surpassing t... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:02:11 -0500LG eXpo AT&T and LG Electronics introduced the eXpo smartphone Monday and the handset could be useful for mobile professionals needing to share data on the go. The handset is powered by Microsoft'... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:02:09 -0500KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the c... Star Tribune Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:01:47 -0500VMW ), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced that Mark Peek, chief financial officer of VMware, will present at the Bar... Market Wire Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:56:53 -0500Nitro PDF Software SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - November 30, 2009) - Nitro PDF Software, the company that revolutionized the PDF software space with the introduction of the first truly compelli... Market Wire Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:56:49 -0500Pay What You Want for Kingsoft JACKSONVILLE, FL--(Marketwire - November 30, 2009) - BinaryNow is now offering people the opportunity to pay what they want for its most popular software titles until... Market Wire Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:56:42 -0500Serena Williams will have her £50,000 fine more than doubled and possibly be banned if she transgresses in the next two years. Photograph: Jared Wickerham/Getty Images The ITF said today that it ha... The Guardian Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:52:38 -0500FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (NASDAQ:EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and its superwide format printer unit VUTEk to... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:51:49 -0500Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced that it intends to commence an offering, subject to market and other conditions, of $275 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes in a p... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:51:43 -0500PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/30/09 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced that Mark P... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:51:43 -0500. In an interview on CNBC, Blue Nile President and CEO Diane Irvine said the online jewlery retailer is having its "best post-Thanksgiving ever." "Today looks to be our best Cyber Monday ever," Irvine... CNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:48:46 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" plans to beef up its international coverage with help from the startup news outfit GlobalPost. The deal gives "NewsHour" acces... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:42:40 -0500FILE - In this file video game image released by Activision, an animated version of the late DJ-AM is shown in the video game, "DJ Hero." (AP Photo/Activision, file)... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:42:40 -0500Version 3.1 of Sun's VirtualBox enables users to move running virtual machines between disparate physical hosts, including systems running different operating systems or different processors, such as ... eWeek Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:42:25 -0500NEW DELHI: Private equity firm New Silk Route (NSR), which owns a majority stake in telecom tower company Aster Infrastructure, has initiated talks with the Ruias-owned Essar Telecom Infrastructure... Times Of India Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:33:43 -0500Recommend This Ruby on Rails 2.3.5, featuring security boosts and compatibility improvements for version 1.9 of the Ruby language, was released over the weekend, according to a blog post on the... InfoWorld Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:29:17 -0500In a study of midmarket organizations that have implemented HP ProCurve in a production environment, IDC found that HP ProCurve provides more than sufficient functionality for their current needs and ... InfoWorld Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:29:15 -0500NEW YORK (Reuters) - Holiday sales of Sirius XM Radio's satellite radio players are so far matching expectations, helped in part by an advertising blitz featuring footage of Elvis Presley and Michael ... Reuters Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:14 -0500Vision Objects , a privately-held firm based in France specializing in handwriting recognition technology, according to a news release Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Vision Objects de... Business Journal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:25:04 -0500(11-30) 03:09 PST -- Secretive international trade negotiations intended to clamp down on counterfeiting risk undermining the openness and innovation-friendly nature of the Internet, said... San Francisco Chronicle Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:17:07 -0500He has become a self-taught expert on metal hardware underfoot - manhole covers, vents, grates, metal covers that lead to valves, electrical control boxes, survey markers. These metal covers are the e... San Francisco Chronicle Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:17:01 -0500The Health Secretary has defended the Government's targets for the NHS in the wake of failings at several hospitals. Andy Burnham told the Commons the best hospitals were providing "high-quality, sa... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:15 -0500Tony Blair was committed throughout the Iraq crisis to achieving an international solution through the United Nations, his key foreign policy adviser has said. Giving evidence to the official inquir... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:14 -0500Police knew of concerns about dogs in a house where a four-year-old boy was mauled to death. John-Paul Massey suffered fatal injuries when he was savaged by the family pet in the early hours of Mond... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:13 -0500A British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. The serviceman, from 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, died from the wounds he received in an explosion in the... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:13 -0500Five British sailors have been detained in Iran after their racing yacht was stopped by the Iranian navy while sailing from Bahrain to Dubai, the Foreign Office said. The racing yacht owned by Sail ... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:12 -0500A boxer, a racing driver and an Ashes-winning cricket captain are among those chosen to slug it out for the crown of BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Heavyweight boxing champion David Haye, Formu... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:12 -0500Bono has teamed up with some of the world's top footballers as he aimed to "turn up the heat" on politicians over the HIV and Aids crisis in South Africa. The U2 front-man said it would be possible ... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:11 -0500Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has warned political opponents they would face the consequences at the ballot box after dismissing his plans for an independence referendum. The SNP leader's W... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:11 -0500General Motors plans to cut more than 350 jobs at its Vauxhall van plant in the UK, affecting almost a quarter of the workforce, the motor giant has announced. Consultations were launched over plans... