Melbourne, December 6 : Demand for latest gadgets and fashion-based entertainment by tech savy girls is steadily pushing dolls to their grave, experts have observed.
ANI Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:00:05 -0500

Toronto, Dec 6 (IANS) Dalton McGuinty, premier of Canada's Ontario province, Saturday left for India on a week-long trade mission to sell green technology to the energy-starved country.
IANS Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:10:02 -0500

Facebook and other social networks. The 16-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in nearby Sacramento, details how Rebecca Swift, a 41-year-old self-employed resident of Santa Cruz, Calif., was l...
USA Today Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:44:38 -0500

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of commu...
Deseret News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:26:06 -0500

-- Recession was not a household word when the Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe broke ground in July 2006. But the $300 million resort opens this week in an economic climate that is less than ideal...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:20:06 -0500

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art turns 75 in January, and it plans to celebrate not only that milestone, but the beginning of a new era that promises to turn SFMOMA into a major cultural destina...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:20:05 -0500

Police have arrested a husband in connection with the murder of his wife three days after he vanished following the discovery of her body. Vicky Roberts, 25, was strangled and her body was dumped in...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:32 -0500

The Queen has warned newspapers against publishing paparazzi photos of members of the Royal family, it has emerged. The hard line follows growing exasperation about intrusion into the private lives ...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:32 -0500

Alistair Darling warned that the better-off would have to shoulder more of the cost of economic recovery amid reports he was ready to impose a windfall tax on bankers' bonuses. Ahead of his Pre-Budg...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:31 -0500

Gino D'Acampo, the winner of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and fellow contestant Stuart Manning are facing criminal charges for animal cruelty after cooking and eating a rat on the TV program...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:30 -0500

Politicians face a "huge challenge" to convince people that action on global warming should be a priority, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said, ahead of crunch UN talks in Copenhagen....
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:30 -0500

Senior Labour figures have recoiled from attacks on David Cameron's privileged upbringing after the Tory leader branded them "spiteful". Ministers said Mr Cameron's schooling at Eton was unimportant...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:29 -0500

The family of British student Meredith Kercher is due to return home from Italy after Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of her murder. The Kerchers were in the courtroom in Perugia w...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:29 -0500

Commons Speaker John Bercow insisted that he was not the author of a guide to luring drunken women into bed. Reports claiming that he had penned the The John Bercow Guide to Understanding Women were...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:28 -0500

The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the Diocese of Los Angeles to think very carefully about the potential impact before it confirms a lesbian as an assistant bishop. Dr Rowan Williams said the e...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:06:28 -0500

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade the way it began this one, as an independent company. Unlike in the 1990s, though, when AOL got rich s...
Tampa Bay Online Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:01:11 -0500

Melbourne, December 6 : Demand for latest gadgets and fashion-based entertainment by tech savy girls is steadily pushing dolls to their grave, experts have observed.
New Kerala Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:37:45 -0500

Shaken or stirred? Olive or twist? These are merely signposts to the workings of the drinker's mind. Yet it's worth tracing a path toward martini perfection at this festive time of year. After consid...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:57:13 -0500

To further its objective of providing a satisfying retail experience to customers, Toshiba India has added two more shop Toshiba retail outlets in Bangalore. Prior to this the company already had two ...
NE Asia Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:01:30 -0500

David Cameron has accused Gordon Brown of being "petty" and "spiteful" in his criticism of the Eton background of senior Tory figures. The Conservative leader, himself an Old Etonian, warned the Pri...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:22:44 -0500

Unemployment will continue to rise in the new year, Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper predicted. With figures showing almost 2.5 million people out of work in the three months to September, ...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:22:43 -0500

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size ...
Tampa Bay Online Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:17:45 -0500

Go 740 Live is a GPS device from TomTom with a built-in cellular radio. This wireless data connection allows the unit to download information relevant to your journey, such as traffic, weather, and ...
Macworld Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:35:03 -0500

H.E. Sami Dhaen Al Qamzi, Director General, Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai, has inaugurated the second edition of Dubai Drink technology Expo today. The event, organized by IN...
AME Info Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:56:58 -0500

Welcome to the new world of Maybe Journalism ? a best guess at the news as it might well have been, rendered as a video game and built on a bed of pure surmise.
International Herald Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:24:55 -0500

Amazon , the giant Web merchant. And this patiently gestated start-up, they add, shows one path to the still-elusive promise of Internet advertising: using data to greatly improve the efficiency of ma...
International Herald Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:24:50 -0500

