" HTC has augmented its line-up of cellphones in India again with today’s Mumbai launch of the HTC Touch Pro and the Touch Viva.Priced at Rs. 34,990, the HTC Touch Pro features a full QWERTY keypad that slides...
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"BATON ROUGE -- Want to know what the state Office of Business Development spent last year on employee salaries ($4,349,216.48)? How much the lieutenant governor's office has spent so far this year on travel and training ($117,881.49)? Or the annual salary of Insurance...
"Fairfax County Registrar Rokey Suleman is disqualifying an overwhelming majority of the military federal write-in absentee ballots received in his county on the basis that no address had been given for those...
"There are few radical left-wing organizations more obnoxious than the American Civil Liberties Union. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t just pack a tie-dyed Volkswagen full of leftover San Fransisco hippies and drive to your area to protest, they pack a private jet full...
Read this:"US President George W. Bush has secretly approved orders allowing US forces to conduct ground operations in Pakistan without that government's prior approval, a report said citing senior US officials."Wow. Sounds dangerous, isn´t it. Then:"The New York Times...
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Here's a different look at the Palin Pick from New York Times columnist, David Brooks:"Op-Ed Columnist, By DAVID BROOKS, ST. PAUL John McCain is not a normal conservative. He has instincts, but few abstract convictions about the proper size of government. He’s a...
"Unexploded ordnances of cluster bombs, left by Russian attacks, pose risk to life of civilian population in the conflict zone, the Human Rights Watch warned on August 21. It said that its researchers saw more unexploded submunitions from cluster bombs in and around the...
"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday. ...
Under developmentIt only takes a snowflake to start an avalanche. The Hijood and Burqini might just be the precipitation million of women of Islam need."SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - First, the burqini, now the hijood....
"Eight days after Apple’s new iPhone went on sale, an international team of programmers announced on Saturday that the device had been “pwned” — hacker jargon for “controlled” or “compromised.” The...
"The Swedish company Hasselblad's announcement of the launch of Hasselblad H3DII-50, featuring a new Kodak 50-megapixel sensor, has pushed the available resolution in digital cameras to a new high. Such high resolution goes beyond the needs of most consumers but...
"With the crisis in Zimbabwe going from worse to worse, there are still effective ways to help people there get food and survive.The beep-beep of a received text on a mobile phone is now becoming a much-needed...
Cheating is now a violation of copyright, according to a U.S. district judge who ruled for World of Warcraft maker Blizzard on Tuesday. Blizzard was suing MDY Industries for their software program WoWGlider, which...
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"On Tuesday the company introduced Lively, an online tool that allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The rooms can be added to any blog or Web site. Google unveiled...
"Google has dipped its toe in the virtual world launching an alternative reality website similar to Second Life. The plug-in service, called 'Lively', allows users to assume online characters known as avatars and...