The war between two of entertainment’s prettiest people is getting very ugly. Handsome model Gabriel Aubry has fired back at his ex-girlfriend — Oscar winner Halle Berry — as the parents prepare for nasty custody fight over their young daughter, Nahla. On Tuesday, attorneys for Aubry blasted the Monster’s Ball star as “irresponsible” after her [...]
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Cairo contagion fires up oil price
January 31st, 2011 |
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We’re nudging closer to $100 a barrel of crude oil. The tensions in Egypt making the news headlines are making oil traders nervous and adding to upward price pressures. But Egypt isn’t a big-scale oil producer, so why would that be? Here’s an interesting article summing it up…
Mubarak fires ministers, vows to stay, appeals for calm
January 29th, 2011 |
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Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak refused calls to step down, instead calling late Friday for his cabinet to resign amid nationwide protests. Thousands of demonstrators, who were in the streets all day and remained past midnight in central Cairo, demanded that Mubarak step down. “I have asked the government to resign,” Mubarak said in a televised, [...]
“Glee†Dianna Agron Fires Management Team
December 11th, 2010 |
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It’ll be anything but a “Gleeful” holiday season of a team of managers and agents previously employed by small screen stunner Dianna Agron. Agron, who plays head cheerleader Quinn Fabray on FOX’s musical hit Glee, has fired the management team that helped her land a coveted role alongside showbiz icon Cher and pop powerhouse Christina [...]
Bristol Palin Fires Back Over Margaret Cho’s “Dancing†Claims
December 6th, 2010 |
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Don’t mess with Alaska: It seems like only yesterday that Bristol Palin lit into MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann for branding her the “Worst Person in the World” on his political show Countdown (Wait — that was only yesterday!) Now the First Daughter of Conservatism is reading frenemy Margaret Cho the Riot Act after the gabby funny [...]
India test fires BrahMos cruise missile
December 2nd, 2010 |
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India on Thursday successfully test-fired the 290-km range BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the Orissa coast. The supersonic cruise missile with precision strike capability was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 1100 hours from the launch pad No. 3 of the ITR. The missile can fly at 2.8 [...]
Google Fires Back at Oracle over Android Lawsuit
October 6th, 2010 |
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Google denied Oracle’s claims of patent and copyright infringement related to its use of Java in Android. Google also alleged Oracle is singling out Android among open-source software. – Google denied Oracle’s claims of patent and copyright infringement related
to its use of Java in Android and countered that the company is singling out
its operating system after years of supporting open-source software.
Oracle, whose patents it controls through its Sun Microsystems acquisition e…
Russian president fires Moscow mayor
September 28th, 2010 |
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The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree firing Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. According to the decree, Luzhkov, mayor since 1992, was removed because he “lost the Russian Federation president’s confidence.”
Deadly fires rage on in Portugal
August 12th, 2010 |
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Portuguese firefighters are continuing to battle dozens of forest fires that are sweeping through the country and have killed two of their colleagues. 50 fires are burning in central and northern parts of the country, according to the Reuters news agency.
Peat bog fires near Chernobyl site
August 12th, 2010 |
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The sight of smouldering peat bogs just 60 kilometres from Chernobyl has increased fears of a nuclear threat from wildfires in Eastern Europe. Forests in Ukraine, like Russia, have been burning in a sweltering heatwave. And the proximity of this particular fire to the site of the world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster is giving cause for concern.
Russian fires spread to far east
August 1st, 2010 |
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As the authorities battle to contain forest fires that have parts of central Russia, others have spread to the extreme east of the country. Officials close to the border with China say their region has been affected. Fires have also been reported in the Kamtchatka peninsula in the extreme north-east.
Sungard Fires Up New Storage Replication Service for SMBs
May 14th, 2010 |
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SunGard’s Storage Replication Service uses a combination of EMC RecoverPoint/SE and SunGard’s AdvancedRecovery services running on EMC Clariion arrays, with the replication handled at a secure SunGard data center. – <p>Data center software and services provider SunGard and storage
partner EMC have come up with a new data replication service that
enables IT managers of SMBs to get their systems back up and running
quickly after an unplanned outage.<br />
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Sungard on May 12 said its Availability Servic…
Brown fires starting shot for May 6 poll
April 6th, 2010 |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday that a general election will be held in Britain May 6 in what analysts believe could be one of the closest and most unpredictable contests in modern British politics.
Brown, 59, will be seeking an unprecedented fourth term for the ruling Labour Party which has been in power since 1997. [...]
Shell fires up Singapore ethylene cracker for exports
March 24th, 2010 |
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it produced the first ethylene cargoes from a new cracker at its petrochemicals complex in Singapore, where the company operates its largest oil refinery, according to Bloomberg.
Shell produced “on-specification ethylene” from the cracker on March 22, it said today in an e-mailed statement. A butadiene extraction unit will open “over the next few months.”
The facility can “process various types of feedstock, ranging from liquefied petroleum gas to heavy liquid hydrocarbon such as hydrowax,” the statement said.
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Newegg Fires Supplier IPEX in Fake Intel Chip Flap
March 9th, 2010 |
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Officials with online retailer Newegg have terminated their relationship with a supplier, IPEX, which they said was the source of counterfeit Intel Core i7-920 processors. Intel officials also are investigating the incident.
– Online technology retailer Newegg has terminated the contract of one
its suppliers, IPEX, which Newegg officials said had shipped them bogus Intel processors.
The counterfeit processors, which reportedly numbered as much as 300, were first reported online March 5 by the Website HardOCP.
Initially…
Tendulkar fires world record ODI double ton
February 25th, 2010 |
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India’s Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score a double century in one-day internationals yesterday. He achieved the feat in the second one-dayer against South Africa. Tendulkar, who holds the record for most runs and centuries in test and one-day cricket, made 200 not out to guide
Microsoft Exchange Team Fires Back at IBM Ahead of Lotusphere
January 15th, 2010 |
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Microsoft Jan. 15 offered training vouchers to the first 500 Lotus Notes professionals who want to learn to use Microsoft’s Office productivity suite, Exchange e-mail server, SharePoint collaboration software, and Office Communications Server platform. The training vouchers are worth $300 per user. Microsoft also downplayed IBM’s Panasonic win, in which more than 150,000 Panasonic employees are using IBM’s LotusLive hosted collaboration software. This spat comes as IBM prepares for its annual Lotusphere event, which will be weighted on the cloud.
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When IBM revealed Jan. 14 that it had
landed Panasonic as a new customer for its LotusLive collaboration software, it
said it was partially replacing Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail platform at the Japanese electronics maker.
Microsoft fought back Jan. 15, offering training vouchers
to…
Australians evacuated as fires rage
December 24th, 2009 |
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Australian holidaymakers were evacuated Thursday from a campsite in the path of raging wildfires, a day after an inferno destroyed 13 homes in the country’s southeast, officials said. Fire crews in Victoria state were on high alert as strong winds and searing temperatures prompted extreme
People ‘fleeing for lives’ in Australian fires
December 23rd, 2009 |
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Residents were “fleeing for their lives” Wednesday as wildfires burned out of control in South Australia, a witness said, as the state endured catastrophic fire conditions. Less than a year after 173 people lost their lives in the Black Saturday fires in neighbouring Victoria state, a large