NBC rushed to put its popular shows on the Web years ago, hoping to secure a piece of the booming online advertising market and offset an eroding audience. The viewers came in droves, but the ad reven...
International Herald Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:24:44 -0500

The deal valued NBC Universal at about $30 billion.The agreement will create a joint venture, with Comcast owning 51 percent and G.E. owning 49 percent. Comcast will contribute to the joint venture it...
International Herald Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:24:41 -0500

) has sold its headquarters in Or Yehuda for $5.2 million cash to a private company, Lieberman, in a sale and lease-back deal. "Globes" reported in August 2008that Magic had put the premises up for sa...
Globes Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:23:46 -0500

NEW DELHI: In a surprise move, state-run telecom firm BSNL has cancelled the equipment purchase order given to Chinese company Huawei saying the conditions imposed by the vendor are not acceptable,...
Times Of India Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:07:38 -0500

About two dozen people standing in the morning along the now defunct 26-Valencia line didn't realize the bus route had been eliminated - but only half of them were actually waiting to catch a bus that...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:52:02 -0500

The UN's top climate official has conceded that hacked e-mails from climate scientists had damaged the image of global warming research but said evidence of a warming Earth is solid. In an interview...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:39:19 -0500

The cost of 3-D technology is coming down, and some PC makers have already included the feature in some new notebooks. Asus' new laptop tackles 3-D more comfortably, while an Acer model has software t...
Tech News World Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:15:13 -0500

0 posts MIT scientists including Elazer R. Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Science and Technology (HST), and HST postdoctoral associate Vijaya B. Kolachalama, develope...
Medical News Today Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:08:58 -0500

Many celebrities have an easier time making money than managing it, Nicolas Cage being the latest in a long string of examples. That makes Wayne Rogers a bit of an oddity in Hollywood.
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:32:27 -0500

Seriously ill cancer patients are being forced to undergo "cruel" back-to-work interviews despite the fact they should be exempt, charities have warned. Those who are terminally ill or undergoing ch...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:19:02 -0500

ExxonMobil will demonstrate its expertise and commitment to developing breakthrough energy technologies at the 2009 International Petroleum Technology Conference December 7-9, 2009, at the Sheraton Do...
AME Info Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:18:49 -0500

To support the development of the UAE and Middle East as a hub for space related industries, Thuraya Telecommunications Company is actively supporting an international specialised forum on space techn...
AME Info Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:18:44 -0500

Amanda Collier started college last August armed with a certificate of eligibility to use Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits that her dad, a Coast Guardsman of 22 years, had earned and transferred to her.
Montgomery Advertiser Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:49:57 -0500

UNLV’s College of Engineering’s annual senior design competition is an opportunity for students to solve perplexing engineering problems from the everyday — a faster trip across campus — to ...
Las Vegas Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:27:26 -0500

Call Centre Helper visitors have voted for the Corizon Enterprise Mashup Platform in their Top 10 Technologies for 2009, this first inclusion in the top 10 shows the time for mashups is coming (...
PR Web Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:34:59 -0500

E-crime is the fastest growing area of concern for business leaders. That's no surprise, since every recession so far in living history has been accompanied by a wave of innovation in fraud, scams and...
24 / 7 Press Release Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:13:23 -0500

New Horizons 123 is an Internet marketing company for small businesses. Our services are customized for each client and can be purchased ala carte for those business owners who want to take baby steps...
24 / 7 Press Release Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:48 -0500

Comcast Corp.'s chief executive, Brian Roberts, was gushing last week about his company's impending takeover of NBC Universal, saying the deal would give consumers what they want, "which is access to ...
Associated Press Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:05:55 -0500

But even the professionally wary can be gulled - or close to it. Just ask Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the FBI. Mueller recently received an e-mail message that seemed to be from his bank....
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:55:16 -0500

The simplest explanation of Tiger Woods' current predicament had nothing to do with lust, marital betrayal or fallen idols. It described the crafting of an icon and the takeover of sports by corporate...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:55:11 -0500

At this point in 2008, the Giants already had signed Edgar Renteria, Jeremy Affeldt and Bobby Howry and were on the verge of finalizing a deal with Randy Johnson. The A's already had traded for Matt ...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:55:08 -0500

"I was pissed," Riley said later. "It was a frustrating game." Good luck figuring out these Bears. Their late-season surge abruptly evaporated on a chilly night in the Pacific Northwest, where Washin...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:55:06 -0500

