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| Online critics take aim at $700 billion financial bailout proposal
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Bailout type
Cost to taxpayers (Source: Reuters)
Proposed Treasury Department legislation
$700 billion+
Bear Stearns financing
$29 billion
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization
$200 billion
AIG loan and nationalization
$85 billion
Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill
$300 billion
Mortgage community grants
$4 billion
JPMorgan Chase repayments
$87 billion
Loans to banks via Fed's Term Auction Facility
$200 billion+
Loans from Depression-era Exchange Stabilization Fund
$50 billion
Purchases of mortgage securities by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
$144 billion
TOTAL
$1.8 trillion+
COST PER HOUSEHOLD
$17,064+
Internet criticism of the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion financial bailout package is growing, with skepticism crossing normal ideological boundaries. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:15:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News |
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| U.S. appeals court favors Broadcom vs Qualcomm
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|  Reuters - Wireless chipmaker Broadcom Corp won a patent battle on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court affirmed that Qualcomm Inc infringed two patents used to make some of the world's most sophisticated cell phones and upheld an injunction.
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| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:53:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News |
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| Google, T-Mobile Launch 'Game Changing' G1 Phone
(PC Magazine)
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|  PC Magazine - Turn off the rumor mills, pull down the mocked-up artwork, and say goodbye to the blogger speculation. Google and T-Mobile's G1, the first mobile phone built around Google's open-source, Linux-based Android platform, is officially a product.
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| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:50:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News |
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| US-NET Summary
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| Reuters - Google and Yahoo's deal to let Google place some ads on Yahoo's search pages, which the Justice Department is reviewing, should be allowed with limits, the American Antitrust Institute said on Tuesday. Because the search advertising market is already extremely concentrated with Google by far the dominant firm, the institute argued that consumers would be best served if No. 2 Yahoo remained independent. -- read full article |
| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:43:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News |
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| Google rolls out rival to iPhone
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|  Reuters - T-Mobile has rolled out Google's answer to the iPhone as the Web search giant makes its biggest stab yet at leaping from consumers' computers into their pockets with a device cheaper than rival Apple offers.
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| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:13:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News |
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| 10 future shocks for the next 10 years
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| InfoWorld - The past 30 years of InfoWorld's existence have seen a series of future shocks, from the ascent of the personal computer to horrifying strains of malware to the sizzling sex appeal of the iPhone. In honor of InfoWorld's 30th anniversary, we've decided to take a playful look ahead at the future shocks that could occur in the next 10 years (30 years seemed a little too sci-fi). -- read full article |
| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News |
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