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The Environmental Protection Agency Federal regulators said Monday that Santa Clara County’s air is toopolluted and must be cleaned up.
Confirming fears of local air quality experts, the agency said that along with the rest of the Bay Area, onto its list of 46 metro areas that violate newly tightened standards for fine particles of pollution from
wood-burning stoves, diesel trucks and …

2009 is going to be a big year for the fans of Android operating system phones. According to the reports handsets with various form factors will hit the market in 2009, and the emergence of Android could be especially bad for Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian.
Samsung, Motorola and Sony all are pitching up with Android phones in coming year, …

TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp would change the top management order for improving business performance. Current President Katsuaki Watanabe, who has headed Toyota since June 2005, will become vice chairman.
At the same time, Akio Toyoda, executive vice president would be promoted to president in April. Toyoda is scheduled to attend a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo to jointly launch a …

GlaxoSmithKline PLC would no longer use corporate funds for political contributions. The company said on Monday that it’s an effort to improve openness in its business.
According to the spokeswoman Sarah Alspach, Glaxo has donated more than $585,000 in the U.S. this year and 58,000 Canadian dollars last year in Canada.
The U.K.-based drug maker in the past has made direct corporate …

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is a isolated person now and at the same time the leader is preparing to take over key businesses in mining, banking and manufacturing.
According to the ruling party the emergency measures would seek to curb inflation and lift productivity, which has slumped to less than 10 percent of manufacturing capacity.
Two members of the ruling party’s politburo …

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson is not having any health related problem, said his camp, but confirmed the report that the pop star would need a lung transplant due to a rare respiratory disease.
A spokesman for Michael Jackson released a statement on Monday denying as a “total fabrication.”
Before this, biography writer of the pop star Ian Halperin said in a newspaper …

BEIJING: In the wake of global financial crisis, China will provide $19 billion in financing over the next two to three years to Taiwan-based companies doing business in the mainland. This is the latest sign of warming ties between Beijing and Taipei.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Monday, that the package includes $7.3 billion each from …

Tata Motors is planning to pump tens of millions of pounds into Jaguar Land Rover to survive.
A report has been published in the noted daily Financial Times saying that Indian business giant would do everything to Jaguar work. Tata is the owner of Jaguar Land Rover. In the mean time, a spokesman for Tata Motors did not deny the …

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nternet service is not fully operative yet between Europe and Middle East. The was disrupted after three cables linking Egypt and Italy failed in the Mediterranean Sea. At least two of the four undersea optic-fibre communications cables were damaged, and due to this the country suffered fluctuation on Friday night.
People are still facing the problem and it’s assumed that these …

Robert Mulligan, who received an Oscar nomination for directing “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died Friday of heart disease at his Connecticut home. He was 83.
The brother of actor Richard Mulligan, he also directed “The Great Impostor,” “Love With the Proper Stranger,” “Baby, the Rain Must Fall,” “Inside Daisy Clover,” “Up the Down Staircase” and “The Other.” He also narrated “Summer …