President Bush Wednesday viewed the disaster area hit by Hurricane Katrina from aboard Air Force One as he traveled to Washington from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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Public health emergency declared; cholera, typhoid fearsKatrina death toll so far estimated at least 120 New Orleans mayor says toll in his city will be hundredsSuperdome evacuees moving to Astrodome
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For the second day, the Times-Picayune, New Orleans' daily paper, published a Web-only edition, as like other businesses and the city's residents, it has had to abandon the city and deal with dislocation.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - About 23,000 refugees stuck at the New Orleans Superdome arena after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city will be evacuated to Houston under plans announced on Wednesday, as looters and high water sowed chaos.
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Katrina death toll so far estimated at least 120 New Orleans mayor says toll in his city will be hundredsSuperdome evacuees moving to AstrodomeMississippi governor: More damage than Camille
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Microsoft approached the Open Source Development Labs at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo about carrying out a study to compare its operating system with Linux, however the group balked at the idea saying it would likely be used as fodder for anti-Linux marketing.
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IBM will use breakthrough technology to give viewers a center court perspective on the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York City.
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At least 32 people have been killed and four others injured in a stampede over a bridge near a Shiite mosque in northeastern Baghdad, police said.
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A study released this week by research firm IDC indicates that the increasing popularity of camera phones is also causing consumers to buy more digital cameras. The firm said that camera phones introduce users to digital photography, and those who want better quality and more features will upgrade.
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Creative Technology acknowledged this week that it shipped about 4,000 of its Zen Neon portable music players with an extra no one wanted: a ready-to-roll Windows worm.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - About 23,000 refugees stuck at the New Orleans Superdome arena after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city will be given shelter in Houston, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on Wednesday, as looters and rising floodwaters sowed chaos in the devastated Louisiana city.
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For many of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, nothing is left but heartbreak and hardship.
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Many residents of the hurricane stricken areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama remain without power and no reliable connection to the outside world. T-Mobile is attempting to alleviate some of that suffering by opening up its hotspots in those three states to the public through Friday.
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A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to the Big Easy, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Tuesday night blasted what he called a lack of coordination in relief efforts for setting behind the city's recovery.
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Microsoft has shipped the first release candidate of its interim update to Windows Server 2003, known as R2. Rooted in Windows Server 2003 SP1, R2 delivers many enhancements and several new components, while leaving the core of the operating system unchanged to facilitate faster development.
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Anything Pamela Anderson can do...
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Overwhelmed authorities struggled to rescue the living and count the dead on Wednesday amid catastrophic destruction left in the path of powerful Hurricane Katrina.
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Water still rising in New OrleansKatrina death toll estimated at 70 -- mostly in MississippiLouisiana governor: "Logistical nightmare" at Superdome"Every one" of Mississippi's casinos destroyed
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Once heralded by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as the future of portable computing, Tablet PCs now appear to be a niche market that has slim prospects for significant growth even through the end of the decade. Gartner has also lowered its projections and is expected to release revised forecasts shortly.
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Review As fast as it's big?
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Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said in a televised interview Wednesday that the White House plans on tapping the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help refiners hurt by Hurricane Katrina.
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Water still rising in Crescent City, with no way outLooting, shootings reportedNew Orleans mayor blasts failure to patch leveesLouisiana governor declares day of prayerCritical patients being airlifted, shelters being evacuatedPaint marks indicate Mississippi homes with bodies
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Redmond counters Skype with IP Telephony power play
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hellish scenes of death, damage, and chaos wracked the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday as overwhelmed authorities tried to rescue the living and count the dead amid the destruction left by powerful Hurricane Katrina.
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A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to the Big Easy, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Tuesday night blasted what he called a lack of coordination in relief efforts for setting behind the city's recovery.
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India's more efficient apparently
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Graphic porn emails sent to tens of millions
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Everything you can read
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Looting and shootings reported in New Orleans Critical patients being airlifted, shelters being evacuatedNew Orleans mayor: Bodies being pushed to the sideCoast Guard reserves mandatory call up orderedPaint marks indicate Mississippi homes with bodiesDeath toll officially around 70 but expected to rise
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Army engineers raced to staunch rising floodwaters submerging historic New Orleans as helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops and hundreds were feared dead on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina tore across the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned of a "significant" death toll as the exact scope of Hurricane Katrina's wrath remained unknown in the Crescent City.
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The Mozilla Developer News weblog has posted the schedule for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta, with Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 scheduled for release on Thursday 8th September. In preparation for the release, the tree will be locked down at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -0700) on Tuesday 6th September. During the lockdown, no further checkins will be accepted for 1.5 Beta 1.
