Apostrophes in names stir lot o' trouble

NEW YORK - It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It's a...

Let’s Talk Spammers: Consonant VirginiaB Usernames

This is an interesting post, a call for committed cyber-communication.  Here is an excerpt:"Lately, there had been vicious spamming initiatives done here in iTalknews. They come in the form of a lot of consonant usernames with the same location, VirginiaB. The interests...

171 media workers killed in 2007, int'l group says

BRUSSELS, Belgium - A Sri Lankan bombing raid that killed three employees of a rebel radio station has taken the number of journalists and media workers killed to 171 this year, the worst in over a decade, the International News Safety Institute said Wednesday.

Apology as data on millions lost

Story Highlights Personal, banking information of half of UK's population was on lost disks Disks were missing for 3 weeks before being noticed, Treasury chief says Customs and Revenue chief resigns over error Treasury chief insists no signs of criminal involvement

Asia would be hit by a US recession - M. Stanley

Asia would be hit by a recession in the United States because it heavily depends on the world's top economy, a Morgan Stanley executive told Reuters, rejecting a view Asia has "decoupled" from the rest of the world.The notion that the United States is no longer the driver of...

Many Europeans choose Internet over TV

Users watching video online once a month jumped 150 percent since 2006.BRUSSELS, Belgium - Almost six out of 10 West Europeans now regularly access the Internet and, for the first time, young people are more likely to go online for most days of the week than turn on the...

The Power of One Little Story

"At a time of gloom for the news business, it's important to remember the power of stories, even the power of one little story. "At a time of gloom for the news business, it's important to remember the power of stories, even the power of one little story.

Citizens offer new take on news

A news agenda formulated by citizens would be radically different from that put together by journalists. That is the conclusion of a US study which compared what made the headlines in the mainstream media with that of three diverse user-driven news sources.

3 girls, 3 stories, 1 message: The Filipino Can!

When Noelle Wenceslao, Carina Dayondon and Janet Belarmino became the first Southeast Asian women to summit Mt. Everest and the first women in the world to traverse Mt. Everest from the North side to the South side, Himalaya didn’t seem to care.

Imposter Caught

High school graduate pretends to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and ‘studying’ for exams

The word on Wikipedia: Trust but verify

Popular online encyclopedia, plagued by errors, troubles educators Can we trust wikipedia at the thick of surmounting controversies and how accurate are the information we are getting from this marvelous online collaborative encyclopedia?   

Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fund

Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.