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South Korean 'shot dead in North'

A South Korean woman has been shot dead by a North Korean soldier in a special tourism zone in the mountains of North Korean, officials from the North say.

eBay Negotiating Minority Stake in South Koreas GMarket

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is in talks to acquire a minority stake in GMarket, a South Korean online auctioneer. The talks are with Interpark Corp., the Korean portal that owns 37 percent of the company. A spokesperson from eBay told AP that there was no certainty a deal would be reached or that it would be approved by South Korean regulators—eBay already owns a South Korean competitor, the aptly named Internet Auction. No deal terms have been announced, although shares of NASDAQ-listed GMarket shot up over 14 percent on the news. In 2006, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) took a 10 percent stake in GMarket, so they’re a beneficiary of this as well.

South Korea accuses North of hacking

NORTH Korea apparently tried to hack into the South Korean military's computer network by sending a virus-tainted email to a senior officer, an official with the South's Defence Ministry said.

South Korea accuses North of hacking

NORTH Korea apparently tried to hack into the South Korean military's computer network by sending a virus-tainted email to a senior officer, an official with the South's Defence Ministry said.

South Korea suspects North of attempted hacking

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea apparently tried to hack into the South Korean military's computer network by sending a virus-tainted email to a senior officer, an official with the South's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.

eBay seeks stake in South Korean online retailer Gmarket

Online auctioneer eBay yesterday announced that it was acquiring a minority 37-per cent stake in Gmarket Inc, lifting shares of the South Korean online retailer by as much as 16 per cent. Some analysts saw the move as the first step toward eBay taking over Gmarket and removing it as a competitor in South Korea, where the two companies battle for market share.

Hashim Amla may lead South Africa one day

In the England v South Africa series we hope there will be no repeat of the Dean Jones commentary moment when he called Hashim Amla "the terrorist". Indeed, it will be poignant watching the South African tonk it around the park. As millions cowered under apartheid, a Muslim representing South Africa would have been fantastical. Now, some say this builder of handsome hundreds could eventually captain his country, despite covering the logo for Castle Lager on his shirt: truly, South Africa is the rainbow nation.

South Korean Firm Delivers Dog Clones

Article:South Korean firm delivers commercial dog clones:/n/a/2008/08/05/international/i031222D61.DTL

South Korean LG Electronics posts profits up in second quarter

Seoul - South Korean concern LG Electronics posted profits for the second quarter up 84 per cent on the basis of strong demand for mobile phones and flat-screen television sets, in figures published Monday. The country's second-largest electronics maker said profits for the quarter had come in at 707 billion won (700 million dollars) up from 385 billion won in the same quarter last year.

North Shore Technology Council Launches North Shore Life Sciences Accelerator

The North Shore Technology Council (NSTC) announces the founding and incorporation of the North Shore Life Sciences Accelerator Inc., a new non-profit corporation resulting from the NSTC's mission to foster the region's technology clusters that are key to its economic vitality.

Man shot dead after Jerusalem bulldozer rampage

A man seized control of a bulldozer and overturned a bus on a main road in Jerusalem today, killing at least three people before he was shot dead, Israeli police said.

Scroll down: Dead Sea Scrolls go online: Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Scroll down: Dead Sea Scrolls go online: Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ( )

Russian news blogger shot dead

A news website owner in Russia's Ingushetia region has been shot dead after being detained by police. Magomed Yevloyev, who ran Ingushetiya.ru, was arrested when he flew into Nazran airport in southern Russia. He was later found outside a hospital with fatal gunshot wounds. Yevloyev was a vocal critic of the region's Kremlin-backed administration. (Via Cnet)

Appellate Court Confirms Ruling Against Fake South Korean Art Professor

SEOUL—The Seoul Western District appellate court has confirmed the ruling against the South Korean professor sentenced last March for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds, the Associated Press reports. Shin Jeon-ah will serve 18 months in jail for using her fake degree to obtain a professorship at Seoul's Dongguk University and get financial sponsorship at a museum where she worked. She has seven days to appeal.