There will be a further lockdown on Monday 3rd October in preparation for a second 1.5 Beta release (Firefox 1.5 Beta 2) on Wednesday 5th October. Another lockdown will occur on Wednesday 26th October, leading to the availability of the first Firefox 1.5 release candidate on Friday 28th October. However, these later dates are subject to change.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is also known as the 1.8 Beta 4 milestone, while Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is also referred to as 1.8 Beta 5. See the list of bugs with the blocking1.8b4+ flag and the list of bugs with the blocking1.8b5+ flag for details of the bugs that block the release of 1.5 Beta 1 and 1.5 Beta 2 respectively.
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Looting and shootings reported in New Orleans Critical patients being airlifted, shelters being evacuatedNew Orleans mayor: Bodies being pushed to the sideCoast Guard reserves mandatory call up orderedPaint marks indicate Mississippi homes with bodiesDeath toll officially around 70 but expected to rise
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Minimo developer Doug Turner has posted a Minimo Mini-Roadmap, setting out the development path for the mobile browser over the next few months. The plan calls for a new Minimo release approximately once a month until the end of the year.
Minimo 0.009 is scheduled for September 21st and will include a preferences dialogue with some commonly-used options. At this point, nightly builds for Windows CE and Linux should be available. Version 0.010 is set for October 26th, when a usable build for Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone should be released, together with Windows CE and Debian Linux installers. November 23rd should see the launch of Minimo 0.011, which will add support for Pocket PC 2002. Community testing of the Small Screen Rendering (SSR) technology will also take place during this timeframe. Finally, version 0.012 should be released on December 22nd.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops, debris-fouled water flooded historic New Orleans and hundreds were feared dead on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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More than 650,000 homes and businesses across Alabama were without electricity Tuesday and many roads were still closed by water and fallen trees.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops, debris-fouled water flooded historic New Orleans and hundreds were feared dead on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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U.S. Gulf Coast residents who braved Hurricane Katrina awoke Tuesday to face the storm's impact: loss of electricity for millions, widespread flooding, limited shelter and rising death tolls across at least three states.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and hundreds were feared dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.
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For Harriet Leckich of Biloxi, Mississippi, and many of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, nothing is left.
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Not this year
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Yahoo Inc. started rolls out improvements to its web-mail search that includes the ability to check content in email attachments.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Floodwaters engulfed much of New Orleans on Tuesday as officials feared a steep death toll and planned to evacuate thousands remaining in shelters after the historic city's defenses were breached by Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned of a "significant" death toll as the exact scope of Hurricane Katrina's wrath remained unknown in the Crescent City.
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Once heralded by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as the future of laptop computing, Tablet PCs now appear to be a niche market that has slim prospects for significant growth even through the end of the decade. Gartner has also lowered its projections and is expected to release revised forecasts shortly.
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VoIP provider Skype Technologies is actively seeking to quell rumors that the company is for sale.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and hundreds were feared dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.
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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour pledged Tuesday to rebuild areas destroyed when Hurricane Katrina blasted across the state.
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Scientists in London on Tuesday said that ten years of mobile phone use showed no link to brain cancer. However, they could not rule out the possibility of higher risk of cancer over longer periods of time. The study will be published in the British Journal of Cancer.
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AMD gabs all about it
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Creative Technology has been awarded a U.S. patent for user-interface technology found in its portable media players and those of competing companies, including the market leading iPod.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - "It was like our tsunami," Vincent Creel, a spokesman for the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Biloxi, said on Tuesday.
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? Impact: Katrina's toll leaves Gulf Coast reeling | Watch? People: Victims left with nothing | Watch? Recovery: Aid groups sending rescuers, supplies | Watch? Assistance: How to help storm victims | Watch
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Play this, sucker
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Opera Software is giving away registration codes to its $39 Opera 8 browser for 24 hours on Tuesday, August 30, as part of the Norwegian company's 10th year anniversary celebration.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and officials said hundreds of people may have died in Hurricane Katrina's attack on the U.S. Gulf Coast, which sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.
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Government market researcher Input predicts a good year ahead for small IT companies doing business with the federal government.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and officials said hundreds of people may have died in Hurricane Katrina's attack on the U.S. Gulf Coast, which sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.
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A Motorola mobile phone that can play Apple Computer’s iTunes software may be home for the holidays.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and the death toll rose to at least 80 after Hurricane Katrina's attack on the U.S. Gulf Coast, which sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.
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? Impact: Katrina's toll leaves Gulf Coast reeling | Watch? People: Survivor describes harrowing experience| Watch? Recovery: Aid groups sending rescuers, supplies | Watch? Assistance: How to help storm victims | Watch
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One of the founders of popular online payment site PayPal has launched a new service that could prove useful to those computer users who have vast collections of digital photos on their hard drives. Called Slide, the program will stream photos in a ticker tape like interface.
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A slew of sites failed or slowed because of Hurricane Katrina Sunday and Monday, although not because of bad weather.
