New MacBook Air Debuts at Macworld

View Video at http://www.webcastr.com Sporting a silvery finish, the MacBook Air features a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. The backlighting saves power and...

Guantanamo: Six years of injustice need to end

"Guantanamo: Six years of injustice need to end By Andy Worthington Commentary by Friday, January 11, 2008 Six years ago today, one of the most depressing icons of the 21st century opened for business. On January 11, 2002, the first of nearly 800 prisoners arrived at a...

World 'snowman capital' plans unveiled

"A small town in Norway's far north hopes to become the 'snowman capital of the world' as it seeks a share of the lucrative tourism boom in the Arctic. The project is still in the early stages but will likely...

Flat Tax Fred

"Flat Tax Fred Thompson's reform leads the GOP field. Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST Fred Thompson's Presidential campaign has been struggling, in part because of a sense that he lacks passion and an agenda. But late last week he unveiled a tax reform that is...

2010 Olympic mascots unveiled

Well the moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived...the official 2010 mascots have been revealed! Not surprisingly, they draw inspiration from First Nations creatures and they've arrived in the...

Revolutionary New Body Scanner

Makes you want to get scanned. "A revolutionary new scanner, the Philip’s Brilliance CT machine, gives 3D crystal-clear images which allows doctors to reduce the human body down to bones and blood vessels. There...

Memjet New Color Printing Technology 60 pages per minute

"New Color Printing Technology is the First to Deliver High-Speed, Quality Color at a Breakthrough Price/Performance Page-wide technology, backed by 1,400 U.S. patents, is available for OEMs targeting home, office, photo-kiosk and label markets The new Memjet™ color...

Google pushes into mobile phones

"Google has unveiled software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phones and boost the web on the move. The software could lead to cheaper phones as it is designed to speed up the process of making mobile services. The firm is working with four mobile manufacturers...

2008 Tour de France Route Unveiled

The route for 95th Tour de France was launched with the usual swirl of disgruntledness that accompanies european cycling these days. Everyone involved is still sore from the past two years of doping scandals and...

Pornography probe over art gallery exhibit

"Police have seized an exhibit from a flagship art gallery amid fears it could breach pornography laws. Thought to be an image of a child, it was seized shortly before it was due to go on display at the multi-million pound Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art which stands on a...

Nelson Mandela statue is unveiled

"A statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in London. Mr Mandela, 89, his wife Graca Machel, and Prime Minister Gordon Brown were among those at the unveiling in Parliament...

Last Supper theory crashes websites

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany of us had seen the Da Vinci Code, many believed based on conspiracy  theory and conjecture.  Now  a researcher discovered something by...

Christo plans oil barrel pyramid

Brilliant and hilarious - and the engineers suggest that the work might last 5000 years. I can just imagine future archaeologists wondering just what the hell had been in those barrels. "In a break with their...

Vision of the future

"NEARLY 1,000 jobs could be created and a university brought to the area as part of two new plans revealing a massive expansion of  Kettering and Corby, North Northamptonshire, England. At least £100m is...

Leicester's Future Development

"Imagine a city where high-tech jobs are available at new office developments; where families live in the city centre; and where you can relax by a new marina. That is the vision put forward by the Leicester Regeneration Company, which is proposing a series of ideas that...

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