Official: S. Korea web sites under renewed attack

SEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

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WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Research Council has determined that the current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber attack by the US is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain. The United States should establish clear national policy on the use of cyberattack, while also continuing to develop its technological capabilities in this area, it says.

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eBay 1st-qtr profit, sales fall on weak economy

NEW YORK — EBay Inc. said Wednesday the weak economy led to lower earnings and revenue for the second consecutive quarter, but the online marketplace operator's results still beat analysts' expectations. The first-quarter numbers helped eBay shares shoot up 79 cents, or 5.4 percent, in after-hours trading, after they ended the regular session up 49 cents, or 3.4 percent, at $14.78.

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Google was in text, it has started to intrude into our electricity and now It is in our telephones. Google Inc. introduced Google Voice the other day.  The new service weaves traditional phone features with Google's Gmail email product, allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails - as Reuters reports. If you do not remember, Google Voice is based on the technology of Grand Central Communications, a company that Google acquired in July 2007.

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WASHINGTON - IBM is offering its laid off employees in North America a chance to take a job with the company in India, Nigeria, Russia or other countries through Project Match, a media report said.

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Vodafone Group Plc (www.vodafone.it) is arguably the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments. Vodafone has chosen FioranoMQ, Java Messaging server, for a mission-critical system delivering over 2500 messages / sec.

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A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google's social networking service, FaceTime Communications, Instant-messaging service provider, warned on Monday.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office released the annual list of top 10 organizations receiving most U.S. patents. IBM is still in the lead. Overall Japanese corporations dominates the top 10 list.

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The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors on Thursday about reports of suicidal thinking in some children and adolescents who are taking Strattera, a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co. announced that a black-box warning will be added to the drug's label in the United States.

Such a warning is the most serious that can be added to a medication's label. Similar warnings will be added to the drug's labels in other countries.
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According to recent statistics published in the Nature (cited by Thomas A. Steitz, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale University), hospitals in the United States see about two million cases of antibiotic-resistant infections each year; 90,000 patients die annually from such infections.

Antibiotic resistance is a big problem for renal transplant recipients and is a big cause of concern in way of long term survival and well being.

Ribosomal mutation dubbed L22 confers resistance to macrolides such as erythromycin. Paradoxically this mutation confers resistance, even though the antibiotic still binds to the mutant ribosome.
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