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Rupert Murdoch said on Monday his News Corp would not get into a fight with Microsoft Corp over Yahoo Inc, confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected.

Murdoch's company has been in talks with Yahoo over a transaction to combine News Corp's MySpace Internet social network and other Internet assets with Yahoo, a source familiar with the talks said earlier.

"We're not going to get into a fight with Microsoft, which has a lot more money than us," Murdoch told investors at the annual Bear Stearns media conference.

The US space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off without a hitch, heading towards the International Space Station (ISS).

The shuttle is carrying the first section of a Japanese space lab.

Construction work is already underway aboard the space station, and it is permanently manned by three long-term residents...

check the following Link:  http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=77891&videoChannel=1

 Barack Obama on Monday ridiculed rival Hillary Clinton's repeated hints she would take him for the No. 2 spot on her presidential ticket, accusing her of playing political games in their hard-fought Democratic nominating race.

"There were 33 million more domain names added to the Internet in 2007 as compared to 2006, with a total of 153 million domain names added in 2007," according to a new 'Domain Name Industry' report released by VeriSign.

The highest growth was garnered by .com, followed by .de (Germany), then .net and .cn (China). Fifth spot was shared between .uk (United Kingdom) and .org, with .info and .eu (the European Union), .biz and .mobi appearing further down the list of the most registered domain names.

With "MySpace" getting frequent mention as the favored destination of pedophiles and sex predators, the site, in association with leading Harvard scholars, has taken the lead in creating an "Internet Safety Technical Task Force", whose mission will be to protect children and teenagers from online predators and pornography.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=624651.626442&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE

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Today's educational technology is like a Rube Goldberg contraption. Enter any technology-enabled classroom or other facility, and you will see a mish-mash of computers with associated wires, video displays, modems, ITV, CD-ROM libraries, tapes, and more. To use this technology effectively and avoid being distracted by the usual malfunctions and dense manuals, teachers must spend a lot of time in the classroom themselves.

Mohit Anand, the Country Manager, Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft India has bid adieu to the company. And this isn’t any rumor, but is cent percent true news.

Mohit Anand himself has officially acknowledged that he has put down his papers at Microsoft India and post a notice period of 6 weeks, which ends by 15th April. Anand said that he may be leaving the company but he is absolutely determined to remain in India and pursue his dreams.

Scoring twice in the first-half, Britain ended India's Olympic dreams (Watch) with a 2-0 win in the final of the World Hockey qualifying tournament at Santiago.