Google Docs, Is it a new marketing Tool?

"All  owners of online businesses, we always dig for new promoting method. Recently , Google gives a great push to its Google Docs. It is still in beta but it is full of features. Google Docs is free and...

'Strange objects' discovered in man with stomach pain

What on earth can caused a-38-year old man to eat metal objects, though he was reported to be mentally ill but it is really very strange how these 17 metal objects got into this man's tomach, was he eating them directly as if he was participating in a dog eating competition?...

Hot Docs film festival kicks off in Toronto

The popularity of documentary films seems only to be getting bigger and the quality of doc films being made seems only to be getting better. So what's not to love about Hot Docs?Canada's annual, big ticket doc flick...

Parents pick prayer over docs; Girl dies

"Parents pick prayer over docs; Girl dies"

White House Refuses To Hand Over Subpoenaed Docs

"This post, written by Christy Hardin Smith, originally appeared on Firedoglake Just off the AP wire, via MSNBC: "The doctrine of executive privilege exists, at least in part, to protect such communications from compelled disclosure to Congress, especially where, as here,...

Junk in the Trunk

What goes on behind closed doors is between the consenting adults involved, but what about when it involves emergency crews?"A Kent man who got his manhood trapped in a padlock "after a sex game went wrong" had to be cut free by firemen, The Sun reports. The unnamed victim,...

Best Buy Falsifying Court Docs: Is There a Geek Squad for Fraud? -AP

As if keeping a separate sneak-o-net wasn't enough..."Best Buy finds itself in the embarrassing position of having to explain its lawyer's conduct after he admitted to falsifying documents in a class-action lawsuit...

If I lived in Florida

"Susan Pynchon, with the Florida Fair Elections Coalition, says the software flaw could be partially responsible for a high under-vote rate in the race, despite county officials' statements to the contrary. "It's clear that something happened with those machines," Pynchon...

Toronto announces Hot Docs film fest lineup

I love a good film fest, and a good documentary. Vancouver generally does pretty well at both of these things at our annual VIFF, but Toronto has its own, documentary-specific festival, called Hot Docs. The...

The great Google App. debate

Since Google's official announcement about their package software, web-types have been out in full force, guns-a-blazing, weighing in on the proposed plan. Here's NowPublic's convenient round-up of the important...

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Google Merges Writely and Spreadsheets

A few minutes ago Google unveiled Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which will officially be announced at the Office 2.0 conference in a few hours. The new offering from Google combines their acquisition of Writely with their Spreadsheets product in an effort to tightly...

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