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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nepal National.com http://www.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/10/id/d805653303cbbba8/ en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 09:36:33 -0400 Fri, 16 May 2008 09:36:33 -0400 30 After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for the computers of 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) educational project for children in developing nations. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/360123/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 09:00:02 -0400 Nepal National.com http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/360123/cs/1/ London, May 16 : Climate scientists have called for a massive investment in computer and research resources to help revolutionize modeling capabilities, with their eventual aim being providing probabilistic climate predictions that are as useful, and usable, as weather forecasts. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/360089/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:54 -0400 Nepal National.com http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/360089/cs/1/ Washington, May 16 : Scientists are developing technology that could one day help in building three dimensional 'super road maps' of planets and moons. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/360039/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 06:00:32 -0400 Nepal National.com http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/360039/cs/1/ Washington, May 16 : A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reported the development of bacteria-resistant films applied to medical devices and other surfaces to ward off microbial accumulation. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359949/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:17 -0400 Nepal National.com http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359949/cs/1/ Washington, May 16 : MIT researchers claim they have boosted the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much wider market, especially in portable electronics. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359945/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:14 -0400 Nepal National.com http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359945/cs/1/ Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially launched a proxy fight to oust the Yahoo board in a bid to revive Microsoft's spurned deal for the Internet powerhouse. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359902/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:25 -0400 Nepal National.com http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359902/cs/1/ THIS IS AN ARTIST'S RENDERING of the Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Technology Center to be built on the campus of Florida Southern College. The new building will occupy the site of the old Columbia Hal... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868216/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:29:10 -0400 The Ledger http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868216/ 7 cool Bluetooth gadgets Bluetooth revolutionized electronics 10 years ago with its wireless technology that enables devices to communicate with each other. Here's a look at some of the latest Bluet... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14870036/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:18:31 -0400 CNN Money http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14870036/ IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity. By mimicking the antics of a... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868218/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:14:08 -0400 Technology News Daily http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868218/ Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 06:00 CDT Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) and IBM(2) (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new service assurance solution combining IBM Tivoli Netcool Carrier VoIP Manager softw... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868217/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:45:34 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868217/ -- The Senate passed the $290 billion, five-year farm bill by a strong veto-proof margin Thursday, ensuring that the measure becomes law despite President Bush's threatened veto, which would be the f... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869939/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:50:58 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869939/ (Fortune Magazine) -- Technology is different. Despite pervasive economic uncertainty, that's the message that many of the industry's big firms are sending in their latest earnings reports. We may be ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14870037/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:18:31 -0400 CNN Money http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14870037/ Crosswords DS packs more than 1,000 crosswords into the handheld Nintendo DS, offering the puzzles on four levels of difficulty. The Easy level has 200 puzzles on which children and crossword newbies ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869838/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:22:19 -0400 USA Today http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869838/ Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops, and says that by 2010 they will consume 25 percent less energy than today. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868267/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:14:23 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868267/ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revi... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869702/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:12:58 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869702/ SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. said Friday it will team with WPP Group PLC on digital display advertising.Three of WPP Group's divisions, GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital, will work with ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14870035/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:18:30 -0400 CNN Money http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14870035/ on Wednesday. According to Moore, a bug in a Debian OpenSSL package was created in 2006 by the removal of a piece of code, which was taken out to stop the Valgrind and Purify security tools producing... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869295/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:14:17 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869295/ The deployment will cover 10,000 computers and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The cost of the rollout is covered by an annual service agreement with IBM. Although it's unclear if... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869294/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:14:14 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14869294/ The Commission is promoting the intelligent use of tech to improve efficiency in buildings, lighting and power grids in order to make significant inroads into reducing Europe's carbon footprint. It w... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868214/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:14:04 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868214/ automatic translation services can inspire , they are nonetheless much better than nothing. However, they are generally a fairly unidirectional affair - you bung in the URL or paste the text, and out ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868279/ Fri, 16 May 2008 07:13:50 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14868279/ -- Four state Supreme Court justices may have made history, but they overreached and invited a voter backlash that will quickly undo their decision to allow same-sex marriages, opponents of the rulin... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866783/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:58 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866783/ -- A 17-year-old boy was shot and wounded today in Berkeley and police are searching for the assailant. The shooting happened shortly after 3 p.m. at the corner of Dwight and Martin Luther King Jr. ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866784/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:56 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866784/ Two bank-robbery suspects were captured Thursday after an alert witness flagged down a Vallejo police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said. The armed robbery happened about 10 a.m. at ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866786/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:47 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866786/ CBS Corp. is buying San Francisco technology news provider Cnet Networks Inc. for $1.8 billion in a cash deal that will make CBS one of the 10 largest Internet companies in the country, the companies ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865376/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:12 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865376/ -- There were whoops of joys and hugs and tears among scores of gay rights advocates and same-sex couples this morning outside the California Supreme Court building in San Francisco as word spread th... