Archive for: March, 2011

U.S. regulators approve 1st melanoma drug in years

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that researchers have heralded as the first drug to prolong the lives of patients with melanoma. The federal health agency approved the injectable drug, called Yervoy, for late-stage or metastatic melanoma. The agency has approved only two [...]

Elizabeth Taylor late to own funeral, at her request

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GLENDALE, Calif. — Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral started late — just the way the screen legend wanted it. Her family held a brief private service Thursday at a Southern California cemetery famous for being the final resting place of Hollywood celebrities, including her good friend Michael Jackson. But the funeral began 15 minutes after its announced [...]

Libyan rebels oust Gaddafi forces from strategic town

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REUTERS - Libyan rebels backed by allied air strikes retook the strategic town of Ajdabiyah on Saturday after an all-night battle that suggests the tide is turning against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in the east. Rebel fighters danced on tanks, waved flags and fired in the air near buildings riddled with bulletholes. Half a dozen wrecked tanks [...]

Microsoft spends $7.5m on net addresses

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Microsoft has offered to pay $7.5m (£4.7m) for net addresses from bankrupt telecoms firm Nortel. The 666,624 IP version 4 (IPv4) net addresses were put up for auction as part of the sell-off of Nortel’s assets. Blocks of IPv4 are valuable because the pool of this generation of address is close to running dry. It [...]

Google holds Honeycomb source code, says it’s not ready for smartphones

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Google will keep the source code for Android 3.0 ”Honeycomb” to itself for the foreseeable future, the search giant has said. BusinessWeek reported yesterday that Google had made the decision to keep Honeycomb closed-source – a first in the history of the Android platform – because it was designed for tablets and was not ready [...]

Apple iOS 4.3.1 released

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Apple released iOS 4.3.1 to users today. The software is available through the typical iTunes delivery method. The update has not been available for Verizon CDMA customers yet. The update addresses some minor bugs and performance tweaks. According to the update itself, This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including: – Fixes an occasional [...]

GIGABYTE presents mini ITX solution

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GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphic cards and other PC components, today launched GA-H67N-USB3-B3 motherboard, the first mini ITX solution from GIGABYTE with H67 chipset for LGA 1155 processors of Intel’s 2nd second generation (Sandy Bridge). The motherboard uses Intel’s faultless B3 stepping chipset. The 17.0 x 17.0cm sized motherboard uses Intel’s H67 chipset [...]

Listen: Lady Gaga Goes Country with ‘Born This Way’ Remix

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Lady Gaga surprised everyone this week when she announced that she’d release a country remix of her No. 1 single “Born This Way,” and now the results have officially hit the web: on “Born This Way (The Country Road Version),” Gaga croons, “If I wanna make it country, baby, it’s ok/’Cause I was born, I [...]

RIM adds Android app support to BlackBerry PlayBook via ‘optional app player’

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” Developers wanting to bring their new and existing apps to the highly anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBookTM tablet will soon have additional tools and options to enhance and expand their commercial opportunities. Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced plans to greatly expand the application ecosystem for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The BlackBerry PlayBook is scheduled to [...]

German scientists create cheap nanowires manufacturing

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Nanowire manufacturing made much less costly Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have found a way to build crystalline semiconductor nanowires for much less cost, PhysOrg said this week. This is thanks to lowering the necessary temperature, from about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius, down to 150 degrees Celsius. Also, [...]

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