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Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps

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(AP) -- As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their ...


FDA posts list of potential problem drugs

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(AP) -- The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems, in an effort to better inform doctors and patients.


NASA delays Hubble mission 2 days due to storms

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(AP) -- NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days.


Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old

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(AP) -- When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search ...


Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias

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(AP) -- Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of ...


Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive

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(AP) -- Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 10 percent.


Russia's MTS to sell Apple iPhone

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(AP) -- Russia's number one cell operator MTS said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Russia.


Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US

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(AP) -- Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal ...


FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs

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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal ...


Facebook to test New Jersey's Web safety icon

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(AP) -- The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to test replacing its own link for reporting abuse with a bigger one developed by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office.


Report: US drug use shows little change in 2007

September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults declined significantly last year as supplies dried up, leading to higher prices and reduced purity, the government reports. Overall use of illicit drugs showed little ...


Study: Workers to pay more for health care

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(AP) -- Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' ...


Study: No link between measles vaccine and autism

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(AP) -- New research further debunks any link between measles vaccine and autism, work that comes as the nation is experiencing a surge in measles cases fueled by children left unvaccinated.


Cablevision completes first phase of WiFi buildout

September 04, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years.


Study: New way to spot breast cancer shows promise

September 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1

(AP) -- A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported ...


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