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Deals of the Hour / October 8, 2010, 4:42 am

UPDATE 1-Nokia Siemens Networks says has won 17 LTE deals

HELSINKI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks [NSN.UL] has won 17 orders for new LTE network equipment, with six customers of these still unpublished, a spokesman for the company said on Tuesday. Nokia Siemens is battling key ... (Source: Reuters 2010-10-05T08:33:34Z)

Israeli troops kill 2 Hamas militants in raid on a house in the West Bank

JERUSALEM - Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas militants in an early-morning raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, the Israeli military and Hamas officials said, raising tensions as peace talks remain stuck over Israeli settlements. The two ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-10-08T11:07:30Z)

Red Sox ownership reach agreement to buy English Premier League's Liverpool FC

The Boston Red Sox owners have tried their hand at auto racing, golf, college sports and — of course — baseball. They even kicked a little soccer around before making a deal to buy Liverpool of the English Premier League. New England Sports Ventures ... (Source: MLive.com 2010-10-06T21:54:07Z)

Obama won't sign notary bill on homes

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama won't sign legislation that critics said would have eased the way for banks to process home foreclosures, his spokesman said Thursday. The bill would have required courts to recognize notarizations across state lines ... (Source: Houston Chronicle 2010-10-08T05:31:04Z)

$20 million from Sellwood Bridge project to fund light rail

Local leaders said they have struck a landmark deal paving the way for two major projects -- a new Sellwood Bridge and a new light rail line. Consider the total price tag of the two projects at stake: more than $1.5 billion. The bridge project has been in ... (Source: kgw.com 2010-10-07T20:12:43Z)

Ecuador court orders 13 police held during probe

A court issued an order Thursday authorizing the jailing of 12 police officers and a police colonel while prosecutors investigate last week's police uprising that resulted in five deaths. After a seven-hour hearing, Criminal Court Judge Tania Molina ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-10-08T01:27:41Z)

Correa won't dissolve Ecuador Congress now: minister

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador President Rafael Correa has backed off the idea of dissolving Congress and ruling by decree and plans to revise an austerity law that triggered a bloody, short-lived police revolt, a government minister said on Saturday. "This ... (Source: Reuters 2010-10-02T21:01:36Z)

James Dyson Foundation Names Top Three Winners

A buoyancy bazooka which could save hundreds of lives in the US has won this year's international James Dyson Award. Longreach , chosen from a final shortlist of 15 by inventor James Dyson, shoots an emergency buoyancy aid up to nearly 500 feet out to sea ... (Source: Dexigner 2010-10-06T12:07:08Z)

Air Force awards $12.4 million project to Boeing

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force has awarded Boeing Co. a $12.4 million project to provide a next-generation communications system used on B-52 aircraft. The Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded the work ... (Source: Dayton Daily News 2010-10-07T14:57:45Z)

At least 46 officers detained in Ecuador revolt

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador's interior minister said Wednesday that 46 police officers have been detained for alleged participation in the police revolt against President Rafael Correa that claimed five lives. A lawyer for some officers said a total of 57 ... (Source: Houston Chronicle 2010-10-07T02:26:08Z)

Physicists share Nobel

A pair of Russian-born physicists working at the University of Manchester in England have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the remarkable properties of ultrathin carbon flakes known as graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said ... (Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2010-10-06T04:14:41Z)

Sydney designer wins Dyson Award in UK

A 24-year-old industrial design graduate from Sydney has won the James Dyson Award in the UK for a bazooka which fires buoyancy aids out to sea. Samuel Adeloju's invention was honoured for its ingenuity on Tuesday amid hopes his bazooka could save ... (Source: ninemsn 2010-10-05T12:22:38Z)

Obama Sends Foreclosure Bill Back To Congress

President Barack Obama has rejected a bill that the White House fears could worsen the mounting problems caused by flawed or misleading documents used by banks in home foreclosures. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that Obama is ... (Source: NPR News 2010-10-08T10:24:33Z)

Red Sox owners agree to buy Liverpool football club

Sooooolllllllddddd. Owners of the Boston Red sox have reached an agreement to buy the Liverpool football club of the English Premier League. The $477 million bid by New England Sports Ventures, the holding company for the Red Sox, was accepted by Liverpool ... (Source: USA Today 2010-10-06T17:43:35Z)

City Hall: Sellwood bridge agreement in place as Portland Mayor Sam Adams and County ...

Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen agreed in principle Wednesday to a deal for the Sellwood Bridge that would divert potential project savings to fill the gap facing TriMet's light-rail project to Milwaukie. Adams and Cogen ... (Source: Oregonian 2010-10-07T01:50:20Z)

Controversial artwork won't be returned to display

A piece of artwork denounced as obscene by church members and allegedly ripped up by a Montana woman using a crowbar won't be returned to display because of safety concerns, city officials said Thursday. "The incident yesterday was very troubling and also ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-10-07T23:47:28Z)

Satellites drive steady stream of new business

The most talked-about technology in recent weeks is not new technologically speaking, its name doesn't begin with a lowercase "i," and relatively few people have actually seen it. But all things satellite could hardly be hotter — for predicting the ... (Source: Washington Technology 2010-10-07T23:33:09Z)

Bazooka buoyancy aid winds Dyson award

A bazooka which fires buoyancy aids out to sea was honoured for its ingenuity today. Samuel Adeloju, 24, an industrial design graduate from Sydney, won the James Dyson Award amid hopes his invention could save thousands of lives. Mr Adeloju's design, the ... (Source: The Independent 2010-10-05T16:54:39Z)

Ultra-thin carbon is worth a Nobel

A pair of Russian-born physicists working at the University of Manchester in England have won the Nobel Prize in physics for investigating the remarkable properties of ultra-thin carbon flakes known as graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said ... (Source: Herald Tribune 2010-10-06T05:19:07Z)

Nokia Siemens Networks says has won 17 LTE deals

HELSINKI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has won 17 orders for new LTE network equipment, with six customers of these still unpublished, a spokesman for the company said on Tuesday. Nokia Siemens is battling key rivals ... (Source: The Guardian 2010-10-05T08:47:53Z)

Physicists share Nobel for carbon flakes

A pair of Russian-born physicists working at the University of Manchester in England have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the remarkable properties of ultrathin carbon flakes known as graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said ... (Source: Bend Bulletin 2010-10-06T11:02:43Z)

Obama rejects notary bill amid foreclosure 'caution'

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama won't sign legislation that critics said would have eased the way for banks to process home foreclosures, his spokesman said. The bill would have required courts to recognize notarizations across state lines, including ... (Source: Cincinnati.com 2010-10-08T09:27:17Z)

Ericsson, Huawei win deal for Bharti Bangladesh operations

Bharti Airtel will partner telecom gear makers Ericsson and Huawei to expand and manage its mobile network in Bangladesh, where it took control of a mobile carrier this year. Bharti said it would not share financial details of the contracts with Ericsson ... (Source: Daily News and Analysis 2010-10-07T10:25:44Z)

$20M from Sellwood Bridge project to fund Milwaukie light rail

Local leaders said they have struck a landmark deal paving the way for two major projects -- a new Sellwood Bridge and a new light rail line. Consider the total price tag of the two projects at stake: more than $1.5 billion. The bridge project has been in ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-10-07T23:18:50Z)

Montana woman targeted art in Loveland

FORT COLLINS — Kathleen Lorie Folden drove 690-miles from Kalispell, Mont., to Loveland specifically to destroy a work of art that some interpret as portraying Jesus Christ involved in a sex act, according to arrest papers released a day after Folden ... (Source: Denver Post 2010-10-08T01:06:12Z)

Israeli Peace Talks May Avoid Collapse on Settlement Compromise

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Israel signalled that a deal may be reached to prevent the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. Incentives offered by the Obama administration to Israel may allow Prime Minister ... (Source: BusinessWeek 2010-10-08T08:30:01Z)

Israel's West Bank settlement slowdown expires; no Palestinian decision to quit peace talks

REVAVA, West Bank (AP) — Jewish settlers released balloons and broke ground on a kindergarten in celebration Sunday as a 10-month construction slowdown expired, while U.S. and Israeli leaders tried to figure out how to keep Palestinians from walking out ... (Source: Chicago Tribune 2010-09-27T07:02:51Z)

Boston Red Sox jump feet first into another new sport with deal to buy Liverpool soccer team

BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox owners have tried their hand at golf, auto racing, U.S. college sports and — of course — baseball. Now comes a deal to buy Liverpool of the English Premier League. New England Sports Ventures reached an agreement with the ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-10-06T16:39:09Z)

Boeing in potential $11.9 bln B-52 bomber deal-US

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Boeing Co ( BA.N ) received a potential $11.9 billion, eight-year U.S. Air Force contract for modernization of its B-52 Stratofortress bomber's weapons systems, the U.S. Defense Department said on Wednesday. No funds were ... (Source: Reuters 2010-09-29T23:42:38Z)

Stanford professor says woman destroyed copy of his controversial artwork

Kathleen Lorie Folden drove 690-miles from Kalispell, Mont., to a suburb of Denver, Colorado, specifically to destroy a work of art that some interpret as portraying Jesus Christ involved in a sex act, according to arrest papers released a day after Folden ... (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-10-08T03:07:54Z)

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