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[/url]AP - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign said Tuesday that he will not sign a conservative Iowa Christian group's far-reaching pledge opposing gay marriage, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to reject it. More...
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[/url]AP - House Republicans on Tuesday failed to stop the enactment of new energy-saving standards for light bulbs they portrayed as yet another example of big government interfering in people's lives. More...
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[/url]AP - With compromise talks at a vituperative standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered Tuesday to hand President Barack Obama new powers to avert a first-ever government default threatened for Aug. 2. More...
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The cave tubing tour we offer is designed to last approximately 4.5 hours. This includes a 50 minutes drive to the site. Whilst driving to the site we will be doing presentations on the History and Cultures Of Belize. When we arrive at the site we will have a short restroom break. For more information visit our website: http://www.jaguarpawcavetubing.actionboysbelize.com
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[/url]AP - How many government bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb? A lot of House Republicans think the answer should be "none." They say the government should just stay out of it. More...
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Google's Street View cars have been spotted all over the world capturing ground-level photos of cities for the company's unique mapping technology. But now that tech is being put to a new use: The cars are shooting pictures of the devastation in Japan left from the powerful earthquake the nation suffered last March. Source: TechWorldNews
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The Antisec hacker movement, which targets the websites of governments and their agencies worldwide, on Monday hacked into the website of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The group posted a 130 MB file of data stolen from Booz Allen's servers on the Pirate Bay BitTorrent website. Source: TechWorldNews
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[/url]AP - The British government on Tuesday joined in calls for Rupert Murdoch to shelve his ambition of taking full control of British Sky Broadcasting as his newspapers are embroiled in a spreading investigation of alleged phone hacking and bribery. More...
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[/url]AP - President Hamid Karzai's half brother, the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and a lightning rod for criticism of corruption in the government, was assassinated Tuesday by a close associate. His death leaves a dangerous power vacuum in the south just as the government has begun peace talks with insurgents ahead of a U.S. withdrawal. More...
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The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion centers on how the role and impact of integration has shifted, and how a more comprehensive and managed approach to integration is required, thanks to such major trends as cloud, hybrid computing and managing massive datasets. Source: TechWorldNews
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Rattling off a Web search on your phone or tablet is a pretty dead-simple thing to do. Does it really need its own app? That depends. The iPad's out-of-the-box Safari Web browser has a built-in search bar, and you can set its default search engine to Google, Yahoo or Microsoft's Bing. It's just a text box, but it will usually suffice for a quick, heat-of-the-moment query. Source: TechWorldNews
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From the clothing ads that dance around in epileptic flashes to the constant requests for your credit card number, email service from the German website GMX.net has some shortcomings. You can get 1 GB of memory, but you'll need a credit card for anything more -- a 5 GB allowance runs about $4.50 per month, and for 10 GB, you pay about $7.50 per month. Source: TechWorldNews
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[/url]AP - Suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft fired missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing six alleged militants in the second such attack in less than 12 hours, Pakistani intelligence officials said. More...
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[/url]AP - As investors punished News Corp.'s stock again on Monday, questions arose anew about the leadership of its chief executive, Rupert Murdoch. More...
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[/url]AP - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders on Monday emerged still deeply divided over how to slash the nation's debt, with reality sinking in that even a middle-ground proposal was not big enough to succeed and would not get through Congress anyway. More...
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[/url]AP - Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus Monday, smashing windows and spray-painting walls with obscenities and graffiti that called the American ambassador a "dog." Guards at the French Embassy fired in the air to ward off another group of protesters. More...
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[/url]AP - The scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire exploded in several directions Monday, with fresh reports of phone hacking attacks against some of the nation's most powerful figures, including royals and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. More...
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The music and movie industries have obtained the consent of major U.S. ISPs to take steps to curb online content theft through establishing a common framework for so-called Copyright Alerts. This is a system that the innocuously named Center for Copyright Information says i a state-of-the-art software setup similar to credit card alerts. Source: TechWorldNews
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The Iriver Story HD, the first e-reader to be fully integrated with the Google eBooks platform will be available exclusively at the Target retail chain Sunday. Priced at $140, the Iriver Story HD was first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The six-inch, WiFi-only e-reader has an XGA screen. Source: TechWorldNews
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