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Www: Wat Weekly WrapUp 1st – 7th November 2010

Last week saw some frenetic action in the telecom space. While Tata DoCoMo finally launched its 3G services and Aircel set up ‘Experience Zones’ in Chennai, the back and forth over Mobile Number Portability continued. The DoT is looking at a Novem…

[ More ] November 8th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Asia, India, World |

Morning Digest 8-11-10

Recommended reading: – My iPad Magazine Stand – Game theory explains why some content goes viral on Reddit, Digg – ICANN set to open top-level domain floodgates – Chasing Pirates: Inside Microsoft’s War Room – Nielsen Admits Undercounting Web Traffi…

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China to sign telecom, energy deals with Portugal

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Chinese President Hu Jintao wraps up a two-day visit to Portugal Sunday with talks with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates to seal a raft of deals in telecommunications, renewable energies, banking and food.

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China to spend US$4.5 bil. on mineral exploration

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – China will spend 30 billion yuan (US$4.5 billion) searching for domestic mineral deposits over the next five years in a bid to lessen its reliance on imported products, state media said Sunday.

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Iraq’s top political rivals meeting face-to-face to break government logjam

The leaders of Iraq’s main political blocs plan to meet face-to-face for the first time since March elections, amid signs they are close to breaking the eight-month political deadlock that has stalled the formation of a new government.

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US may reconsider Sudan’s terror list status

The United States may remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as next July, U.S. officials said Sunday, provided the government in Khartoum meets an assortment of benchmarks.Of primary concern is a Jan.

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02:19 US steadfast ally to Israel – Biden

Vice president Joe Biden meets Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Joe Biden told Jewish groups on Sunday that the US under the Obama administration remains a steadfa…

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County Wraps Up Long, Strange Budget Process

It’s been a trip, to say the least. From my recent months covering Chautauqua County government, I think it’s safe to say that the term “Silly Season” isn’t strictly limited to elections and their associated campaigns.

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Obama pushes India to talk to Pakistan

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called on India on Sunday to bolster peace efforts with Pakistan that have floundered since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, relations seen as crucial to his troubled efforts to win the war in Afghanistan.

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China plans fifth nuclear reactor for Pakistan

Beijing’s growing support for Islamabad, including military hardware, poses a dilemma for Barack Obama, the US president, who arrived in India on Saturday

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Ex-AFL players hit by fake spy’s scams

AN Adelaide man who posed as a spy and boasted of having people kidnapped and tortured has been jailed for elaborate scams to con former AFL players.

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Diwali underpins gold’s surge

India’s farmers and housewives are joining western investors and stocking up on gold, underpinning the market even as prices soar to new records

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Norway best place to live, with U.S. falling behind states U.N. report

” Norway is the best place to live on the planet, while the United States lags behind, states the United Nations annual “A-to-Z” report that rates all the world’s nations on such areas as global wealth, poverty, health and education.

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Where Will He Be in Six Months

First he was a Republican. Then he was an independent. Then he was all but a Democrat. Now Charlie Crist is considering a posthumous pardon of The Doors’ Jim Morrison for charges of indecent exposure stemming from a notorious concert incident in …

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The Cheese Industrial Complex

Here’s an article in the Times that is both disturbing and oddly comic, if darkly so. The US government is now making a major push to combat obesity. But for years Americans have been moving away from full-fat to reduced fat or skim milks. And th…

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