Like much of the previous research on coffee, the study was based on survey data -- in this case, a single questionnaire distributed in the mid-1990s -- that may provide an incomplete picture of the participants' overall health and lifestyle.

CNN: Coffee drinking linked to longer life

Some 29 institutions were affected by so-called distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) which overload a site with data causing it to fall over.

BBC: South Korea hit by cyber attacks

Those included posting private data, including credit-card and Social Security numbers, of Web users and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against media sites who posted stories they didn't like.

CNN: Anonymous members speak out at surreal SXSW panel

But as made clear in documents seen by BBC News Online and distributed at the worldwide presentation to the content division - the section which generates the financial data Reuters sells to banks and other key customers - the move will almost certainly involve redundancies.

BBC: Reuters to shift core unit to India

To determine which cities feature the best real estate deals, we looked at three sets of data in the March 2009 RPX Monthly Housing Market Report, distributed by Radar Logic Incorporated, a New York-based derivatives firm.

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During these periods reporters from accredited media organisations (some of which have big data-feed businesses) get an early look at the new number so they can prepare detailed articles to be distributed at the moment of official release.

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