News - January 2, 2006
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RIM cites another patent office win in NTP fight

WASHINGTON - BlackBerry e-mail service provider Research In Motion Ltd. said on Friday the U.S. patent office has ruled against two more NTP Inc. patents in their fight over the popular service. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued "non-final actions" rejecting claims for two NTP patents involved in the dispute
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Hollinger to sell newspaper stake to Jamison Newspapers Inc.

NEW YORK, NY - Hollinger International Inc. announced that on December 19, 2005, the Company announced that its subsidiary, Hollinger Canadian Publishing Holdings Co. , has entered into agreements to sell its 70 percent interest in Great West Newspaper Group Ltd. and its 50 percent interest in Fundata Canada Inc. to Jamison Newspapers Inc. and Glacier Ventures International Corp. for total consideration of approximately CDN$47.1 million
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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Reports Fourth Quarter Results KITCHENER - Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc., a leading Canadian marketer and distributor of high-quality snack food products, announced financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal2005, ended September 30, 2005.
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Execulink makes $22.6M expansion bid COMPANY EXPERIENCES TREMENDOUS GROWTH
Eric Schmiedl

BURGESSVILLE - Execulink Group Inc. has made a $22.6-million bid for another southwestern Ontario communications company and is awaiting shareholders’ OK on the proposed deal.
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The ABCs Of IMing -Truncated Jargon Emerges From Technology
By MICHELLE QUINN,

Why laugh when you can say L-O-L instead? Erin Wilcox, 13, is fluent in typing IM abbreviations, phonetic spellings and emoticons, symbols that typing can make such as a smiley face :-). With friends, Erin regularly says "J-K" for "Just Kidding" and "B-R-B" for "Be Right Back." Instead of saying "sorry," she apologizes with "S-R-Y," the IM abbreviation for sorry. Now, the 8th grader uses S-R-Y all the time
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The Invasion of Canada- by Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca

A recent Washington Post article entitled: Raiding the Icebox; Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada, by Peter Carlson (30 December 2005),   focuses on a detailed US Plan to Invade Canada entitled "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan -- Red,"   It was formulated in the late 1920s, approved by the US War Department in 1930, updated in 1934 and 1935, withdrawn in 1939 and declassified in 1974. (See complete WP article below)
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