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/ 7 December 2006
Technology heavyweight Microsoft will unveil an online library on Thursday that will compete with Google’s controversial project to digitise the world’s books, the company said. Microsoft said it would launch a United States test of Live Search Books featuring tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books.
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/ 7 December 2006
Most internet users already know it: spam is on the rise again as the senders of unwanted e-mail advertisements find new ways to circumvent filtering systems. A study released last month by the security firm Postini found that unwanted messages now account for 91% of all e-mail, and over the past 12 months the daily volume of spam rose by 120%.
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/ 7 December 2006
2010 World Cup generalissimos Danny Jordaan and Irvin Khoza have denied reports that they almost came to blows three weeks ago over a travel tender that wasn’t awarded to a company owned by a friend of Khoza. But Lemmer wishes they wouldn’t be so quick to bury the whole concept.
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/ 7 December 2006
Nearly four months after tons of toxic chemical waste were dumped in Côte d’Ivoire’s teeming economic capital of Abidjan, poisoning hundreds, residents are haunted by fears of long-term health complications. Poisonous fumes emitted by the petroleum waste were blamed for the deaths of 10 people out of the scores sickened by the discharge from a ship chartered by a European company.
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/ 6 December 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in the Western Cape has asked the Competition Commission to block the sale of Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront to a foreign-dominated consortium. ”We’re pretty sure that we’re going to get them to stop it,” Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 December 2006
Somalia’s weak government on Wednesday pleaded for international help to fight alleged Islamist terrorism that it warned would have dire global consequences. With fears rising of all-out war between the transitional administration and Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement, the Cabinet urged the world not to ignore its call.
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/ 6 December 2006
World soccer governing body Fifa announced on Wednesday that the next World Cup will take place between June 11 and July 11 2010, and granted South Africa an automatic berth as host nation. Fifa’s executive committee decided to maintain the qualifying set-up used at this year’s World Cup in Germany.
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/ 6 December 2006
The government’s accelerated effort to contain the impact of HIV and Aids will move South Africa from a confrontational platform of reactive crisis management to a win-win platform of comprehensive response, the United Nations Children Fund said on Wednesday. Its comment comes after Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka launched a new HIV/Aids plan last week.
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/ 6 December 2006
Britain’s prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown pledged on Wednesday to use faster economic growth to fund a £36-billion rise in education spending to help the nation compete with India and China. Throwing down the gauntlet to opposition Conservative leader David Cameron, Finance Minister Brown set out the priorities for his likely premiership.