15,800 Facebookers back 'beer guy' in vain

A beloved Toronto beer vendor--the 'beer guy,' as he's affectionately known--has garnered a considerable cult-following after being questionably dismissed from his job at the Rogers Centre. He was fired after selling a pair of beers during a Blue Jays game without asking for...

Indonesian Street Vendor Reduce Unemployment

CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA - 6 MAY 2008 : saturday nighy of Gablag street vondor in SOlo, Central Java which is fulled by street vendor and tourists who come to eat the most delicious food in the city. The city try to...

Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft

"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...

MySpace page serves up fake Microsoft security update

Just a quick heads-up for Myspace users."According to security vendor McAfee, one of the profiles on MySpace currently serves up a fraudulent Microsoft security update that, if clicked, attempts to load malicious software. The profile of a 42-year-old woman from Arkansas...

Banglalink selects Comptel Provisioning and Activation Solution

"Orascom Telecom subsidiary in Bangladesh will use Comptel software to improve fulfillment processes for mobile services Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, announced today that mobile operator...

Six Factors To Reconsider About Microsoft Office Communications Server

"Remember the old philosophical puzzler: If a tree falls down in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, are we sure it made a sound? With Tuesday's launch of Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft is trying to render centuries of existential debate moot. Because as...

Algonquin Pow-wow: Resisting uranium mining in Canada

"Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Allies, Mohawk Nation News has taken a strong sovereignist position in support of the Sharbot Lake issue. We think that Canada must adhere to their request for a nation-to-nation...

Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges

"Dell has taken the unusual step — for a PC vendor of its size — of toning down its sales pitch for Microsoft's Vista operating system and warning businesses of the migration challenges that lie ahead for them. The step is particularly unusual because one of the issues...

Future Shop is Ripping People Off!

My story begins 26 months ago, where I made one of the dumbest mistakes in my life: I went to Future Shop to buy a new notebook computer. Unfortunately I wasn't as technologically savey at that point in my life, so I spent over $1800 on a Cicero notebook. I did not use the...

Seagate Ships Super-Secure Hard Disk Drive

"Two years after first being announced by Seagate, the world's most secure hard drive is finally to go on sale in a laptop from system vendor ASI Computer Technologies. The ground-breaking 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) has had a long and winding...

The Metropolitan Police question Angry African.

Croydon Technology College, Ashburton Road, Shirley, Croydon. Surrey, SE London.  A member of a Croydon Pentecostal church worshiping in a 1st floor hall, came unstuck when he tried to gatecrash a...

How India feeds 10,000 people a day--for free

When the prospect of feeding the world's hungry seems far too daunting a task, take to heart this Sikh temple in Delhi, where they feed 10,000 hungry Indians. A day. Without a lot of fuss. "Free-for-all is a term...

Digital Technology + Computer Fairs

BCF Aquire Bristol Computer Fair Bruce Everiss, the pioneer of UK computer fairs has announced he is finally logging off from the industry he was so instrumental in creating. View the latest News Today! Click...

The Forgotten Holocaust

Taiwanese commemorate 60th Anniversary of massacreToday marks the 60th Anniversary of the 228 Incident, a large-scale protest against Chinese Nationalist rule that led to the deaths of nearly 28 000 people on...

Hack-pocalypse for Proprietary DVD Formats

It was really only a matter of time, but I kind of thought it would take the hacker community a bit more of it."Arnezami, a hacker on the Doom9 forum, has published a crack for extracting the "processing key" from a high-def DVD player. This key can be used to gain access to...

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