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  • Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide

    A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...

  • Australian dollar drops below parity with US dollar mainly due to US positive gains

    The Australian dollar fell below parity with the US dollar and stayed down during the whole week, which is widely attributed to positive indicators in the US economy.On Friday, the Australian dollar took another step lower, falling as low as 97.33 US cents, a level not seen since June 2012.The Australian dollar tumbled to 98.3 cents late on Thursday, breaking through its 11-month low of 98.5 ...

  • Stocks surge higher on positive news about US economy

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City. Stocks surged higher, the fourth straight week of gains for Wall Street. (Spencer Platt/Getty ...

  • IRS And 501 Damned If They Do Damned If They Dont

    English: Senator Norm Coleman (R - Minnesota) and his wife, Laurie Coleman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Damned if you do, damned if you don't. While heads role at the IRS for allegedly picking on Tea Party groups, the agency is being sued ...

  • Dirty Dozen The 12 Worst Mutual Funds

    High fees plus poor performance: The formula is pretty easy to determine what makes a bad mutual fund. Some, though, are worse than others--and some are so bad that they've made it into one publication's unofficial hall of shame for charging big fees but delivering small results. Funds that depend on bad market performance--"bear funds"--for their growth have done ...


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Girl, Interrupted

At the beginning of "Girl, Interrupted,"18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is sent to the fictional Claymoore hospital, an expensive mental institution just outside of Boston, despite her protests that she was not, in fact, trying to commit suicide, when she chased an entire bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. ...

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  • New Microsoft CFOs compensation package disclosed

    Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...

  • When Is An Apology NOT An Apology New Lessons From Abercrombie Fitch

    It takes no responsibility for the action that prompted the apology. It has no sense of mea culpa, or remorse, but rather seems to transfer the blame to you - sorry YOU got upset, not that I did something to upset you. In a marriage, too many of those, and you are headed to divorce court. In a friendship, that way lays "unfriending." And so, here we go again. Given the groundswell of ...

  • Yahoo to consider $1.1B price tag for Tumblr this Sunday -- report

    AllThingsD reported Friday. Unnamed sources told ATD that the deal is entirely in cash, which means Yahoo isn't offering up any stock options for the hip blogging site. The sources also said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer -- who has been trying to turn the large, struggling company around -- thinks buying Tumblr is key to her vision of a new Yahoo. Yahoo sent out ...

  • Ready for Windows 8 Were just starting on Win 7 says Dell

    (Credit: Microsoft) Maybe everyone's focused on the wrong Microsoft operating system. Dell said during its earnings conference call on Thursday that "commercial" customers, meaning corporate customers, are just now transitioning ...

  • San Diegos export potential problematic

    The choice is not whether we compete but whether we do it well or not, and the cost or risk of competing poorly is falling behind. San Diego is faced with trade-related infrastructure capacity constraints in four of the five ways to move people and goods in and out of the region, forcing us to depend upon the increasingly constrained infrastructure located in the greater Los Angeles area. To ...

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