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washington (reuters) - u.s. president george w. bush on thursday pressed fellow rich nations to make good on their pledges to provide $60 llion to help african countries combat diseases like malaria and hiv/aids.

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spotlight falls on the dark dealings of the tax havens guardian.co.uk - 6 hours ago as alistair darling mingled with the press at the treasury's summer drinks party last tuesday, officials expressed alarm at steep falls in uk bank share prices, compounding the ever-deepening financial crisis. new offshore bank limits for us clients, ubs says new york times liechtenstein bank orders audit of trust business cnnmoney.com markech - businessweek - foxbusiness - the ociated press all 815 news articles

prior to javascript and other client-side languages, web browsers operated as if they were html dumb terminals, merely presenting web pages generated on a server. for such pages, every user action requires a full page refresh, with a round-trip over the internet, which degrades performance and thus user satisfaction. it may be fine for a great many web sites, but it is completely inadequate for high-performance dynamic web applications.

sun microsystems has officially announced the release of java platform, standard edition (se) 6 with full support from netbeans ide 5.5. whether working on solaris, linux, or windows operating systems, java applications can be deployed with confidence.

so whats new in this release?
xml & web services
scripting language support
java db and database support
more desktop apis
compiler access
pluggable annotations
desktop deployt
security
quality, compatility, stality

description about the features of java se 6 is here.

to download your java se 6, click on the le of this post. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/?

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what is "personalized radio or video" you might be asking right now. well, it is very simple and it is the concept of a prioritized or smart software agent created playlists. it is still too hard to manage and discover audio and video content that "you" are or will be most interested in. if we look at the success of tv and radio it has been based on fairly limited choice and mostly high quality content choices. this limited selection has had the economics behind it to justify spending large amounts of money to market it as well.

today, the reality is we have have almost unlimited choice of audio and video content from millions of sources. everyone is becoming a "caster" of some form, whether it is audio bloggers to major media cable channels to you newspaper. everyone and i mean everyone is starting to create audio and video content these days... just visit youtube.com to see what i mean. this is starting to be a significant change for the larger and minor media companies as well and they are shifting fast to adapt, but many it will be too late. i think smaller broadcast radio stations will be hit first. i think the days of buying an hour of broadcast radio time for a lifestyle type radio show and reaching an audience is about over. even taking that show to the internet now is difficult. we are seeing so much noise online now and all our time to consume media content is getting spread too thin.

to the rescue is personalized media and how that might work is to tell a software agent hooked up to your tv, on a website or your computer that will be an automated filter on content and make recomdations and suggestions (not search) to you on what you will most likely "like" based on your past usage patterns. sure this has some privacy issues, but it maybe the only realistic way we will be able to deal with the flood of media options we have today and in the future. we need our software to be smarter and make choices for us to save us time as i don't have time to sample millions of media choices.

elguillelmo writes "promusicae, the spanish record industry ociation, has sued mp2p technologies and its founder, p2p pioneer pablo soto, for $20 million, citing unfair compeion. soto is behind the recently launched omemo, an open source social media storage platform that allows users to share files anonymously, and the mp2p protocol, among other developts. soto announced the organization's intention to defend itself in a statet published on his blog (in spanish, google translation)." tomthegeek notes related news that warner brothers has admitted it employed one of the investigators in the case against the pirate bay founders. we discussed initial reports of this controversy last month.

read more of this story at slashdot.

the nation's unemployt rate took its ggest jump in more than two decades in may, according to a governt report. the unemployt rate soared to 5.5 percent from 5 percent in april, the ggest one-month jump since february 1986. cnnmoney.com reports the y also shows 49,000 jobs were cut in may.

are they or aren't they???? either way, they want us talking about them! can and wo just be friends??? definitely, if the dude is ! we kid. we kid. nicole scherzinger and neyo had a very high-profile lunch together at the ivy in los angeles on tuesday. perhaps they're working together??? but it's not on her solo album, [...]

are they or aren't they????

either way, they want us talking about them!

can and wo just be friends??? definitely, if the dude is ! we kid. we kid.

nicole scherzinger and neyo had a very high-profile lunch together at the ivy in los angeles on tuesday.

perhaps they're working together??? but it's not on her solo album, though. that is being shelved and the cat dolls disc is coming out first now.

they probably just really to pay $20 or $30 for a salad, because they're just that good, right????

