Ease of use, fun games and a cheap price point have catapulted Nintendo's Wii to the top of the North American sales charts. After only 20 months in the market, the Wii has surpassed both the Playstation 3 and Xbox...
"Eight days after Apple’s new iPhone went on sale, an international team of programmers announced on Saturday that the device had been “pwned” — hacker jargon for “controlled” or “compromised.” The...
"..You're fired.." The Apprentice showbiz boss, maintain his real estate business in Palm Beach. "The real estate market might be slumping, but not for Donald Trump, who sold his Palm Beach mansion for $100 million,...
Some interesting news for those who follow the fate of Michael Bloomberg. It seems the meltdown in the financial sector has allowed him to buy back a big stake of his empire from Merrill Lynch."Merrill Lynch is set to sell its 20 per cent stake in Bloomberg for about...
Permission given to China to buy stockpile of elephant ivory could prove death knell for elephants all over the world. Wildlife Conservationists have warned that the ivory sale would provide impetus to mass killing...
Previous article written about eBay paying $61 million to Fashion Companies over sales of fake Good can be read here.With the recent courtroom defeat of eBay, there is finally a reason for them to celebrate as they...
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I was a Rolling Stones rather than a Beatles fan so I did not buy any Beatle recordings until Sgt. Peppers was released."The iconic bass drum skin used on the front cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's...
He may be the first person in the world to own the new sought-after Apple iPhone, but all Jonny Gladwell wanted to do yesterday morning was go to bed. " The 22-year-old AUT physiotherapy student had camped outside...
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There are still unsold tickets to the Beijing Olympics. I do not know if this is the norm when we are two months away and there are still 1 million unsold tickets or people are staying away for miscellaneous reasons....
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They advertise everything from "Jesus Saves" to "Golf Sale - 200 yards". They clutter-up Oxford Street and no-one ever really reads them. They have been a fixture of London since the Victorian era, and...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is looking to sell the Australian and New Zealand operations of ABN Amro - the Dutch bank it bought last year." Last month, the Edinburgh-based company raised £12bn after selling shares...
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I don’t know when and where this image was taken, but it reads the message of very Pakistani probably for India. "Kashmir is not for sale. Jis Kashmir jo khoon se seencha hey vo kashimir hamara hey. We want freedom." It is now over 60 years but Pakistan and...
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Alcohol is available for sale once more in Baghdad. The sale of alcoholic beverages has not been allowed since early 2006, but now drink stores and cafes are starting to reopen again. Two years ago, al-Qa'ida...
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