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...worked hard to find places where it wouldn’t touch our core business,” she said...
...vigorous lobbying by both sides," says a former senior journalist for the BBC. "Staff are made to take modules [seminars] on use of language and how to give balance. From this perspective, it's easy to understand the mind-set. It's just that they seem to have lost touch with the real world and put their editorial values ahead of trying to save lives...
...iPhone and its Applications Store, whose 15,000 applets have been downloaded a half billion times, is causing competitors to try to follow Apple's lead. Cook then offered a veiled warning apparently directed at Palm, which is set to launch an iPhone competitor, the Pre, with its own touch screen-based interface. "We think competition is good. It makes us all better. And we are ready to suit up and go against anyone," he said. "However, we will not stand for having our IP [intellectual property] ripped off, and we will use any weapons at our disposal...
Change is coming to America. You can't see it or touch it, and it may not be compatible with your existing hardware, but it's change you can believe in. On Feb. 17, the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 is scheduled to go into effect, and one of the great technological monuments of this country, one that has endured for 68 years, will be rendered obsolete. I speak, of course, of the analog television signal...
...that the problem needs to be dealt with quickly if they are to avoid losses. "It's another problem we didn't need," says Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours. "But the government has been very aggressive in tackling it." In the meantime, visitors have been warned not to touch any animals that look as though they may be sick, including monkeys, which also carry the disease. "There is no need to be scared, but we are asking people to keep their dogs in cages and take responsibility for their animals," says Ida Bagus Alit, the local Agriculture Ministry official...