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sammy lee was sacked as bolton manager after just six months. anfield legend has returned to liverpool after being appointed as rafael benitez's istant manager.

sir martin sorrell, the chief executive of wpp, cheerfully compares himself to napoleon, because he is the same height as the french leader, 5ft 2in. it is perhaps not the ideal comparison because whereas sir martin is an empire builder, the french emperor ran into trouble in russia - but it is not outrageously immodest either.

singapore : skipping for charity - that was what some 40 people did on wednesday. and one participant who has not skipped for the past 30 years came out tops.

double the brange! it's the case of the dueling magazines, y'all. for a while now, in touch weekly has been reporting that brad and ange are having twins. they claim it's a boy and a girl. well, now star magazine is reporting as well that the couple is having twins. yay! the two mags agree on that, but…. a family insider [...]

double the brange!

it's the case of the dueling magazines, y'all.

for a while now, in touch weekly has been reporting that brad and ange are having twins. they claim it's a boy and a girl.

well, now star magazine is reporting as well that the couple is having twins.

yay!

the two mags agree on that, but….

a family insider tells star that brangelina will be welcoming two .

the snitch says, "brad can't wait ? he absolutely adores little . and angelina just loves seeing him and the other kids so excited and happy."

star is also reporting a dark side to the twin joy story.

angelina reportedly suffered a terrifying collapse that left her tearful, weak and panic stricken, fearing her fall may have harmed her two unborn baes, according to an insider.

the source recounts, "angie got out of bed and was halfway across the room when she ped out and fell. brad heard her hit the floor ? hard ? and he rushed to her side. she came around pretty quickly, and the medical team that has been traveling with her, a doctor and a nurse, got her back into bed and started checking her vitals."

we hope the medical story is not true.

though, santa angelina does push herself too hard.

whether it's a boy and a girl or two , we just wish brad and ange two healthy new additions to their family!

one of the most notorious names in the rwandan genocide - an officer whose troops killed the rwandan prime minister and the belgian soldiers protecting her - has been hiding in zimbabwe, where he is suspected of enjoying business links with former army officers close to the country’s president, robert mugabe.

mclaren and mercedes returned to the formula one testing arena for the first time in 2006, and promptly headed to the top of the timesheets, as pedro de la rosa pushed the interim mp4-20 to fastest time ahead of tuesday pacesetter michael schumacher.

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more movet in micro-blogging!

recall that gnip is a ping syndicator, sort of weblogs.com on steroids. not the simplest of apis, but apparently quite powerful. i tried to get some code running with it, but hit a hard wall that i couldn't get past. no matter, others are successfully adapting to gnip.

i just read this announcet on twitter from eric marcoullier pointing to a techcrunch piece. eric says: "it's official: twitter is pushing to gnip and gnip is pushing it the out to everyone!" but this is kind of contradicted in the tc piece, which says you can only get updates from users you specify. you can't connect up on the same (firehose) basis that summize was connecting before they were acquired by twitter (earlier this week).

like i said: so much movet. (there's more coming.)

one thing's for sure is that being open to developers is very much a compeive issue. this is why two-party systems work in technology and one-party systems stagnate. why, when netscape inated browsers nothing moved, and it was fun while microsoft and netscape were competing, and why we returned to stagnation when netscape folded, and why it's once again interesting now that firefox is flourishing. same thing in the compeion betw twitter and identi.ca.

when i talked with evan prodromou yesterday he said they would open up their xmpp back-end to anyone and everyone without limits. now it's up to them to make good on that, and this shoudl give twitter the incentive to go all the way with gnip. btw, gnip should be agnostic, they should work with identi.ca as well as with twitter.