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Donkey's Wild Ass Ancestor Confirmed (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 9:31pm
LiveScience.com - Five thousand years ago, in North Africa, humans formed an alliance with the wild ancestors of the donkey, twice.
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Google says China services back up (AFP)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 9:05pm

AFP - Google said Friday its services appeared to be back up and running normally in China, after the US web giant reported that access to its search engine and other products were being blocked.


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Past problems for company at heart of oil spill (AP)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 8:41pm

AP - A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river has experienced leaks, an explosion and dozens of regulatory violations in the past decade throughout the Great Lakes region and elsewhere in the U.S.


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False alarm: Google search still working in China (AP)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 8:28pm

AP - Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile battle over online censorship.


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Less oil on surface means less work for fishermen (AP)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 8:22pm

AP - Even when the oily sheen starts fading from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, it manages to become bad news for fishermen.


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Samsung Scores Record Q2 Profit on Chips, LCDs (PC World)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 7:50pm
PC World - Samsung Electronics on Friday reported a record high operating profit for the second quarter, driven by strong sales of memory chips and LCDs, but it warned that stiff competition in consumer electronics means it may not be able to maintain profitability at current levels.
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Smartphones, Tablets Seen Boosting Mobile Health (PC World)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 6:50pm
PC World - Smartphones, tablet PCs and other wireless devices are poised to play a greater role in health care as doctors and patients embrace the mobile Internet, panelists at a mobile health technology conference in Boston said Thursday.
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Epicor 2Q loss narrows (AP)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 6:38pm
AP - Business software maker Epicor Software Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter loss narrowed as revenue climbed.
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Lab tested: 21.5- and 27-inch Core i3 iMacs/3.2GHz (Macworld.com)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 6:01pm
Macworld.com - With Apple’s recent update of the iMac line, all new models now feature discrete graphic subsytems and Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors.
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US accuses Oracle of software contract fraud (AFP)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:46pm

AFP - The US Justice Department said Thursday it has filed a complaint against US business software giant Oracle accusing it of overcharging on a government software contract.


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BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stage (Reuters)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:35pm

Reuters - More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, a panel of U.S. judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how piles of oil spill-related lawsuits against BP Plc should be merged.


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Google says search cut off from mainland China (AP)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:34pm

AP - Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine was abruptly cut off from mainland China, raising more questions about the Internet company's ability to operate in the country while trying to work around the government's online censorship policies.


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Samsung Sneaks Out Wi-Fi Camera, Swivel-Lens Pocket Camcorder (PC World)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:26pm
PC World - It's been a grand total of seven days since Samsung announced new additions to its point-and-shoot camera lineup, but the company has finally broken its excruciating week-long silence.
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CrossOver, CrossOver Games 9.1 released (Macworld.com)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:13pm
Macworld.com - CodeWeavers, makers of utilities that bridge the software chasm between Windows and the Mac, has released major updates for two of its flagship products: CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Games.
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Mars site may hold 'buried life'

BBC Science News - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:09pm
Researchers identify rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.
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BP denies Texas a cash advance, gets scathing response (Reuters)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:09pm
Reuters - Oil giant BP Plc rejected a request from Texas for a $25 million cash advance to clean up shorelines sullied by the Gulf oil spill, and got a scathing response from top Texas officials, according to letters given to Reuters on Thursday.
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What’s private on Facebook anyway? (Christopher Null)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:04pm
Christopher Null - Today’s revelation about the existence of a document that details the names, URLs, and unique Facebook IDs of 100 million of the site’s users has raised new questions about what is and what is not private on the immensely popular website.
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Less oil on surface means less work for fishermen (AP)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:02pm

AP - Even when the oily sheen starts fading from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, it manages to become bad news for fishermen.


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Senate plans Wed. test vote on oil spill bill (Reuters)

Yahoo! Science News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 4:59pm
Reuters - The Senate plans to hold a procedural vote next Wednesday to test whether there is enough support to pass legislation clamping down on offshore oil drilling procedures and expanding alternative energy, a Democratic aide said on Thursday.
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IBM Survey: Wall Street Beefs Up IT (Investor's Business Daily)

Yahoo! Tech News Feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 4:58pm
Investor's Business Daily - Businesses tend to resist government regulations, but new rules bring new opportunities. Such is the case with the recently passed financial reform bill.
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