Google 'Voice Search' hands-on verdict: Awesome

" The new voice-activated Google Mobile app for the iPhone is finally here. Whatever the reason for the delay, it was worth the wait. As we wrote last week, the search app knows when you bring the phone to your...

Microsoft offers quick fix for Mac Office 2008 bug

"January 25, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh group has come up with a work-around to fix bungled installations of the new Office for Mac 2008. The move followed reports earlier this week that Microsoft's newest suite incorrectly assigned full read and write...

FEMA apologizes for fake "reporters"

Unbelievable..."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main U.S. disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a news briefing on California's wildfires that no journalists...

Iraq PM warns critics of Saddam's hanging

"Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has threatened to review relations with countries that have criticised the bungled execution of former president Saddam Hussein. Mr Maliki says the hanging was an internal matter and was conducted for the benefit of Iraq's unity. A...

Florida executions halted after injection bungled

"Florida's incoming governor said on Friday he would suspend executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.  Gov.-elect Charlie Crist, who takes office on...

Baby Sitter Botches First Day, Picks Up Wrong Kid

"Angel Guerrero was taken by mistake Monday when the woman arrived at the school and took him without knowing what the child she was to care for looked like."
 

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