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Cardinal blogs trip to Vatican
BOSTON - Looking to marry the Roman Catholic Church's 2000-year-history with modern technology, Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley on Thursday became the first US cardinal to launch a blog.O'Malley, 62, who wears the plain brown...

Opinion: An Apple for the enterprise? (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Like it or not, buyers of x86 servers, clients, and workstations face a major platform shift as the 32-bit CPUs, operating systems, and applications slowly fade into history.

IBM Technology Fuels HPC for Financial Services (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - IBM provides software, hardware and services to enable financial services firms to support high-performance computing and grid systems.

Microsoft Gives YouTube a Run for Its Money (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As part of its MSN Video offering, Microsoft has launched the beta release of Soapbox, a video service similar to the popular YouTube.com site that lets users upload their own videos. Soapbox will be available through MSN's existing video site, and will also be integrated with the company's other online services, including Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live Messenger.

US stocks: Investors fear slowing economy
NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Thursday after a report said factory activity contracted in the US Mid-Atlantic region in September for the first time in over three years, prompting worries about a slowdown in the US economy and corporate...

Skirting issues while burying Tonga's king

Swimming: Testimonial dinner for iconic coach Laing
Champion swimming coach Duncan Laing says he will attend his testimonial dinner in Dunedin tomorrow despite his health problems.Laing, 75, confirmed that he was diagnosed with a brain tumour three weeks ago and is scheduled to...

BREAKING: New York subways smell funny
Blog: If you're a New Yorker like me, or you plan to visit the city anytime soon, you might want to check out Gawker's new New York...

France goes after blogging critics
Blog: The government-owned TV channel France 2 is suing bloggers who've criticized one of their news reports. They're using a law to...

Suspected burglars may have been vigilante victims
Police are investigating allegations that suspected burglars fleeing Ngawi residents by car were fired upon with a shotgun and rammed by a vehicle before being pelted with rocks and beaten during a chase and siege that ended in their...

Yahoo! Goes to Campus (The Motley Fool)
The Motley Fool - Will "do you Yahoo" replace "what's your major" as the ultimate coed pickup line? Today's Wall Street Journal had a front page story on a quiet buyout battle brewing for the college-friendly social networking site Facebook.

NZ stocks: Feltex shares tumble towards oblivion
Feltex shares tumbled 83 per cent in the first few minutes of trading on the New Zealand sharemarket today, following an earlier announcement the company was in receivership.About 735,000 shares changed hands, and around 10.10am...

Caffe L'affare sells to Japan for $25m

Fight footage popular among schoolkids - police

Jail for man who bit off part of partner's ear

Guilty plea tipped for shredder case

Brown's TV job may be on line

Shareholder furious with bank's move on Feltex
A shareholder activist who says he represents a group of Feltex shareholders has accused the carpet manufacturer's banker of treating the New Zealand icon as a second-class citizen.Feltex has been placed into receivership this...

Yahoo-Facebook merger could be win-win
Blog: A Yahoo acquisition of social-networking site Facebook could be a boon for both companies,analyst Mark May of Needham & Co....

Podcast: Mark Hurd's link to the HP scandal
A new link between HP's CEO and the controversy rocking his company, Richard Branson stands up for global warming, and Web 2.0 and corporate America.