The mud’s already flying in the custody battle between Oscar-winning Halle Berry and her former flame Gabriel Aubry. Earlier this month, Aubry petitioned a Los Angeles Superior Court in a bid to establish paternity rights amid allegations that Halle had been barring the Canadian model, 35, access to the two-year-old daughter, Nahla, following their split [...]
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Burial battle intensifies in Nepal
January 31st, 2011 |
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Scores of demonstrators flocked to the holiest Hindu shrine of Pashupatinath Monday to protest against the newly enforced ban on burying non-Hindus on the temple’s forested land even as the former Hindu kingdom’s culture minister warned the state would take tough steps to uphold the ban. “Today’s protest is just a symbolic one,” said Yograj [...]
Lindsay Lohan Paris Hilton Boxing Match $500K “Battle Of The Bad Girls Of Hollywoodâ€
January 26th, 2011 |
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Frenemies Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton have been offered a Golden Gloved-opportunity to settle the score. Our money’s on the redhead! Damon Feldman, CEO of the Hollywood Boxing Federation, wants the Tinseltown baddies to take part in a high-profile celebrity prize fight — and he’s more than willing to make the event worth their while. [...]
Adam Dell Padma Lakshmi Custody Battle
January 26th, 2011 |
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And you thought Kate Gosselin was the only one with “Baby Daddy Drama!” Adam Dell (photographed left) and leggy Top Chef hostess Padma Lakshmi are taking the tug-of-war over their 11-month-old daughter, Krishna, to court. The venture capitalist brother of billionaire Dell Computers founder Michael Dell has petitioned a Manhattan Supreme Court for full custody [...]
Getting There Is Half the Battle
January 25th, 2011 |
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Traffic jams arent just a problem in major U.S. metropolitan areas. Theyre happening all over the world, especially in developing countries where economic and industrial growth are outpacing municipal infrastructure upgrades. The 2010 IBM Commuter Pain Study surveyed more than 8,000 commuters in 20 cities on six continents to get a sense of the problem and how commuters feel about traffics impact on their health and productivity. A worldwide team of scientists, industry experts, and IT professionals at IBM are researching traffic information management solutions like automated tolling, real-time traffic prediction, congestion charging, and intelligent route planning to help alleviate traffic and improve quality of life for commuters.
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iPhone, BlackBerry Battle for Small Business Market Share: Report
January 20th, 2011 |
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BlackBerry maintains a lead, but Apples iPhone is making gains among small business owners, says an AMI report. – The small to medium-size business market is fertile ground for
breaking Research in Motions corporate smart phone hegemony, a
report by IT research firm AMI-Partners indicated. Apples iPhone, in
particular, is making headway, especially with smaller businesses
(SBs), according to company researc…
Gabriel Aubry Halle Berry Custody Battle?
January 19th, 2011 |
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Gabriel Aubry, the Canadian beefcake formerly known as Halle Berry’s penis supplier, has filed for a petition for joint custody of the former couple’s two-year-old daughter, Nahla, PEOPLE has learned. Berry, 44, gave birth to Nahla in 2008 after dating Aubry for about two years. The pair announced their split last year in April. The [...]
Michael Douglas Autobiography
January 18th, 2011 |
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With the good news that the tumor on Michael Douglas’ throat is gone, the Oscar winner and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones were in celebratory mode after the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. The couple was all smiles at the star-studded Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company soirée. And Michael reportedly has another reason to smile. [...]
Serbian couple continue U.S. custody battle
January 18th, 2011 |
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There have been no new moments in the case of a Serbian family fighting to be reunited with their children in the United States. This is according to Serbian Ambassador in Washington Vladimir Petrović, who commented on the case after Belgrade’s Blic newspaper ran a story that the prosecution in California determined that the parents, Verica and Vuk Nastić, did not sexually abuse their children, aged 8 and 5.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Aims to Battle Salesforce.com, Oracle
January 17th, 2011 |
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, due for global rollout Feb. 28, will compete against CRM offerings from Salesforce.com and Oracle. – Microsoft’s cloud strategy reached another stage Jan. 17 with the
announcement of a worldwide launch date for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Online, the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
2011. Both on-premises and cloud-based versions of the platform will be
available in 40 markets and 41 language…
Google Must Learn from Microsoft`s EU Antitrust Battle: 10 Important Lessons
December 1st, 2010 |
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News Analysis: Google is facing an EU antitrust probe over its dominant position in the search and advertising markets. Now Google will have to learn a thing or two from Microsofts EU experience. – The European Union has launched an investigation into Google over concerns that the company might have used its dominant position in the search market to benefit its own operation and hurt its competition.
