centerimg title="Houdini Tools Help You Escape" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Houdini Tools Help You Escape" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/11/houdini-tools.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pIf you ever found yourself in the dire situation where you're trapped in a car that somehow ended up in a freezing river at this time of the year, then the a href="http://www.houdinitool.com/"Houdini Tools/a will definitely come in handy. Don't go do something silly like leaving it in the trunk though - keep it accessible from the driver's seat at all times so that you're able to bust open the car window and cut away your seat belt to save your own life. You can choose from the Houdini Automotive Escape Tool and the Houdini Pro Emergency Rescue Tool, where the former comes with a safety whistle and LED light while the latter can even break through tempered glass. The Houdini Automotive Escape Tool will retail for $24.95 while the Houdini Pro Emergency Rescue Tool is more expensive at $39.95, but that's a small price to pay considering how it could save lives in an emergency./p pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/houdini_tools_help_you_escape.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/houdini_tools_help_you_escape.html"Houdini Tools Help You Escape/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081119175527" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081119175527?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081119175527" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081119175527amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fhoudini_tools_help_you_escape.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/qXGMbF5HOFHoaYV94qDK-Lv9klg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/qXGMbF5HOFHoaYV94qDK-Lv9klg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=McTPpNXM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=nUydakzi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=nUydakzi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=elCkEHaS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=fHx67tuw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=fHx67tuw" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=3UWvQPfu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=3UWvQPfu" border="0"/img/a /div

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/31326?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+%27If+it+was+possible+to+fail+-+I+failed%27ch=Environmentc3=The+Guardianc4=Ethical+living+%28Environment%29%2CTransport+UK%2CEnvironment%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Livingc6=Patrick+Barkhamc7=2008_11_20c8=1120880c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Ethical+livingc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FEthical+living" width="1" height="1" //divpI like to think of myself as a green driver. In my quest to beat my car manufacturer's official fuel consumption figures (so-called hypermiling), I smugly cruise at an energy-saving, diesel-powered 56mph. But am I really driving as efficiently as I think? /ppI drove - slowly - to Bedfordshire to find out. /ppI had seen the intriguingly named Millbrook Proving Ground on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson et al thrashed some trucks around its 45 miles of twisty track. For the BP Ultimate green driving test, however, I was required to proceed super-sedately in a two-litre petrol Ford S-Max./ppThe greenest drivers complete the 7.85-mile course - a mix of stop-start city driving, hill starts, mountain tracks and motorways - on one litre of petrol. I would see how far a litre would take me. (Disappointingly, I would not actually come to a halt; the engineer's laptop just beeped when I used up my litre, while two data loggers kept track of the vehicle's speed and fuel consumption.)/ppI was not given any tips beforehand, but how hard could it be? I may not be Lewis Hamilton but anyone can drive slowly. As I climbed into the S-Max, memories of my real driving test flooded back. I had fluked a pass despite being so nervous that my left leg shook uncontrollably whenever I pressed the clutch. Fifteen years on, I pulled out of the parking bay and stalled./ppTackling the "city" stretch first, I had to keep stopping and starting. Anthony Sale, a Millbrook engineer, sat in the back, quietly making notes about my driving on his laptop. After coasting up to a few gloriously empty roundabouts in neutral - believing this would help my fuel economy - I came to the incredibly steep truck slopes. Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill. /ppNext up was the twisting "Alpine" road, the stuff of test-drive dreams. I trundled sensibly through the gears and tutted at the asphalt patch where James Bond's - or rather, Daniel Craig's - stuntman had taken a huge chunk out of the road when rolling his Aston Martin in Casino Royale. And at that moment, not even five miles into the course, Sale's laptop gave a disapproving beep. I had, in effect, run out of fuel./ppI still had one stretch left: the high-speed bowl. This section simulates motorway driving, except there are five lanes and, rather thrillingly, futuristic-looking Saabs and Opels sped past me at 100mph. Here, surely, I could excel. I smoothly took the car up to 56mph and held it there in fifth gear./ppBack at the test centre, I was ushered into the results room. Sale holds the record for the "perfect run"; he achieved 34mpg, emitting 191g of COsup2;. /ppMy score, however, was a shock. The good news? I had beaten motoring correspondent Quentin Willson. The bad? If this test could be failed, I was a failure. I averaged just 24.31mpg - 40% less efficient than the ideal score - and emitted 267g of COsup2;. Over a year (and 10,000 miles), my inefficient driving would cost me an extra pound;558.94 in fuel and, even worse, dump more than an extra tonne of COsup2; into the atmosphere - 4,301kg in total./ppWhere had I gone so wrong? Despite trying to drive smoothly, I had braked and accelerated far more than necessary. The key to fuel efficient driving, Sale explains, is to keep your speed consistent. That requires concentration and anticipation. "It's looking much further ahead, it's lifting off the accelerator much earlier rather than keeping at the same speed and braking at the last moment."