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31 Aug 2008
Microsoft readying apps store for Windows Mobile?
Steven Musil | Sep 01, 2008 It looks as though Microsoft is joining Apple and Google in the mobile "apps store" market. It appears the software giant expects to launch an applications store called "Skymarket" this fall...Tilgin AB: Tilgin Wins Trial Order on IPTV Technology from Leading Operator in South Western Europe
STOCKHOLM, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- Regulatory News: Tilgin (STO:TILG), a leading provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) solutions for multiplay and next-generation broadband services, wins a trial order of its...Gustav upsets the GOP Convention but may be good for the GOP
Slate - By John Dickerson - Sep. 1 (Opinion) - For the moment, the disaster benefits McCain, because like all great political moments, it allows him to act authentically and yet benefit politically. One of the worst political clichés actually is true at this moment: Good policy is good politics. All McCain has to do is keep his aides off the phones talking about the politics of the storm, and he'll be in a position to benefit from it. (And so far, he looks like he's done that, too.)NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It
Gulf Coast feeling the effects of hurricane Gustav
Washington Post - By Jacqueline L. Salmon, Philip rucker, William Branigin - Sep. 1 (Special Report) - Hurricane Gustav weakened to a Category 2 storm as it lashed the coast of Louisiana Monday, but federal officials warned it continues to pack a dangerous storm surge that is raising concerns -- mixed with considerable uncertainty -- about new flooding in New Orleans three years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Tajikistan Hopes Water Will Power Its Ambitions
New York Times - By David L. Stern - Sep. 1 (Special Report) - The inscription just above a tunnel at the foot of the colossal Nurek hydropower dam in south central Tajikistan is succinct: "Water Is Life." The frigid, frothing Vakhsh River rushing under it adds a visual punctuation mark.NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It
FEMA Is Eager to Show It Learned From Katrina
New York Times - By Eric Lipton - Sep. 1 (Special Report) - Nature has a way of upending disaster-response plans. But there was a certain confidence Sunday that the federal government had learned its painful lessons and that there would be no repeat of the ineptitude that defined the response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It