I better eat quickly. Vancouver has more than its share of lively, artsy, bohemian neighborhoods full of great restaurants and clubs side-by-side with everyday working Canadian culture. But when hund...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:55:04 -0500

Students compete during the 16th Teenagers' Technology Models Contest in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 5, 2009. More than 300 students from over 40 schools' robot teams all over the provin...
People's Daily Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:35:55 -0500

Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - Jonathan Dwyer ran in the game-winning score with 1:20 to play as 12th-ranked Georgia Tech won the ACC Championship with a thrilling 39-34 win over 25th-ranked Clemson at ...
Sports Network Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:18:46 -0500

NEW DELHI: Both BSNL and MTNL are set to miss the mobile number portability (MNP) deadline of December 31. The state-run telcos have informed the government that they will not be able to impleme...
Times Of India Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:52:55 -0500

In 1822 the English Mathematician Charles Babbage had an idea for a machine that would perform mathematical calculations rapidly and infallibly. This was long before the age of electrical circuitry, s...
Time Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:40:08 -0500

At this point in 2008, the Giants already had signed Edgar Renteria, Jeremy Affeldt and Bobby Howry and were on the verge of finalizing a deal with Randy Johnson. The A's already had traded for Matt ...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:38:33 -0500

"I was pissed," Riley said later. "It was a frustrating game." Good luck figuring out these Bears. Their late-season surge abruptly evaporated on a chilly night in the Pacific Northwest, where Washin...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:38:30 -0500

A city audit of the Lexington Public Library turned up 1,522 "adult materials" on the laptop computer assigned to Kathleen Imhoff, the library's former chief executive, that were not illegal but were ...
Lexington Herald-Leader Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:34:21 -0500

(CNN) -- A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a high-tech scavenger hunt for $40,000 Saturday by discovering the location of 10 red weather balloons.
CNN Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:41:18 -0500

(CNN) -- A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a high-tech scavenger hunt for $40,000 Saturday by discovering the location of 10 red weather balloons.
CNN Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:41:15 -0500

The simplest explanation of Tiger Woods' current predicament had nothing to do with lust, marital betrayal or fallen idols. It described the crafting of an icon and the takeover of sports by corporate...
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:20:50 -0500

(12-05) 16:53 PST ST. LOUIS, CA (AP) -- The maker of the robotic Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters is defending itself against claims that the must-have toy is unsafe.
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:20:48 -0500

RICHMOND, Va. — During the worst campus shooting spree in American history, Virginia Tech officials locked down some administrative offices and warned their own families more than an hour and a...
Gadsden Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:13:37 -0500

The Tories have urged the Government to overhaul measures meant to improve the flow of credit to small businesses amid a continued decline in lending. Shadow business minister Mark Prisk called for ...
Ananova Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:09 -0500

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Georgia Tech's swift turnaround under Paul Johnson now includes its first Atlantic Coast Conference title in more than a decade.
Tampa Bay Online Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:01:41 -0500

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size ...
Tampa Bay Online Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:01:38 -0500

Georgia Tech running back Jonathan Dwyer (21) celebrates with teammate Anthony Allen (18) after scoring a second-quarter touchdown against Clemson during an Atlantic Coast Conference Championship NCAA...
Sign on San Diego Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:45:36 -0500

Jonathan Dwyer’s 15-yard touchdown run with 1:20 remaining gave the 12th-ranked Yellow Jackets a 39-34 victory over No. 25 Clemson in Saturday night’s ACC championship game.
MSNBC Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:34:34 -0500

TAMPA, Fla. -- Georgia Tech's swift turnaround under Paul Johnson now includes its first Atlantic Coast Conference title in more than a decade.Jonathan Dwyer's 15-yard touchdown run with 1:20 remaini...
The Miami Herald Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:33:58 -0500

Georgia Tech running back Jonathan Dwyer (21) celebrates with teammate Anthony Allen (18) after scoring a second-quarter touchdown against Clemson during an Atlantic Coast Conference Championship NCAA...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:22:14 -0500

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RUSTON, La. -- Kyle Gibson scored 29 points to lead three players with 20 or more points as Louisiana Tech raced past Northwestern State 98-70 on Saturday night. Olu Ashaolu s...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:22:10 -0500

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Georgia Tech's swift turnaround under Paul Johnson now includes its first Atlantic Coast Conference title in more than a decade. Jonathan Dwyer 's 15-yard touchdown run with 1...
Sports Illustrated Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:19:38 -0500