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HP challenges IBM with $12.6 billion EDS deal
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co has struck
a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12.6
billion, seeking to boost its technology services business to
better compete against market leader IBM .
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Wal-Mart profit up, but shares fall
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc , the
world's largest retailer, reported a 7 percent rise in
quarterly profit on Tuesday as discounts drew U.S. shoppers
looking for bargains on necessities like food and pharmacy
items.
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Stock futures lower on banks, Wal-Mart
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stock index futures fell on Tuesday
after Oppenheimer & Co slashed its price targets on a number of
brokerages and on concern about Wal-Mart Stores Inc's
outlook.
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Bernanke says markets healing but still not well
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday that emergency Fed
liquidity measures have helped relieve strain in financial
markets, but the recovery process remains incomplete.
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Retail sales show resiliency
(Reuters)
Reuters - Total sales at U.S. retailers
weakened modestly in April, the government reported on Tuesday,
but outside the hard-pressed auto sector they showed more
resiliency than many analysts had anticipated.
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Retail sales dip for second time in 2 months
(AP)
AP - Consumers, battling soaring gasoline prices and a slumping economy, cut back further on their spending in April.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly will donate $1 million to train doctors treating tuberculosis (TB), a disease that infects 9 million people every year and kills nearly 2 million.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The parents of two 10-year-old boys who believe vaccines caused their sons to develop autism brought their case to U.S. federal court on Monday, arguing a mercury preservative in the shots caused a rare reaction.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adult women who were breast-fed as infants may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were not breast-fed, unless they were first-born, study findings suggest.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The secret behind growing large tomatoes lies not in the fertilizer or the perfect soil conditions, but in just a few genetic changes that over time have resulted in tomatoes 1,000 times bigger than their wild ancestors, U.S. researche
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PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could rain down on the surrounding area and cause devastating damage, a volcano expert warned on Friday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A deadly strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed two more children in China, bringing the death toll in recent weeks to 32, state media said on Friday, as it praised a doctor who alerted authorities to the epidemic.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Dutch scientists said on Friday they have identified a key gene that protects tomatoes against a common fungus that causes the plants to wilt.
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PUERTO MONTT/FUTALEUFU, Chile (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday ordered holdout residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia and vowed to force them out if they refuse to obey.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bits of chewed-up or burned seaweed discarded more than 14,000 years ago confirm that people were in Chile at least that long ago and shed light on what their culture was like, researchers reported on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - Chile ordered hold-out residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia on Thursday and vowed to remove them by force if they refuse to obey.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported two more deaths on Thursday from a severe strain of hand, foot and mouth disease, bringing its toll from the outbreak to 30, all of them young children, Xinhua news agency reported.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - An international team of researchers said they have pinpointed three variants of the genetic code that appear to set the stage for aggressive neuroblastoma, the deadliest solid tumor in early childhood.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's unique duck-billed platypus -- an egg-laying, furry animal with web feet that spends most of its time underwater -- is in fact part bird, part reptile and part mammal according to its gene map.
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ABOVE CHAITEN VOLCANO, Chile (Reuters) - Looking down over the ash cloud soaring from Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, the whole area is carpeted in white and experts say the eruption that began last week could last for months.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - Experts believe Chile's Chaiten volcano could continue belching out vast clouds of ash for months but distraught people evacuated from nearby towns say they yearn to return as soon as possible.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Druze people of Israel are a genetic sanctuary of ancient lineages of DNA, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China should expect more cases of hand, foot and mouth disease, but there is no sign it is facing a new or more virulent strain despite an unusually high number of child deaths, officials said on Wednesday.
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| Software News |
Study: US Corporate Software Spending Slowing
(PC World)
PC World - One in four respondents to a new US corporate IT spending survey by ChangeWave Research said their company will spend less on...
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Microsoft Faces Another Interoperability Complaint in Europe
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's reluctance to make its Office suite interoperable with competing products has prompted a British government agency...
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Microsoft software gives free tours of space
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Any Star Trek fan knows that space
travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make
traveling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on your
computer.
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SOA Software buys LogicLibrary
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Matching up critical components in the SOA space, SOA Software, which provides SOA governance automation, said Monday it has acquired SOA repository and governance vendor LogicLibrary.
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Microsoft readies service packs for dev tools
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microsoft official said in a blog.
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Google's Friend Connect To Spread Social Data
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software is part of an emerging set of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, and MySpace.
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