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:10 -0500The British and Irish Governments have said they are optimistic that a crisis can be avoided in the Northern Ireland political process. They called for the devolution of policing and justice powers ... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:10 -0500SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content ... Tampa Bay Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:18 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- Retail Web sites kept amping up the deals Monday, the first day after the Thanksgiving holiday, to try to maintain the long weekend's strong online sales. Tampa Bay Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:16 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" plans to beef up its international coverage with help from the startup news outfit GlobalPost. Tampa Bay Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:13 -0500PARIS (AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Giv... Tampa Bay Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:12 -0500For many shoppers, Monday marked the day they said goodbye to crowded malls and hello to the Internet.Across the U.S., people surfed for Cyber Monday shopping deals and retailers hope to extend an imp... WTOV 9 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:28:09 -0500PARIS — An Air France A380 had to turn around and land in New York after problems with its navigation system, only days after the superjumbo began flying across the Atlantic, the airline said yester... Times of Oman Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:25:31 -0500November security patch may be to blame for the "black screen of death" that has been plaguing PC users. Prevx, a security vendor, on Friday attributed some of the black screen crashes to a recent ... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:09 -0500Worldwide server shipments and revenue in the third quarter increased significantly from the previous quarter, an indication that the recession-ravaged market is stabilizing, a research firm said Mond... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:08 -0500The theft of computer equipment from a Naval office turned out to be less serious than feared, but served as a reminder on the importance of securing external hard drives and encrypting data. Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:07 -0500With the U.S. Labor Department predicting a shortage of 51,000 qualified healthcare IT professionals over the next five years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week announced $80 ... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:05 -0500WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grameen Foundation has announced the appointment of Norman Buckham as regional CEO for Africa and David Edelstein as the new director of the Grameen Tech... RedOrbit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:49 -0500WHO: Pliant Technology (http://www.plianttechnology.com), developer of Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), and Bell Microproducts (http://www.bellmicro.com), a leading value-added distributor of storag... RedOrbit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:48 -0500AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Netarx, LLC announced today that it has achieved Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation rec... RedOrbit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:46 -0500DALLAS, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- deverus, Inc., a leading provider of software and hosted support services for background screening companies, announced today that Munio Risk Management Services, LLC (... RedOrbit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:46 -0500NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: The National Finals of the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology comes to New York University the first weekend in December, wher... RedOrbit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:44 -0500Knowledge Infusion will be sharing their success stories and vision for how Social Business Software will continue to transform the way they do business. They are part of several tracks at the... RedOrbit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:41 -0500EON Icube IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - November 30, 2009) - EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced that Birzeit University, Palestine will implement virtual... Market Wire Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:12:47 -0500SAN ANSELMO, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SDM Software, the industry expert on Windows® Group Policy, today announced that its GPExpert® Group Policy Automation Engine 2.0 was named as th... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:07:32 -0500BOSTON -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) today announced that Alan J. Herrick, president and chief executive officer, and Joseph S. Tibbetts, Jr., senior vice president and chief financi... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:07:31 -0500Tangoe, Inc. , the leading global provider of enterprise communications lifecycle management software and technology-enabled services, today announced Steve Shwartz has been appointed chief technol... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:07:31 -0500SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GSI Technology (Nasdaq: GSIT) announces the availability of SigmaQuad-IIIe™ and SigmaDDR-IIIe™, two new SRAM products whose revolutionary archi... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:07:29 -0500SAN JOSE, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SpeedInfo, a leading innovator of real-time traffic data network technology, announced today that it has received a U.S. patent for its market-leading innovat... Fresh News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:07:23 -0500Vision Objects , a privately-held firm based in France specializing in handwriting recognition technology, according to a news release Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Vision Objects de... Business Journal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:02:05 -0500, a dehumidifier maker in Gainsville, Fla., for an undisclosed amount. Heat Pipe Technology builds energy recovery and dehumidification heat pipe systems for commercial, industrial and institutional ... St. Louis Business Journal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:01:41 -0500Vision Objects , a privately-held firm based in France specializing in handwriting recognition technology, according to a news release Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Vision Objects de... Business Journal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:01:17 -0500WiTricityCambridge, Mass. Marin Soljacic couldn't sleep. The problem was his wife's Nokia cell phone. The tyrannical device beeped on the bedside table when it needed to be plugged in. It co... CNN Money Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:53:23 -0500Chances are when you signed up for broadband internet with your Internet Service Provider (ISP), they offered you its service at 5mb per second or 10mb per second. The question is, are you actually ge... Wired News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:44:20 -0500Expansys will be the sole retailer for the phone, which started flying off the shelves just as soon as it went on sale in the US under the Droid model name. The Milestone includes the latest Android O... The Inquirer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:44:00 -05001 Recommendation Google is closing