AMA Education System (AMAES), recently signed a deal with Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) to put up a school that offers educational programs primarily designed to meet the huge employment demand in China.  The deal was formalized at BIT's Zhuhai campus located in Zhuhai, Guandong Province recently. Ambassador Amable R. Aguiluz V represented AMA while BIT President Dong Zhaojun signed in behalf of his school.

Part of the deal is a construction of an institute by AMA in the 3.3 million sq.m. lot Zhuhai campus which BIT will provide. The initial courses that will be offered by AMA are nursing, tourism and hotel and restaurant management.  Ambassador Aguiluz V recognized the importance of a global presence and the vast potential of China as a global investment site.  This prompted AMAES to launch and establish its distinct brand of education not only in China but in other parts of the globe as well.

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PC virus celebrates its 20th anniversary

The PC virus celebrates its 20th year of existence following the detection back in January '86 of the boot sector virus, Brain, which infected computers via floppy disk. While the virus Brain itself was relatively harmless, it set in motion a long chain of events leading up to today's virus situation.

At present there are over 150,000 viruses and the number continues to grow rapidly. The biggest change over these 20 years has not been in the types of viruses or amount of malware but rather it has been in the motives of the virus writers.

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Imation buys Memorex for 0 Million

Imation Corp., maker of disk and tape memory for computers, said Thursday it has agreed to buy Memorex International for 0 million in cash in a bid to boost its consumer business with one of the country's most recognizable brand names.

Imation said it expects to close the sale by the middle of the second quarter of 2006, using some of its 7.6 million in cash on hand. It could pay up to an additional million over three years, depending on Memorex's financial performance.

Imation plans to keep the Memorex brand and products alive, and will look at whether it can extend some Imation-made technological innovations to them.  Memorex has about 200 employees, most at its headquarters in Cerritos, Calif., which Imation said it will maintain.

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Stratascope Denies Providing Study to Oracle

Stratascope Inc., announced it has discovered that its research had been mischaracterized, misrepresented and referenced without permission by Oracle Corporation to make claims about Oracle's performance in the retail industry. Stratascope announced it has called upon Oracle to correct its press release issued at the National Retail Federation show in New York City.

In a January 16 announcement, Oracle claimed that "the Stratoscope (sic) research study analyzed all retailers trading on any public stock exchange worldwide, with revenues higher than 0 million and at least 80 percent of revenues coming from retail activities." Stratascope did not perform this study for Oracle, nor did it analyze the data cited. The press release misleads the public by improperly attributing capabilities and actions to Stratascope. Stratascope has requested that Oracle issue a correction to their press release, referenced above.

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Sex.com Sold for Million

Controversial website Sex.com was sold for a whopping million to a company based in Boston called Escom LLC, making it the all-time reported record breaking domain name sale of all-time.  Sex.com is owned by Gary Kremen, the founder of matchmaking site, Match.com.

The sale practically doubled the price of the business.com domain name which was sold in 1999 for .5 million.  Other major domain acquisitions include: beer.com (M), AsSeenOnTv.com (.1M), shop.com (.5M), Altavista.com (.3M), wine.com (.9M), telephone.com (M), autos.com and express.com (.8M), wallstreet.com and rock.com (M).

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Opera Mobile Web Browser in Beta for Windows

Opera Software released the Opera Mobile 8.5 Web browser for Windows Mobile Pocket PC (PPC). Opera 8.5 beta runs on Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0, offering Opera's full and fast Web surfing experience on the full range of Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices.

Opera 8.5 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC supports all major Web standards, including CSS2, DOM 2 and JavaScript, and offers a fast, secure and user-friendly Internet experience unlike any other on these devices. Based on Opera's latest core code, Opera 8.5 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC includes Opera's rendering technology that dynamically reformats Web pages to fit the width of any screen size.

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Pacquiao Win Hugs Online News Headlines

Minutes after Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao decked Eric Morales on the 10th round, the news of his victory hugged the online news world.  More than 100 websites from all over the world reported the historical win of Pacquiao being the only boxer who was able to take "El Terrible" off his feet - not once but twice.

Some of the headlines are as follows: Pacquiao Right Hook Crushed Morales; Pacquiao Batters Morales in Junior Welterweight bout; Focused Pacquiao Downs Fading Morales; Pacquiao Powers to Victory; Pacquiao defeats Morales with KO; Pacquiao stops Morales in 10th round; Pacquiao Mugs Morales! and a lot more.

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