Some of the companys competitors, including Microsoft, say that Google is modifying…
â€Men lining up to pay porn starâ€s legal bills in her battle against Sheenâ€
November 27th, 2010 |
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Capri Anderson doesn”t need to worry about settling her legal bills in her battle against Charlie Sheen, for she has many supporters. According to a dating website, sugar daddies are willing to give her an all-access pass, reports TMZ.com. MyGirlFund.com-a “girl-centric social network that allows women to interact with generous men to meet whatever personal [...]
Rio police “take control” of favela after battle
November 26th, 2010 |
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After running street battles, police in Rio de Janeiro say they control a shanty town where drugs gangs had gathered in the face of an ongoing crackdown.
Armed officers used tanks and helicopters to push into Vila Cruzeiro, where gangs had regrouped after being flushed out of other favelas.
Face value: Softbank’s Masayoshi Son: Son also rises
November 25th, 2010 |
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A rare, self-made business leader wants to revitalise Japan through telecoms
“THEY are the losers in battle. When you meet with them, they give all kinds of excuses. They blame the government; they blame the weather!” Masayoshi Son, the founder and boss of Softbank, Japan’s third-biggest telecoms operator, has little patience for the risk-averse managers of the country’s sluggish industrial behemoths. Entrepreneurs like him “don’t give excuses for how tough the battle is, and how tough the handicap is—we always fight.”
Japan is unfriendly to entrepreneurs. Like the rest of Japanese society, its businesses have traditionally placed a premium on harmony, which in practice has meant propping up weak firms and making it harder for new, more efficient competitors to rise. Though some stragglers have been allowed to go to the wall, this insiderish ethos still lingers. As a result Japan has the lowest rate of start-ups among rich countries: one-third of America’s rate and half of Europe’s. …
Supercomputer Battle Between U.S., China Heats Up
November 15th, 2010 |
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The U.S. plans to build two supercomputers to knock China’s current Top500 leader Tianhe-1A off its perch. – In what may be the beginnings of a new type of Cold War-style
competition between the United States and China, the two countries are locked in
battle to claim the top spots on the list of the worlds fastest
supercomputers. The 36th edition of the Top500 list of the worlds most
powerful supercomp…
A takeover bid for Hochtief: Battle of the builders
October 28th, 2010 |
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Two construction giants seek to evade a Spanish predator
MUCH of the drama in Florentino Perez’s long game to add Hochtief, Germany’s biggest construction company, to his portfolio, is being played on the other side of the world. It involves a fine interpretation of Australian corporate law.
Mr Perez, best known as president of Real Madrid football club, with its Galacticos of expensively acquired talent, also runs ACS, Spain’s biggest construction company, which already has a 29% stake in Hochtief. On September 16th ACS announced that it would make a bid to “consolidate its interest”, offering eight ACS shares for five of Hochtief’s. Predictably Hochtief has resisted, asking for changes in German law to make the bid, which will allow creeping acquisition of shares over a 30% threshold, more expensive. Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, and her coalition government have been lukewarm, arguing that corporate Germany should take care of itself. ACS has insisted that it would keep Hochtief headquartered in Essen, and not break it up. …
14 Most Epic Movie Battle Scenes
October 23rd, 2010 |
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Epic is overused. Heavily, heavily overused. The internet has corrupted a perfectly good word, and now it’s used almost as badly as lol. Anything that’s vaguely humorous gets slapped with the label without any appreciation for what it truly is. You know what’s epic? Hundreds of armed and trained men, slaughtering each other ruthlessly on [...]
Smart-phone lawsuits: The great patent battle
October 21st, 2010 |
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Nasty legal spats between tech giants may be here to stay
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HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer. The current smart-phone patent war does not quite have the same romance, but it could be as important. …
How iPhone Beats Android in OS Battle: Steve Jobs Counts the Ways
October 20th, 2010 |
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Irked by Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s simplification of the difference between Google’s Android operating system and Apple iOS as a case of an open ecosystem versus a closed platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs ripped his main rival on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Oct. 18. In the well-conceived, six-minute rant, Jobs listed the problems Android creates and the ways in which Apple’s "integrated" approach solves them. EWEEK walks readers through Jobs’ screed below, which is a retaliation to Schmidt’s candid dismissal of iPhone and its App Store as a closed, proprietary platform that controls user choice. Jobs counters that this closed approach is actually an integrated approach that works because it keeps many cooks from working in the same kitchen, messing up the meal. Android, by dint of its open approach, has gotten so fragmented that Amazon, Verizon and others are building their own app stores to provide an alternative to the weak Android Market. – …
Yahoo Buys Dapper to Battle Google in Contextual Ads
October 6th, 2010 |
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Yahoo Oct. 5 agreed to buy contextual display ad provider Dapper for an undisclosed sum. The assets should help Yahoo advertisers build more personal, relevant ads. – Yahoo Oct. 5 moved to build on its market lead in display
advertising assets by agreeing to buy partner Dapper for an undisclosed sum.
Dapper
provides quot;dynamic display ad creation and optimization, quot; a fancy way
of saying it makes tools that help advertisers build and make money from co…