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Books pulled from Amazon.com in pricing dispute
NEW YORK — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.
Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he was told Friday that its books would [...]

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Books pulled from Amazon in pricing dispute
NEW YORK — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, apparently the biggest rift yet in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.
An official with knowledge of the dispute said the two sides [...]

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  We observed Data Privacy Day couple of days back. This is Microsoft sponsored non holiday that was observed to create public awareness among Internet users to protect on line data. As per the recent study of the software giant, we are very negligent about our online behavior and that has a negative impact in [...]

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Unlike most of the social networking sites like hi5, Facebook doesn’t allow you to check who visited your profile. The no-so- popular Orkut queues-up visitors list according to most recent visit. The major chunk of social bees would oppose such undesired intrusion to flout their privacy. For Facebook as they say “privacy is a [...]

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We had a stint with VoIP free calls from Nokia long back, this time we gotta catch up with iPhone VoIP calls.  Unfurling the much-craved revelation two major VoIP service providers iCall and Fring updated their apps to support calls over 3G network. iPhone VoIP apps now offer calling over 3G network. Voice over [...]

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In exciting leak a day ago, iPhone OS 3.2 would-be features were uncovered. Engadget confirmed from trusted sources that iPhone OS 3.2 would include support for video calling. This could explain that mysterious space at the top of the device. There are hooks to accept and decline video conferencing, and flip a video feed, [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (GaeaTimes.com)- Mass Effect 2 is the sequel to the Mass effect video game that was quite a hit with the gamers. The Mass Effect 2 Romance Guide, is being searched widely, with people trying to find their character’s love partners as soon as possible.
Mass Effect 2 is actually a ‘role-playing game’ that was [...]

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For those of you in Southern California who would like to participate in next week’s CIRM board meeting, you will be able to do so via a teleconference call from the offices of the Sherry Lansing Foundation in Los Angeles.Additional background information on matters to be acted on at the meeting that begins Tuesday was [...]

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Seventeen Americans die every day waiting for a transplant that could save their lives. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)

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Conclusion:
Our study identified two molecular phenotypes of pancreatic cancer, characterized by a differential expression of interferon-stimulated genes and easily recognized by the expression of the Myxovirus-resistance A protein. We suggest that the detection of these two phenotypes might help the selection of patients enrolled in virally-mediated gene therapy trials. (Source: BioMed Central)

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Accompanying the continuously deepening understanding of the mechanism of pulmonary hypertension that many genes are found to be aetiologically involved in its development, burgeoning literature manifest that gene therapies aimed at correcting these genetic defects have the ability to restore deficient pulmonary gene expression, over-express biologically active gene products, reverse established disease and regenerate pulmonary [...]

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This study was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT00394316. (Source: Blood)

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Earnings Preview: Comcast to report 4Q earnings
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp., already the nation’s largest cable TV operator and now poised to become a major entertainment company, reports its fourth-quarter results before the market opens Wednesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period:
OVERVIEW: Comcast’s purchase of a 51 [...]

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4th quarter’s fast economic pace likely to wane
WASHINGTON — The economy boomed at the end of 2009, growing at the fastest rate in more than six years. Now if only it could keep it up.
The economy expanded at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the second straight quarter [...]

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Volatile stock market weighing on IPOs
NEW YORK — Companies trying to sell their shares in initial public offerings had a hard time finding willing buyers in January — a trend that will likely continue until the stock market stabilizes.
Of the 10 IPOs scheduled for January, only seven made it to market as investors [...]

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Judge allows flyer advocate’s suit to go forward
ATLANTA — A lawsuit by a passenger rights advocate seeking at least $11 million from Delta Air Lines Inc. for allegedly conspiring to obtain hacked e-mails from her computer has survived a challenge from the airline.
A federal judge in Houston has rejected Delta’s request to throw out the [...]

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Atmel to sell Smart Card units in France, UK
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Atmel Corp. said Friday it is seeking to sell its Smart Card integrated circuits business in Rousset, France, and East Kilbride in the United Kingdom.
The computer chip component maker’s Smart Card business makes computer chips that go into such things as cable set-top [...]

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Stocks fall as GDP rises 5.7 pc, raises questions
NEW YORK — Stocks ended a disappointing January with a loss as investors questioned whether the economy will be able to sustain a big fourth-quarter growth rate. Downbeat earnings at technology companies also pulled stocks down.
The Dow Jones industrials fell 53 points Friday to close [...]

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Stocks pare gains even as GDP surges 5.7 percent
NEW YORK — Stocks gave up their gains and were narrowly mixed Friday afternoon as investors questioned the economy’s ability to sustain a big fourth-quarter growth rate. Disappointing earnings at technology companies pulled stocks down from an early gain.
The market was heading toward a [...]

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Obama spells out differences with GOP on energy
BALTIMORE — President Barack Obama says he and congressional Republicans could agree better on a national energy policy if they would accept that greater efforts are needed on a transition to cleaner technologies.
Answering a question at a House GOP retreat Friday, Obama said “nobody has been a bigger [...]

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