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Ue: condanna Italia per gli Agusta Mazak, violate norme su appalti per acquisto di elicotteri
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George Lucas announces <em>Star Wars</em> TV spin-off No Darth Vaders, however George Lucas announced yesterday he'd "just begun work" on a live action TV spin-off set in the Star Wars universe, but warned fans not to expect a cathode ray tube outing for Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader.

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Renault: vendite gruppo +2,5% Nel mondo vendute 194.404 unita'
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Saras:Moratti,fatto offerta per Ies Raffineria vale intorno a 800 milioni di euro
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Napster opens digital music service in Japan (Reuters) Reuters - Napster Inc. said on Tuesday its digital music service is now available in Japan, which it called the largest music market outside of the United States.
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Woman Delivers County's First Sextuplets LOS ANGELES -- A woman has given birth to two girls and four boys at University of California, San Diego Medical Center in her 28th week of pregnancy, the first set of sextuplets believed to have been born in San Diego County, hospital officials say.
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Job burnout may raise type 2 diabetes risk NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of 677 mostly male middle-aged Israeli workers, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
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Pixar, Disney postpone 'Cars' On CNN
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Air passenger data pact expires BRUSSELS -- The European Union hopes to reach a new agreement with the United States on sharing air passenger data next week after failing to do so before the previous pact expired, the European Commission said.
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Rambus says rivals' emails bolster its claims (Reuters) Reuters - Rambus Inc. on Thursday said e-mails from Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor (000660.KS) support its claims that the rival memory chip makers conspired to fix prices, sending its shares up 18.5 percent.
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Edwards warns of 'corporate Democrats' (AP) AP - Democrat John Edwards blamed Bill Clinton's administration Saturday for trade agreements unpopular with labor unions and warned against electing "corporate Democrats."
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Italian political crisis enters decisive week (Reuters) Reuters - Italy's government crisis enters a decisive week with a snap election and a return to power of Silvio Berlusconi's centre right looking ever more likely.
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Palm, Vodafone launch slinky Treo 500v Full details Palm and Vodafone have, as expected, just announced the Treo 500v, a 3G smartphone aimed at the YouTube and MySpace generation and which sports Palm's curvy new handset design in iPod-like white and black versions.

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'Apprentice' Star Donald Trump Gets 'Roasted' NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump, you're roasted.
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Schwarzenegger Shows Eco-Friendly Hummer California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laughs during a visit to an after-school program site at PS 129 in New York's Harlem neighborhood in this Wednesday, Sept.
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Small firms struggle as oil soars Small manufacturers in the UK are struggling in the face of soaring oil prices and higher interest rates, the CBI says.
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Buzz growing about scaled-down iPhone for the holidays Blog: AppleInsider has joined the ranks of those who believe Apple has a less expensive iPhone waiting in the wings.
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Koala's put on pill to stem population Wildlife authorities in Australia plan to implant contraceptive hormones into 2,000 koala bears in an effort to keep the numbers down.
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Clinton replaces campaign manager Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has replaced her campaign manager with a longtime adviser, Maggie Williams, the campaign announced Sunday.
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Israel arrests nuclear whistleblower for 'leak' JERUSALEM: Israeli police have put nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu under house arrest on suspicion of spilling more state secrets, seven months after he completed an 18-year prison term for treason.
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Malaysia Court Clears Way for Anwar Appeal (AP) AP - Malaysia's highest court cleared the way Tuesday for an appeal that could allow newly freed former deputy leader Anwar Ibrahim back into politics.
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Milano, 13:46 - CALCIO, MILAN: CONVOCATI PER UDINE Sono 20 i giocatori convocati dal tecnico del Milan, Carlo Ancelotti, per la sfida in programma doma...
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Study: Lung Cancer Scans Useless A new study suggests that screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer doesn't save lives or prevent advanced disease and may lead to unneeded and harmful treatment
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Spencer Accused of Interfering With Police NASCAR driver Jimmy Spencer was arrested and accused of interfering with police officers as they attempted to serve a warrant on his son.
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L.S.U. Gets No. 3 Seed but Doesn’t Feel Like Celebrating The resignation last week of Coach Pokey Chatman has fueld speculation and rumors in the absence of a specific explanation.
