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NEW YORK (Fortune) — Research in Motion is set to show whether it can keep defying the slumping curtness and the slowdown in mobile phone sales, and withstand the looming threat of Apple’s iPhone.
All eyes will assail to the Waterloo, Ontario tech shop when it reports its fiscal first quarter results after the [...]

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Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned nigh the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars consider they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a gathering of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry one of them.
It was April 16, 1178 B.C., that the great [...]

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Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a better NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so hurtful that the world’s only promise is drastic action.
James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to complete back to [...]

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The Flip Video Mino is the fourth generation of Pure Digital’s popular straight-to-Web mini camcorder, designed to make shooting and sharing low-resolution videos completely easy.
Thinner, smaller, and lighter than its older and less expensive sibling, the Flip Video Ultra, the Mino crams similar technology into a more compact, more attractive package that integrates a [...]

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NEW YORK (Fortune) — Ramon Reyes had a problem. He could only get sound from one channel on his iPod video player. At first, he thought his ear-buds were busted. But he replaced them with a pricey new pair made in every direction Sony, and it didn’t make any difference.
So on a modern sunny [...]

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Students at a rural New Mexico school made a one of a kind word of honour last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.
This past semester, nearly every one of the roughly 100 students at Fort Sumner High School was outfitted with the Microsoft media player, similar to Apple’s [...]

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China’s new found wealth has seen an explosion in the number of new developments springing up in what is, arguably, the rapturous’s biggest building boom.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in Beijing, which has transformed into a virtual construction zone as the city undergoes an Olympic makeover.
Once a flat cityscape in [...]

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(NEW YORK) Fortune — Bankers now find the ball back in their court as the proposed $51 billion buyout of Bell Canada won a key court decision fashionable last week. Shares of Bell Canada’s parent company jumped 7% on Monday after Canada’s Supreme Court overturned a decision to block the deal, the largest leveraged-buyout [...]

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With the price topping $4-a-gallon everybody wants to save gas, but depending on those miles-per-gallon ratings may be misleading.
Strange as it may sound, rating cars at gallons-per-mile may be more useful, say a pair of university researchers.
Richard Larrick and Jack Soll got to discussing nourishment efficiency while carpooling to work at Duke University’s [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — If Jerry Yang didn’t already have enough problems already, some of Yahoo’s top managers are streaming toward the exit.
Yang celebrated his one-year anniversary as the Internet pioneer’s CEO on Wednesday, but it hasn’t been a happy week in Sunnyvale. On Thursday, search execs Qi Lu and Vish Makhijani joined communications [...]

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