News Archive for January 07 2008

Gemma Arterton cast as new 'Bond girl'

Newcomer Gemma Arterton has been cast as the "Bond girl" for the latest instalment of the 007 franchise, currently shooting in London, the film's producer said.

Bill Gates says world nears next digital decade

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates on Sunday took center stage at the world's largest technology show for the last time and predicted that his industry was on the cusp of the next digital decade.

Racial disparities persist in cancer treatment

U.S. blacks continue to get inferior cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.

Napster moves to MP3-only music download format

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc, one of the largest digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs bought online.

CES 2008: Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 makes sure you get your shot

If digital cameras were baseball players, Casio's new Exilim Pro EX-F1 point-and-shoot digital camera would definitely be suspect for taking steroids, And not for the usual inflated specs: It features a modest 6 megapixels, at the low end for a consumer digicam (although still enough for most people's needs). It also has a healthy 12x optical zoom (the [...]

Mercator Allows Offer for Tyler Resources to Expire

VANCOUVER, Jan. 9 /CNW/ - Mercator Minerals Ltd. ("Mercator") announced today that it has allowed its offer to acquire common shares of Tyler Resources Ltd. to expire at 8:00 pm EST on January 8, 2008 and will not acquire any shares of Tyler pursuant to the offer.

NI: British intelligence to advise on 'shoot-to-kill' anonymity

MI5 will have a key role in the decision whether or not to grant anonymity to 14 Northern Ireland police officers implicated in a shoot-to-kill probe.

Dr. Dre Sells Out Big Time With Overpriced “Beats” Headphones

Monster Cable has partnered with Dr. Dre with a little help from Jimmy Iovine to produce the Beats by Dr. Dre “high-performance” headphones. Monster claims the cans were conceived by Dr. Dre and engineered by Monster. It sounds more like Monster paid Dre a boatload of cash to put his moniker on a set of [...]

CES : Yahoo invites third-party mobile widget developers

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U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets crash in Persian Gulf

Two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets -- flying off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman -- crashed Monday night in the Persian Gulf, U.S. Navy officials said.

Shins Keyboardist Arrested for Domestic Violence

Filed under: News, OMG!Spinner.com: The Shins keyboardist Marty Crandall was arrested by the Sacramento police for a domestic violence charge against his girlfriend, Elyse Sewell. Sewell, a former 'America's Next Top Model' contestant, posted photos of her bruised arm as well as a blog... Read more

Court of Appeals Upholds Verdicts in Favor of Cordis Corporation on Patents Infringed by Medtronic, Inc. and Boston Scientific Corporation

WARREN, N.J., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. today upheld two separate 2005 jury verdicts that found Medtronic, Inc. and Boston Scientific Corporation infringed coronary stent patents owned by the Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company. Cordis now intends to ask the U.S. District Court [...]

Press Release: Trolltech Joins LiMo Foundation Accelerating Delivery of New Linux Phones

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- 2008 International CES, 07 January - 2008 - Trolltech announced that the company has joined the LiMo Foundation to accelerate the delivery of devices based on LiMo's open and globally consistent mobile Linux platform. Trolltech brings LiMo a wealth of experience gained from its industry-leading software framework for mobile Linux [...]

Gregoire proposes sobriety checkpoints for drivers

Gov. Chris Gregoire, backed by law enforcement, is proposing sobriety checkpoints as part of the state's continuing clampdown on drunken...