blows hole in (Internet advertising) Gaza border BBC News - 40 minutes ago

blows hole in (Internet advertising) Gaza border BBC News - 40 minutes ago

Hamas blows hole in Gaza border
BBC News - 40 minutes ago Hamas militants have destroyed a section of a concrete barrier erected along the Gaza-Egypt border. Palestinian and Egyptian troops have been trying to shore up the barrier to stop Palestinians crossing into Egypt after the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Microsoft Campaigns for Higher Office
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago Bill Gates touts new features in the latest version of the firm's productivity software to urge users to upgrade. By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer. Most companies hate competing against Microsoft Corp. � including, it turns out, Microsoft itself.

Review: IPod Nano -- Small, Sleek and Superior
InformationWeek - 6 hours ago Apple's new iPod nano has a few problems, but overall it is a light and lovable gadget with cool features that far outweigh the annoyances. By Glenn Fleishman. Unlike millions, I never loved the iPod mini.

Microsoft Offers to Settle Lawsuit With Google Over Engineer
Bloomberg - 6 hours ago Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., responding to Google Inc.'s claim that it won a ruling permitting a former Microsoft executive to recruit for Google's China research center, proposed to settle the legal dispute.

Roberts deflects abortion inquiries
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago By Jim Puzzanghera. WASHINGTON - When senators finally got a chance to question Supreme Court nominee John Roberts on Tuesday, it didn't take long for abortion to come up. It was the first topic and dominated a long day of testimony.

Hardly radical, but it�sa start
Economist - 1 hour ago Diplomats have agreed on a draft package of reforms to the scandal-hit United Nations as world leaders gather for a summit in New York. The document they are expected to approve is, naturally, full of fudges and omissions. But it is better than nothing.

Fox's Tedious 'Head Cases': Criminally Inane
Washington Post - 1 hour ago By Tom Shales. "Sometimes bad things just happen, and it's nobody's fault," says one of the characters in "Head Cases," a new Fox courtroom drama. Unfortunately that sounds an awful lot like the producer of the show attempting to let himself off the hook.

Chinese groups buy EnCana Ecuador assets
Financial Times - 4 hours ago By Bernard Simon in Toronto and Hal Weitzman in Lima. China has gained access to another foreign energy resource through a deal by a group of Chinese companies to buy oil and pipeline assets in Ecuador from Canada's EnCana for US$1.4bn in cash.

Hurricane Ophelia Crawls Toward US, May Hit Today (Update1)
Bloomberg - 52 minutes ago Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Ophelia was ``crawling'' toward the southeastern US coast, where it may make landfall later today after regaining strength amid warnings and evacuations for parts of North and South Carolina.