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/ 23 January 2012
Research in Motion founders, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have resigned, paving the way for a change at the helm of the BlackBerry phone maker.
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/ 13 December 2010
Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online.
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/ 7 February 2010
US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth.
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/ 5 December 2006
United States defence secretary nominee Robert Gates admitted on Tuesday the US is not winning the war in Iraq, and said he was open to all options to stop the conflict spiralling into regional chaos. Gates also cautioned against any attack on Iran expect as an ”absolute last resort” and also came out against a strike on Syria.
The United States Senate blocked on Wednesday a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, defeating a measure strongly backed by President George Bush and Christian conservatives. With a 49-48 vote, the measure fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed to move to a formal vote in the 100-member Senate.
Conservatives who charge President George Bush has imposed a theocracy, risked United States bankruptcy and fanned flames of anti-Americanism are flooding US booksellers with their irate tomes. Leading the list of bestsellers is commentator Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy, the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st century.
Two images dominated US television screens during the prolonged battle over Terri Schiavo, who tragically plunged into an acrimonious national debate on right-to-die ethics. One showed a pretty brunette smiling into a camera for a family snapshot. The second shows an emaciated woman unable to control her grins and grimaces, blissfully unaware of the arguments over her fate.
Thirty years after the Watergate break-in scandal that led to president Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation, the tools used by the burglars to break into and wiretap the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex were exposed to the media.