BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier battled on Saturday to win over a large pool of undecided voters on the last day of campaigning before a federal election.Merkel told a rally in Berlin, hours after arriving on an overnight flight from a G20 summit in Pittsburgh, that her conservatives must use the final campaign hours to convince the one-third of voters who pollsters say have yet to make up their minds.”Every vote counts,” said Merkel, 55, Germany’s first woman chancellor and the only one to have grown up in communist East Germany.Security has been…

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Friendster has been slowly losing grip of their social network dominance to Facebook who, like a game of risk, has been steadily increasing its reach in countries around the globe. Bernard Leong recently posted about the growth of Facebook in Southeast Asia and while the most recent world map of social networks shows Facebook running into some trouble in Asia, some numbers are beginning to suggest that they are at least gaining some ground.

So what numbers are these based on? The latest numbers, as presented by Bernard Leong, are based on Alexa ratings which appear to be somewhat wrong…

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FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Magna will cut about 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe, the bulk in Germany, as it acts to return the carmaker to profit and pay back 4.5 billion euros ($6.55 billion) in state aid, its co-chief executive said. The Canadian auto parts supplier aims to sign a deal with former Opel parent General Motors within two weeks to buy a 55 percent stake together with Russian partner Sberbank, Siegfried Wolf said on Monday. “By 2015 we want to pay back the government-guaranteed loans. Opel will be profitable before that, however,” Wolf told a news conference. Around 4,000…

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“The economy appears to be at a turning point,” the commission said. It forecast growth of 0.2% for the July to September quarter, with Germany and France continuing to grow and Italy exiting recession. The commission also forecast the UK economy, which is outside the eurozone, would grow by 0.2% during the third quarter, marking the end of recession. Separately, official figures showed that eurozone industrial production fell by 0.3% in July compared with the previous month.

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ESET have issued a press release concerning Win32/TrojanDownloader.Bredolab.AA, which made the top ten threat listing in June ThreatSense.Net® report.
The Bredolab trojan is the top-scoring threat in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also scoring high in other European countries. It appears in the Top 5 list of threats in Austria, Poland, Turkey; in the Top 10 in Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Russia and Germany; in the Top 20 in the Ukraine and Italy, and in the Top 40 in France. In Ireland it has climbed from 40th place into the Top 15.
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His name was not exactly a name. It soundedmuch more like a declaration of war between two hugeGerman Shepherd dogs: Hans Heinrich ReinhardFalkenhausen.Oberleutenant Falkenhausen , or simply “Falkie”,as he was popularly known by every “convict” in POWCamp 17, was a unique character among all his fellowofficers for two very simple reasons : in spite of hisrather ferocious name, he was a congenial and goodhumoredguy, one of those individuals whom you feelcompletely at ease to talk to; besides, he spoke Englishwithout the slightest trace of an accent, which is not aneasy accomplishment, for a native speaker of Germanwho had never left…

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