Maltin's Movie Guides Keep Giving

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Maltin’s Movie Guide requires no booting, minimal “surfing”, and no software, or special hardware. It is always on and it is authoritative in the best sense of the word: implying erudition, not...

Supervised injection site, Insite, may be heading back to court

Coming again to the forefront of Canadian news, is Vancouver's Insite facility, which is known as North America's only safe, supervised injection site for illegal drug users.  A facility located in the...

Yahoo, Flickr censor porn sites in India

New Delhi: The two Microsoft bing Yahoo and Flickr too have introduced filters to prevent Indian Internet users from accessing sexual content. According to the report, Yahoo search engine and Flickr photo-sharing...

Civil Suit Against Facebook For Data Use

Five facebook users from California have filed a civil suit against the social networking site for its use of personal information. The users are claiming that facebook breaks state privacy laws by diseminating personal information to third parties.The lawsuit was filed on...

Judge Kicks Notorious Spammer Off Facebook

A judge in California on Monday ordered convicted spammer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace to stay away from Facebook.  Wallace is accused of flooding Facebook users with unsolicited messages, which appear to...

Facebook to Allow Users to Participate in Policies, Terms of Use

After much back and forth (and backlash) regarding the recent launch — and subsequent retraction — of its allegedly restrictive 'new' Terms of Service, social networking giant Facebook announced Thursday that it...

What readers want: superior user experience

Those of us who struggle every day trying to figure out this new media thing and worrying about economic models for journalism get distracted by many ideas and lamentations. Thanks, then, to Jonathan Rosenberg,...

New Zealand’s Internet blackout against new copyright law: Day 1

New Zealand’s Internet users are fighting against a new law set to tighten copyright restrictions by holding an Internet blackout February 16 to 23. Protesters, led by The Creative Freedom Foundation, claim New...

Half of iPod users risk deafness

The use of personal audio devices since the original walkman has increased to a point that sometimes its difficult to find a young person on the high street not listening to one mp3 player or another. This...

'Koobface' Virus Attacks Facebook

"Attention new viewers: those 5000 "friends" you have on Facebook? They might not actually be your friends. In fact, some of them might be scammers trying to infect your computer with a new virus dubbed "Koobface". Koobface, which already made the rounds on MySpace, is now...

Facebook Connect::ing You Everywhere

"Facebook Connect::ing You Everywhere December 6th, 2008 Goto comments Leave a comment By Ed Penano One simple system. One simple login. That is the aim of Facebook’s freshest creation - Facebook Connect. Facebook...

Intel brings new CPUs

" According to the latest reports on the Web, Intel added a few more CPUs to its mainstream and value lineups, all based on previous architectures from the company, and not on the newly released Nehalem. The additions include the Core 2 Quad Q8300, the Pentium Dual...

Google SMS search, an easy and flexible search

Google India has launched some useful SMS service to the mobile users. This service will be of great advantage to people who don’t have a web-enabled phone. Google claims that this SMS service works just like...

AIDS will spread like ‘bushfire’ in India: UN

India has one of the highest HIV/AIDS patients base and the United States National Intelligence Council predicts that the number of people infected in India could jump to between 20 million and 25...

How we help track flu trends

" This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed.Google search isn't just about looking up football scores...

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