A Story Of Love And Freedom
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Romance knows no hurdles and nothing so powerful exists on this planet to raise barriers between loving minds. Not only the lavishly flowered gardens but the hell-hot deserts also may germinate few sprouts of romance. Thus there comes this heart melting love story from Afghanistan, the land of branded terrorism where even the breeze bears [...]
Novel Depicts Love In War Torn Iraq
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Summer, 1987. In the mountainous village of Bergalou, northern Iraq, it literally started raining birds. The poor animals dropped mid-flight when the Saddam Hussein administration dropped chemical bombs on the Kurds, a persecuted ethnic minority.
Temporarily blinded by the toxic attack, Joanna is saved by her husband Sarbast, a “peshmerga,” or Kurdish freedom fighter. The two [...]
E*Trade Taps Chairman for CEO Post
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‘The Right Choice’
Since joining the board, Layton has had a major hand in helping to “construct the company’s turnaround plan,” said C. Cathleen Raffaeli, an E*Trade director who headed up the CEO search committee for the brokerage. “The board is highly confident that Don is the right choice to return E*Trade Financial to its position [...]
Suit Alleges Shady Marketing of iMac’s Color Palette
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Proving Its Case
The lawsuit comes on the heels of three other patent-infringement suits filed against the company. Those suits, which each address functionalities in the desktop, iPhone and iTunes environment, likely pose a greater threat to Apple than the potential for a class action suit about its marketing practices, Jeffrey Glassman, a partner at Los [...]
Nail-Biting in Tech Boardrooms: Resources, Regulation, Recession
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Rethinking the Value of Being Public
In addition to serving on the boards of dozens of private companies, Howe has also served on public boards and said the stresses and costs of compliance rest especially heavy these days on mid- and small-market tech firms. Howe is also a partner in Mercury Ventures.
“The costs of meeting Sarbanes-Oxley [...]
Nail-Biting in Tech Boardrooms: Resources, Regulation, Recession
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Rethinking the Value of Being Public
In addition to serving on the boards of dozens of private companies, Howe has also served on public boards and said the stresses and costs of compliance rest especially heavy these days on mid- and small-market tech firms. Howe is also a partner in Mercury Ventures.
“The costs of meeting Sarbanes-Oxley [...]
Welcome to the Workplace, Baby
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Striking a Balance
It’s not as unusual as it may sound. More than 80 companies across the nation allow babies in the workplace, according to Parenting in the Workplace Institute in Framingham, Mass., which says that number is likely to be low. It’s an extreme — and controversial — example of how employers are seeking more [...]
Big Blue’s Secure Second Life Fortress
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No Hurdles to Clear
The point is to provide a seamless experience for IBM employees, Ginsu Yoon, VP of business affairs at Linden Lab, told LinuxInsider.
“The challenge was to provide for communication and data-sharing but also allow for interaction with the rest of the Second Life grid,” he said.
There’s nothing terribly fancy about the technology the [...]
Gaming on a Mac: Technically Speaking
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Surging Macs
In 2006, Intel’s x86 processor replaced the PowerPC chip used in Mac computers since 1994. Since the switch, Apple’s share of the market has grown from just under 3 percent in 2004 to just over 6 percent in December 2006, according to Gartner (NYSE: IT) . Mac sales from 2005 to 2006 increased by [...]
Internet Bigs Back Single Sign-On
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Security Boon?
All that information would be stored in a central repository, and would be doled out to participating Web sites only if and when you authorized it.
By setting up a single OpenID sign-on, you could access your Google calendar or your Microsoft Hotmail e-mail account or visit Yahoo’s music download store, all without changing [...]