South East Water Chooses Eptica To Manage Online Customer Service

United Kingdom - August 19, 2008 - South East Water has successfully completed the first phase of an online customer service programme with Eptica. The Eptica Email Management(R) implementation will ensure that the five-fold increase in in-bound customer email enquiries is efficiently managed and routed to appropriate agents. Eptica will give South East Water complete visibility to agent activity and provide customers with improved levels of service by means of speedier and more proficient responses. Investing in Eptica has already enabled South East water to meet industry standard response times* and increased agent productivity levels by 9.7%.

Cat dies of bird flu in South Korea

Seoul - A cat found dead in a South Korean city was infected with a virulent strain of bird flu, the first mammal in the country known to have had the H5N1 virus, health officials said on Tuesday.

Cybercrime syndicate scoops millions from South African government

Reports from South Africa suggest that a cybercrime syndicate there has defrauded the government of more than 199 million Rand (UKP £12.8 million) in a series of spyware infection-driven frauds. The frauds, which were revealed on Tuesday by the South African Minister for Finance and Economic Development, has resulted in 32 arrests in connection with more than 80 fraud counts. Commenting on the case - thought to be South Africa's largest reported cybercrime spree by a single gang - Geoff Sweeney, CTO with IT security vendor Tier-3, said that spyware attacks are notoriously difficult to stop in their tracks owing to their unpredictable nature. "The evolution of malware has reached the point where the lines are blurring between viruses, trojans and what we call multi-vector IT security threats.

Full agenda for Bush, Lee in South Korea

President Bush inspects the honor guard with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan, right, upon his arrival in Seongnam, South Korea Tuesday.

Bangai-O Spirits gets eight new levels in North America

Siliconera reports: "Treasure had an extra few months to work on Bangai-O Spirits for North America. During that time they crafted eight new levels: YAMATO, The Earth, Move the Box, Which is Moved?, Bullet's Reach, The Face, Sabu, and Sessyu. These levels can be found in the Treasure's Best (first two), Puzzle Stages (next three), and Other Stages (final three). All of the stages in Bangai-O Spirits are split into four groups in North America opposed to just ROM stages and Custom levels like in the Japanese build. Just to be clear, the fourth group in the North American build is Custom."

Sony T700 & the 15mm thick Sony T77 - two new Cyber-shot cameras for release next month

It's all about the cameras today with Sony leading out two new compact piccie grabbers from their photographic stables. Part of the Cyber-shot range, they go by the names of the Sony Cyber-shot T700 and the Sony Cyber-shot T77 and just to confuse matters even more, Sony Ericsson brought out the their new T700 mobile today. Yeah, that caused a little fun for a while.

Michael Vaughan captaincy record

Aug 03, South Africa, Lord's, SA inns & 92 runs; Aug 03, South Africa, Trent Bridge, Eng 70 runs; Aug 03, South Africa, Headingley, SA 191 runs; Sep 03, South Africa, The Oval, Eng 9 wkts.

Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police

J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had just landed in Ingushetiya. "Yevloyev... was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov [a close ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]. Prosecutors have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation after Yevloyev was shot in a police car in Narzan, the capital of volatile Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, Russian media reported. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office, Vladimir Markin, said 'an incident' took place after Yevloyev was taken into a police car 'resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died i

BlackBerry Waving the White Flag and Loving It

Jesus has already declared BlackBerry dead in the wake of iPhone 2.0. "Dead dead dead." Apparently, he's not the only one to think so. Joy of Tech does RIM the favor of waving the white flag for them. What do you think? Is it the push email or the keyboard that really matters? Here's some Mossberg Solution tips to juice a BlackBerry up if you're feeling left behind by the hype.

England trounce feeble South Africa to wrap up one-day series Andrew Flintoff was England's match-winner with 78 not out as South Africa lost by 126 runs

Kevin Pietersen challenged his side to finish the NatWest one-day series in style after England took an unassailable 3-0 lead with an emphatic victory over South Africa at The Oval.

Mechanistic Studies of the Triggered Release of Liposomal Contents by Matrix Metalloproteinase-9

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105, and Proteomics Core Facility, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202

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