Entries from April 2008

Northeast hills of Los Angeles evacuated for wildfire

April 28th, 2008 by Ankit | No Comments »

Northeast hills of Los Angeles evacuated for wildfire

A wildfire spread to almost 400 acre lands as it started on Saturday as the southern California recorded a very high temperature. On Sunday about 1000 people residing in the Northeast hills of Los Angeles were evacuated from the region for the spreading wildfire.

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FDA to study side effects of Laser eye surgery

April 26th, 2008 by Ankit | No Comments »

FDA to study side effects of Laser eye surgery

The FDA has launched a program to collect the data from the patients who were treated by the Lasik laser eye procedure for their vision problem. The surgery is said to have helped patients to discard their eyeglasses and lenses.

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FDA to be given $70 million for foreign drug investigation

April 26th, 2008 by Ankit | No Comments »

FDA to be given $70 million for foreign drug investigation

After the reported deaths of patients’ was caused by the blood thinning drug Heparin, that linked to the supply chain of China, the FDA is planning to increase its foreign investigations and the agency has been supplied with $70 million to carry out inspection of foreign [...]

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FBI to monitor internet activities

April 26th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

FBI to monitor internet activities

FBI has called to be allowed monitoring internet activities so that it can trap the illegal activities on internet. The FBI director Robert Mueller presented his suggestion over internet monitoring and surveillance to check the private sector networks.

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Movie review: ‘Life before Her Eyes’

April 26th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Movie review: ‘Life before Her Eyes’

The story of the movie ‘Life before Her Eyes’ is about two girls, Diana and Maureen, who are close friends. Diana wants to leave her town and Maureen wants to get married and have children but one day a high school massacre like Columbia massacre takes place and that [...]

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Yahoo to launch Y!Open this year

April 26th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Yahoo to launch Y!Open this year

The CEO of Yahoo Inc., Jerry Yang is taking personal interest in getting the project Y!Open finished. The co-founder of Yahoo Ari Balogh said that the project started before Microsoft made a bid to get the company.

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Microsoft shares reduce for low prediction for fourth quarter

April 26th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Microsoft shares reduce for low prediction for fourth quarter

The low sales of Windows resulting in a low prediction of profit in the last quarter of the fiscal year have resulted in lowering of stock values of Microsoft in the market. The predictions suggested that the company shares will make a profit of only 45 to [...]

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Microsoft bid deadline ends on Saturday

April 26th, 2008 by Deepak Sharma | No Comments »

Microsoft bid deadline ends on Saturday

The deadline for the bid given by Microsoft Corp. to take over the Web portal Yahoo will expire on Saturday and the bid of $44.6 billion issued on Feb 1 was earlier rejected by Yahoo. The market analysts are not clear about how the process will take place after the [...]

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Democrat’s to campaign in Republican dominating regions

April 26th, 2008 by Ankit | No Comments »

Democrat’s to campaign in Republican dominating regions

The two rival democrats, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, in the April and May months, will be occupied by the job of campaigning in the so called low priority regions of democrats, the regions that were not considered to be important for getting the win in general [...]

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China agrees to meet Tibetan leaders under pressure

April 26th, 2008 by Ankit | No Comments »

China agrees to meet Tibetan leaders under pressure

The Chinese government has agreed to meet the Tibetan leaders after the international pressure was created by the Tibetan groups who have been protesting the rule of China in Tibetan territory. China has agreed to talk to the representatives of Dalai Lama.

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