(2009-08-07) — A day after unknown Russian hackers took down Twitter, and crippled Facebook, a spokesman for the Jonas Brothers said the Disney pop trio was “exhausted, a little freaked out, but resting safely in an undisclosed location.”
For several hours yesterday, as a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack clogged social networking servers worldwide, [...]

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(2009-06-27) — Senate Republicans today introduced an “innovative alternative” to the 1,300-page cap-and-trade climate change bill which passed the House 219-212 virtually-unread Friday night as the nation sat transfixed by wall-to-wall coverage of the death of an iconic pop singer.
Supporters said the GOP-sponsored ‘Michael Jackson Energy Act’ will clear away a raft of environmental regulations [...]

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(2009-06-02) — Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer sounded exultant today on a conference call with investors as he announced that his firm’s new search engine, Bing.com, already ranks among the top three results for “bing-related” search terms that internet users are Googling.
“We knew that Bing would be hot,” said Mr. Ballmer, “but we had no [...]

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(2009-03-30) — In addition to putting the full faith and credit of the American people behind every Chrysler or General Motors automotive warranty today, President Barack Obama also announced that he would personally guarantee the continuation of GM’s OnStar in-vehicle security, communications and diagnostic system.
“No matter what happens to GM, you will still be able [...]

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(2009-03-07) — As he signs an executive order Monday lifting limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, President Barack Obama said he intends to make the wealthiest Americans “bear their fair share of the burden.”
Following through on his inaugural promise “to restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise [...]

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(2009-03-06) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a bold challenge in the European Parliament Friday, encouraging her audience to “never waste a good crisis” and seize this moment of global turmoil to build less carbon-dependent economies.
To demonstrate her commitment to clean, green transportation technology, Secretary Clinton will abandon her State Department jet and [...]

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(2008-06-11) — Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced today that product development cycles at the Cupertino, California, firm have become so fast that the company plans to release iPhone 3.0 at the end of June, more than a week before the previously scheduled release of version 2.0.

The second new edition of the popular mobile computing platform [...]

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