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By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: September 28, 2007
Reversing course, Verizon Wireless announced yesterday that it would allow an abortion rights group to send text messages to its supporters on Verizon’s mobile network.
“The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect,” said Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon, in a […]
By ADAM LIPTAK
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for text messages […]
Brian McAndrews, the head of Microsoft’s recently acquired Internet ad company, says he intends to beat Google’s DoubleClick.
By LOUISE STORY
The New York Times
Published: September 26, 2007
MICROSOFT has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just […]
Neither Boeing nor Airbus will back down in their dogfight over state subsidies
By Tony Glover
The European Union and the US will this week move closer to a full-scale trans-Atlantic trade war. Only this time, it won’t be about bananas but aeroplanes.
Europe’s Airbus and the America’s Boeing both argue that the other has benefited unfairly from […]
By Daniel Howden and Leonard Doyle in Washington
In Nigeria, corporate commandos exchange fire with local rebels attacking an oil platform. In Afghanistan, private bodyguards help to foil yet another assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai. In Colombia, a contracted pilot comes under fire from guerrillas while spraying coca fields with pesticides. On the border […]
The story of mankind is one long tale of greed, lust, debauchery and murder – if only you know where to look. Ian Crofton trawls through the annals of history to find all the juicy bits
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‘The Day of Creation’
The date of Creation, according to James Ussher, Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, in his 1650 work Annales […]
Savings
As the run on Northern Rock continued yesterday, customers of other British banks were left to wonder if the credit crisis may affect their own savings providers. Although several of the smaller banks – such as Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley – made reassuring noises, the reality is that they are the banks […]
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish computer programmer could face up to three years in jail for linking a Polish word for penis to the presidential Web site.
Marek W., 23, created a programme that caused the official home page of Polish President Lech Kaczynski to rank first in the list of results on the Google search […]
Paula Hawkins studies how parents can raise the money to meet costs of nearly £10,000 a year
The cost of sending a child to private school is eye-watering for all but the richest parents: on average, nearly £10,000 a year. If you want them to board, the figure is just shy of £21,000. Nevertheless, the […]
Shoppers spurn the high street as higher rates bite
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
The era of spend, spend, spend is coming to an end. Britain’s shoppers, who for years have been racking up debt on credit cards and home loans with abandon, are finally starting to cut back on their expenditure. A slew of […]