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Limitations Frustrate Tsunami Scientists (AP) AP - For scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the world's most powerful earthquake happened below the wrong ocean.
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G.M. Said to Be Wary of Alliance General Motors has raised doubts about a three-way alliance with Renault and Nissan Motor, a senior executive at Renault said.
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Sciopero personale Motorizzazioni Contestate scelte del ministro dei trasporti Bianchi
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Clinton to give away fundraiser's cash (AP) AP - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations that she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.
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Bobby Fischer, <em>Enfant Terrible</em> of Chess, Dies at 64 The difficult, reclusive chess master became an American hero at the height of the Cold War, then thumbed his nose at his country and renounced his citizenship.
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Tottenham held by promoted Norwich London, England (Sports Network) - Tottenham remained unbeaten by drawing with Norwich Sunday, 0-0, in the only Premiership fixture of the day.
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Plutonium ships arrive in France Two ships with plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads arrive in the French port of Cherbourg.
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Fisco:novita' per versamenti in web Non serve piu' indicare conte corrente da cui fare prelievo
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United fans play dirty in Glazer fight Football: Brunswick PR has become the target of militant Man United fans intent on blocking US billionaire Malcolm Glazer's £780m takeover bid.
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Samsung Elec to Invest $24 Bln in Chips by 2010 (Reuters) Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's largest maker of memory chips, said on Monday it would invest $24 billion in its semiconductor business by 2010.
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For Dutch, anger battles with tolerance AMSTERDAM Anger toward the Netherlands' Muslim community percolated among the crowd that gathered outside the funeral for the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by an Islamic extremist a week ago.
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Family in plea to release engineer LONDON: The family of a British civil engineer kidnapped in Iraq this week with two Americans issued a plea yesterday for his release.
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Kings beat Nets 128-94 (AP) AP - With their three stars in the starting lineup together for the first time, the Sacramento Kings rolled to their most lopsided win this season.
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Abbas assails Hamas "assassins", talks to Israel RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in his first speech since Islamist Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday there could be no reconciliation with a group he described as "traitors".
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An Elephant Crackup? Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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Ethiopian 38 face death penalty An Ethiopian court is due to deliver its sentence on 38 opposition leaders, who face the death penalty.
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South Africa: One Murder Too Many? David Rattray died in one of the senseless killings that have become all too common in crime-ravaged South Africa. Will his killing be a turning point in the nation’s fight against violence?
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Orion Moon Capsule Mock-Up Has Test Spin By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - For the last 10 minutes, I've been trying to nuzzle the Orion space capsule up to the international space station to dock, but I keep drifting left, smack into a European lab.
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EU's Reding wants "credible" roaming cuts (Reuters) Reuters - Mobile phone operators must act before July 1 to avoid the European Union imposing lower prices for texting or surfing the Web via mobile phones when abroad, the bloc's top telecoms regulator said on Monday.
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Finland looks to stifle Canada in World Cup final If the fans in the stands start yawning, Finland will know it's doing something right in the World Cup finale. In fact, tedium will be just fine for Finland if it means the suffocating checking style it has used to get this far is working against Canada.
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Kerry Goes on the Attack in New Ads (AP) AP - For months on the campaign trail, John Kerry has criticized President Bush for running advertisements assailing the Democrat's record. Now, Kerry is the one on the attack.
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'T4' Producers Hope Schwarzenegger 'Will Be Back' (Reuters) Reuters - He has his hands full as governor of Kah-lee-forn-ee-ah, but producers of the next "Terminator" movie are talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger in hopes that he'll be back for at least a small role, a spokesman for backers of the film said on Friday.
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Labor-Likud Coalition deal to be drafted Saturday evening According to unity government agreement reached on Friday, Labor is to receive eight portfolios and three deputy minister positions.
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Appeals court won't delay Libby prison term WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday lost his bid to delay serving his 2 1/2-year prison sentence while he appeals his conviction in the CIA leak case.
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The Media Equation: Skipping Merrily Along as Others Take the Heat Robert D. Novak, the writer who first named a C.I.A. spy has remained on the sidelines of a game he started.
