After Many Leaders, Japan Still Hopes for Recovery

June 14, 2010

TOKYO — Just a week into office, Japan’s new prime minister, Naoto Kan, has already broken with politics as usual here by making unusually frank warnings about the nation’s growing social inequalities, unsustainable national debt and need for painful tax increases.

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After Many Leaders, Japan Still Hopes for Recovery

June 14, 2010

Japan’s voters, weary of recession, have already embraced Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s tough talk.

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Parade of Prime Ministers Has Japan Still Searching for a Route Out of Recession

June 14, 2010

Japan’s recession-weary voters have already embraced Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s tough talk, giving his governing Democratic Party a larger than expected bounce in the polls.

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Meg Whitman Was Accused of Shoving eBay Employee

June 14, 2010

As chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman, a candidate for governor of California, was known as a demanding boss, and a worker said she went too far.

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Meg Whitman Was Accused of Pushing eBay Employee

June 14, 2010

As chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California, was known as a demanding boss, and a worker said she went too far on one occasion.

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Virtual Vuvuzelas Bring Annoying Soccer Sounds to Your Phone

June 14, 2010

If there ever was something perfectly suited for the creation of a cheap, annoying iPhone application, the vuvuzela is it.

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Virtual Vuvuzelas Bring Annoying Soccer Sounds to Your Phone

June 14, 2010

If there ever was something perfectly suited for the creation of a cheap, annoying iPhone application, the vuvuzela is it.

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Sherif M. Kamel Joins ALLIANCE as President for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

June 14, 2010

ABCN is glad to announce that Sherif M. Kamel has been appointed President for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He will be responsible for the

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Education: Why Are We Battling Innovation?

June 14, 2010

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Statement by Don Burbulys, President of California Virtual Academy at San Mateo Board of Directors, responding to a recent article by The Bay Citizen that also appeared in the Bay area edition of The New York Times:

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ViFiB Wants You to Host Cloud Computing at Home

June 14, 2010

French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.

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