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      <title><![CDATA[China To Give Incentives To Farmers Who Will Tap Technology]]></title>
      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138111</link>
      <source>AHN</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 08:22:56</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[The Chinese government has earmarked $6.25 million to encourage individuals or groups to promote the use of available technologies among farmers. Reportedly, the program, which was jointly launched by the China Association for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance, will offer...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[SanDisk Unveils 8-gigabyte MP3 Player]]></title>
      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138011</link>
      <source>AHN</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:37:17</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[SanDisk is attempting to compete with Apple's iPod by unveiling its 8-gigabyte Sansa e280 MP3 player. The flash-based music player has a microSD expansion slot which can store up to 10-gigabytes of music, or 2,500 songs, with an optional 2 GB microSD card....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Study Shows Greenland's Glaciers Shrinking For Decades]]></title>
      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138010</link>
      <source>AHN</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:37:17</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming, a new Danish study suggests that Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for the past century. Using maps from the 19th century and current satellite observations, the Danish scientists were able to conclude that...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. To Use German Firm For Passport Microchips]]></title>
      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138009</link>
      <source>AHN</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:37:17</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[The United States will contract a German company to supply the security chips for the electronic upgraded versions of the American passport. The U.S. Department of State says chips made by Infineon will be in many of the 15 million electronic passports the agency expects to distribute in the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Friendster looks to recover lost glory 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138116</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 08:22:58</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    Reuters - Friendster Inc. said on Monday it 
received $10 million in new funding to expand abroad and help 
its pioneering social-networking site survive in a market 
dominated by younger successors who stole its thunder.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chinese company fined for junk email 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138114</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 08:22:57</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Reuters - A Shenzhen company has been fined for 
sending bulk junk email in what is believed to be the first 
case of its kind in China where more than 50 billion spam 
messages are received a year, state media said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Warner Bros. launches direct-to-DVD division 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138107</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 08:07:57</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Reuters - Warner Bros. film studio on Monday 
unveiled a new division to make and distribute movies directly 
to DVD consumers - a first for the company - and it put a 
veteran marketing executive in charge of the group.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Video disc war: No clear winner, yet 
    (USATODAY.com)
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      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 07:22:45</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[USATODAY.com - Two months into the format war over the next generation of home video discs, neither HD DVD nor Blu-ray has made much of an impact on the market. That's not too surprising, given the marketplace confusion over the dueling formats and the time it usually takes consumers to adopt new technologies.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Toshiba Announces New Multimedia DVD Projector 
    (PC Magazine)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138060</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 07:07:34</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[PC Magazine - Toshiba's newest projector offering is reliable enough for work use, but has plenty of features geared toward home use as well.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[YouTube expands types of advertising: report 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138050</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:52:22</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    Reuters - Closely held YouTube Inc., a video Web 
site, is expanding the type of advertisements it sells to 
include videos on its home page and on special 
advertiser-created pages, the Wall Street Journal reported on 
Tuesday, citing company executives.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[JCB's Dieselmax Breaks Course Record During Test Runs]]></title>
      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138008</link>
      <source>AHN</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:37:17</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Wing Commander Andy Green gets closer to his goal to set a new world record for land speed in JCB's Dieselmax vehicle. During two test runs, the Dieselmax breaks the course record for diesel-powered vehicles at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LCD TV Sales Up 135 Percent to $11.3 Billion]]></title>
      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?138007</link>
      <source>AHN</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:37:17</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[International sales of liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions were up 135 percent to $11.3 billion USD. Second quarter data by DisplaySearch, a research unit of the NPD Group, shows global shipments of LCDs made up 22 percent of all television sales, up from 17 percent a quarter ago....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Offers To Help Firefox Run On Vista 
    (TechWeb)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137972</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:01</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[TechWeb - Apparently,  Microsoft  wants to help Mozilla if it's interested in making sure the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run under Windows Vista.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Salesforce.com adds Google links to its software 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137973</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:01</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Reuters - Software provider Salesforce.com Inc. 
said on Tuesday that it has acquired start-up Kieden Corp., 
which helps customers track sales leads generated with online 
advertisements on  Google  Inc..]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Salesforce adds Google Adword Integration 
    (InfoWorld)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137974</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:01</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[InfoWorld - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used a dinner presentation to Boston-area customers, analysts and members of the press Monday evening to announce a new search marketing service that will allow companies to manage  Google  AdWords marketing campaigns directly from Salesforce's CRM software.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[SanDisk unveils world's highest capacity MP3 player 
    (AFP)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137975</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:01</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    AFP -  SanDisk  Corporation introduced the world's highest-capacity MP3 player and priced it to take a bigger bite of the market dominated by Apple's iPod.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Nano rival offers twice the storage 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137965</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    Reuters -  SanDisk  Corp.  on Monday 
introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many 
songs as the  popular  iPod Nano for nearly the same price and 
cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping 
season.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[US says carmakers must tell buyers about recorders 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137966</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    Reuters - The U.S. government will not require 
recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell 
consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other 
measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fuji Film to set up China LCD filter venture 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137967</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Reuters - Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. (4901.T) and 
China's SVA Electron Co. Ltd. (600602.SS) will together spend 
$270 million to make color filters used in liquid-crystal 
displays, Fuji Photo said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Instant Replay set to consign line disputes into history 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137968</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    Reuters - Twenty-five years after  John McEnroe  
told an umpire "You cannot be serious," a technology making its 
grand-slam debut next week aims to make line disputes a thing 
of the past.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Global LCD TV sales soar 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137969</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Reuters - Global sales of liquid crystal display 
(LCD) TVs jumped 135 percent in the April-June quarter from a 
year earlier to a record 9.4 million units, led by Philips 
Electronics with a 13.5 percent share, a research firm said.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[China mobile phone users top 431 million 
    (AP)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137970</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    AP - The number of mobile phone users in China, already the world's biggest telecoms market, has grown to more than 431 million, a government news agency reported Tuesday.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Youth Are Key To Mobile Growth, Report 
    (TechWeb)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137971</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:23:00</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[TechWeb - A new study delves into how young people are shaping mobile technology markets, and you won't believe how much cash today's 10-year-olds are expected to spend on mobile services.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AOL chief technology officer resigns: sources 
    (Reuters)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137880</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-22 06:22:33</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[    Reuters - AOL chief technology officer Maureen 
Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally 
releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet 
users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal 
company memorandum.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ExpressCard update fixes MacBook Pro sleep problem 
    (Macworld.com)
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      <link>http://livepress.com/go/?137794</link>
      <source>YAHOO</source>
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      <pubDate>2006-08-11 19:50:08</pubDate>
      	<description><![CDATA[Macworld.com - Apple has released ExpressCard Update 1.0 for MacBook Pro laptops. The update requires Mac OS X v10.4.7 to install.]]></description>
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