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The Hong Kong is once again on alert as health officials found the feared H5N1 bird flu virus at a poultry market on Saturday. The government has ordered the culling of 2,700 birds. Government officials have placed a ban on poultry imports from mainland China for 21 days, as well as from local farms in the territory, as health officials investigate the source. Officials added there are no hu… Hong Kong H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Found In China
Hillary Clinton’s endorsement of Barack Obama in a Washington speech was the first step in an effort to reunite the Democratic Party after a divisive five-month nominating battle. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and her daughter, Chelsea, stood with her during her exit speech. “Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him,” Clinton told about 2,000 cheering supporters at the … Hillary Clinton Exits White House Bid
Egypt’s antiquities chief said on Thursday that archaeologists in Egypt discover what is believed to be the “missing pyramid” of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road where high priests carried mummified remains of sacred bulls. “We have filled the gap of the missing pyramid,” Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s antiquities chief, said. Hawass said the pyramid is believed to be that of King Menkauhor,… Missing Egyptian Pyramid Uncovered
Amazon.com Inc was faced with a 2 hour black out on Friday as its Web site went offline in the middle of the day due to system problems, a spokesperson said. The site prompted an error code to anyone visiting it shortly after 10 a.m. PT, according to Keynote Systems, a California-based company that measures website performance. “Amazon’s systems are very complex and on rare occasions, despit… Amazon Recovers from 2 Hour Blackout
IBM Corp is developing a new future microprocessor design in which chips are stacked vertically to save space and increase performance, rather than the standard side stacking where the heat ratio exceeds that of a nuclear reactor. IBM researchers believe that transferring water through hair-thin pipes inside chips will solve the problem. Future chips are getting smaller and smaller to cram more… IBM Develops Miniature Water Cooling Methods

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It is still over a week and a half until Coldplay’s fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, is scheduled for release, but the album leaked online through a torrent Wednesday. The band’s first album in just over three years has already proved itself popular with a highly downloaded single and has become the highest pre-sale album ever in Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes Store, according to NME.
Prefix magazine speculates that the album’s leak has raised serious issues for the band’s label, privately-held EMI. Prefix reports that the albums second single, title track “Viva la Vida” has seen 510,000 downloads already, not as impressive as the two million its predecessor “Violet Hill” moved. The magazine also speculates that the leak will make it “unlikely that the album will be the rousing success that EMI had hoped.” This just seems to disregard the consumer base and the band’s large fanbase.
Arguably, the 510,000 downloads of “Viva la Vida” should be interpreted as that many presale downloads for the album, since the single and album pre-order are bundled together in iTunes. If that is the case, first week sales will be an impressive, rousing success. Coldplay and EMI have taken the next logical, and predictable, step to combat the online leak. NME reports that starting tonight the album will be available for streaming from the band’s MySpace page.
The business model for the music indrusty is changing. New models are cutting out the middle men. Edgar Bronfman talks about this at the financial times.
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Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of New York yesterday after a sex scandal put an abrupt end to the political career of a rising star who seemed destined for the White House.
Mr Spitzer, a crusading former prosecutor once known as the Sheriff of Wall Street, said that he would “leave public life” two days after he was identified as Client 9 in a $5,500-an-hour international call-girl ring.
He will be replaced on Monday by his deputy, David Paterson, who will be New York’s first black Governor and the first blind one in US history.
Mr Spitzer, who is married with three daughters, emerged from his Fifth Avenue apartment to announce his resignation yesterday.
“I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me,” he told a press conference, with his wife, Silda, at his side.
“I look at my time as Governor with a sense of what might have been . . . There is much more to be done. I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.
“In the past few days I have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife, Silda, my children and my entire family. The remorse I feel will always be with me.”

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