Filed under: Found Footage, iPhone Watch this video at your own risk ... it truly is painful to watch as this iPhone gets a bullet right through the home button. I can't help but think if there was a much more humane way of getting rid of an old iPhone. Online auction sites or maybe an online classified ads site might be nice. Hmm ... yeah, if only those existed. On an iPhone? Click this link to watch the YouTube video.Thanks, Det!Read | Permalin
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Rates cut lifeline for small PC shops? Small computer outfits could see VAT rates slashed to as low as five per cent under new proposals put forward by the European Commission yesterday.?

TPV Tech takes over Royal Philips Electronics will transfer its entire monitor and IT displays business to Hong Kong-based company TPV Technology Limited.?

Developer program thrown open to proletariat Symbian has launched a new developer program, the Symbian Partner Network, which bears a remarkable resemblance to the old Platinum Partner Program despite costing $3,500 less.?

Seeks smarter vuln stats Mozilla is piloting a project designed to develop a better model for the security of Firefox, by tracking a whole series of metrics over time.?

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Move over Second Life. The 3D Web is starting to make inroads into the plain old browser. By “plain,” I mean only Internet Explorer on Windows machines?which for now is what you need to experience Vivaty Scenes. But at least it’s a start. (Firefox support on PCs is coming in a few [...]

AnneWoahHickey writes "While the State of California was harassing personalized genomics companies, and hindering the development of personalized medicine, Wired was preparing a guide to genetic testing. It explains how to make sense of the massive sets of raw data offered by 23andMe or deCODEme, and a way to check yourself for genetic abnormalities that are not covered by microarray tests. Facing a medical community that is fiercely resistant to
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG plans to cut around 4 percent of its workforce as part of an overhaul and as a result of the global economic downturn, Siemens said on Tuesday.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said talks with Poland on a European missile shield remained unresolved, hours before she was to sign a treaty in the Czech Republic on Prague's part of the accord.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will propose overhauling U.S. bankruptcy laws on Tuesday to ease their impact on people unable to pay their bills because of medical expenses or military service.

Anne Hathaway is still putting on her strong smile promoting Get Smart around the world. Yesterday, the stop was Rome where Anne looked great in another hot red number at the photo call before slipping into glamorous white for the premiere. With everyone still buzzing about her ex Raffaello's scandal Anne seems to have the best distraction possible in terms of keeping herself busy. She may not be ready to jump back into the dating pool just yet,
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Filed under: PC There have been a bevy of tower defense games in the past months, none of which were able to usurp the king (of our hearts) Desktop Tower Defense 1.5. But Game in a Bottle's new offering GemCraft ... well, it still doesn't, but it does some interesting stuff that we think is definitely worth talking about. The best way of thinking about the game is a Puzzle Quest-ian take on the TD genre. You're trying to protect your base from on
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When I initially wrote about Plurk, I noted that while it was a great service, I don’t see it gaining too much traction because of its similarity to Twitter which seems to be in that comfy spot where no one really wants to switch to another service, whichever novelties it may bring. Fast forward one [...]

Robert Fox: Long an instrument of Bin Laden and al-Qaida, the internet is now showing potential as a tool to fight terrorism

Former prime minister accused of using his position to help his wife buy land