Station closed after debris falls on tracks

The bridge that suffered a partial collapse last night is causing travel chaos this morning, shutting down the main traffic hub Liverpool Street station. The bridge is to be part of the new 2012 East London rail...

Candian College Students Take Aim Myanmar Junta, Send Panties

Canadian students, in a rush to make sure that no one thinks they are not crazier than Sharon Stone came up with this."Toronto:Canadian women have launched a Panties for Peace! campaign to sendtheir undergarments to the Myanmar military junta to frighten it intoending...

Osama hiding in Karakoram range: Report

The location of America's most wanted & most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has finally been found. A media report has said that he is hiding in the "rooftop of the world", the Karakoram section of the...

NDP to introduce 'net neutrality' private member's bill

Congratulations to the NDP for understanding the importance of net neutrality in Canada.  One has to wonder what possible motivation the Liberals and Conservatives have for opposing something that is so...

'Beam me up Scotty' comes to life in Australia

In a homage to every Star Trek fan's fantasy, a company in Australia called Telstra actually used a hologram to beam its chief technology officer from Melbourne to Adelaide for a live business presentation. "In an...

Scouting Micro Social Networks

"Social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, have reinvented the way we communicate with each other, gather information and determine "friend" status. In the last three years, the major social networks have taken their place among the top Internet destinations, displacing...

Lebanon reverses decisions that angered Hezbollah

Lebanon's government appears to be backtracking in its conflict with Hezbollah after the fighting of the past few days revealed its weak position."The Lebanese government late Wednesday formally rescinded...

'Dog the Bounty Hunter' is Coming Back to TV

After being pulled from the airwaves for using a racial slur when referring to his son's black girlfriend, Dog the Bounty Hunter is getting his television show back.But the question remains, does this dog...

MySpace Wins $234M Suit Against Spammers

Facebook has had its own set of problems, but nothing on the scale of the 735,000+ spam messages sent to members on MySpace.My own account was so inundated with it that I refused to check my account on MySpace for...

People can't leave home without their cellphones

In a recent study in North America, it was found that over one-third of workers would choose their cell phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and...

Canadian Watchdog Seeks Bell Privacy Probe

Now things are going to get interesting... ""Network management practices employed by Bell Canada have led the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic to ask for an investigation of the telecommunications company. The CIPPIC, a University of Ottawa legal clinic,...

MobLogic Host Arrested at Sean Bell Protest

MobLogic.tv is a CBS-funded, daily news and current events video podcast that launched at SXSW this year. Apparently, the MobLogic folks (being based in CBS' NYC HQ and all) have been quite involved in covering...

NBC, ABC and CBS to tone down 'upfront' advertising sales events

The networks are still having a tough time as viewership remains down after the writer's strike, and the sluggish economy is making advertisers hesitant to spend."TV lineup presentations to advertisers are being scaled back because of the sluggish economy and lingering...

Hezbollah to end Beirut seizure

Hezbollah has said that they will be withdrawing their gunman from Beirut after the Lebanese army settled tensions between armed government supporters and the Shia group."The army revoked two key government...

FBI investigates bogus China computer parts worth $3.5M

Investigators fear counterfeit computer parts from China may leave government systems vulnerable to hackers."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Friday said an investigation into the sale of counterfeit Chinese...

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