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Wal-Mart to Renovate its Stores

Sun, 03/21/2010 - 09:23

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The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is revealed to update its present stores in Ohio introducing new looks and layouts by the end of 2010.

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iPad touted as a revolutionary product by Apple

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 23:01

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Officials have said that Apple Inc. is racing to secure media content for its new iPad with hundreds of thousands of units pre-sold and soon to be released.

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Caterpillar Voices Concerns Against Revamped Healthcare Plan

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 10:25

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Caterpillar Inc., the heavy-equipment manufacturer, sent in a last moment salvo against the revamped health-care plan presented by the Democrats, stressing that the Medicare adjustments in the legislation, in addition to the insurance mandates, would end up increasing the firm's costs by a whopping $100 Million in its first year of becoming being approved.

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Google Supports the Chinese Workforce, Works on Retention Plan

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 09:56

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Google's loss is Baidu's gain is in the news nowadays due to the recent fall in Google's shares, after it was reported of its intentions to move out of the China market. Google is planning to exit from China as it has failed to negotiate with the Chinese Government on the censoring of search results in China.

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Demand to Investigate Violations of Law at Lehman Brothers

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 09:49

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On Friday, the Chairman of Senate Banking Committee demanded the task force to investigate thoroughly the violations of the law at Lehman Brothers and other firms. Later, Senator Christopher Dodd wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder saying that, he was truly concerned with the accounting manipulation of Lehman Brothers.

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Details Regarding Cost and Launch of HP's Slate Leaked

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 09:43

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Details regarding Hewlett-Packard's tablet PC Slate have seeped in more concretely into the market as the latest rumors suggest that the Slate will first hit the US markets in June with _400 price which makes it $546.

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Location Based Social Networking to be offered by Apple Patent

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 09:38

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The growing demand for the social networking sites has also engulfed Apple, as the company is all set to enter the battleground with its "Group Formation Using Anonymous Broadcast Information", for which it has filed a patent. This will place Apple in the row of all major market players who are uniting the users by social networking sites with location based applications.

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Russian Company Set to Send in Bid for Air Force Tanker Program

Sat, 03/20/2010 - 07:23

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In what is being viewed as another interesting twist to the currently ongoing tale to replace the Air Force's rapidly aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers, reports are that Russia's United Aircraft Corp. is looking to place a bid on the contract worth a whopping $40 Billion.

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Amazon Introduces Kindle for Mac

Fri, 03/19/2010 - 08:21

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On Thursday, Amazon launched a version of its digital book reading software for the Apple Mac.

The application is offered for free on Amazon, and allows people to buy, read and arrange electronic books bought from Amazon through the dealer's Kindle Store. Amazon provides over 450,000 books, plus most of the New York Times bestsellers.

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Sprint’s First WiMax Phone Rumored to Launch Next Week

Thu, 03/18/2010 - 09:22

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There are have been rumors that Sprint Mobile Service, which is No. 3 in the United States, for the first time is all set to launch a fourth generation wireless phone, very soon this year, however the dates haven’t been specified.

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Compatibility Issues and Windows 7 Explained by Microsoft

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:42

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At MIX10, Las Vegas conference, Microsoft again threw some light on the forthcoming Windows 7 Series, the reason it might face some reported issues is mainly due to the minimized time frame it was developed in, which possibly lowered its capability to be compatible with Windows mobile 6. x applications.

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BlackBerry Users Plan to Switch to iPhone & Nexus One

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:38

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It seems as if BlackBerry users are not happy with their smartphones.

According to a survey conducted by Crowd Science of smartphone owners, around 40% of BlackBerry users have decided to change their device to Apple's iPhone. And nearly 32% BlackBerry users would change their BlackBerry device to Google's Android Nexus one.

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Apple’s iPad Will Change the Way User Perform Functions

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:35

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Apple's tablet PC, iPad, on April 3 will storm the markets. This device will change the way users perform their business.

This new device would let users read books through a reader already pre-loaded into the device.

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“.com” domain Completed its 25 Years

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:31

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On Monday, the .com domain marked its 25th anniversary, reveals VeriSign.

Symbolic. com was the first site to be registered through a ".com" domain on March 15, 1985. Now, there are around 80 million sites with a ".com" address, which is inclusive of 11.9 million online business websites,

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Facebook Manages to Beat Google in Terms of Traffic

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:27

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As has been revealed by the online measurement service Hitwise, search engine and Internet giant Google was last week beaten by Facebook in terms of traffic to become the most visited website of the week in the US.

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With Release Day Inching Closer, Apple's iPad Continues to Attract Developers

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:24

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With only a few weeks left for its official launch, Apple's iPad is now attracting more and more third party developers' interest, as has been revealed by the analytics company Flurry, which has recorded a whopping 185% rise in starts for the iPhone OS applications since the iPad was first announced on January 27.

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New Co-Op Fantasy Title, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Announced by Bethesda

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:22

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Reports have confirmed that Bethesda is quite soon going to publish a new title that would feature a lot of fantasy elements, with the company announcing that it will soon be releasing Hunted: The Demon's Forge, which is a co-op dungeon crawler from the house of developer inXile Entertainment.

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Dell Slaps 5 LCD Manufacturers with Lawsuit Over Price-Fixing

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:17

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As was confirmed by a Dell spokesperson on Monday, the company has slapped a lawsuit against as many as 5 LCD manufacturers, alleging them with colluding to fixed prices for their products.

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Hamilton Unbundled by CallPlus, Now Offering "Data Banking"

Mon, 03/15/2010 - 11:01

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While major telecoms like Vodafone and Orcon are halting their nationwide local loop unbundling, CallPlus is actually taking the initial steps to service consumers directly over copper and that too in Hamilton.

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Dr. Mark Rees Named New CTO of Microsoft NZ

Mon, 03/15/2010 - 10:54

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Official reports have confirmed that Dr. Mark Rees has been appointed as the new National Technology Officer of Microsoft New Zealand, and the Wellington-based position is to be filled in by him immediately.

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