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House panel votes to boost domestic security WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States would spend more to combat illegal immigration and prepare for terrorist and weather-related disasters under legislation approved on Tuesday by a House of Representatives panel that ignores a White House veto threat.
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Apple's Jobs calls on music industry to drop DRM (Reuters) Reuters - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major record companies to start selling songs online without copy protection software known as digital rights management (DRM).
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Rep.Ceca: Klaus rieletto presidente Agenzia Ctk, maggioranza ottenuta al terzo turno di voto
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Oracle Unveils Standalone Business Intelligence Product Oracle Corp. on Monday introduced a standalone business intelligence product that's designed to address a large portion of an enterprise's analytical requirements, including information access
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Private rocketship goes to space and back : MOJAVE, United States (AFP - A private manned rocketship blasted through the Earth's atmosphere into space after a hair-raising corkscrew ascent on a flight aimed at capturing a 10-million-dollar prize.
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VATICANO - "Dio: Pace o dominio" in onda martedì 3 luglio, su RAIUNO alle 23.30. Quarta puntata "Dio: gli eserciti di…". Religioni: amore e pace, odio e violenza. Eserciti del bene e del male. Ma anche eserciti di criminali che in nome di Dio sfruttano, sottomettono, donne e bambini. VATICANO - "Dio: Pace o dominio" in onda martedì 3 luglio, su RAIUNO alle 23.30. Quarta puntata "Dio: gli eserciti di…". Religioni: amore e pace, odio e violenza. Eserciti del bene e del male. Ma anche eserciti di criminali che in nome di Dio sfruttano, sottomettono, donne e bambini. Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - In nome di Dio si ama e si fa del bene, si dialoga con chi Ú diverso da noi, si cercano strade di convivenza e di Pace. Allo stesso tempo c'Ú chi interpreta a suo modo l'appartenenza religiosa, trovando nel propri...
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Kerry Backs Bush's $81.9 Bln War Spending Plan (Reuters) Reuters - Democratic Sen. John Kerry, whose baffling explanation of votes on Iraq war funding hurt his 2004 White House bid, said on Tuesday he would back President Bush's new $81.9 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Pump-and-dump spammers shift tactics Buy low, spam high Pump-and-dump spammers are refining their tactics and marketing techniques in an attempt to drum up new business.

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VATICANO - “LE PIETRE, I SUONI, I COLORI DELLA CASA DI DIO” a cura di Sua Ecc. Mons. Mauro Piacenza - Il centro dello spazio liturgico e il cuore della sacralità umana: Presbiterio e Crocifisso (III) VATICANO - “LE PIETRE, I SUONI, I COLORI DELLA CASA DI DIO” a cura di Sua Ecc. Mons. Mauro Piacenza - Il centro dello spazio liturgico e il cuore della sacralità umana: Presbiterio e Crocifisso (III) Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - 6. Normalmente nel presbiterio Ú prevista la presenza della sede, la cui collocazione deve consentire al sacerdote celebrante di presiedere l’assemblea e di guidare la preghiera (IGMR n. 310). La sua collocazione ...
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Court dismisses bid to halt Pitcairn trials Auckland: The trials of seven Pitcairn men - including the local mayor - on sex charges, will go ahead on the remote Pacific island today after an eleventh-hour bid to stop the hearings failed.
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McCullum ton helps turn screw Dhaka - Brendon McCullum completed his maiden Test century on Thursday to extend New Zealand's first-innings lead in the first test against Bangladesh.
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Cautions for 8,000 sex offenders Nearly 8,000 sex offenders have been given cautions across England in the past five years, the BBC discovers.
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Tech problems hit Xbox Live video service Extremely high number of downloads in first 24 hours meant content was delayed or never got to the user.
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F.D.A. Seeks to Broaden Range of Use for Drugs The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rules would allow drug and device makers to provide doctors with medical journal articles about product uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A.
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Musica accompagna Redentore Venezia Per la prima volta non solo barche e spettacoli pirotecnici
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Musharraf vows to catch Bhutto's killers ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday his government was committed to finding the truth behind the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and he vowed to punish her killers.
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Volkswagen Files Complaint Over Spoof Internet Ad (Reuters) Reuters - Volkswagen AG has filed criminal charges over a spoof advertisement for its Polo small car that has been circulating on the Internet, Europe's biggest carmaker said on Friday.
