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Italian regional polls will show if Silvio Berlusconi's popularity is waning• THE prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, will be able to assess the damage that a string of scandals has meted out to his government when Italians go to the polls for two days of voting in regional elections ...

Mr. Penn had a good post last week about refreshing quality content that’s deep in the archives, and I was looking for something that dealt with authenticity. Authenticity is one of the topics that came up in last week’s Marketing Over Coffee interview with Simon Sinek, which I highly recommend, it ...

After officially wearing down ex-hubby Jon’s will to leave with a decade of ball-busting and nitpicking, Kate Gosselin is in need of a new man to verbally castrate — and who better than Tony Dovolani — her professional partner on the upcoming 10th season of Dancing With The Stars? The ...

Microsoft had a Web- and mobile-centric week, centered on developments with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series and a redesigned MSN homepage, as well as another report of incremental market-share gains for its Bing search engine. The news also highlighted that interlinked nature of Microsoft's competitors in the online space, ...

Barack Obama's off-again-on-again trip to Asia• BARACK OBAMA is set for a trip to Asia, beginning with a stop at his boyhood home of Indonesia. But the visit, originally set to start on Thursday March 18th, will be delayed until Sunday 21st so Mr Obama can be present to give ...

Sluggish momentum in Singapore shares keeps STI in tight band of 2,870-2,882; index now up 2.62 points at 2,876.53 with losses in commodity stocks, SingTel (Z74.SG), NOL (N03.SG) offsetting gains in banks, developers, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Read more...

Serbia will send its request for the extradition of Ejup Ganić to the UK by the end of the week, Justice Minister Snežana Malović says. “I expect that we will prepare all the documents during the week and send it to the UK,” she told reporters in Belgrade today, and ...

Microsoft put heavy emphasis on the cloud this week, with CEO Steve Ballmer announcing during a March 4 discussion at the University of Washington that the company intended to use cloud functionality as the jumping-off point for its future products and services. In the meantime, Microsoft's issues with the European ...

Renewed diplomatic efforts over Iran's nuclear activities• AFTER Iran announced that its long-delayed Bushehr civilian nuclear plant will be operational within a few months, American diplomats will renew efforts to obtain further sanctions against the Islamic republic over its suspected efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Hillary Clinton, the American ...

JamBase Albums of the Week | March 5-March 11, 2010 Dennis' Pick of the WeekFree Energy: Stuck On Nothing (Astralwerks) Getting the fundamentals right is sometimes more satisfying than truckloads of innovation. Philly's Free Energy is a gang of guys dedicated to carefully ...

And then there were 16. We said farewell to four more semifinalists on American Idol Thursday, and unlike last week, no one really had any a good reason to complain. Getting the boot this week were: college student John Park, 21; Holy Roller Jermaine Sellers, 27; Miami’s own Michelle Delamor, ...

Microsoft's week focused in large part on government and legal initiatives. These included the announcement of Business Productivity Online Suite Federal, likely an attempt to help head off the threat of Googles planned federal cloud-computing system, and a legal attack against the Waledac botnet. Microsoft also tried to prevent an ...

An election in deeply divided Iraq• IRAQIS finally go to the polls on Sunday March 7th to vote in their long-delayed national elections. But with many candidates barred from standing because of former ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party, sectarian rivalries have once more come to the fore. It is ...

JamBase Albums of the Week | February 26-March 2, 2010 Kayceman's Pick of the WeekWidespread Panic: 6/19/01 & 06/20/01 Paolo Soleri, Santa Fe, NM (LiveWidespreadPanic) Summer Tour 2001 was a golden time for Widespread Panic. It was before anyone ...

Californians better start watching their mouthes. On Thursday, the State Assembly passed a resolution that will establish the first week of March as “Cuss Free Week” throughout the state. The legislation was spearheaded by McKay Hatch, a Southern California teenager, who testified at the Capitol in Sacramento this week as ...

Microsoft introduced its Windows Phone 7 Series during a Feb. 15 press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, triggering a week of pundit and analyst commentary about the new smartphone operating system's possible impact on the mobile market. In equally big news, Microsoft and Yahoo also announced that ...

Meet your American Idol semifinalists. The nation’s favorite TV talent show unveiled the 24 aspiring crooners who will be singing their hearts out for America next week. However, at least two standouts were among the vocalists left standing on the sidelines. Thaddeus Johnson — the 17-year-old who impressed at Hollywood ...

JamBase Albums of the Week | February 12-February 18, 2010 Dennis' Pick of the WeekRedwater: Time Is A Lie (Redwater Music) At first it seems one has stumbled across a really good hard rock band, crusty as '70s Robert Plant's jeans after a ...

Microsoft dealt with a number of issues this week, including complaints from a small number of Windows 7 users about degraded battery life for their laptops running the operating system, and reports that some users who installed one of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security updates are receiving the dreaded Blue ...

European finance ministers meet to discuss bailing out the Greek economy• EUROPE'S finance ministers meet for two days, beginning on Monday February 15th, to discuss the details of a plan to support Greece as it struggles with its public finances. A political deal pledging support for Greece, agreed at a ...