Three dead in Santa Clara office Park Shooting

SANTA CLARA - Police are searching for a man who supposedly returned to the office where he was recently made redundant and opened fire, killing three people. The infer is identified as 47-year-old Jing Wu of...

Google Site Search gets more demanding

With Google Site Search, you can create a search engine for your organization's websites in just a few minutes. " Customers today demand speed. Waiting around is so, well, yesterday -- as so many of the...

Brazil Congress approves tougher child-porn law

As few other Latin American countries, Brazil has had an awful and failed attempt to improve or prevent the sexual exploitation of minors. Abuses against street children in Brazil were portrayed in acclaimed...

Gamers face off at World Cyber Games

The World Cyber Games 2008 begins today in Cologne, Germany, with teams from 70-plus countries competing for over $500,000 in prizes. QuadV will have live video coverage with English language commentary...

Body found believed to be that of missing Barrie boy Brandon Crisp

Update November 14, 2008:Friends and family of Brandon Crisp said their final goodbye this morning during a funeral service at St. Mary's Church in his hometown of Barrie. Grade 10 students wore yellow scarves to...

VIRTUALLY WEIRD: Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby

This has got to be the weirdest thing I've read on the internet in a really long time.  I just watched the movie "Idiocracy" with Luke Wilson.  If you haven't seen it, rent it after this.  You'll...

Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband

With the increasing internet  usages  people's bad behaviour online is on the spotlight. Miscreants create  lot of virtual problem. The effects of these are seen even in offline world. in recent years. A woman was charged in the US state of Delaware with...

Russians talk religion online in increasing numbers

The dominant religion in Russia is Orthodox Christianity, which has quite an austere and conservative religious philosophy. Orthodox church governing body likes to see rules obeyed, and followers stick to the...

Online 'passports' to make Chinese foods safer

ChinaTrace is creating an electronic "food passport" for Chinese foods dissecting each ingredient from the origin and source. This online listing also shows whether or not the products have gone through any...

LittleBigPlanet of sony: delayed over Koran Phrases

Sony entertainment has delayed the worldwide launch of its latest game LittleBigPlanet, because of the concerns that the background music mentioning phrase sfrom Koran can offend muslim across te world. " ...

Printable Coupons and Online Promotion Codes - Benefits and Precautions

"With the slump in the economy, the housing crisis, and a market that continually is sliding in a downward motion, times are tight for families all over the country. Parents everywhere are finding that it is costing more and more to go grocery shopping each week and the...

Price? Condition? Presentation? Now Tell Me Again Which One is King?

Several weeks ago there was a flurry of activity here on SIF about the King of Real Estate. Price is King! No, presentation is King! No, price and presentation don't matter if it's in poor condition, condition is King! It occurred to me that when you look at the whole...

IBM builds online version of China's famed Forbidden City

Future to the back; "3D" interactive virtual version of the Forbidden City now open, download it and "walk" around in it. "IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the...

Join the crew for the Battle of Ideas 2008

The Battle of Ideas is a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debates organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art in London. With over 250 speakers from across the world...

“Don’t shout at the telly, change the message on it”

A feisty line up of young volunteers pick on topical news stories and get stuck in. This month’s round up includes Bono’s latest bed net for Africans campaign and a challenge to those who thinks inoculating...

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