17. november 2005

Battered by Decades of War, Sri Lankans Vote for President. The front-runners could not have offered voters two more starkly different roadmaps for peace and prosperity. By SOMINI SENGUPTA. [NYT > Home Page] 5:36:28 PM    comment [] Is That a Bomb in Your Pocket?. The Transportation Security Administration hopes new technology will pick up what human airport-security screeners might fail to spot -- weapons. By Prachi Patel-Predd. [Wired News] 5:33:02 PM    comment [] Vaccine Funding Tied to Liability . Legislation that would pour billions of dollars into the production of vaccines against avian flu and other pandemic diseases is threatened by the trial lawyers' lobby, which objects to proposed limits onlawsuits against drug manufacturers. By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum. [washingtonpost.com - Business] 12:48:16 PM    comment [] Italy holds three terror suspects. Three Algerians are arrested in Italy, after being found actively planning a terrorist attack, police say. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Read also: Norway link to terror suspects 12:46:43 PM    comment [] China Approves a Selective Cancer Drug. The therapy uses a virus that attacks only tumor cells and is based on one developed and then abandoned by an American biotechnology company. By ANDREW POLLACK. [NYT > Health] 12:43:54 PM    comment [] Sony launches free Internet phone service. The electronics giant launches a free Web-based phone service called Instant Video Everywhere. [CNET News.com] 12:42:37 PM    comment [] Microsoft tests next Office (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it was unveiling a test version of its next-generation Office suite, which the software giant is expected to launch in the second half of next year. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 12:40:59 PM    comment [] Mobile industry tests the wi-fi airwaves (Reuters). Reuters - The mobile industry is ramping up for a new generation of cellphones and services combining the long-distance strengths of traditional cellular service with the short-distance, low-cost advantages of wi-fi. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 12:40:26 PM    comment [] Chinese Internet star Alibaba.com vows to beat Google (AFP). AFP - Chinese Internet firm Alibaba.com has vowed to defeat US giant Google in the battle to become the dominant search engine for the potentially lucrative Chinese market. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 12:39:25 PM    comment [] Study: Tunisia Centralizes Web Filtering (AP). AP - Tunisia is able to censor Internet traffic because most Tunisians log on through a cybercafe or an Internet service provider affiliated with the government, according to a study released in conjunction with a U.N. technology summit there. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 12:37:56 PM    comment []

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