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RIM PlayBook: A case study on how to miss opportunities?

PlayBook carries RIM's hopes that the device will vault it over Android and Apple's iPad, to position it as a tablet of choice. However, RIM's answer to Apple's iPad and Motorola Xoom and hundreds of other tablets comes in bit late.
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World Market Overview 04/14/2011

The Australian share market pared early losses to close around 0.2 per cent higher, as investors snapped up bank stocks and other cyclicals with attractive dividend yields.
A gas drilling site on the Marcellus Shale is seen in Hickory, Pennsylvania.

Industry slams study saying Shale gas not planet-friendly

Natural gas extracted from shale formations has a greater greenhouse gas footprint - in the form of methane emissions - than conventional gas, oil and coal over a 20 year period. This calls into question the logic of its use as a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels, says a new study.

Freelance 'slaves' strike back: Bloggers sue HuffPost, AOL

Before the afterglow of a $315-million windfall AOL acquisition faded, Huffington Post was in the news again; this time for wrong reasons. A prominent freelance writer and trade unionist and a group of bloggers have filed a class action suit against Arianna Huffington, the HuffPost and AOL for allegedly mistreating the unpaid writers who provided content to the site in its growth years.

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