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - A widespread disaster unfolded on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday as up to 80 people were reported dead in Mississippi, and floodwaters poured into low-lying New Orleans through levees battered by powerful Hurricane Katrina.
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Can the open source OpenOffice.org project ever take on Microsoft Office in the marketplace? Version 2.0 is showing the most promise yet, and the second beta of the new productivity suite is already receiving high marks from users. Read on for a collection of reviews from BetaNews readers.
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Pakistan is putting biometrics to work as the country battles identity and document fraud.
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? Katrina blamed for 68 deaths, including 55 in Mississippi? Reports of bodies floating in water in New Orleans? New Orleans 'in state of devastation,' water still rising? Rescuers work to reach hundreds of stranded
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To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Opera Software plans to give away free registration codes for its Opera Web browser for a period of 24 hours. Users can also join the party at Opera's community site, which features games, stories on the history of Opera and music downloads.
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Diabl0-ical
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - A widespread disaster unfolded on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday as up to 80 people were reported dead in Mississippi, and floodwaters poured into low-lying New Orleans through levees battered by powerful Hurricane Katrina.
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Air strikes have flattened insurgent safe houses used by militants linked to al Qaeda in western Iraq, the U.S. Marines told CNN Tuesday.
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Microsoft and Scientific Atlanta, one of the largest manufacturers of cable set-top boxes, announced on Monday that the companies would begin to work together on boxes for IPTV. The partnership would be key to the rollout of IPTV by SBC Communications.
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New net menace threatens society
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? Katrina blamed for 68 deaths, including 55 in Mississippi? 30 killed in one apartment complex in Biloxi? Rescuers work to reach hundreds of stranded ? Lake Pontchartrain levee breached in New Orleans
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You lucky people
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? Katrina blamed for 67 deaths, including 54 in Mississippi ? Levee holding back Lake Pontchartrain breached in New Orleans? Tens of thousands may be homeless for months? Hardest-hit areas still out of reach
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While it struggles to compete with Apple in the marketplace, Creative is exploring a new avenue for dethroning the digital music king: patent litigation. Creative announced Tuesday it had been granted a patent covering the user interface for portable media players, including the iPod.
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Quocirca�s changing channels Single sign-on hits the mid-market
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - A widespread disaster unfolded on the U.S. Gulf coast on Tuesday as at least 50 people were reported dead in Mississippi and flood waters poured into low-lying New Orleans through levees battered by powerful Hurricane Katrina.
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Air strikes have flattened insurgent safe houses used by militants linked to al Qaeda in western Iraq, the U.S. Marines told CNN Tuesday.
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Microsoft on Monday surprised MSDN subscribers with an unexpected download: WinFS Beta 1. The company also clarified its plans for the future relational file system technology, which has been the subject of much confusion since the feature was crossed off the list of additions to Windows Vista.
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Gloves off in violent DVD punch-up
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"test" 'test'
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? Katrina now blamed for at least 65 deaths, including 54 in Mississippi ? Levee holding back Lake Pontchartrain sustains two blocks long breach in New Orleans? Tens of thousands may be homeless for months? American Red Cross launching its largest relief operation
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MS' console a Trusted Platform?
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Hurricane Katrina's strike on Mississippi killed at least three people and caused what Gov. Haley Barbour called "catastrophic damage" in the state's coastal counties Monday.
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High end on the South Side
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A public health expert urged Monday that the hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents who fled the city in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina not return soon.
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Keylogging for stalkers
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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - At least 50 people were reported dead in Mississippi while Louisiana officials scrambled on Tuesday to rescue hundreds stranded by high waters after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly swath through the U.S. Gulf coast.
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? Estimated 50 dead in 1 Missisippi county, officials say? Levee breach in New Orleans forces hospital evacuation? 1.3 million without power? Tens of thousands to be homeless for months? American Red Cross launching its largest relief operation
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GULFPORT, Mississippi (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, pummeling the historic jazz city of New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamping Mississippi resort towns and lowlands where local media reported around 40 dead.
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Estimated 50 dead in 1 Missisippi county, officials sayLouisiana governor: "We believe we lost lives"Tens of thousands to be homeless for months1.3 million without powerOil rig breaks loose, hits Mobile River bridgeAmerican Red Cross launching its largest relief operation
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Hurricane Katrina's strike on Mississippi killed at least three people and caused what Gov. Haley Barbour called "catastrophic damage" in the state's coastal counties Monday.
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GULFPORT, Mississippi (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater.
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Mississippi official tells AP 50 dead in one countyLouisiana governor: "We believe we lost lives"Tens of thousands to be homeless for months1.3 million without powerOil rig breaks loose, hits Mobile River bridgeAmerican Red Cross launching its largest relief operation
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At least 5 reported dead in Mississippi, AlabamaLouisiana governor: "We believe we lost lives"Tens of thousands to be homeless for months1.3 million without powerOil rig breaks loose, hits Mobile River bridgeAmerican Red Cross launching its largest relief operation
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The seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog (a weblog run by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to keep tabs on the Seattle area's largest software company) is reporting that Microsoft mentioned Mozilla as a competitive threat in a US government filing. The statement was made in Microsoft's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended on June 30, 2005, which was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission late last week.