/ppMy acceleration should have been slower and steadier. "Imagine you've got an egg on the throttle and you don't want to break it," says Sale. Gear changes should have been smooth and progressive./ppMy supposedly fuel-saving habit of slipping the car into neutral to coast up to traffic lights was not only unsafe, but actually used more fuel than driving in gear. "What you really want to be doing is coasting in gear," explains Sale, so that the engine is being turned over by the movement of the wheels. Put it in neutral and the engine has to use fuel to keep it idling. /ppPerhaps a green driving element should be added to the real driving test. At present, this test is too expensive to offer to the public although BP is touring the country to pass on green driving tips and bust some myths./ppThe biggest is that green driving slows you down. Despite driving 16mph faster than the optimum speed - 40mph in fifth gear - along the motorway section, just like the fabled hare I still finished the course more than a minute slower than the most economical drive because of my stop-start style. So the tortoise is not only more fuel efficient, it is faster too. "Everyone thinks that driving economically is driving slowly," says Sale. "It isn't. It's driving smoothly. You can drive economically and get somewhere quickly as well"/ph2How to get the most from your fuel /h2pstrongShut your windows and turn off the air con/strong/ppYou can leave windows open at speeds below 40mph, where there is a minimal increase in fuel-sapping aerodynamic drag. Air con increases fuel consumption at all speeds./ppstrongCheck your tyre pressure regularly/strong/ppUnder-inflated tyres increase the rolling resistance between the tyres and the road, causing you to use more fuel./ppstrongRemove car clutter/strong/ppAll of us tend to have unnecessary clutter - and weight - in cars. I've got a heavy box of maps. Removing these and roof rails when not in use can reduce fuel consumption./ppstrongLook further ahead/strong/ppThe key to fuel-efficient driving is driving smoothly. Better anticipation of hazards ahead means less needless acceleration and less sharp breaking. Coasting to a halt in gear is a big fuel saver./ppstrongMaintain your car/strong/ppChange your air filter annually and ensure your engine is working effectively. Fuel companies claim you will get more miles from a tank of (more expensive) premium-grade fuel. This is said to improve engine combustion and enable the car to run more efficiently./ppstrongStop driving/strong/ppEveryone can cut down on short journeys. Short drives are uneconomical: when the engine is cold, it uses more fuel than when it reaches the optimum working temperature. Catalytic converters, which reduce exhaust emissions, are also less efficient when cold./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicalliving"Ethical living/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/transport"Transport/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Environmentcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227179756172112011162445102"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Environmentcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227179756172112011162445102" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/56517?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Bloodbath+on+the+highstreetch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Woolworths+%28Business%29%2CMarks+and+Spencer+Group+%28Business%29%2CDSG+International+%28Business%29%2CSports+Direct+International+%28Business%29%2CRetail+industry+%28Business%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CEconomics+%28Business%29%2CMoney%2CBusiness%2CRecession+%28UK%29%2CUK+newsc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Julia+Finchc7=2008_11_20c8=1120861c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Woolworthsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FWoolworths" width="1" height="1" //divpThe scale of the crisis facing Britain's high streets was underlined in dramatic fashion yesterday as Woolworths revealed it was seeking a rescue takeover of its stores and Marks Spencer slashed its prices by 20% in an attempt to pull in shoppers and shift unsold stock./ppWoolworths is likely to get just pound;1 for its loss-making 800-store chain. The decision to seek a buyer for the shops in mid-November reveals that the chain is dangerously close to bankruptcy. It makes 90% of its profits in the six weeks before Christmas and should be raking in cash at this time of the year, selling Christmas goods and toys. /ppMarks Spencer's sale is its first pre-Christmas clearance for four years. The MS boss Sir Stuart Rose has often criticised so-called "guerrilla sales" for antagonising shoppers who have paid the full price for the same merchandise./ppHowever, MS stores are opening at 8am today and many of the biggest outlets are staying open until midnight to give