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Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines how a software used for backing gmail was use to collect gmail login details.
I was looking for a way to back up my gmail account to a local drive. I’ve accumulated a mass of important information that I would rather not lose. During my search I came across G-Archiver, [...]

The USA President Bush vetoed legislation that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.”The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror,So today I vetoed it.”Mr. Bush said in his [...]

Adidas and Samsung teamed up to make a mobile phone, ‘miCoach’, that works with Adidas shoes and apparel to plan, track and motivate users in training.“Samsung and Adidas share a love of sports that transcends different cultures, industries and technologies,Samsung’s world class cutting-edge design and technical skills are the perfect match for Adidas’ sporting excellence. [...]

Two Palestinian gunmen who were also killed,opened fire in a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem on Thursday.Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said one of the gunmen was wearing an explosive belt. He said students were being evacuated from the building.At least eight people died according to police and rescue workers.

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Mayor Gerard Lalanne of Sarpourenx a village in southwest France has threatened the 260 residents of the village with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.Mayor Gerard Lalanne said that he was forced to take this decision after an administrative court in the nearby [...]

Microsoft said in a statement that it will be releasing the first beta of its next-generation browser Internet Explorer 8 as well as a beta of the second version of the Flash competitor Silverlight for download today.Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer 8 will be being compliant with web standards, and will not, as previously [...]

A recent US study Ohio State University and appears in the April issue of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, found that aromatherapy oils had no physiological effect although they may improve mood for some people.Dr Janice Kiecolt-Glaser,Lead author of the study and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University, said that hat the placebo effect [...]

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night in US presidential campaign.Rival Barack Obama took the primary poll in the state of Vermont.
Hillary Clinton,16 states, 1,376 delegates(Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas) Barack Obama 24 [...]

Gary Gygax, co-creator of the first role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, has died at the age of 67. Gary Gygax, who developed the game in 1974 with Dave Arneson, had been suffering from health problems for several years.

Microsoft has announced the release of its Microsoft Office Live Workspace,a free service that is aimed at individual users and small businesses in beta. “Today’s announcement moves us further down the

An Iranian court has ordered a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses that he promised in her dowry, after she filed a complaint to claim it, reports say.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian to pay 124,000-rose dowry.

Police Commander Gen. Oscar Naranjo of Colombia said that documents found in a camp in Ecuador where Colombian troops killed FARC rebel commander Raul Reyes showed ties between the FARC rebels and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, including contacts about political proposals and local military commanders.Documents also showed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had made $300 [...]

A New York cabbie who took an infant to a fire station claiming it had been left in his cab has been charged with lying to help friends abandon the baby.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Charges over ‘abandoned’ NY girl.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaking on his weekly television show,said that he is sending thousands of troops and tanks to the border with Colombia and that the Venezuela’s embassy in Colombia would close and added that the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was a “criminal”.
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According to a study published in the March issue of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vitamin E can increase the risk of developing lung cancer.The researchers followed people aged between 50 and 76 for four years and looked at their average daily use of vitamin C and folic [...]