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866781/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:51 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866781/ Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 03:00 CDT By STEVE LAWSON RUMOURS are rife on technology websites that Apple will launch a 3G iPhone next month - but one of their biggest rivals have beaten them to t... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864974/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:49:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864974/ -- The parents of a 17-year-old San Jose boy who was fatally mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo filed a claim against the city Thursday in the latest legal salvo over the Christmas Day attack... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866785/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:49 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866785/ J.A. Watson Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio calls (including PSTN calls worldwide) for quite some time now. The chat interface is clean and... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865164/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:22:26 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865164/ -- A takeover bid by Microsoft Corp. recently averted, Yahoo Inc. found itself back in the crosshairs Thursday after billionaire investor Carl Icahn took aim at replacing the Web portal's board with ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865049/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:09 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865049/ ) May 16, 2008 -- Internet Television broadcaster AmericaFree.TV announced today the Internet Premiere online of the film "1 nite", the award winning debut digital feature from director Amar... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864947/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:37 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864947/ -- The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865029/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:07 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865029/ For the second year in a row, online office supply superstore BuyOnlineNow.com has been named on the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide of the largest online retail stores. Rochester, MN ( http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864948/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:20 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864948/ software for building online communities around commercial brands found in gaming, sports, entertainment, publishing and other industries. Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, released this week, has a number ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864968/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:34:37 -0400 Intelligent Enterprise http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864968/ A major Yahoo investor weighed in late Wednesday with support for Carl Icahn's initiative to unseat Yahoo's board, signaling yet another salvo to be fired in the coming weeks as the proxy fight betwee... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867415/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:09:59 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867415/ The L.E.A.D. Program (Leadership Education and Development) is a pioneer in minority youth development and corporate diversity with nearly thirty years of successful partnerships between top MBA progr... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864970/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:05 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864970/ SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864976/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:24:52 -0400 Times of India http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864976/ -- A portion of Highway 4 is shut down in Concord as California Highway Patrol officers try to clear out about 50 cows that mysteriously wandered onto the highway tonight. No one knows where they ca... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866777/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:50 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866777/ -- A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with a jury. The issue is whether record companies have to prove anyone else actually ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865238/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:05 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865238/ -- Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and is at the center of calls for network neutrality laws, but another U.S. cable company appears to be doin... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866779/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:04 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866779/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Embattled Yahoo Inc has struck an advertising partnership deal with WPP Group that will let WPP buy ads on Yahoo's online ad exchange, the companies said late on Thursday. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866652/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:56 -0400 Reuters http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866652/ , a division of Kadant Inc. (NYSE:KAI), a leading global provider of process solutions, introduces the UNiGY® PhD™ system, a significant advance in pump control technology for high-pressure ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864975/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:02 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864975/ In a blog post titled Safari Carpet Bomb, Nitesh Dhanjani describes how a rogue website can easily download resources to the Windows desktop or downloads directory on the Mac. "Apple does not feel thi... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866235/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:22:49 -0400 ZDNet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866235/ Software provider Kashmoo.com has signed a new agreement with Preferred Brands, the parent company of the Floor to Ceiling and World of Floors dealer groups, to offer discounts and standard configurat... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864973/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:17 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864973/ -- Roberta Pursley's body was found about 150 yards off the Richmond shoreline April 28. Her injuries, medical examiners said, were consistent with a plunge from a great height into water. And there ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866782/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:54 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866782/ kept good notes in his recap of the evening.) Most of what got offered up was unexceptional, but one comment in particular from Josh Kopelman may turn out to be one of the most prescient forecasts of ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867412/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:09:56 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867412/ -- The California Supreme Court struck a historic but possibly short-lived blow for gay rights Thursday, overturning a state law that allowed only opposite-sex couples to marry. In a 4-3 ruling that... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866780/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:00 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866780/ project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries start... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867413/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:09:57 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867413/ It's deadline day for shareholders of Take-Two Interactive Software, the video game company undergoing a hostile takeover bid from its much bigger rival Electronic Arts. Today is the day those shareho... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866778/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:13 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866778/ -- A week after being paroled for bank robbery, Horace Bordelon returned to the same downtown Oakland bank and held it up again in 2004. His defense at trial? He robbed the bank only so he could retu... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866787/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:46 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14866787/ PRWEB ) May 16, 2008 -- According to NS&I's (National Savings and Investments) Century of Saving report, technological advances will increase the number of people keeping their savings and ex... