" Cape Town - The drunken driving trial of Proteas cricketer Herschelle Gibbs has been postponed to March 24 next year. He appeared before a Cape Town magistrate on Wednesday, but his advocate Craig Webster...
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The best possible example of positive use of technology.The world is already facing the shortage of medical professionals, particularlt in underdeveloped world. The use of internet and mobile tech can solve this...
" Here's what I did the other day: I transferred a digital photo from my camera to my computer without banging on the equipment like we did on our first color TV."
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"On Monday night I tried to play review builds of two major PS3 games on my debug PlayStation 3. My firmware wasn’t up to date and I couldn’t upgrade to new firmware because I’d lost the instructions on how...
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We've all heard of the slips of paper given in school to go to the principal's office or to detention--but slips of paper to route prisoners to jail? Seems like that could be an open invitation to some fiddling around--and sure enough, one convict is now on the lam."State...
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It seems so quaint now, but it wasn't that long ago when we were workign with punch-cards and mag-tapes. Even in 1998, a 10GB hard drive was considered massive to the point where tech support didn't believe a...
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" MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) A “sobering experience” was how a television reporter who was freed late Tuesday night by her Abu Sayyaf captors described her nine-day ordeal as she thanked friends and...
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Goa - famous for its sand, sun and beaches - always attracts foreigners. Many of them have even bought their properties to live there permanently. But now local government is bringing in a new law to prohibit...
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Why a woman, and a Belgian woman at that, is working to encourage more men to become bombers and killers in a worldwide Muslim jihad is something that's hard to comprehend. Malika El Aroud is also encouraging...
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Abu-Jamal killed a policeman, Daniel Faulkner, after he pulled Abu-Jamal's brother over on a routine traffic stop. Those who support Abu-Jamal's demands to be relieved of a death sentence say that he received the...
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Facebook has been the Web 2.0 success story of 2007. But what if it falls out of favour in 2008 and you want to delete your account? It seems not to be all that easy to remove all those personal details from Facebook. "Ah, Facebook. The real champion. Impossible...
So a number of tapes that showed the "interrogation" (read: torture) of detainees have been destroyed. Officially it was to 'protect security of officers' and the tapes were 'no longer of use'. It's too bad in...
Episode #103 - A Synopsis
"Ok! Now get this … the “Pioneers” are given a journal that was left behind from the original town fathers back in 1885 … right.
One of its primary suggestions is to have the...
Great article on "Cachao" the original Mambo King."It’s a typical weekday morning at Versailles. Most of the tables are occupied. The chatter among patrons is at its customary decibel level, competing...
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"Startup Tilera announced Monday that the company has begun shipping what you might call a "mega-multicore" chip, the TILE64, one that can scale to hundreds or thousands of cores.
Unfortunately, you won't be using it, however, unless you're involved in the design of network...
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