Le président Barack Obama devrait annoncer ce soir l'envoi en Afghanistan de 30 000 soldats américains de plus, dont le déploiement accéléré s'étalera sur six mois.
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Ozark - The mayor of a small Arkansas town says the police officer who used a Taser on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been fired for not using the camera attached to the stun gun.
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Début janvier, Digital Garage, le partenaire de Twitter au Japon, lancera un nouvel outil de monétisation à l'intention des utilisateurs japonais du site de «microblogging»....
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Black Friday 2009
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Today is Black Friday in the United States. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving and is traditionally the start of the Christmas holiday shopping season. Almost all big retailers promote "early bird" sales on Black Friday. How does one learn where the best deals are located? Well, either you buy a newspaper and look through the inserts & ...
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Pour la deuxième fois, des armes ont été dérobées au Salon Milipol consacré à la sécurité intérieure des Etats.
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Bienvenue au salon du Milivol
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Pour la deuxième fois en trois éditions, des armes ont été dérobées au salon Milipol, joyeux raout de la sécurité intérieure des Etats. « Pour ses 25 ans, l’édition 2009 du salon Milipol Paris a été marquée par un visitorat qualifié, des exposants mobilisés et des innovations marquantes, malgré un contexte économique ...
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Pogoplug may have been the first to make this type of contraption popular, but now it's time for the no-names to sneak in and offer up comparable devices for a bit less cheddar. Sharkoon has evidently taken a break from punching out SATA HDD Docks in order to develop its USB LANPort, which effectively connects any piece of USB storage (flash ...
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Sharkoon USB LANPort Brings USB Hard Drives Online
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Sharkoon is best known for its HDD Docks, which enable internal 3.5" HDDs to be quickly accessed outside of a PC. The company's latest product, however, has little to do with connecting hard drives to actual rigs via the traditional methods and lots more to do with making your existing drives accessible over the Internet.
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Iran's failure to explain why a UK yacht crew were seized by its navy is of "increasing concern", the Foreign Office says.
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Outsourcing: UK carbon control plan needs a rethink
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Encouraging businesses to go green is good but the government must better incorporate outsourcing in its carbon control scheme, says the NOA's Mark Kobayashi-Hillary Much is being said about the UK government's upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what ...
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Après l'Inde, la Chine. Le premier ministre Stephen Harper s'est envolé mardi vers l'Empire du Milieu pour son premier voyage officiel dans ce pays. Une visite de quatre jours destinée à stimuler le commerce entre les deux pays et à relancer des relations diplomatiques qui ont connu plusieurs coups de froid, notamment l'absence de Stephen ...
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Les premiers coups de Marteau
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Les révélations faites par l'émission Enquête au sujet de liens entre l'ex-mairesse de Boisbriand, Sylvie St-Jean, et l'entrepreneur Lino Zambito, connaissent un nouveau rebondissement mardi.
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Strong Lead-Up to Black Friday Boosts Holiday Spending Growth to 3 Percent for the First 27 Days of the Season RESTON, VA, November 29, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 27 days of the November – December 2009 holiday season. For the ...
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Naked Black Hole Builds Future Galactic Dream Home
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Astronomers have spied a distant black hole in the act of creating the galaxy that will eventually become its home. By sending a jet of gas and highly energetic particles into a neighboring galaxy, the black hole has touched off star formation at a rate 100 times the galactic average. “Our study suggests that supermassive black holes [...]
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Si «Assassin's Creed 2» et «Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2» ont fait couler beaucoup d'encre, leurs excellents résultats commerciaux ne suffisent pas à convaincre d'une reprise solide de la consommation dans le secteur du jeu vidéo....
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Microsoft confirms that it is investigating a problem that affects Windows 7 users described as the "black screen of death".
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Global Markets Overview: Equities enjoy a sharp bounce as investors put the Dubai crisis behind them and the dollar resumes its slide.
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Radley Balko what will happen to the court-document stealing deputy of Maricopa County: "I can't think of another case where a judge has ordered someone jailed for contempt and the police department has refused to carry out the order. I'm not sure what would happen next. A duel? Arm wrestling?"...
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Showdown in Marikafka County
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Today is the deadline by which Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe gave Dep. Adam Stoddard to apologize for swiping documents from a defense attorney’s file in open court last month. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who, oddly, is speaking at Arizona State University’s journalism school tonight) has vowed that ...
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Tim Biskup designed a wallet made by Poketo, which will be offered at his upcoming show, "Art-Snob Eat Shit" at All Tomorrow's Parties' "Nightmare Before Christmas," December 4-6, 2009 at Butlin's Holiday Centre, Minehead, UK. Tim Biskup not only designed the poster, tee shirts and other graphics for the upcoming My Bloody Valentine-curated " ...
As we first reported over the summer, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey has a new project. Originally known as “Squirrel,” the name has been changed to Square, but the idea remains the same: A hardware/software combination for mobile devices (launching first for the iPhone/iPod touch) that allows vendors to easily accept and process credit ...
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Jack Dorsey’s Square Is Open For Business
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We’ve been tracking Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Square since May when we first got the details on the new mobile phone payment service. Today the company unveiled its website for the first time, and they continue to test the product in private beta. Dorsey twittered that the site is live moments ago.
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2010 will mark the 40th anniversary of one of the Internet's oldest memes: That Video Where They Blow Up a Beached Whale. To mark this momentous occasion, Asylum recently interviewed Paul Linnman, the TV reporter who recorded the footage that went on to become the the fifth-most-viewed viral video of all time. "We're hearing this noise around us ...
À Ottawa, les libéraux voteront finalement pour le projet de loi qui permet l'harmonisation des taxes de vente provinciales de la Colombie-Britannique et de l'Ontario avec la taxe de vente fédérale.
Man Utd host Spurs while Aston Villa are at Portsmouth as the Carling Cup quarter-finals get under way, and there is a full programme in Leagues One and Two.
In the new videogame based on James Cameron's highly anticipated sci-fi flick, blue giants deliver a big green message: Greed is bad, and humans are a cancer. But behind the scenes, the parallel teams working on the movie and the game forged a visionary alliance.
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Engadget
TmoNews seems to have it on good authority that T-Mobile will be rolling out a firmware update over the air to the Motorola CLIQ today -- the device's first since launch -- and we've got good news and bad news. First, the bad: by all accounts, it appears that this'll still be an Android 1.5-based firmware, adding fuel to the fire suggesting that ...
Climax to bitter and often public fight with former company stalwart over his responsibility for a multibillion-euro bribery scandal
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