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864972/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:32 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864972/ -- The National Weather Service said it was very, very hot Thursday, confirming what everyone else in the Bay Area already figured out. It wasn't just very, very hot, the weather service said, it wa... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865369/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:03 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14865369/ Achieve Technology, Inc. (Achieve), a provider of software to Schools, agrees to purchase Principle Data Systems LLC (Principle) and immediately assumes responsibility of Principle's customer bas... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864967/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:19 -0400 PR Web http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864967/ Cable companies in the United States reversed a 3 1/2-year trend in the first quarter by signing up more Internet subscribers than phone companies, according to a research report Thursday. The 19 larg... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864956/ Fri, 16 May 2008 05:09:23 -0400 People's Daily http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14864956/ Stalwart indie label Sub Pop has been on a particular roll of late, and that continues with local Seattle group Fleet Foxes. The group makes a strangely sublime sort of country-pop, one built around a... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867410/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:09:49 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867410/ utilities. For a limited time, the Vista version of the program costs $30, and the XP version is priced at $20. You can try either one 15 times for free. That's plenty to determine whether the utilit... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867409/ Fri, 16 May 2008 04:09:48 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14867409/ Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 00:00 CDT Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Chunghwa® Telecom (TSE:2412) (NYSE:CHT) today announced that Chunghwa Telecom has launched its new Channel Me s... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862415/ Fri, 16 May 2008 03:01:44 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862415/ Two bank-robbery suspects were captured today after an alert witness flagged down a Vallejo police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said. The armed robbery happened at about 10 a.m. at ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862602/ Fri, 16 May 2008 02:12:01 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862602/ NEW YORK (AP) - It looks like Comcast may not be alone. The company's interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and calls for "Net Neutrality" laws covering Internet ser... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862407/ Fri, 16 May 2008 02:19:58 -0400 WISH TV8 http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862407/ September 2006: 13-year-old Megan Meier of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., begins communicating online on the MySpace social network with "Josh Evans," who she thinks is a good-looking boy living in her area. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863568/ Fri, 16 May 2008 02:32:43 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863568/ Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 00:00 CDT By Davin White davinwhite@wvgazette.com A computer technician has been suspended indefinitely without pay in connection to problems at South Branch Career an... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862417/ Fri, 16 May 2008 03:01:49 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862417/ (05-15) 21:30 PDT , (AP) -- TORONTO (AP) — Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert "Mutt" Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage. The 42-year-old Canadian country superstar and 59-y... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863836/ Fri, 16 May 2008 02:12:02 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863836/ Facebook will raise the additional funds to purchase servers, powerful computers designed to ensure the site can handle a swiftly rising number of users and the dizzying array of whiz-bang application... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863476/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:46:08 -0400 BusinessWeek http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863476/ JNJ ) pharmaceutical research & development, took such steps to manage virtual distance during a global infrastructure project. Sorensen first brought the group together for a face-to-face meeting... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863475/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:46:07 -0400 BusinessWeek http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14863475/ NEW DELHI: Tech Mahindra, the sixth largest IT exporter, has bagged a $700-million contract from British Telecom (BT) for transforming and improving BT's IT estate or infrastructure. This is one of... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862418/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:24:23 -0400 Times of India http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14862418/ Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google and other much larger rivals. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861337/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:28 -0400 USA Today http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861337/ LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861227/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:52:22 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861227/ (05-15) 15:53 PDT Harrisonburg, Va. (AP) -- A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861475/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:31:53 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861475/ Meanwhile, fewer students overall are seeking information technology careers, partly because of a perception that there are few jobs in that field. Since 2000, the number of students pursuing computin... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861335/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:29 -0400 USA Today http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861335/ NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS Corp. is acquiring a big online reach with its acquisition of CNet Networks Inc. but also a company that's faced heavy criticism from investors. Those concerns as well as the heft... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861228/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:52:21 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861228/ SYDNEY -- Asian shares are seen rising on Friday, after softer oil prices soothed concerns about inflation, while hopes that a battle to take control of Yahoo Inc. may force it back into talks with Mi... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859985/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:17:06 -0400 Inquirer http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859985/ O.K., first of all, what's up with the name Chumby?It seems deliberately calculated to make this $180 appliance sound endearing, as though it's the spiritual descendant of the Gumby and the Furby.The ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860607/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:20:32 -0400 CNBC http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860607/ The international police (Interpol) on Thursday delivered the results of the analysis they made to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's (FARC) computers, Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Ar... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860144/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:32:16 -0400 People's Daily http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860144/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc's "Grand Theft Auto 4" and Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii cons... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861385/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:04 -0400 Reuters http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861385/ Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India. The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861925/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:44:01 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861925/ Is the end of the Intel-AMD duopoly nigh? Via Technologies is hoping this may be the case when it announces the "Isaiah" processor later this month. http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861927/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:44:02 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861927/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Mark Cuban has one qualification that stands out starkly from the rest of Carl Icahn's proposed slate of directors for Yahoo Corp.: The man knows how to get a ridiculous... