- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 17:45
- general internet news
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A U.S. Army major firing two handguns killed 11 people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage on Thursday at Fort Hood base in Texas, a prime point of deployment for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Army said the gunman was killed. U.S. broadcast media identified him as Major Malik Nidal Hasan, and said he was a psychiatrist who was facing an upcoming ...
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- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 9:36
- general internet news
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A crack in the Earth's crust – which could be the forerunner to a new ocean – ripped open in just days in 2005, a new study suggests.
It began to open up in September 2005, when a volcano at the northern end of the rift, called Dabbahu, erupted.
The magma inside the volcano did not reach the surface and erupt as a fountain of lava – ...
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- Friday, October 16, 2009, 14:52
- important news events
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Billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and five executives from some of the most prestigious U.S. companies were charged on Friday with the largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme ever.
Investigators said they used court-approved telephone wire taps for the first time in a Wall Street insider trading case, sending shivers through the hedge fund industry which has traditionally picked up and shared trading tips to make ...
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- Sunday, September 13, 2009, 6:36
- commentary
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Just finished watching an episode of CBC Marketplace ( aired today at 8:00am EST ) that took Carfax and their reports to task over their claim that they are comprehensive reports detailing a vehicles history.
They took four vehicles from two different dealers that came back with clean Carfax reports...all four vehicles had unreported accidents or frame damage...despite the dealers insistence that the Carfax report was ...
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- Saturday, August 29, 2009, 10:47
- general internet news
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In what was presented to the public this week as a clarification of its privacy policy, the US Dept. of Homeland Security published a paper referring to new guidelines for its immigration and customs agents regarding how they may conduct border searches of travelers' computers and electronic media. Clarifying the existing law, both sets of guidelines reiterated the department's policy created during the previous administration: ...
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- Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 4:48
- twitter
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A Texas-based firm is suing the micro-blogging site Twitter, alleging that its three patents for a similar service are being infringed.
TechRadium's system, called Iris, provides notification technology so that alerts can be sent to many users.
Alerts can be sent to a number of devices, including mobiles.
The firm claims several organisations may choose to use the ...
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