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Apple Computer's iPod has become so popular that its success has prompted chip makers Intel and ... Intel, Micron join forces..

Apple Computer's iPod has become so popular that its success has prompted chip makers Intel and Micron to form a joint venture to develop flash memory chips used in the newest digital music players.

Intel and Micron said Monday they will each invest $1.2 billion in cash and assets to form a joint company to develop flash memory chips, a key component of the iPod. Their first customer is ...

When military recruiters first contacted her teenaged son, Rosemary Galdiano was confused. ... Calls to serve hit a nerve...

When military recruiters first contacted her teenaged son, Rosemary Galdiano was confused.

Michael Galdiano is college-bound and has never expressed an interest in enlisting. Yet military brochures filled the Galdianos' mailbox. Recruiters called the house. They even contacted the high school senior on his cellphone.

Galdiano said she was shocked to learn that the military received...

NEW YORK -- All those years of dancing around her living room and belting out show tunes finally ... Rent chick...

NEW YORK -- All those years of dancing around her living room and belting out show tunes finally paid off for Rosario Dawson.

She stars as the tragic exotic dancer Mimi in the film version of the hit Broadway musical Rent, opening Wednesday.

"It has always been my fantasy to be in a big musical,'' Dawson said. "I never dreamed of being an actor, but I sure dreamed of being a singe...

By Marjory Zoet Bankston. Augsburg Books. 156 pages. $12.99. The Book of Ruth, one of the m... Book of Ruth reveals cycles of f

By Marjory Zoet Bankston. Augsburg Books. 156 pages. $12.99.

The Book of Ruth, one of the most beloved books in the Bible, is a beautiful story of sorrow, hardships and, ultimately, redemption. While there are many life lessons to be gleaned from Ruth, Marjory Zoet Bankston uses the story and its main characters to represent how friendships cycle through "seasons."

Through the journ...

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Despite industry efforts to standardise identity management infrastructures, Australia's end use... Australians starved of stan

Despite industry efforts to standardise identity management infrastructures, Australia's end user decisions are still clouded by products with interoperability issues, says Michael Warrilow, research director at analyst firm Hydrasight.

Warrilow says vendors are not doing enough to ensure interoperability. In recent years, larger players have acquired smaller vendors to build out an iden...

Legal posturing already has begun in the case of a 37-year-old woman charged with molesting a 15-... Groom may be called to tes

Legal posturing already has begun in the case of a 37-year-old woman charged with molesting a 15-year-old boy whom she since has married.

Lisa Lynnette Clark of Gainesville posted bond and was released Friday from the Hall County Detention Center. She is six months pregnant with what may be the teenager's child.

Last week, Clark's attorney, Dan Sammons, said a Georgia law called m...

Teachers are wary of talking about sex with young people because they are uncomfortable with the... HEALTH-ASIA: Sex Education

Teachers are wary of talking about sex with young people because they are uncomfortable with the subject or fear encouraging-- or being seen as encouraging-- youngsters to have sex at an early age, says Hathairat Suda, senior programme assistant with the Bangkok- based Programme for Appropriate Technology on Health (PATH).

"(But) If you wait to talk about sex with your children it might ...

From the underground: Milwaukee's basement show scene There was a time when getting on the... From the underground: Milwaukee&#

From the underground: Milwaukee's basement show scene

There was a time when getting on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine was the ultimate goal of any band, and getting ample radio airplay was the quintessential status symbol of "making it." It may have worked for The Beatles; hell, it may have worked for John Denver, but climbing the corporate music ladder proved not to be for everyone...

Don’t let family dynamics bend you out of shape this season The temperature’s dropping,... Have a relatively stress-free ho

Don’t let family dynamics bend you out of shape this season

The temperature’s dropping, and your blood pressure’s rising.

The mere thought of planning meals, picking out gifts, dodging traffic and, most of all, dealing with relatives might be enough to make you want to hop a plane to the tropics and skip holidays with the family altogether.

But for the vast majority, the...