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A Compromise on Clean Air The EPA tightens its rules on very small particles, but not enough to satisfy environmentalists
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It's not just about records for the Colts Peyton Manning failed to match Dan Marino's single-season touchdown pass record last Sunday night, though the Indianapolis Colts now have an eye toward a first-round bye in the playoffs.
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Greg Latza / PeopleScapes for Newsweek He may have won re-election and a majority in both houses of Congress, but George W. Bush shouldn't expect a free ride on Capitol Hill.
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<em>ER</em> thesp joins <em>Doctor Who</em> Alex Kingston to guest in two-parter Alex Kingston of ER and Moll Flanders fame will guest in a Steven Moffat penned two-parter in series four of Doctor Who .

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Reporter Who Angered Authorities Dies in Fall at Moscow Apartment MOSCOW -- A military correspondent for Russia's top business daily died after falling from a fifth-story window, and some in the news media speculated Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.
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Rai2: 'Stile Libero-Max' con Giusti Da domani sera parte programma scherzi telefonici
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Microsoft launches new Vista version of Windows NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. launched Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday and said that by the end of next year more than 200 million people would use the new version of its dominant operating system or new office software and server computer products.
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Solution Tree Proves Its Passion for Purpose at Publishers' Awards Ceremony It was a big night in our nation's capital for one small publishing company based in America's heartland. Solution Tree took the stage twice at the 40th Annual Association of Educational Publishers Awards Banquet & Gala, held June 12, 2007, at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel.
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Zurigo, 15:33 - CALCIO, FIFA SOSPENDE PER SEI MESI AGENTE MEXES La Fifa ha sospeso per sei mesi la licenza di Olivier Jouanneaux, agente del difensore della Roma, P...
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What Butler saw : John Kerry, combat hero and anti-war icon (AFP) AFP - A keenly awaited documentary premiered in Toronto which is either the first bio-pic of the 44th US president, John Kerry, or a glowing portrait which came too late for a doomed campaign.
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Atlantia: ricavi semestre +3,5% Ebitda +4,9%, per 2007 previsto miglioramento performance
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Bush Libby move angers Democrats US Democrats express outrage at President Bush's decision to commute Lewis "Scooter" Libby's jail term.
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EU Parliament Favors Starting Turkey Talks The European Parliament on Wednesday called on EU leaders to begin membership talks with Turkey "without undue delay," in a symbolic expression of support for Ankara on the eve of a Brussels summit.
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Iraq parliament row sparks calls for dissolution BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Scores of Iraqi lawmakers stormed out of parliament on Tuesday after blocking a vote on the 2008 budget and other key bills, prompting calls for the legislature to be disbanded.
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Red Hat release renews OS debate ( InfoWorld ) - As Red Hat prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed for some computing situations. Makers of "software appliances" are using the launch as an opportunity to predict that the days of the monolithic OS are numbered. They say the future lies in a modular system in which software runs with only enough lines of OS code to make it work. Some see promise in the appliance alternative to the OS, while skeptics think large enterprises will still need a general-purpose OS. The same questions arose recently around the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista. A trio of Gartner analysts published a report in 2006 that said the increasing complexity of Windows makes it "unsustainable." Gartner predicted Windows will be broken up into modular components. The same could be said for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5), said Billy Marshall, CEO and cofounder of rPath Inc., a software appliance platform vendor. As new features are added to it, RHEL 5 has become just as unwieldy as Windows, Marshall said. "It's bigger and more bloated." OS vendors add all sorts of functionality in the event some enterprise may want it, and the addition of these features is one of the reasons why both Microsoft and Red Hat have encountered delays bringing their products to market, he said. Installing an OS could use as much as 1.82G bytes of space on a hard drive, he said. A software appliance with only the code to run one application would use just 300M bytes, he said. "The general-purpose OS model is breaking," Marshall said. Another software appliance vendor, Ingres Corp., on Feb. 27 launched a database management software appliance it calls "Icebreaker" to compete against IBM Corp.'s DB2 and Oracle Corp.'s database software. Software appliances may have a place in some niche environments in which a customer needs to run just a few pieces of software, said Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group. But a larger business would probably still need the various programs that are bundled into an OS, he said. It might be possible to run an enterprise infrastructure without an OS, Lyman said. "But then again, you've already got people [in your IT department] running the OS, and it's a pretty critical part of the infrastructure." Rather than seeing OSes fading, "I think we're seeing the trends going the other way," said Adam Jollans, director of worldwide strategy for Linux and open source at IBM. At a time when IT administrators want to get more out of their existing hardware, isolating software applications and running them only with small pieces of code seems counterproductive, Jollans said. "Many more people want to run multiple applications and do many different things. ... so I think we need the generic operating system to support all the different things people want to do," he said.
