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UPDATE 1-China SMIC discussing stake sale to Intel-sources - Forbes.com
Forbes | 27 minutes ago
By David Lin SHANGHAI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), China's top contract chip maker, is discussing the possibility of selling a strategic stake in itself to Intel Corp, sources familiar with the talks said on Tuesday.... (more)
Security will eat IT budgets in 2009, says survey
Techworld | 1 hour 2 minutes ago
Security budgets are increasing in 2009 to consume 12.6 percent of the entire IT operating budget, up from 11.7 percent in 2008, according to Forrester Research's survey of 942 IT and security managers in North America and Europe.... (more)
Architect designed Disney resorts
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 1 hour 8 minutes ago
Denver architect Peter H. Dominick Jr. always said a turning point in his illustrious career came in the early 1990s, when he presented his design for the Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World to Michael Eisner, then chairman of Disney.... (more)
Disney offers free passes to military
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 1 hour 9 minutes ago
Walt Disney World said Monday that it will offer free five-day multi-park passes to members of the U.S. military. Active and retired military personnel are eligible for the "Disney's Armed Forces Salute" promotion, which will run through Dec. 23, 2009, at Disney World and aims to build on Disney's 2009 consumer theme, "What Will You Celebrate?" In addition to the free five-day ticket, members of the military can also buy up to five more five-day, one-park passes for $99 e...... (more)
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Dallas Morning News, The | 3 hours 6 minutes ago
, the surrealist hospital sitcom that spent seven seasons as a stepchild of NBC's schedule, has come close to cancellation more times than its creator, Bill Lawrence, cares to remember. So it's a surprise, even for Lawrence, that the show is getting to write its own ending. Well, some sort of ending, anyway on a new network. In a rare move for network television, Lawrence's is moving to ABC, beginning tonight. "It's freaky," Lawrence said in the former hospital room that he uses as an off...... (more)
Top Performers: State Edition | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), The | 3 hours 8 minutes ago
DEON BEDFORD, West Oktibbeha: Scored 25 points in a 62-35 win over Ackerman.... (more)
ASIA NEWS NETWORK
Asia News Network | 3 hours 16 minutes ago
Thousands of quake survivors cramped makeshift shelters in Manokwari on Monday as aftershocks continued to rock the region a day after two powerful earthquakes flattened hundreds of buildings and killed four people.... (more)
Quake victims play waiting game
Asia News Network | 3 hours 16 minutes ago
Thousands of quake survivors cramped makeshift shelters in Manokwari on Monday as aftershocks continued to rock the region a day after two powerful earthquakes flattened hundreds of buildings and killed four people. For the time being, there are 14,000 refugees, West Papua Governor Abraham Atururi said, adding that 17 camps had been set up for the displaced in the provincial capital of Manokwari. The National Disaster Mitigation Body said the quake had killed two people, injured 35 others...... (more)
Living Here
Sacramento Bee (Calif.), The | 3 hours 37 minutes ago
Levi Benkert holds daughter Ruth while visiting his "Good project" in West Sacramento. He applies many of the same principles of housing development to raising his three children.... (more)
Execs & Accounts: Razorfish, Studiocom, Brickfish
Search Engine Watch | 5 hours 56 minutes ago
Razorfish works with TravelChannel.com; clothing brand KangaRoo taps Studiocom for 30th anniversary branding campaign.... (more)
RIGZONE - West Hawk Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Rigzone.com | 5 hours 56 minutes ago
West Hawk has announced that the agreement for the assignment and transfer of approximately US $10.6 million in outstanding trade debt of West Hawk Energy (USA) LLC, ("WHE"), an indirect partially owned subsidiary of the Company to Fuselier Holdings LLC, has been terminated.... (more)
Suspect in bank robberies shot by police after chase in Normal
PJStar.com (Peoria, Ill.) | 6 hours 17 minutes ago
Police say a gunman suspected of robbing several banks last month was shot Monday afternoon after leading officers on a high-speed chase around Normal. Authorities say the man robbed the Check 'n Go currency exchange on West Market Street in Bloomington at gunpoint on Monday and fled in his vehicle. In a news release, Bloomington police said officers responded at about 1:30 p.m. to the robbery report and pursued the suspect vehicle, which proceeded into rural McLean County and then... (more)
A Rent Reprieve for the Emerald Inn, a West Side Fixture - NYTimes.com
New York Times, The | 6 hours 18 minutes ago
And now, courtesy of the great recession: a stay of execution for the Emerald Inn, a fixture on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for more than six decades, where the Guinness will continue to flow from the tap for at least two more years. Like so many other stalwart-but-doomed Manhattan holdouts that have lost their leases under the pressure of gentrification, the Emerald as its habitues call it was scheduled to close at the end of April; its rent was to more than double. ... (more)
Man shot in abdomen in West End
Cincinnati Enquirer, The | 8 hours 36 minutes ago
A man was shot in the abdomen in the West End tonight, police said.... (more)
Balance of Opinion: Looking for Israel's endgame
Dallas Morning News, The | 11 hours 3 minutes ago
As Israeli forces press their offensive against Hamas with a ground invasion of Gaza, pundits are considering how this latest chapter of the perpetual conflict will ultimately shake out. "Israel has but a single objective in Gaza peace: the calm, open, normal relations it offered Gaza when it withdrew in 2005 ...," writes in . "The unpardonable strategic error of its architect, Ariel Sharon, was not the withdrawal itself b...... (more)
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