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860146/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:10:12 -0400 Market Watch http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860146/ It turns out that isn't the only task that eludes computers. They're also not much good at taking an image and telling you if it's a cat or a dog, or describing if a song is happy or sad. So von Ahn i... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860145/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:35:53 -0400 The Register http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860145/ Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 21:00 CDT UpSellit, an ecommerce and emarketing solution utilizing proprietary virtual-chat technology to engage proactively and personally with customers, has been ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860147/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:42 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860147/ Florida's attorney general said on Thursday the state was seeking to fine Verizon Communications for violating service standards, but the No. 2 U.S. telephone company said its service was fine. Flo... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861922/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:55 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861922/ that RIM's BlackBerry Thunder will arrive later this year exclusively on Vodafone and Verizon's networks. The device is seen as an answer to Apple's iPhone, which http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861921/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:53 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861921/ way back in October 2007. The surprising thing is that she may get one. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis wrote Thursday that he was "contemplating granting a new trial." That's because, Davis s... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861920/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:50 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861920/ Charter Communications is planning to monitor its customers' Web surfing and then, anonymously, display relevant advertisements. What the third-largest U.S. cable operator, headquartered in St. L... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861928/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:49 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861928/ it has spent a lot of money without making any headway against Google or even Yahoo. Officially, the company declines to comment on Icahn's move, while continuing to send out the signal that it has... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859414/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:30 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859414/ , according to the results of the survey. Cox has acknowledged a practice called "protocol filtering," but says that's not the equivalent of creating different standards for handling content traveling... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859431/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:49 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859431/ , Col. Charles W. Williamson III wrote that "America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network (botnet) that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target compu... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859411/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:27 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859411/ Following the February 5 presidential primary, several county clerks in New Jersey asked an independent researcher to study the vote results on the state's electronic voting machines. The vendor, Sequ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859410/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:26 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859410/ , then embed those playlists in any Web page. The process is brain-dead simple: first you run a search of song titles or album titles against Amazon's database, then select from the results. Second, c... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859409/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:25 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859409/ (there's one at each seat in the section) or listen to your playlist on its noise-cancellation headphones, which will break in to tell you when you have to shut it off, presumably. Other airlines h... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859408/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:23 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859408/ and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstructed Wikipedia and discussed peer production models at an event here Thursday. Benkler, who is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneuri... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859423/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:41 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859423/ Eighty-two surveillance cameras will be watching the perimeter of one of the busiest shipping ports in Northern California. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi toured the Richmond facility and reports on the ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859417/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:35 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859417/ Google confirmed today it's gathering 3D data along with the photographs it takes for its online Street View service, a potential boon for those of us who fantasize about flying like Superman through ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859419/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:37 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859419/ has become the first next-generation video game console to hit 10 million units sold in the United States. Further, said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, ... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859412/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:28 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859412/ Google passed Yahoo in its share of monthly visitors in the United States for the first time this April, buoyed by growth in search and YouTube videos, according to ComScore statistics released Thursd... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859420/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:37 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859420/ , but can they actually take action, if they choose, against the company or any other broadband provider on Net neutrality grounds? The answer may not be simple. And if the FCC and other regulato... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859432/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:51 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859432/ [Jive's] strategy for competing with giants: work alongside them. Oracle and SAP bundle Jive's discussion forum software into their portal applications. The version of Clearspace released in April let... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859443/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:20 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859443/ -- The National Weather Service said it was very, very hot today, confirming what everyone else in the Bay Area already figured out. It wasn't just very, very hot, the weather service said, it was "... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858569/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:41 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858569/ By RYAN NAKASHIMAAP BUSINESS WRITER LOS ANGELES -- Federal authorities said Thursday that former Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. chairman Henry Yuen is a fugitive after he was indicted on a fel... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859815/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:18:12 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859815/ Sun just lost the CTO of its desktop division, Hans Muller. Not to worry, though, the open-source world gets to keep him as he's heading down the road to increasingly open-source friendly Adobe to wor... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859444/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:21 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859444/ free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco , one neighborhood at a time, as I discovered when I passed by the company's folksy demo table at my local farmers' market last month (see http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859433/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:52 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859433/ Today, Garmin announced a new plan that will give BlackBerry users unlimited, lifetime access to its Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry navigation application. Designed for those who don't want to be bother... http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859438/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:22 -0400 Cnet http://story.nepalnational.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859438/