It may seem ratehr sudden and out of character for President Bush to decide, at this time, to establish diplomatic relations with Iran for the first time since the Islamic republic was established. But the timing has...
How about a summer break from federal gas taxes at the pump? That's among the McCain economic proposals."Sen. John McCain will take a bold step forward today as he addresses the state of America's economy and promises to balance the budget. McCain's proposal, called "Jobs for...
Uh oh. Another reminded that on the Internet, things aren't always as they seem."This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it...
And here I thought that Big Brown and FedEx trucks mostly brought goodies from shopping or expedited business materials. But one drug pusher decided that his business would do best by FedEx--which luckily then took a shipment to the wrong address."When it absolutely,...
"The way the internet works could be changed forever following a proposed relaxation of the rules governing domain rules.Up until now websites could only use certain suffixes at the end of internet addresses, such as ".co.uk", ".com" or ".org". But in a move to liberalise the...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYa know, Mugabe said only God could remove him from office, now perhaps there are some in this world, who feel they speak for God and are biding their time to show Mugabe...
"Yahoo on Thursday is tripling the size of its globally-popular free online email service by adding two new domains as options to "@yahoo.com" addresses.The introduction of "@ymail.com" and "@rocketmail.com" as Yahoo email address options comes as the pioneering Internet firm...
Today is the big day in Crewe here in the UK. A by-election in this traditional Labour stronghold is set to be a bellweather for whether Gordon Brown will be able to reverse his declining fortunes. If the Tories win...
Yahoo is introducing new technology to its search engine which willwarn users if they are about to click on a website that hosts viruses,spyware and spam."Browser exploits: Sites that can harm a user's computer or...
A deal has been reached to compensate victims of the Interstate 35 bridge collapse that killed 13 people in Minneapolis last year. " State Sen. Ron Latz and state Rep. Ryan Winkler told CNN Radio that the deal totals...
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"Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months.A group of data protection...
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Thousands of pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's schedules as first lady are being released to the public after months of pressure and criticism that the Clintons were delaying the...
Revelations on Wikileaks.org's busy website exposing a Cayman Islands bank allegedly engaged in money laundering and tax evasion has prompted a US Federal Judge in San Fransisco to order the whistleblower website...
Just when you thought it was safe to not go out again..."The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack...
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"Dr. King's speech opposing Vietnam War
The following speech by Martin Luther King at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967 could easily have been about the Iraq war. One would think that this talk of Dr....
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