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The Craft and Hobby Association's summer convention just wrapped up in Orlando, Fla., where thousands of exhibitors, buyers, designers, publishers and members of the press were on the lookout for the next big thing. And yet the most intriguing innovation in scrapbooking wasn't on display at the convention, or anywhere else. It doesn't even have a name. It's just a concept in a young designer's sketchbook. |
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Nortel Networks Corp., the Canadian phone-equipment maker in bankruptcy protection, is open to selling some of its businesses, Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski said. “We have a number of plans which we’ve not disclosed externally, but we do believe in the next couple of weeks that those plans will become very, very visible,” Zafirovski told reporters after a hearing before the Canadian government today in Ottawa. |
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Export Development Canada, Canada's export credit agency, said Saturday it is providing $300 million towards a $400 million credit facility for Nokia Siemens Networks' purchase of wireless assets from Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ). Toronto-based Nortel said Friday it has agreed to accept a $650 million bid by Nokia Siemens Networks for the most lucrative part of its carrier-networks division and a wireless-research unit. Nortel is liquidating, ending efforts to restructure in bankruptcy court, and will sell its businesses piecemeal. |
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One interesting thing about working for a newspaper is the opportunity to learn new things. There is the routine stuff, of course, along with the stress on body and mind (or at least what’s left of both), but every so often you come across something that you only vaguely heard about or maybe had no idea existed. In this case for me, it’s something called geocaching.
When I first got a notice that there would be a geocaching program at the Ringtown Area Library on June 13, I thought, “What the heck is geocaching?”
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Twitter may have dominated the political landscape in Iran so far as tech-savvy young people turn to the service to communicate. But Google and Facebook are moving quickly to catch up. Google says it is adding Farsi, or Persian, to Google Translate and Facebook is rolling out a Persian-language version. "We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran," Franz Och, principal scientist at Google writes on The Official Google Blog. "Like YouTube and other services, Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice |
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Now that Iran's election unrest is entering its second week, it's becoming more clear by the day how badly the sitting government and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei want the protests to go away. Khamenei's backhanded threat Friday to those millions who have taken to the streets since the June 12 balloting - they'll be held responsible for the "chaos and consequences" future rallies may bring, never mind that the peaceful throngs have by and large faced sporadic attacks rather than sponsored them - may thin |
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Over recent weeks, world headlines have been filled with tales of the promises and the perils of information technology. In Iran, technology is being celebrated as a powerful democratizing force, as activists use Twitter and Facebook to rally opposition to a disputed election. But in China, it is being used as a tool of control as the government forces PC makers to install software on all new machines to block Web sites it does not favor. |
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