Playstation 3 units were confiscated last month by authorities in the Netherlands in relation to a patent infringement suit filed by LG Electronics Inc. of South Korea. This was confirmed today by Yasuhiro Okada, a spokesman of Sony Corp. He did not disclose the number of PS3 game consoles that were taken by Dutch customs […]
Manny Pacquiao will keep his current boxing team intact with the announcement that his strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza will keep his job. Ariza has been rumored to be leaving Pacquiao’s camp but trainer Freddie Roach dispelled the rumors saying that “everything is great, real fine.” Both Roach and Ariza will be arriving in […]
State budget deficits will persist and will not be resolved even as the U.S. economic recovery gains momentum. Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in speech in New York that it will “take some time” for many state and local governments to get their finances in order. “Governors, mayors and legislators will confront more […]
Cold medicine that has been available through prescription for years without approval by the Food and Drug Administration will be withdrawn, health officials say. These drugs have been there before FDA regulations were in place and the agency let them be sold until now. The FDA said all prescription drugs should be subject under scientific […]
Bed bugs, not safety issues or a terror scare, were the culprit this time. British Airways grounded one of its 747 jets after a female passenger was bitten repeatedly during her two flights in January and February this year. Zane Selkirk, 28, wrote in a web site that bed bugs were crawling from her inflight […]
Positive thinking can do wonders for your emotional well-being and it is likely to have a similar impact on how you perceive pain as well. A new study published February 16 in the medical journal Science Translational Medicine suggests that pain perception varies according to the belief of patients that they are receiving painkillers or […]
Tax cuts that were supposed to encourage consumer spending had a weak impact in January, as Americans preferred to keep the extra money for now. The growth in spending was the slowest since June last year, rising just 0.2 percent in January, according to a report from the Department of Commerce released on Monday. Analysts […]
Saudi Arabia is slowly feeling the tension in the Middle East intensify even as it tries to shield itself from the upheavals that have swept the region. A statement by academics, businessmen and activists was posted in multiple Saudi Arabia web sites yesterday calling for reforms in the oil-rich kingdom. They pressed the government led […]
High blood pressure increases the likelihood of stroke, heart attacks and kidney failure, and a new study says it is less common among people with higher levels of education. People who are more educated tend to suffer less socio-economic pressures and better standards of living, and the researchers believe that explains why there is less […]
Measles symptoms were seen in a female passenger from London who traveled through four U.S. airports on her way home to New Mexico. The woman arrived in February 20 at Washington Dulles International Airport then departed from a Baltimore airport to Denver, and then finally to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
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