San Francisco- With the unprecedented success of Black Friday, online retailers are keeping no stones unturned to attract prospective buyers by offering the best Cyber Monday Deals for you on various items with the aim of gaining extensive profits.
If you want to get the best Cyber Monday deals, you should look out for the online [...]

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WASHINGTON – Using a handheld device or mobile phone equipped with special software, radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location, according to a new study.
Asim F. Choudhri, lead author and fellow physician in the Division of [...]

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Don’t bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google
SAN FRANCISCO — 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 from Google.
Just don’t count on that turning into a lucrative plan for newspapers.
The unorthodox strategy [...]

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LONDON – Twitter, the popular phenomenon of social networking, has been named the top English word this year in a survey.
Texas-based Global Language Monitor put together a list of the top words and phrases and found that the word was more popular than Obama and H1N1, commonly known as the “swine flu”.
Wrapping up the top [...]

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LONDON – Today has been dubbed as “Cyber Monday” by Brit Internet retailers, who reckon that it will be their busiest Christmas shopping day.
Last year, Britons spent 4.67 billion pounds shopping online in the run-up to Christmas
However, the Centre For Retail Research (CRR) has said that the figure could rise to 8.9 billion pounds this [...]

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 Microsoft demonstrated beta version of Silverlight 4 at its developer conference last week.  Basically Silverlight users server side coding and HTML5 video tag to display Silverlight content in a native H.264/MPEG-2 v8 format, which is recognized by the iPhone’s Quicktime player.
“The promise of Silverlight is that it’s a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works [...]

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Recession slows plan to build bunker data centers
HASTINGS, Neb. — The precise spacing between the mounds of earth that decorate miles of central Nebraska farmland east of Hastings hint at their original purpose as Naval ammunition bunkers during World War II.
After the base closed in 1966, more than half of the 49,000 acres [...]

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre argues that the financial interests of drug companies lead to distorted evidence, but Vincent Lawton believes that adequate safeguards exist to keep bias in check. Full text of the article is published on BMJ
Dr Goldacre and Prof Lawton faced each other on the same issue recently as opposing speakers at PharmaTimes’s Great Oxford Debate [...]

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The Coverage of the World Ecconomic Forum India Economic Summit is available at  http://blog.livemint.com/wefindia/
I was more interested in the Collaborative Strategy for Drug Development read the interview with Suven Lifesciences a prefered partner to Eli Lilly and Co in Drug Discoverya dn Development in India. http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/10204140/India-Economic-Summit–Collab.html
 

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URLzone Trojan, the recently invented Trojan is very technology savvy and advanced Malware which is found by Finjan Software. It can tamper your bank pages and empty your account.  The sophisticated command-and-control feature allows the hacker to conduct clandestine transaction of your bank account. RSA researchers says that this malware uses several techniques to …. [...]

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Eq. Guinea vote to reinstall leader denying graft
JOHANNESBURG — Elections in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday were certain to extend the 30-year rule of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a man accused of draining his nation’s oil wealth to fabulously enrich family and cronies while his people suffer in slums.
Western governments that have promised to fight corruption so [...]

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LONDON – After facing criticism that it was “too white” to appeal to the ethnic minorities, BBC Radio 4 is reviewing its programming in order to expand its reach among blacks and Hindus and Muslims.
Managers at the station are [...]

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KOCHI – Once completed by the year 2011, the Infopark at Kochi will offer a low cost plug, play the BPO part and provide over 50,000 jobs in the IT/ITES sector.
Developed over 160 acres of land at the Kunnathunadu and Puthencuruz village near Kochi, the Infopark will also to promote eco-tourism.
Laying the foundation stone for [...]

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SUN and Ashbourne Technology Group (ATG) unveiled cost effective cloud solution that can be accessed anytime, anywhere through internet. This type of service is suitable for schools and Govt institutions who can save thousands of dollar of their IT expenses with the help of this service. The cloud based computing is going to offer …. [...]

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In its first-ever public accounting of spending for its grant management system, the California stem cell agency this week disclosed it has already laid out more than $1.2 million, with substantially greater expenditures to come in the near future.Overseeing CIRM’s largess is no small task. The agency has approved 320 grants and one loan worth [...]

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Here is a rundown on key documents related to CIRM’s $1.2 million-plus expenditures on its grant management system.Articles from the California Stem Cell ReportCost Overruns and Candor from CIRM – May 29, 2008Vagueness in CIRM budget, June 2009, with some info on the system:“The budget does not appear to contain a straight-forward accounting of all [...]

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Apple’s iPhone arrives in tech-savvy South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans got their first taste of the iPhone on Saturday as the multifunctional communication and entertainment device made its long awaited debut in one of the world’s most technologically sophisticated societies.
Though already available in other Asian countries such as Japan — where [...]

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San Francisco- Cyber Monday 2009, sponsored by the National Retail Federation’s shop.org is to hit the online stores in Monday, Nov. 30. The goods on sale are meant for every kind of buyers and include clothes, jewelery, gadgets, shoes, books etc.
Around 30% is being put-off on the items like branded footwear and jewelery and brands [...]

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WASHINGTON – Using filtering and blocking software can significantly lower exposure to online sexual material among youth, say researchers.
The research team from University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Centre showed that unwanted exposure to sexual material occurred in 32 percent of youth in homes with pop-up/spam blockers and 25 percent of youth in [...]

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WASHINGTON – With the advent of new modes of communication, such as Facebook, language and social interaction have gone through a major change, says an expert.
Recently, the New Oxford American Dictionary picked the Facebook term “unfriend” as 2009 Word of the Year.
Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, has now revealed how [...]

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