Suspected US missile kills 12 in Pakistan

With the approval from President George W. Bush, US special forces have started ground assaults inside Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government. Now US has intensified attack in the tribal areas in the Pakistan  and latest reports says that more than 12...

Thousands of B.C. forest workers jobless as sawmills shutdown

Certainly the downturn in the US economy is having a disasterous trickle down theory for Canada's ailing lumber industry.  Let's hope China bites and buys our lumber to build all their homes destroyed in the...

Wreckage Of Missing Plane Found In Central Washington

"Ground searchers following the smell of fuel found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the rugged central Washington Cascades, but neither the pilot nor nine skydivers aboard appeared to have survived. Jim Hall, director of Yakima Valley Emergency Management, said all on...

BiTMICRO to Debut 416GB IDE Flash Solid State Disk Packed in 2.5-inch Rugged ...

"BiTMICRO to Debut 416GB IDE Flash Solid State Disk Packed in 2.5-inch Rugged Hard Disk Drive Footprint New Breed of Proprietary ASICs Enables E-Disk Altima ATA-133 Flash SSD to Achieve Unprecedented Performance in its Class - 133MB/sec Burst with 100MB/sec Sustained Read and...

Pakistan in bid to free captured troops

"Pakistani authorities today sent tribal elders and clerics to negotiate with militants who are believed to have captured more than 100 soldiers in a northwestern region on the Afghan border. The soldiers...

Attach photos to Waypoints and more...

This is really cool.  It's like a 21 Century Swiss Army Knife.  I'd go hiking just so I had an excuse to buy one:"For those looking for navigational insight whilst trekking, Magellan's Triton 2000 should certainly fit the bill. Boasting a rugged, water submersible...

Water For People Uses Innovative Positioning Technologies to Monitor Internat...

"Water For People Uses Innovative Positioning Technologies to Monitor International Development Efforts (Denver, Colo.)—September 25, 2006—Water For People recently launched a pilot monitoring and evaluation...

Ultra-Tough Nanotech Materials

"Researchers have used clay nanoparticles to modify a polymer material, making it 20 times stiffer, 4 times tougher, and able to withstand temperatures that are more than twice as hot. The new materials could eventually be used in rugged lightweight fabrics, less-bulky...

Mobility Device Gives Palm OS A New, Robust Life :: Symblogogy

"Last week, on the floor of the National Retail Federation's "Big Show 2007" in New York, a company was displaying a new mobility data collection device designed to bring the next version of the Palm OS operating...

Who is Osama bin Laden?

"On March 7, 2004, as the snows melted in the mountains of Afghanistan and U.S. President George W. Bush eyed a November election, the United States launched Operation Mountain Storm in the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan to find the elusive Osama bin...

Is Bin Laden Dead?

"Saudi sources tell TIME that credible reports suggest the fugitive Qaeda leader has contracted a serious 'water-borne illness,' and may have already died Fugitive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, believed to be...

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