| Business/Tech Boeing getting 60-percent tax break in South Carolina Charleston County, S.C., gave Boeing a property-tax break of more than 60 percent to lure the company's second 787 Dreamliner assembly line, The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported Saturday. CES | Xbox guy: Project Natal won't be called Project Natal Aaron Greenberg, a long-time spokesman for Microsoft's Xbox team, gave TechFlash's Todd Bishop an answer to the question we've all kinda-sorta wondered since summer: Will Project Natal be called "Project Natal"? CES | Photo gallery of CES 2010 – Day 2 Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty ImagesA Microsoft representative, left, explains the features of a Windows Mobile smartphone to attendees Friday at the Microsoft booth at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. | Photo gallery Previous: View gallery of CES 2010 – Day 1 (Thursday) View gallery of CES 2010 – Day 0 (Wednesday) CES | Ballmer talks Natal in another HuffPo column Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer loves talking about the "natural user interface," the development of which Microsoft hopes to accelerate with the release of Project Natal this year for Xbox 360. After writing Wednesday about Microsoft's work in health, education and the environment, Ballmer wrote another guest column for The Huffington Post on Friday. Photos of resumed Russia-Georgia flights A Georgian plane landed in Moscow Friday in the first flight since the brief 2008 war between George and Russia. CES | Meet the people behind Microsoft's CES booth Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesA general view of the Microsoft booth Thursday at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Click to enlarge I've never done this and probably never will again – I'm referring you directly to a Microsoft PR piece. I never do this because a news release only gives you Microsoft's marketing message; my job is to break through the bull. Boeing loses order for two 747-8 Freighters Guggenheim Aviation Partners halved its 747-8 Freighter order from four to two, the company confirmed to Flightglobal. Microsoft asks for rehearing in Word case – but why? Microsoft has filed for the rehearing of a patent-infringement case that slapped the software company with $290 million in fines and a restriction on selling Word in the U.S. But with Microsoft saying it is now in compliance, why is it putting up such a fight? Air Canada to create nut-free zone The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday ordered Air Canada to create a nut-free "buffer zone" on all flights, The (Toronto) Star reported Friday. 
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