Tuesday, August 23, 2011 A former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executive has hit former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with a $60 million defamation lawsuit over an online magazine article regarding an insurance bid-rigging scandal. William Gilman, a former Marsh managing director, filed a complaint last Friday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, over […]
Read An Opinion On: Renaissance Tours byAlma Abell When you start to consider where you will be spending your golden years, you will probably look at some of the retirement communities nearby. These elderly care facilities specialize in providing a home like environment for people who can no longer live on their own. Even though
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Sun Microsystems has released StarOffice 8 today. StarOffice 8 is a commercial office suite that includes word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database applications. According to Sun, StarOffice 8 “provides excellent compatibility with Microsoft Office”. This new version improves Word, Excel and PowerPoint import and export filters, improving support for password-protected Word
StarOffice 8 launched
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, announced the name of its forthcoming version of the Windows operating system from its headquarters in Redmond, Washington Friday. But in choosing the name “Vista,” Microsoft may find itself in a legal fight. Microsoft has made a name for itself in legal circles as a
Windows Vista faces possible trademark challenges
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 A number of relatively unknown entrants made the Taiwan 2008 Invitational Games for the Deaf soccer tournament an unpredictable event. Teams from Thailand, Australia, Iran (Silver Medalist in soccer at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics), Uzbekistan, Malaysia, and Japan took part. On September 6, soccer giants Thailand and Iran defeated Malaysia and
‘Invitational Games for the Deaf, Taipei 2008’: Review of soccer preliminaries
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Read An Opinion On: Cashmere Sweaters 1950’s Prom Dresses by Rebecca Jayne Taylor Proms are a common sight in the UK today but have always been associated with 50’s Americana. Proms started in the 1920’s in America as a right of passage for school leavers and a way of finalising the end of their education.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Europe — In recent weeks several large European BitTorrent and ed2k link sites have either been closed by the police or have gone offline voluntarily. Sites in France, Netherlands, Finland and Slovenia have been affected. On December 14, FIOD-ECD, the Dutch economic crimes police, raided the premises of the hosting provider
Police raid filesharing resources
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 On Thursday, March 17, Google announced the launch of code.google.com, a new website for its open-source software (also known as “code”) and APIs, for use by external developers. This launch is the first significant contribution Google has made to the open-source community. The release was announced at the end of the
Google launches Google Code project, showcasing open source code, APIs
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 A long-standing and mainly good-natured border dispute between Canada and Denmark over the uninhabited Hans Island in the Arctic Sea is to be resolved, with the Danish Foreign Ministry confirming Tuesday the nations have agreed to divide it in two. The agreement, which awaits parliamentary approval before it can be fully
Canada, Denmark agree to resolve Arctic border dispute
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Read An Opinion On: Land Data Online byAlma Abell Purchasing real estate is normally considered a good investment. Sometimes, however, one can be taken in by a shyster or charlatan who is trying to make a hustle. If you have been taken in by such a person or company, hire yourself a real estate attorney.
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