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Why HBO's New Download Service Won't Be a Hit
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on January 20, 2008
HBO is testing a new download service, HBO Broadband, in Milwaukee and in the home of the NFC runner-up Green Bay Packers. It has the makings of a smart idea. Like other traditional-TV-goes-online initiatives, however, it's also hobbled by its need to support HBO's existing business.With the new service, HBO subscribers who get Internet access from their cable providers will be able to d
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Angry eBay Sellers Plan Week-Long Strike
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 10, 2008
Ever since eBay announced changes to its feedback rules and fee structure last week, sellers have been irate, exploding onto message boards and blogs with discussions about how the new policies will affect their businesses. But when the idea of a strike was floated, some sellers and buyers decided to get more organized about expressing their displeasure.A discussion thread on eBay's own...
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Venezuela Cuts Oil Supply To Exxon
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 12, 2008
Venezuela's state oil company said Tuesday it has stopped selling crude to Exxon Mobil and has suspended commercial relations with the U.S.-based oil company.State-run Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, said in a statement that it "has paralyzed sales of crude to Exxon Mobil." It said the decision was made "as an act of reciprocity" for the company's "judicial-economic harassment."
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Clinton Ad Pushes For Wisconsin Debate
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 12, 2008
Hillary Clinton is still pushing for more discussions. She has launched a new television ad in Wisconsin calling on Barack Obama to participate in a local debate:
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Dennis Miller To Be Canceled Again?
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 13, 2008
Dennie Miller doesn't have much luck with sports. He was unceremoniously dumped by ABC as a commentator for "Monday Night Football" in 2002, and now his Versus cable channel show, "Sports Unfiltered With Dennis Miller," looks destined for the scrap heap after just three months. "Frankly, it doesn't look good," a former staffer tells Santa Barbara News-Press columnist Richard Mineards....
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Report: New York Times To Slash 100 Newsroom Jobs
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 13, 2008
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced, at one of the paper's regular staff talk-backs, plans for another wave of job cuts, including, according to three sources, the elimination of 100 newsroom positions. That's about 7 percent of the newsroom. Keller will hold three separate meetings today to break the news to the staff.
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Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 13, 2008
... court ruled in September 2006 that Falih could not be sentenced to death for witchcraft because she had retracted her confession. But a lower court subsequently reissued the death sentence for the benefit of "public interest" and to "protect the creed, souls and property of this country," the group's statement said.HRW statement came a day after Yakin Erturk, the U.N. special inv...
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Obama Ad Criticizes Hillary Call For Wisconsin Debate
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 13, 2008
Via Ben Smith, Obama's new ad in Wisconsin answers back to Hillary's ad calling for more debates. The voice over refers to the attack ad as the "same old politics of phony charges and false attacks," and then proceeds to contrast records on healthcare and housing.
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Bush-Appointed Federal Judge Resigns After DUI Cross-Dressing Arrest
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on February 18, 2008
Via Pensito Review: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma, 63, has resigned after pleading guilty to a D.U.I.He was in his Mercedes and wearing a cocktail dress, fishnet stockings and high heels at the time of his arrest last week...
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Clinton Releases New Texas, Ohio Ads
via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on March 02, 2008
Sen. Clinton has two new ads out on the eve of primaries in Texas and Ohio.In the first, Clinton hits Obama on his inactivity while serving as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. It also includes footage of sleeping children from Obama's previous ad (labeled "Obama TV Ad" so no one will confuse it with the Hillary ad of similar content):Clinton's new Ohio ad "Partner"...
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