Pakistan and India still have much to do on ties
Prospects have brightened for an improvement of ties between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan after their prime ministers met, but distrust lingers and a big militant attack in India could swiftly shatter any progress.
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PC World – Call me pessimistic, but I don’t think Oprah Winfrey’s “No Phone Zone” — a push to stop texting and talking on cell phones while driving — is going to work. Car dashboards are distraction magnets. Taking phones out of the equation is only a small part of the battle.
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Adult education benefits the entire community
For 90 years, the San Bernardino Adult School has been improving the lives of individuals and communities across San Bernardino and Highland. Last school year alone, the Adult School served more than 17,000 students.
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Christopher Null – It’s the hottest thing to come along in the tech world since blogging: The app store. And soon you might just have an app store for every gadget in your arsenal.
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Principal Financial Group Signs Agreement with Banco do Brasil
DES MOINES, Iowa—-Principal Financial Group announced that The Principal® and Banco do Brasil have signed a definitive agreement to extend their pension and long-term asset accumulation joint venture in Brazil.
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Reuters – Lala, the online music service, will be shut down on May 31, just five months after Apple Inc bought the start-up fueling speculation the iPod maker plans to launch a new Web-based version of iTunes.
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AECOM partners with Organica Ecotechnologies
NEW YORK—-AECOM, a leading provider of professional technical and management support services, and Organica Ecotechnologies, the developer of an innovative ecological wastewater treatment technology, have entered into a partnership.
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NewsFactor – Oprah Winfrey and General Motors are adding their voices to the growing chorus against cell-phone use while driving. The queen of daytime talk was to host on Friday a Fort Wayne, Texas, activist, Diveeta Johnson, who lost her 18-year-old son, Rodney, after he lost control of a car while texting. Johnson has since [...]
THE gathering
PLAINS TWP. – THE Conference proved to be just that Tuesday for Sharon Krawetz. The owner of a Send Out Cards Internet marketing business, Krawetz, of Dallas, took advantage of both the training and selling opportunities provided by the gathering.
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PC World – While there’s been a ton of buzz about the iPhone 4G prototype saga (police raids! Navy cryptologists! ), this last week has seen some developments in the tablet and chip worlds, including canceled projects and cheap six-core processors. Read on for some stories that were shadowed [...]