shoppers extra time to take advantage of lower prices./ppOther retailers feeling the squeeze include Sports Direct, owned by the billionaire Mike Ashley, and DSG, formerly known as Dixons./ppDSG's shares lost 31% of their value yesterday, closing at just 15p. At that level the business has a value of just pound;275m - equal to about 10 days' sales. The group is facing declining prices as well as fewer sales./ppRetailers, who employ one in 10 of the UK workforce, are facing a perfect storm of trading problems: consumers have stopped spending as fears escalate about house prices and unemployment and the cost of buying in goods from overseas manufacturers is rising as a result of the fall in sterling. At the same time credit insurers, who protect suppliers from non-payment of invoices in the event of a retailer going bust, have stopped providing cover to some store chains./ppOne City retail specialist said the outlook for high street operators was exceptionally tough: "Christmas 2008 has the feel of being the worst retailing Christmas for many years." Retail executives fear a series of financial crises and collapses in the coming weeks, especially with quarterly store rents due on December 24./ppThe grim news from the high street came as leading shares took a fresh tumble, losing nearly 5% of their value. The FTSE-100 closed down 202.87 pts at 4005.68. /ppAnalysts say clothing sales have gone into steep decline in the last two weeks and MS is not the first to slash prices at a time of the year when retailers hope to be selling at full price./ppDebenhams is running a 25%-off threeday sale and Bhs, which offered 20% off everything a week ago, now has up to 50% off selected lines. Sir Philip Green's Arcadia brands - which include Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge - are also said to be considering big price reductions./ppCity retail specialist Freddie George, at broker Seymour Pierce, said the MS one-day reduction was "a clear sign that sales are well behind budget in the lead up to Christmas". He is urging investors to sell MS shares. Yesterday they sank to 200p - their lowest level for more than eight years. Just 18 months ago they were changing hands at 740p./ppSports Direct's shares also hit a record low, losing 13% of their value to 32p. Investors who bought the shares when they came to the market less than two years ago have now seen 90% of their value wiped out./ppWoolworths hopes to sell its stores to Hilco, a US-based group that specialises in distressed companies. Hilco may put the business into administration so that it can offload its unprofitable stores. That is likely to mean large job cuts among Woolworths' 25,000 store workers. /ppWoolworths refused to comment but a source familiar with Hilco said: "You don't get into bed with a group like Hilco unless things are pretty tight". /ppHilco would pay only a nominal sum for Woolworths, but would also take over some of the retailer's near-pound;300m of debt. The store chain said a deal was not certain. Woolworths would retain its two other businesses, which distribute DVDs, books and music to other retailers./ppThe beleaguered retailer's shares collapsed to just over 2p, valuing the 99-year- old retail group - a cornerstone of shopping centres in towns and cities throughout the country - at just pound;34m./ppIn recent years the chain has been squeezed by the supermarkets, internet retailers and specialist high street stores. But it remains a huge operation, with sales of about pound;3bn a year. It still sells more sweets than any other retailer and is among the top five in entertainment sales, toys, children's clothing and homewares. Financially, however, it is on its knees. In the first six months of this year it crashed pound;100m into the red./ppThe new dip on the high street came as department store group John Lewis's sales were last week down a huge 14% on 2007 levels. Sales have also gone into reverse at its online operation for the first time since JohnLewis.com started in 2001./ppStore chains which have had at least some of their credit insurance removed include Woolworths, Debenhams, Currys, Focus, Poundstretcher, Ideal World and TJ Hughes. Without cover retailers have to pay for supplies upfront, in cash, rather than having the time to sell goods to customers before settling suppliers' bills. /ppYesterday a source close to Woolworths said the removal of its credit cover had been a key factor in its decision to seek a rescuer./ph2MPC mulled 2% cut/h2pA fresh cut in interest rates looks likely next month after the Bank of England revealed its monetary policy committee considered cutting the cost of borrowing by more than the 1.5 percentage points reduction it announced two weeks ago. In a clear signal that a new cut is on the cards when the committee meets in two weeks, the minutes of the last meeting showed members believed "a very significant reduction in bank rate - possibly in excess of two percentage points - might be required". /ppThe City now expects a 0.5 cut, to leave rates at 2.5% - within sight of the all-time low of 2%./ppThe Bank said it wanted to see the size of Alistair Darling's pre-budget report before assessing the scale of a further easing of monetary policy. The MPC said it also wanted to see whether October's coordinated efforts to shore up banking had increased the flow of credit. 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Police at Bedworth carried out a joint operation with The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (Elspa) and Warwickshire Trading Standards on Wednesday, during which a search warrant was executed at a property in Keresley End, Bedworth.

