http://www.onnafest.com A Bloggers Daily Rant Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:07:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC said on Wednesday it plans to cut 1,000 white-collar jobs by the end of September to slash costs and survive a deep industry downturn. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/chrysler-to-cut-1000-jobs-liquidity-unchanged/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/qualcomm-nokia-deal-ends-long-legal-battle/ NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls and young women who devote much time to the Internet, get too little sleep or regularly drink alcohol are more likely than their peers to put on excess weight, a new study suggests. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/internet-alcohol-and-sleep-tied-to-girls-weight/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Top seed Jelena Jankovic overcame some early jitters before battling to a 7-5 6-2 victory over Vania King at the Los Angeles Classic on Wednesday, the Serb advancing to the third round on a day of several upsets. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/jankovic-shakes-off-rust-to-battle-past-king/ BOSTON (Reuters) - British researchers have located a gene responsible for muscle pain or weakness experienced by some people taking statin drugs to fight "bad" cholesterol, they reported on Wednesday. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/gene-tied-to-muscle-weakness-from-cholesterol-drugs/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees extended their winning streak to six games by beating the Minnesota Twins 5-1 on Wednesday to complete a sweep of their three-game series at Yankee Stadium. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/yankees-complete-sweep-of-twins-for-sixth-win-in-a-row/ CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tribune Co on Wednesday narrowed the potential list of bidders for the storied Chicago Cubs baseball team to 3-5 groups bidding $1 billion or more, according to sources briefed on the matter. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/tribune-trims-list-of-cubs-bidders-sources/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The script never got in the way of a good fight as comic actors Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly improvised their way through family warfare in the movie "Step Brothers," which opens on Friday. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/ferrell-reilly-ad-lib-way-through-step-brothers/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drivers in most of the United States and some of the UK can find out where the police speed traps and so-called red-light cameras are on the Internet -- for free. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/website-claims-to-help-drivers-avoid-speed-traps/ FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ehssan Dariani, founder of German social network studiVZ, never made any secret of his admiration for Facebook, which is now suing studiVZ for copying its ideas and look. More: continued here http://www.onnafest.com/2008/07/24/german-fakebook-site-incurs-wrath-of-facebook/