in on a beta for the Mac version of its Chrome browser, according to a list of still-to-be-addressed issues. Just eight bugs are holding up the release of Chrome for... InfoWorld Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:25 -05004 Recommendations Microsoft has added SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network), enabling SSL backing for scripts served off the CDN. The free AJAX CDN se... InfoWorld Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:22 -05007 Recommendations Microsoft Corp. has done more to popularize graphical programming than any other vendor. The company's development tools, led by Visual Basic and Visual Studio, have been used by mil... InfoWorld Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:20 -0500NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com said on Monday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of November, as rivals struggle with fulfilling their customer orders. Reuters Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:39:27 -0500NORWALK, Conn. - (Business Wire) WebMediaBrands Inc. (“WebMediaBrands”) (NASDAQ: WEBM) announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of the assets of the Internet.com... Earth Times Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:37:32 -0500Canadian Oilfield Services Company Utilizes Technology to Manufacture Hydraulic Top Drives and Design New Products Winnipeg, Manitoba (Vocus) November 30, 2009 -- Consona Corporation (Consona), a wor... Earth Times Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:37:27 -0500Samsung Electronics is on track to beat its 2009 sales target of 200 million mobile phones, and touchscreen handsets will account for one of every five mobile phones it sells this year, the company sa... San Francisco Chronicle Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:26:41 -0500? A novel technology involving use of stem cells, developed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers, has been applied to provide better and rapid healing for patients suffering from complic... Science Daily Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:26:38 -0500(11-30) 00:51 PST -- Taiwan's Ministry of Education plans to offer e-readers to schoolkids on the island next year as part of efforts to further digitize schools and promote reading. San Francisco Chronicle Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:26:38 -0500SASEBO — China’s Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, in a rare step Monday by a Chinese dignitary, visited a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer equipped with the Aegis combat sys... Japan Today Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:43 -0500The Liberal Democrats have dramatically scaled back their mansion tax plans amid criticism that their initial announcement of the policy had not been properly thought through. Leader Nick Clegg admi... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:23 -0500General Motors plans to cut more than 350 jobs at its Vauxhall van plant in the UK, affecting almost a quarter of the workforce, the motor giant has announced. Consultations were launched over plans... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:23 -0500Detectives investigating an incident where a man was shot by armed officers in a supermarket hours before a woman's body was found in a bedsit will have to wait for him to undergo further surgery befo... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:22 -0500A production company which "routinely misled" viewers with a series of daytime shows, including one fronted by Angela Rippon, has been ordered to pay compensation to the BBC. The BBC Trust ruled tha... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:22 -0500The family of G20 protest victim Ian Tomlinson have lodged a fresh complaint with the police independent watchdog. They have asked the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to probe claims... Ananova Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:22 -0500In integrating PivotLink with its OMX product, OrderMotion adds a number of BI capabilities for its customers, including the ability to monitor sales trends for demand forecasting and to measure the l... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:20:37 -0500Ericsson moved to acquire Nortel Networks' North America GSM operation for about $70 million as Nortel's dismemberment nears completion. Previously, Ericsson entered into an agreement to acquire Norte... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:20:34 -0500With Amazon's EC2, Google's AppEngine, and now Microsoft's Azure, cloud computing looks a lot less like some catch-all concept in the distance and more like a very real architecture that your data cen... Tech Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:20:33 -0500Dramatic events like DDoS attacks and viruses may get a lot of attention when and if they happen, but most network performance problems can be traced back to something more commonplace: a lack of gove... Tech News World Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:20:31 -0500Turkish authorities and Microsoft initiated a project to fight software piracy. Also in science and technology news: Croatian innovators won five gold medals in Brussels, and Serbia's Petnica Science ... Southeast European Times Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:18:55 -0500New York City is building a new high-tech medical simulation center, billed as the nation’s first for a public hospital system. The center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx will offer han... New York Post Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:17:34 -0500EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Nov. 30, 2009) - Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. ("Wavefront") (TSX VENTURE:WEE) (PINK SHEETS:WFTSF), a world leader in providing innovative solutions for increasi... Market Wire Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:14:40 -0500ATLANTA -- Business software company CDC Software Corp. said Monday it agreed to buy gomembers Inc., a provider of software-as-service products for nonprofit and non-governmental organizations.Financ... Miami Herald Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:14:27 -0500Cyber Monday, as the first Monday after Thanksgiving is sometimes known, was coined in November 2005 by the National Retail Federation's online division, Shop.org. The way the story was marketed was t... CNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:06:58 -0500Ever wished your cab driver would stop nattering and just get to where you're going? Well the new driverless cabs being trialed at London's Heathrow airport could be for you. CNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:06:50 -0500By EMMA VANDOREAP BUSINESS WRITER PARIS -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands li... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:00:42 -0500NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Business software maker Compuware announced plans Monday to award $1 million to the customer that writes the best story about its mainframe software, in what the company bel... CNN Money Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:57:38 -0500, they are not compulsory, most people didn't even know you could get them and they cost thirty quid. Welcome the rollout of UK National Identity cards in Manchester. UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson m... The Inquirer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:48:31 -0500 |
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