During the search on November 12, officers recovered over £16000 worth of counterfeit goods from a house in Keresley End including a quantity of chips that modify video games consoles, video games and videos.

A 38 year old man from Keresley End was arrested after the search. He was taken into custody at Nuneaton police station and released on police bail on Thursday November 13, to return to the police station on February 14 2009.

Speaking about the operation, ELSPA's managing director, Michael Rawlinson, said:: "As always, ELSPA is indebted to the country's Trading Standards Departments and the police teams with which they work. Intellectual property theft is growing and the loss of income by the actions of such thieves can threaten the very viability of games developers and publishers. Publishers often invest many £millions making a game, and copying games and altering machines to play illegally copied games, both make it harder for publishers to cover their costs. Often the unseen cost of piracy is lost industry jobs."

The global economic downturn may make 2008 the first year-to-year decline for the industry since the dot-com bust of 2001, said iSuppli.

If mortgage lending was the Wild West during the boom years, foreclosure-prevention counseling is the lucrative new frontier of the bust. pa href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?a=WyXUpX"img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?i=WyXUpX" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/458676892" height="1" width="1"/

If mortgage lending was the Wild West during the boom years, foreclosure-prevention counseling is the lucrative new frontier of the bust. pa href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?a=juCVdD"img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?i=juCVdD" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/458676893" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49243b3414b9b9e500c2c074maxX=400maxY=137" border="0" alt="Everyone.jpg" title="Everyone.jpg" width="400" height="137" /Read up on what everyone is saying about who should or inevitibly will be Yahoo's next CEO. Then a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/choose-yahoo-s-new-ceo-round-2-vote-here-"go vote for your choice/a or write-in a name in the comments./p p /p p /p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b6914b9b9e500c2c15b" border="0" alt="AllthingsD.gif" title="AllthingsD.gif" width="231" height="34" /Writes a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081118/yahoos-peter-chernin-principle-and-other-ceo-choices/"BoomTown/a's Kara Swisher: "Obviously, the dream CEO for Yahoo is News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin. Chernin has the right resume: Experienced at running large and complex organizations; savvier than most in media about the Internet; able to make the kinds of dramatic decisions needed; and, perhaps best of all, signaling-a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chernin14-2008nov14,0,6268401.story"via the Los Angeles Times/a-just this past week that he was open to leaving the powerful media and entertainment conglomerate for something new./p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b7914b9b9e500c2c1a0" border="0" alt="NewYorkTimes.gif" title="NewYorkTimes.gif" width="163" height="29" //p pWrites a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/yahoo-doesnt-need-a-ceo-as-much-as-an-editor-in-chief/"Bits/a's Saul Hansell: "Yahoo doesn't need a chief executive so much as an editor in chief. And I mean the sort of imperial editor who has a vision of how to create an environment that lures in both readers and advertisers, like Tina Brown, Clay Felker or Adam Moss."/p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b8e14b9b9e500c2c1fe" border="0" alt="paidcontent.gif" title="paidcontent.gif" width="246" height="54" /Writes a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-ceo-search-some-possible-names-miller-chernin-freston/"PaidContent/a's Rafat Ali: "Whether it wants a Silicon Valley-engineering-culture-steeped executive; or a media-business-New York-centric executive who will be the ad-industry bridge; or for that matter, an entertainment executive from LA, who would help build Yahoo's brand reach and bring in the big bucks (Terry Semel experience will make it wary, though). That decision would help define the future of Yahoo, and whether it survives as an independent company"/p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b6114b9b9e500c2c141" border="0" alt="Gigaom.gif" title="Gigaom.gif" width="176" height="41" /Writes a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/11/17/after-yang-what-should-yahoo-do/"GigaOm/a's Om Malik: "Hopefully they will bring on a no-nonsense, [HP CEO] Mark Hurd-style executive who can stabilize and revive the company by making it leaner, simpler and have it focus on its core competencies. For PE investors, there is also comfort in the fact that Yahoo can at anytime sell its Asian holdings for a ton of cash. They might be able to find some takers for their European properties as well."