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Washington - Congressional leaders on Thursday charged the three ailing US automakers to present a detailed "path to viability" plan before the companies can get their hands on a 25-billion-dollar emergency loan from the government.
General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC have said they may soon file for bankruptcy if they don't get a government cash infusion, and warned that the failure of just one of the so-called Big Three could have disastrous consequences for the US economy.
But efforts to get them emergency funds stalled in Congress this week as...
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The release day for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm
has finally arrived and the device will be available, starting today, in all of
Verizon Wireless’ stores. The massive hype surrounding the product was caused
by the belief that the Storm might become the first real competition to Apple’s
iPhone; it received names such as the ‘real iPhone killer’ and the
presentations released over the past few weeks pointed out that the company
does mean business with the device, as its features appear to cover all the
aspects demanded by the high-end market segment.
The touchscreen phone...
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Microsoft has released a new offer that might interest you, if you are using their digital music store Zune. Apparently, if you are paying the $14.99 monthly subscription plan which offers you full access to the Zune store, you’ll get to keep 10 songs every month. Usually, digital music stores like Zune or Rhapsody – owned by Real Networks – offer users unlimited access to their music in exchange for a monthly fee. Once you stop paying for you subscription, however, the music is off limits. By giving users to own a bit of that music, Microsoft is hoping to attract that particular segment of...
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Google released on Thursday a new feature for its SearchWiki service, which enables users to get more involved in the system’s search results. The new customization process lets users change the results’ ranking and also add comments and annotations. "With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site," Google’s product manager Cedric Dupont and software engineer Corin Anderson explained in a blog post. "You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to...
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Microsoft Corp announced earlier today the release of a new
music subscription plan for Zune’s users, who will be able to permanently keep
10 tracks each month.
The Zune Pass subscription service available until now
provided users with access to millions of tracks for a monthly fee of $14.99. The
estimated value of the new subscription plan is of about $10 and users will be
able to add the 10 tracks to their permanent collections.
The new plan was approved by the four major music labels –
Warner Music Group, EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Universal Music
Group, but...
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Google released on Thursday a new feature for its SearchWiki service, which enables users to get...
Hong Kong - Half of Hong Kong businesses expect the city's recession to drag on for at least two...
Bangkok - Nikon Corp's unit in Thailand laid off 1,500 of its subcontracting staff amid signs that...
New York - Suffering US automaker General Motors Corp will again cut its production, the firm said...
Microsoft has released a new offer that might interest you, if you are using their digital music...
New York - In an unexpected move, Wal-Mart Stores Inc said Friday it would replace its chief...
New York - Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit on Friday denied reports that the finance giant...
Today marked the end of the legal fight between Sony
Corporation and Agere Systems (now part of...
On Thursday Microsoft asked a federal judge to dismiss
claims of plaintiffs in the class-action...
Microsoft’s plans to release its new Internet Explorer 8 by
the end of the year seem to have been...
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