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- The top honour in this year's awards, a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, has gone to a physicist, Professor Paul Terence Callaghan, of Victoria University in Wellington. |
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- Yet another patent troll is making headlines, this time by bringing a $US5 billion suit against Google for infringement of patents that deal with "least cost routing" in relation to its VoIP offer, Google Talk. |
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- Customers with Westpac, Commonwealth and National Bank have been hit with phishing emails in Australia, prompting federal police to reach out and turn off eight offshore websites thought to be behind the latest scam. |
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- Telecom has sold its 22,000 (AAPT) Australian mobile phone customers to CommodiTel, a dedicated pre-paid Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) operator. |
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- Online shopping is beginning to make an appreciable dent in brick and mortar store holiday sales, having hit $US30.4 billion this season in America alone, according to a new study. |
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- A 'citizen journalist' who used his mobile phone camera to record what could have been his last moments on board an Air Alaska flight is taking criticism after posting the pictures -- and the horrifying account -- to his blog. |
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- American and Canadian beef looks set to make a major run at the export markets over the next few months as governments begin lifting import bans. |
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- Former UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1956, when asked by a young journalist what can most easily steer a government off course famously replied "Events, dear boy, events" -- and his wisdom is as relevant today as it was then. |
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- The US Embassy in Jakarta has issued an advisory cautioning travellers about security deficiencies at Bali's Bandara Ngurah Rai International Airport. |
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- Police Woman DVD information added to News page.(www.davidselby.com | The Official David Selby Web Site) |
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- LAFITTE, La. ? Their industry in shambles, Gulf Coast fishermen omitted from the $29 billion federal hurricane relief package hope to convince officials next month their post-Katrina plight is worthy of financial help. |
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- About half of Cox Communications' Tucson-area cable television customers will see their bills increase in February, the company said Thursday. |
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- A former greyhound racing dog named Canelo lounges on a wooden floor while a papier-mâché pig hangs from the ceiling inside Clues Unlimited, a Midtown mystery bookstore. |
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- PHOENIX ? Two Allstate Insurance units have agreed to implement new procedures to re-evaluate coverage needs of homeowners ? steps sought by Arizona regulators in the wake of consumer complaints after a devastating 2003 wildfire on Mount Lemmon. |
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- WASHINGTON ? A cooling housing market may put buyers in the driver's seat while an improving job market could give workers and job seekers more leverage, economists say. |
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- ATLANTA ? The University of Michigan is the latest school to kick Coca-Cola off campus because of concerns about the company's labor practices in Colombia. |
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- Stocks meandered through a listless session Thursday, ending lower as investors ignored generally benign economic data and looked ahead to 2006 with a mix of optimism and concern. Wall Street was unmoved by the Labor Department's latest take on unemployment, the only economic indicator released before the session. First-time jobless claims rose by an expected 4,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 322,000. With the new year coming, investors consolidated their holdings while uncertainty remained over how soon the Federal Reserve will reverse its course of raising interest rates. |
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- Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, a California vintner by avocation, is making Americans an offer he hopes they won't refuse: He's asking them to drink his champagne out of cans. |
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