/p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b6d14b9b9e500c2c16c" border="0" alt="Valleywag.gif" title="Valleywag.gif" width="276" height="49" /Writes a href="http://valleywag.com/5033522/maggie-wilderotter-for-yahoo-ceo"Valleywag/a's Owen Thomas: "[Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter] has several pluses: She's actually been a Silicon Valley CEO, unlike Yang, previous to his current run in the position, and Decker, who's long aspired to a top job somewhere, but now looks farther than ever from getting it. With media, advertising, computing, and telecommunications merging into a single business, it strikes me that most of Yahoo's board and management are ill-equipped for the transition. Not Wilderotter, who's worked for Microsoft and ATT and run Wink Communications, an interactive-TV company which she took from startup to IPO, through boom and bust."/p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b8714b9b9e500c2c1e0" border="0" alt="CNET.gif" title="CNET.gif" width="80" height="71" /Writes a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10101620-93.html?tag=newsFeaturedBlogArea.0"CNET/a's Stephen Shankland: "Analysts also believe it's better to hire a new CEO whose experience tilts more toward the advertising and media realm than the technology realm. Yahoo still has a powerfully large audience, and it's not going to outdo Google when it comes to letting the robots rule the roost."/p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b7214b9b9e500c2c184" border="0" alt="TheDailyBeast.gif" title="TheDailyBeast.gif" width="99" height="119" /Writes a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-18/why-sue-decker-will-be-yahoos-next-ceo/"the Daily Beast/a's Eric Jackson, picking Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "The best outcome for Yahoo! shareholders of course would be if the new search committee never selected a CEO. This company should use this change in leadership to go back and open discussions with Microsoft about selling the company. This made sense when Microsoft made its initial offer last January at $31 and it makes sense (triply so) now."/p p /p hr / pimg class="float_left" src="http://static.10gen.com/www.alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=49243b3814b9b9e500c2c086" border="0" alt="TechCrunch.gif" title="TechCrunch.gif" width="173" height="32" //p pWrites a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/yang-to-step-down-from-yahoo/"TechCrunch/a's Michael Arrington: "Who will be the next CEO? We a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/15/nytimes-article-reverberates-through-yahoo-whos-their-next-ceo/"speculated back in June/a that Jeff Mallet or Dan Rosensweig were possible candidates. Mallet wouldn't consider the job, we've heard. But Rosensweig would probably take it if offered. Whoever ends up with the job, let's just hope it's an outsider. Yahoo is being clear that they are considering internal candidates. President Sue Decker is likely being considered. But ex-execs we've spoken with say she was a big part of the problem at Yahoo, and if she takes over as CEO it will likely be more of the same."/p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/choose-yahoo-s-new-ceo-round-2-vote-here-"br /Choose Yahoo's New CEO: Round 2 (Vote Here!)/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KlXpO91hhm-ZPYtKgkUsw50ECR0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KlXpO91hhm-ZPYtKgkUsw50ECR0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=RPQb7f0U"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=RPQb7f0U" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Gk3EknvO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=xwts7g60"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=d3ititOV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=d3ititOV" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vsT9feGa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=26R00QWI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=SF7gwJYC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=SfjSjCXM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/RDc3bipoFXs" height="1" width="1"/

It was the HD 4870 that wowed gamers by being able to keep up with much more expensive GTX 280, and blew away even many more gamers with its impressive anti-aliasing ability. But released at the virtually the same time, the HD 4870's little brother -- the HD 4850 -- was the product that offered high-end performance at a price point that was affordable by most. It wasn't all that long ago at all that the second fastest card you could get in a new generation of GPU's would bust the bank -- but this wasn't the case with the HD 4850. For many, the deadly cost effectiveness made the HD 4850 the more memorable of the brother wonder-cards coming from ATI... but where does it stand today, four months later?
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Police at Bedworth carried out a joint operation with The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (Elspa) and Warwickshire Trading Standards on Wednesday, during which a search warrant was executed at a property in Keresley End, Bedworth. During the search on November 12, officers recovered over £16000 (about $240000 worth of counterfeit goods from a house in Keresley End including a quantity of chips that modify video games consoles, video games and videos. A 38 year old man from Keresley End was arrested after the search.