Dual-screen Laptop Spacebook Out By Christmas

The Spacebook, a large, heavier than ususal laptop with two screens, is hitting the markets this winter. The laptop is manufactured by Alaska-based company gScreen, and will likely weigh around 11 pounds (5kg). The laptop will feature either 16- or 17-inch screens, layered on...

Drug Screens Needed for Kids in ER

" Researchers Recommend Routine Drug Screening for Children Who Come to ER With Apparent Life-Threatening Event By Kelli Miller StacyWebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD A significant number of infants tested positive for cough and cold medicines on a...

Work at Home? Your Employer May Be Watching

"The clipboard toting, clock-watching, quota-setting productivity expert, peering nosily over your shoulder at work, has been out of fashion in business schools for decades.Now he's back, in electronic form -- in the home office.In a budding trend some employment experts say...

There’s Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones

"I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard someone call out: “Turn in your old iPhone and get the new one free!” I turned around and saw a bearded guy...

Ad firm refuses to run Tory attack ads on gas pumps

If the Conservatives had their way, motorists in southern Ontario would get a dose of aggressive anti-Liberal sentiment with every fill-up. The firm that was to place the ads, however, is refusing to run them.The...

Indiana Jones and the Dignity of Communism

Communist Defense Force, unite!"Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film on Friday as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens."Actually, this guy has a pretty good point:""What galls...

South Africans take out rage on immigrants

"A wave of horrifying violence has swept the townships around Johannesburg in the past week, The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen reported in an article Tuesday Xenophobic rage explodes in South Africa. At least 22 people are dead, hundreds injured and an estimated 4,000...

City set for tartan invasion

"MORE than 60,000 Scottish football fans will invade Manchester for the Uefa Cup final in two weeks - despite thousands of them having no tickets. Glasgow Rangers admitted that although they only have an allocation of 13,000 tickets for the showpiece final at...

CES has jumped the shark

Robert at Infoworld is absolutely right about CES.  There wasn't anything that was truly exciting and new.  There was incremental improvement in fidelity, size, speed and usability in many new devices...

Bill Gates says goodbye to your mouse

"Bill Gates, who built his fortune equipping the personal computer, predicts that the keyboard and mouse will soon become relics. The founder of Microsoft Corp used his swansong to the technology industry on...

No survivors in Turkish jet crash

"All 56 people on board a passenger plane that crashed in south-western Turkey have died, the airline's chief executive has said. Initial reports from rescue helicopter teams found no survivors, said Tuncay...

Cinema screens, singers to lure Indonesian evacuees

""We will set up an outdoor cinema at several shelters in Blitar district in order to attract people to evacuate," said Kamtono, a local official from one of the two districts that would be affected by the volcano blowing. "We are having big difficulties asking people to...

Game of two halves (24 hours later)

24 hours later and the true extend of this nation's devastation is all dominating. As a visitor (permanent resident) of this great nation (New Zealand), I can feel the collective sorrow of its people. This nation...

iMac Freeze Cools Mac Hearts

"Apple's latest iMacs suffer from a graphics card problem that causes the computer screens to lock up.Quality control problems once again, this time concerning Apple's latest iMacs, which seem to suffer from a graphics card problem that causes the computer screens to lock...

Virtual Chinese Police Trolling for Porn

"China is sending out two virtual police officers to patrol the Internet to combat online pornography and other "illicit activity", state media said on Wednesday. The virtual officers, a man and a woman, "will...

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