World News:
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03/17/2006:
Launch of PlayStation 3 Delayed By Sony
Sony has delayed the launch of its new PlayStation 3 until November 2006. The main reason for the delay seem
to be the finalization of the copyright-protection technology and other standards for the Blu-ray DVD disc,
the high-definition video format for PlayStation 3 and other next-generation DVD players.
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01/25/2006:
The Walt Disney Co. to buy Pixar
The Walt Disney Co. is buying Pixar, the animation studio, for $7.4 billion in stock. The deal would make
Steve Jobs, head of Apple Computer and Pixar's chief executive, one of the largest shareholder of Disney stock.
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01/23/2006:
Microsoft Vienna to follow Vista
Microsoft is currently working to develop and ship the Vista OS sometime this year, but they have already
announced and started to work on the OS to follow Vista, currently name Vienna.
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01/20/2006:
NASA to launch probe, New Horizons, for Pluto
NASA is scheduled to launch probe, New Horizons, for Pluto at 3:23 P.M. EST from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
using a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket. New Horizons will reach Pluto in 10-year traveling over 3-billion-mile. New Horizons will pass
the moon in about nine hours and Jupiter in a little more than a year.
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01/13/2006:
The European Union has pledges $100m to bird flu fight
In Beijing, the European Union announced that it is pledging $100m (83 million euros) to bird flu fight.
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01/13/2006:
Iran Threatens to not allow U.N. Inspections
On Friday Iran threatened to block inspections of its nuclear sites if confronted
by the U.N. Security Council over its atomic activities.
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01/02/2006:
Earthquake hits between Fiji and Tonga
A major earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit the Fiji region of the
south Pacific but was unlikely to cause damage or a tsunami.
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