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 If you has access to the internet, and chances are if you are reading this you do, it is likely that you have an account with one of the many social networking websites that filth the internet like Facebook,...

Sweden relaxes stance on weird children's names

Sweden has relaxed its rules on naming children weird things like Heineken, Mouthpad and Dubble Bubble. The country once frowned on such lapses of judgment, but, according to one official, it's no longer considered 'negative' in this day and age to name children after...

China's top 10 Olympic stories

"Michael Phelps may rule the American sports universe for these Olympics, but in China, ask local fans who they're supporting and you'll start hearing names like Lin Dan (badminton), Zhang Yining (table tennis) and...

Guilty as Ordered

This makes a nice contrast to President Bush's criticism of China's human rights record today. Maybe he should also spend a bit of time cleaning up civil rights abuses in his own country. " Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its...

Motorola Names Sanjay Jha co-CEO, No Worries NowPublic, its not our Sanjay!

E-Week is reporting that Motorola is continuing its management shakeup Aug. 4 with the appointment of former Qualcomm COO Sanjay Jha as co-CEO of the company and CEO of Motorola's Mobile devices division. Jha will serve as co-CEO with current CEO Greg Brown." Brown was also...

Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users

Didn't Google used to say things like "Don't be evil"? Perhaps, now, the more appropriate recommendation would be: just don't make it easy for the rest of the world to use your technology and software to be...

Torture? We Don’t Know What Real Torture Is!

Opinion" [LINK to video of "tortured" Canadian boy who fought for al Qaeda, watch this first and then read.] Truthfully, I have been questioned much harder by school administrators than this kid, who quite possibly killed an American soldier, was. [Side note: the school...

From 'untouchable' to role model

" As a Dalit, the lowest level in India's complex caste system, she was a so-called scavenger, a person who collects the garbage, feces and urine of other higher caste people. In the eyes of many, that would make her...

U.S. Watch List Suggests Everyone's A Terrorist

The U.S. terrorist watch list now has more than one million names on it, according the ACLU. Just don't look too hard at who's on it -- you might find a few dead folks, the odd Nobel Peace prize winner, and maybe...

Last Strawberry

"Last Strawberry While I was talking about the things that were not readily available some years ago, I am also reminded of the nomenclature of some of those things. Those names make me feel that China is the land of...

Google trying to take privacy seriously

"This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary (the same on that affected CNET earlier last month) was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before...

Internet addressing agency (ICANN) loses its own addresses

Uh oh. Another reminded that on the Internet, things aren't always as they seem."This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it...

Passport Record System Open To Abuse, Review Finds

State Department officials disclosed Thursday that two more contract employees have been fired for accessing passport records without authorization, in addition to the three who were terminated after the March...

NBC's Tim Russert dies at 58 of heart attack

Dead, they say is not a respecter of anyone, if not, Tim Russert would have been awarded such respect of living longer than today at least to be allowed to witness this forthcoming US presidential election that he has been a major player in the media industry. Russert was a...

NowPublic named one of the top 10 social networks to watch

It's always nice when people are watching -- especially since the re-design went live."BURLINGAME, Calif. and LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While there has been a litany of commentary and analysis covering online social networks in the consumer world, there has been a lack...

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