Bell might just have gotten called out on crying wolf regarding P2P and file-sharing congestion rates. On June 24, they were forced by the CRTC to release their data proving their claim that high-usage customers were...
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"Less than a week after landing safely on a cold, sunny patch of far northern Mars, NASA's Phoenix lander is at work and one of its cameras, scientist said Friday, has already detected a lump of ice - or maybe only a little Martian rock.Either way, the Phoenix will begin...
After a couple of month's bearish trend, American stock market is slowly recovering and even junks bonds are rallying. " Main Street may be struggling, but Wall Street is on a bit of a roll.Despite a drumbeat of bad economic news, the stock market is up — almost 11 percent...
"Guiseley left to rue poor home formBy Rachel O'ConnorCommentGavin Knight who scored for Guiseley in their win over Kendal TownGuiseley 2Kendal Town 1Guiseley were left to rue their poor home form when they lost out on a promotion play-off place by just one point.They went...
"A British soldier killed in Iraq two weeks ago turned out to be an SAS man. What does it say about British special forces in Iraq, and the Anglo-American coalition's chances of defeating insurgency?The press release said simply: "It is with deep regret that the Ministry of...
Though initially limited to Serbia itself, violence has now erupted among the Serb populations of breakaway Republic Kosovo."A Ukrainian police officer serving with the United Nations in Kosovo died of injuries sustained in violent clashes with Serbs on Monday, Ukraine's...
Planet of the Rhesus macaques. They look mean."NEW DELHI - Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official who then fell from a balcony at his home and died Sunday, media reported.
New Delhi Deputy Mayor S.S....
"Abbey has become the first UK High Street bank to raise its mortgage rates as a direct result of the continuing turmoil in the financial markets.
The lender has increased the interest rates of its tracker mortgages...
This is the official number which does not account for random settler violence, opportunistic beatings and killings by IDF forces during street altercation and home invasions. Of course, expect the U.S.and...
"'LIFTING THE PALL'
PETRAEUS ON IRAQ WAR
'On a critical endeavor': Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division on a cordon & search for weapons caches and insurgents in Baquba.
'On a critical endeavor':...
Not a good week for video games in the UK. I predict an appeal from Rockstar games on this one: Ultimately a video game like the one described below not meant for impressionable minds, whatever that may mean*, but...
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"Wall Street Journal" -- -- You’d expect someone whom the famously dour Dick Cheney entrusts with millions of his dollars might have a gloomy view of the world. Jeremy Grantham does indeed.
“From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair;...
No surprise here."The House of Representatives today sustained President Bush's veto of an emergency war spending bill, as the White House and lawmakers turned their attention to negotiating new legislation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 222-203 vote to...
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On Tuesday night, President Bush vetoed the supplemental war-funding bill. National Review Online asked a group of experts, who include a former senator, a former Cabinet secretary, an Iraq-war vet, a relative of an American murdered on September 11, 2001, a historian, and...
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