In full, the passage says: "Competitors such as Mozilla offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of our Windows operating system products." According to the seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog, this is the first time that Mozilla has been mentioned in a Microsoft SEC filing.
Under the Securities and Exchange Act 1934, publicly-traded companies like Microsoft are required to file a Form 10-K every year, providing a "comprehensive overview of the company's business and financial condition". It is standard practice to acknowledge risk factors and competitive threats in such filings.
Thanks to roseman for the pointer to the seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog post.
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The outer bands of Hurricane Katrina pounded the Alabama coast Monday with hurricane-strength gusts, shaking the walls of Mobile's Lafayette Plaza Hotel and knocking down trees and power lines.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater.
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A public health expert urged Monday that the hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents who fled the city in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina not return soon.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, battering the historic jazz city New Orleans, swamping resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops.
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Mississippi: Three dead, "unprecedented damage"Oil rig breaks loose, hits Mobile River bridge Katrina heading inland as Category 1 hurricane"Life-threatening storm surge flooding" occuringParts of six Louisiana parishes "devastated"New Orleans: No sewage, water, power or gas
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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and future releases of Camino will both include the Java Embedding Plugin, allowing Mac OS X users to run Java applets with the latest 1.4 and 5.0 versions of Java (confusingly, Java 5.0 is also known as Java 1.5). Due to a change in the way Java works on Mac OS X, the current end-user releases of Firefox and Camino cannot use any version of Java later than 1.3.1.
Apple distributes its own Java software, which it licenses from Java creator Sun Microsystems. Earlier Apple Java releases supplied an API to allow browser makers to support the technology but that API was changed in the more recent 1.4 and 5.0 versions, making it impractical for browsers other than Apple's own Safari to use the latest Java software.
Independent developer Steven Michaud created the Java Embedding Plugin to allow non-Safari browsers to exploit Java 1.4 and 5.0. The first public version of the plugin was released last year under the open-source MIT License. Its inclusion in future releases of Firefox and Camino means that Mozilla users on Mac OS X will be able to benefit from the latest Java technology without having to download or configure any additional software.
If the Java Embedding Plugin were not available, it is likely that future versions of Firefox and Camino would have to be released without support for Java at all, due to concerns over unresolved security bugs in the now-obsolete 1.3.1 version of Apple's Java software.
The Java Embedding Plugin Readme has more technical details about how the plugin works. Bug 301076 covers the inclusion of the Java Embedding Plugin in Camino, while bug 303161 covers the bundling with Firefox.
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Microsoft on Monday surprised MSDN subscribers with an unexpected download: WinFS Beta 1. The company also clarified its plans for the future relational file system technology, which has been the subject of much confusion since the feature was crossed off the list of additions to Windows Vista.
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Single-core bore
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Camera phones are unlikely to replace digital still cameras, a research firm says.
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"Total structural failure" in parts of New Orleans Section of Superdome roof opens upCategory 4 storm with 135 mph windsCoastal Mississippi may bear brunt of stormThree dead in evacuation
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PARIS (Reuters) - Malik Belkouche lives in a city brimming with fast-food restaurants, but it wasn't until a special one opened that he finally ordered a hamburger.
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Gervase Markham has announced that Giganews have agreed to to host the Mozilla newsgroups. Established in 1994, Giganews is one of the largest newsgroup providers, supplying Usenet feeds to both individuals and ISPs. The move to a new server also means that the newsgroup hierarchy can be revised and Gerv has updated the list of proposed Mozilla newsgroups to reflect the current plans. Comments are welcome on what is now believed to be the final draft of the list (unlike the previous final drafts, this might actually be the last one).
At present, the Mozilla newsgroups are hosted on Netscape's news server, as they have been since the Mozilla project first began in 1998. The plans to move the newsgroups to a new server and reorganise the hierarchy have been quite literally years in the making, with Gerv's first proposed newsgroup list being published in 2000. With the announcement of the Giganews hosting deal, it now finally seems likely that the promised changes will be made soon.
See Chris Ilias' history of the Mozilla newsgroups for more details about how the current arrangements came into being.
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In a move to spur the adoption of wireless broadband and fend off competition from Sprint, Verizon Wireless on Monday announced that it would cut the subscription cost of its high-speed service by a quarter from $79.99 to $59.99 USD. The price is being offered as a special promotion through the end of this year.
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One way or another
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Electronics manufacturer SigmaTel Inc. has finished the $47 million acquisition of Protocom Corp.
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