News tagged with providers
Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly ...
World Newspaper Congress opens in India
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world Tuesday heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry's sharply falling ...
Lower income women report more insurance-based discrimination during pregnancy, delivery
Dec 04, 2009 |
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According to an analysis of statewide data taken from 1998-2001, women in Oregon who made less than $50,000 a year were more than three times likely to report they were discriminated against by health providers because of ...
YouTube boosts full-length movies, TV show lineup (Update)
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s YouTube said Thursday it is vastly expanding its library of full-length movies and TV shows it offers online, while also launching a new advertising service and adding about a dozen ...
US mulls stiffer sentences for common Net proxies
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- "Proxy" servers are an everyday part of Internet surfing. But using one in a crime could soon lead to more time in the clink.
The Pirate Bay sold to Swedish gaming group
Jun 30, 2009 |
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A Swedish gaming group said Tuesday it would buy The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing sites, for 5.6 million euros (7.8 million dollars).
For some, prominent power lines dim enthusiasm for green power
May 19, 2009 |
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In the summer heat, Rockney Compton's spring-fed koi pond doubles as a swimming hole for his three kids, and in the spring it is a water bowl for his dogs.
Skype comes to iPhones on Tuesday
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Mar 30, 2009 |
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Skype has confirmed that a free software application enabling iPhone owners to use its Internet telephone service will be available in Apple's online App Store beginning Tuesday.
Fleeing customers haunt phone co. in New England
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Phone companies fear that customers will increasingly switch off their landlines in favor of wireless phones or phone service from cable TV providers. So the last thing FairPoint Communications Inc. needed was to ...
Swedish Internet firm to delete user data
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Swedish telecom supplier Tele2 said Monday it will delete information allowing their customers to be identified, a move police argue could make the hunt for Internet pirates "impossible."
In Britain, green squatters seize island
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A bucolic, sun-dappled island in the river Thames seems an unlikely setting for an environmental and lifestyle standoff -- but that's what green squatters are staging.
China moves to control online music industry
Sep 10, 2009 |
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China has announced that all songs posted on music websites must receive prior approval and foreign lyrics must be translated into Chinese, in a new push to control online content.
Too many ways to say 'it hurts'
Jul 29, 2009 |
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There are at least 100 ways to say, "It hurts!" And that is the problem.
Comcast, Sony to open joint retail store
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Despite the poor economy, Comcast Corp. and Sony Corp. plan to open a retail store Tuesday. The cable TV operator and the electronics company will use the store to showcase new technologies and products, taking a ...
IBM launches water-management services operation
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water.
