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Apple to Sell 10 Million Tablet PCs in 2010

Apple to Sell 10 Million Tablet PCs in 2010

A former Google China executive reportedly wrote in his blog that Apple expects to sell 10 million tablet PCs in its first year out. He also offered specifics about the hardware, and said Steve Jobs will release the tablet in January.
An Apple tablet PC in the new year is sounding increasingly likely.
Lee Kai-fu, former president [...]

December 31 2009

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AT&T drops Tiger Woods as an endorser

AT&T drops Tiger Woods as an endorser

AT&T Inc., the biggest U.S. phone company, ended its sponsorship deal with Tiger Woods after the golfer’s admissions of marital infidelity.
“We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future,” Michael Coe, a spokesman for AT&T, said in an e-mail today. The company began a multiyear agreement in February [...]

December 31 2009 | Posted in Breaking News !, Golf, News, Sports | Read More »

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Jobless claims fall to 17-month low

Jobless claims fall to 17-month low

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell sharply last week to the lowest level in 17 months, the government said Thursday. Analysts had expected an increase.
There were 432,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Dec. 26, down 22,000 from the previous week’s revised 454,000, the Labor Department said. The [...]

December 31 2009 | Posted in Breaking News !, Business, International, News, US | Read More »

Finnish mall gunman kills five, then found dead

Finnish mall gunman kills five, then found dead

ESPOO, Finland — A lone gunman killed four people in a rampage in a Finnish shopping mall Thursday and also murdered his former girlfriend before being found dead himself, police said.
The man named as Ibrahim Shkupolli, 43, opened fire in the suburban Helsinki mall where his ex-partner reportedly worked, shooting dead three men and a [...]

December 31 2009terms | Posted in Breaking News !, International, News | Read More »

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Report: Woods met with cops Dec. 1

Report: Woods met with cops Dec. 1

Tiger Woods and the Florida Highway Patrol met at an undisclosed location in Orlando on Dec. 1, the same day that authorities closed their investigation into the golfer’s one-car crash outside his mansion, WESH-TV reported Wednesday.
Woods, who was cited for careless driving but not charged criminally, was issued a $164 citation when he met with [...]

December 31 2009mail | Posted in Golf, Sports | Read More »

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Attacks kill 8 CIA employees, 5 Canadians in Afghanistan

Attacks kill 8 CIA employees, 5 Canadians in Afghanistan

An attack by a suicide bomber at a military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday killed eight Americans believed to be CIA employees, a senior U.S. official told CNN.
Also Wednesday, four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed when a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle in southern Afghanistan, Canada’s defense ministry said.
The suicide [...]

December 31 2009 | Posted in CNN News, International, News | Read More »

U.S. faces fiscal crisis with $12 trillion debt

U.S. faces fiscal crisis with $12 trillion debt

WASHINGTON — After $787 billion in stimulus spending and $700 billion in bank bailouts, 2010 is fast shaping up to be the year of the federal budget diet.
Bipartisan support is growing in Congress for action to stabilize the nation’s bulging debt, which is now $12.1 trillion. Congress is helped by influential experts, ranging from former [...]

December 31 2009

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5.8 earthquake shakes San Diego area

5.8 earthquake shakes San Diego area

SAN DIEGO – A magnitude-5.8 earthquake in northern Baja California rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Wednesday, causing buildings to sway more than 100 miles to the west in downtown San Diego and southwestern Arizona.
The main quake was centered about 20 miles southeast of the Mexican border city of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. [...]

December 30 2009 | Posted in AP News, Breaking News !, News | Read More »

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