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Pubblico impiego, definito percorso Prima di Natale l'accordo per il rinnovo contrattuale
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A Right-Wing Rebellion on the Foley Scandal Republican lawmakers are hanging with their leadership for now, but social conservatives needed for the election are raising an outcry
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Fred Taylor among 41 Pro Bowl 'rookies' (AP) AP - Fred Taylor was in no hurry. The Jacksonville Jaguars' running back signed dozens of autographs, chatted with old friends and high-fived KC Wolf (the Kansas City Chiefs mascot) before heading back to his posh oceanside hotel.
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French trader 'staked 50bn euros' The French financial trader at the centre of a massive fraud case gambled around 50bn euros, his employer says.
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Labour predict watershed election The next election will represent the "last stand of the Thatcherites", predicts Labour's Alan Milburn.
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Sardegna: operazione CC, 32 arresti Denunciate 41 persone e sequestrati 6 kg di stupefacenti
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La Clusaz, 11:51 - SCI DI FONDO, CDM DONNE: GERMANIA VINCE 4X5 LA CLUSAZ La Germania ha vinto la staffetta 4x5 km femminile disputata a La Clusaz, in Francia, valida per la ...
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CBS, Fox Go 1-2 in Weeklong Ratings LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Monster viewer turnouts for the AFC Championship Game on CBS and for the return of "American Idol" on Fox determined the network rankings for the week ended Jan. 23, with CBS and Fox finishing No. 1 and No. 2 among total viewers and adults 18-49.
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'Oriental' Laptop Theft THIEVES stole a laptop computer and a cash box after walking into a shop in Beauchamp Road, Leamington. They took the black Sony Vaio laptop and a small amount of cash from the Tyre Stop. The laptop is unusual because the files on the computer are written in an oriental language.
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Loss of Ofek-6 Deprives Israel of Second Spy Satellite in Critical <b>...</b> Israel’s 6th Ofek (Horizon) plummeted to a watery death in the Mediterranean Sea when it was test-fired Monday, September 6, from Palmahim.
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Chile's Pinochet taken to hospital in emergency Former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet was sent to hospital Saturday with a low-blood-pressure crisis. Pinochet was taken to the Military Hospital of Santiago in emergency
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Police liaise on Beachy Head body Police investigating a murder in Kent are liaising with Sussex Police after a body was found at Beachy Head.
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Thailand frees Muslims detained in protest NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Hundreds of Muslim men were freed in southern Thailand on Saturday after being detained last week in the wake of protests that left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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Sex makes women happy -- commuting makes them crazy WASHINGTON They may find it hard to admit to each other. But most women don't really enjoy the routine of raising kids, and they do enjoy time alone watching TV.
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Retailers see high-def DVD format war dragging on (Reuters) Reuters - The high-definition DVD format war has not been won, at least not in the minds of the retailers. Last week, Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros studio said it would exclusively release high-definition DVDs in Blu-ray format instead of Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) competing HD DVD technology.
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Russian Ministries Start Agreeing to Kyoto Approval MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least one Russian ministry has signed letters agreeing to Moscow's approval of the Kyoto Protocol, a spokesman said Thursday, in what could be a final step in the lengthy tussle to bring the global pact into force.
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Grosseto, 13:06 - CALCIO, GROSSETO: ESONERATO ROSELLI, AL SUO POSTO PIOLI Salta la prima panchina in serie B. Il Grosseto, tre sconfitte nelle prime tre giornate, ha esonerat...
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Media frenzy sparks fears for Britney Spears LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She is watched round the clock by photographers, chased at high speed and friends fear for her mental stability.
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