Diet supplement king gets 50 months in prison

Writing the final chapter in a strange criminal saga, a federal judge has sentenced the president of a Georgia company that manufactures popular lines of herbal dietary supplements to 50 months in prison for illegally selling knockoff prescription drugs over the Internet.

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Huge find of rare earth metals in southwestern Greenland. Will pose significant challenge to China's near-monopoly of the natural resources critical to many hi-tech industries, including national defense. Australian firm set to develop the Greenland site.

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Imagine a world where you wouldn't need to plug in your electronics to get their power or charged and totally replacing the need of batteries. Well that world might be here...

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When President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this week, more than 20,000 people outside the U.S. received free text messages about his speech.

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"Gershon Levitsky has a reputation of being an outstanding physicist, dealing with the complex secrets and dynamics of gases while developing optimal consumables at a hi-tech company in Jerusalem - but who would have ever imagined that this soft-spoken man had such a fiery and se …

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Scientists in Germany have developed the "Hotel Room of the Future" to show hotels how they can use the latest technology to make guests feel more comfortable.

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Officials in an Israeli city have come up with an innovative way of tracking dog owners who allow their pets to foul the streets - DNA analysis. Authorities in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, are setting up a special DNA database of local dogs.

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The lapsed website of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has been snapped up by an opportunistic German marketeer.

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Someone was attacking women in Fairfax County and Alexandria, grabbing them from behind and sometimes punching and molesting them before running away. After logging 11 cases in six months, police finally identified a suspect.

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Got a question regarding hi tech business and communications strategy?

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A cooler-than-thou rundown of the acronymic newspeak around technology (see, we can do it too!). Handy list of acronyms for the non-geek.

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(Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments) as a machine that would demonstrate accelerator technologies - but scientists believe it could do much more; it should be used to run an experimental programme.

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At the TLV Entrepreneurs Meetup event, we discussed the question of how early should a company begin to plan its brand and marketing strategy.

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Handheld computers could help give a voice to the huge numbers of people that do not officially exist. The gadgets are being used to gather data about the estimated one billion people who live in shanty towns.

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Soon, pilots from all airlines flying into Israeli airspace will have to enter a numbered sequence to prove they are not terrorist hijackers. The secret code will be generated by the Security Code System, designed by Elbit Systems complete with a credit-card-sized keypad.

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THT Research Newsletter - The Latest News on Global IT Manufacturing Fri, Feb 23, 2007

THT Research - Weekly Newsletter The Latest News on Global IT Contract Manufacturing From www.THTresearch.com Fri, Feb 23, 2007 ACCOUNTABILITY CORNER BRING ON THE ORDERS CHINA COMPANY NEWS AND INDUSTRY TRENDS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTES M & A  …

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Holiday gift buying has never been more exciting. Portability has gone wild this year, and a stunning array of innovative audio and video devices have appeared that let us carry our music, movies and television programs anywhere.

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On why it is still wiser to invest in a Mac

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