AMO Complete contact lens solution warning

Government officials are warning consumers not to use AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution, a contact lens solution used for cleaning and storing soft contact lenses, because use of the solution may be linked to an increased risk of a rare, yet severe eye infection, the Associated Press reports.

The warning was announced after an ongoing government investigation found a potential association between use of the contact lens solution and an increased risk of Acanthamoeba keratitis.

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a painful eye infection that can cause permanent vision loss or blindness.

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Top 10 dying computer skills

Compiled a list of skills and technologies that, while not dead, can perhaps be said to be in the process of dying:

1. Cobol
2. Nonrelational DBMS
3. Non-IP networks
4. cc:Mail
5. ColdFusion
6. C programming
7. PowerBuilder
8. Certified NetWare Engineers
9. PC network administrators
10. OS/2

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Google to buy Feedburner for $100 million

Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront.

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Avandia linked to heart risks

According to CNN, diabetes drug Avandia linked to heart risks.

Experts said the overall risk was small and cautioned people not to stop taking the drug on their own but to talk to their doctors.

The company played down the report of heart risks.

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Social networking sites to overtake porn sites

According to Hitwise, in America, the proportion of site visits that are pornographic is falling and people are flocking to sites categorized ""net communities and chat" chiefly social-networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.

Traffic to such sites is poised to overtake traffic to sex sites in America any day now.

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KickApps launches a new release of the KickApps platform

On the morning of Friday, May 18, KickApps launches a new release of the KickApps platform designed to make social community easier to manage and to make members’ experiences more fun.

It includes improved page usability and navigation, site performance, message board updates, improved advertsing options.

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Paris Hilton smokes a joint before heading to the joint

Pictures have surfaced of Paris Hilton surreptitiously smoking cannabis.

Paris Hilton was photographed allegedly smoking a joint while backstage at last month's Coachella music festival.

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9 Million for Porn.com domain

MXN Limited acquires Porn.com for $9 Million. Terms of the transaction were not fully disclosed, but this is the second largest adult domain transaction behind sex.com.

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Digital Music Sales to Overtake Physical by 2011 in Western Europe

Digital music sales are forecast to overtake physical sales in Western Europe by 2011 according to a report from Sweden-based market research firm Berg Insight.

The firm expects digital sales to offset the decline in physical sales and push the European market back into growth beginning next year.

The total European music retail market value forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.5%, from $11.5 billion in 2007 to $15.7 billion by 2012.

"Music enabled handsets already outsell portable music devices massively," said Berg Insight telecom analyst Hanna Hallberg.

"We expect that the handset is going to become the primary portable listening device."

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Defense Dept. Blocks MySpace, YouTube, BlackPlanet

The U.S. Department of Defense is set to block websites including MySpace, YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos and FileCabi; the photo-sharing site Photobucket; other social networks BlackPlanet and Hi5; and music services Pandora, MTV.com, 1.fm and Live365. on its worldwide networks, citing a need to protect information and lessen the strain on bandwidth.


"This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth ability, while posing a significant operational security challenge," Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander, said in a memo sent on Friday.

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Microsoft to buy Yahoo

The New York Post reports that Microsoft is urgently trying to buy Yahoo in part because it lost the opportunity to buy DoubleClick.

"They're getting tired of being left at the altar," said one banking source who has recently had talks with Microsoft. "They now seem more willing to extend themselves via a transaction to get into the game."

Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!

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Paris Hilton to go to jail?

Paris Hilton will be attending a hearing Friday for allegedly violating the terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction. Prosecutors have asked that she be jailed for 45 days,stay away from alcohol for 90 days, wear a monitoring device. They also seek to have her license suspended for an additional 4 months.

City Attorney said Hilton is being treated the same as anyone else.

"Anyone who would have conducted themselves in a way that resulted in this set of facts, we would have made the same recommendation of 45 days in county jail, regardless of whether they were a celebrity or not," he said Thursday.

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