FBI's Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending October 17, 2008

" 1. FBI Coordinates Global Effort to Nab “Dark Market” Cyber Criminals A two year undercover...

Postman Pat plans to deliver profits from China

Beloved UK children's series, Postman Pat will be marketed to Chinese children, as Greendale's favourite postman will be available in plush form in China and on DVD there for the first time ever.China has around...

Natasha Wescoat Launches New Properties, "Babydoll Couture" and More

Exciting new ventures are blooming with popular contemporary artist, Natasha Wescoat. The artist known for her modern abstract landscapes and whimsical artwork, launches several new properties under her dynamic...

Savings windfall for firm that moved from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail

"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to...

Wanted: 'A $100,000 Anthem': CBC

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOur Canadian Anthem is gone, but not forgotten, an Anthem that can't be sung, for there are no words, but hyme'd universally by all Hockey Fans. An Anthem most Canadians...

Wii Like to Watch: Pole Dancing for the Console

After the overwhelming success of Dance Dance Revolution, could a pole-dancing video game be too far behind? My main concern is how one integrates a pole into one's living room (unless one is Big Boi from...

Peter Gabriel Launches Entertainment Aggregator

Recommendation engines, aggregators, filters, selectors, DJs, friends, and algorithms: all are tools to help us find more relevant, cool stuff, by selectively narrowing the infinite entertainment choices available...

Second Nevada Clinic Shutdown over Hepatitis C Warning

 Close to one week after the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada announced that it potentially exposed 40,000 Nevadans to HIV and hepatitis strains B and C, another clinic associated with DR. Dipak Desai has...

Record Labels Say No Deal With Qtrax

An update to a story from earlier this morning. It appears that Qtrax does not have  "the unparalleled support of the major record labels and all of their respective publishing divisions" as it had first claimed. Warner Music, and others, are stepping forward to state...

Kremlin uses software piracy laws to shut down dissident media outlets

The Kremlin is using Russia's new anti-software-piracy laws to target dissident media outlets and shut them down. This is an eerie echo of the Soviet era, when black marketeering and other universal activities...

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Verizon Wireless, Google in discussions to form mobile phone partnership: WSJ"Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Wireless (NYSE:VOD) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) are in 'serious discussions' over a possible partnership to carry...

Schools warned off Microsoft deal

"The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices. The government agency has complained to the Office of Fair Trading. It says talks with Microsoft have not resolved "fundamental...

It's Official: Apple is the New Microsoft

"The most vociferous Microsoft haters slammed the company for being a greedy industry bully that used its monopolistic, clunky, copycat operating system to force software on users and coerce partners into unfair...

Google Begins Hosting News on Its Site

Google is never one to be left behind!"Associated Press Google Begins Hosting News on Its Site By MICHAEL LIEDTKE 08.31.07, 5:22 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. on Friday began hosting material produced by The Associated Press and three other news...

Brown: 24-hour drinking law to be reviewed

"Gordon Brown is to review the operation of the law allowing 24-hour drinking which critics claim has led to increase in binge drinking. After his early decisions as Prime Minister to stop the moves towards supercasinos in Manchester and elsewhere, and to consider a higher...

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