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Oracle attack Google for patent infringement on Java

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Daniel

In a terse statement, Oracle announced taking legal action against Google for “knowingly and repeatedly violated the intellectual property rights related to Java, owned by Oracle, to develop the mobile operating system Android. The complaint was filed Thursday, Aug. 12 from a court in San Francisco.
Since its acquisition earlier this year by Sun Microsystems, Oracle [...]

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Peter Sunde: “The Pirate Bay should die”

Posted on August 23, 2010 by admin

Peter Sunde, aka Brokep, is a bit dated but has not changed much. At 32, the founder of one of the most controversial sites in the world is still as irreverent and schoolboy. Invited to Campus Party conference in Mexico City last week, Peter Sunde returned to the turbulent history of the famous [...]

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A bomb wounded three children in Northern Ireland

Posted on August 15, 2010 by cesa

Three children were slightly injured in a bomb explosion in Lurgan Saturday, August 14 (35km west of Belfast), Northern Ireland, officials said police sources. The craft was designed, it seems, the police who were in the process of evacuating the area because they had been informed of the presence of another bomb.
However, he had been [...]

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Wikileaks thrilled Washington

Posted on August 13, 2010 by albert

The threat shakes the White House. Wikileaks is preparing to distribute nearly 15,000 documents classified as confidential on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, as the Pentagon increases the warnings. “If they publish new documents after learning of our concerns about the harm it can cause our soldiers, our allies and innocent Afghan civilians, it would [...]

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The deadly weather continues in China

Posted on August 13, 2010 by cesa

New torrential rains caused floods and mudslides in western China, killing at least 29 people, while 10,500 others were trapped by the floods, local media reported on Friday 13 August.
At Logan, the poor and isolated province of Gansu, 15 people were killed and more than 10,000 are blocked due to heavy rainfall and landslides, said [...]

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China: more than 700 dead in landslides

Posted on August 10, 2010 by albert

Over seven hundred people died in landslides in Gansu province in China, announced Tuesday, August 10 provincial authorities, doubling the previous record, and over a thousand people are missing.
The landslides took place Saturday night in this region mostly populated by Tibetans, after heavy rains. They spent about fifty thousand people.
Mud, houses and all kinds of [...]

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Brussels looking for new sources of tax revenue

Posted on August 10, 2010 by paul

Less contributions from their own budget by Member States, but more resources specific to the EU budget. It advocates that the European Commissioner for Budget, the Polish Janusz Lewandowski, while the Commission must submit the end of September (probably 21 or 28th) its proposals on “budget review”, which should set the broad principles of Community [...]

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Floods / Eastern Europe: Outages

Posted on August 9, 2010 by paul

More than 2,000 homes were still without power this morning in Poland and the Czech Republic after heavy rains caused deadly floods and extensive damage over the weekend, local officials said.
In the region of Bogatynia in Lower Silesia (south-west Poland), three people were killed Saturday and dozens of houses have been destroyed by the waters [...]

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Agreement in the Catalan parliament to defend the statute clippings

Posted on July 16, 2010 by cesa

Catalan nationalist parties have finally found the formula to pass a resolution in the Parliament of Catalonia in defense of the Statute. The basis of the same will be the preamble to the Statute, which defines Catalonia as a “nation.” The proposal has made the president of the Generalitat, José Montilla and immediately after, has [...]

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Courtney Fuhrmann was arrested for disorderly conduct

Posted on July 2, 2010 by robert

Athletic Director Damon Evans was arrested for drunken driving together with the 28 year old woman Courtney Fuhrmann.
They were arrested on Wednesday night. They both drank alcohol and therefore they  administered  a sobriety test.
Therefore Courtney Fuhrmann was arrested for disorderly conduct. Finally, after this bad event  both Damon Evans and Courtney Fuhrmann formed  a huge [...]

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