Results of a new study find that women who are taking the birth control pill maybe at a slight increased risk of developing cervical cancer.
According to British researchers, this risk can be reversed up to 10 years after women stop taking the pill.
This study is not the first to find an association between the birth […]
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The microprocessor package features up to 500 GFlops, or 500 billion floating point operations per second.
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) on Thursday introduced a second-generation microprocessor and software development kit for high-performance computing.The AMDFireStream 9170 uses stream processing in working alongside the CPU in high-performance environments. Stream processing is a relatively new […]
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Hackers Infect Alicia Keys’s MySpace Page
By Brad Stone
The MySpace page of singer Alicia Keys has become the latest vehicle for malware on the Web.
Researchers at the Atlanta, GA-based Exploit Prevention Labs have discovered multiple hacked MySpace pages, including the personal page of the R&B artist. Also hacked were pages for Greements of Fortune, a French […]
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Orlando Business Journal
Strong across-the-board performances from its various units helped the Walt Disney Co. post strong earnings growth for both its fourth quarter and year-end results.
In the quarter, the company earned $877 million, or 44 cents a share, up from $782 million, or 36 cents a share, in the fourth quarter of 2006. The current […]
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By Paul Rogers and Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News
As oil spread throughout San Francisco Bay on Thursday, forcing the closing of 16 beaches and shoreline parks from San Francisco to the Marin Headlands, questions arose about the U.S. Coast Guard’s response to the worst spill in the bay in more than a decade.
Did the Coast Guard […]
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By JOHN FLOWERS
Leap Wireless International Inc. announced it will restate financial statements for fiscal 2004, 2005, 2006 and the first two quarters of 2007 to correct for errors in recorded revenue and operating expenses.
It also warned that doing so may result in the default of about $890 million in outstanding loans. The company said it […]
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