President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors. See this story from the BBC for more.
See also here from The Washington Post: Bush’s Asia Trip Meets Low Expectations.
Found at Breirbart: Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users’ movements and habits, the UN’s telecommunications agency predicted.
In a report entitled "Internet of Things", the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) outlined the expected next [...]
Newsweek writes: Sources of Confusion: The Plame drama thickens, as Washington once again tries to guess who Bob Woodward’s been talking to. And The Chicago Tribune reports here: Rice denies leaking name to Woodward. Meanwhile the Washington Post titles its editorial: Mr. Woodward’s Sources
"We may be two peoples separated by a common language, as Shaw once suggested, but the US propensity to find teeth-grindingly literal explanations for the world around us never ceases to cause the British mirth." So The Register online writes. You can read this story here and please let us know what you think about this one.
Looks like yet another scandal is brewing close to the republicans as the Washington Post reports here: Michael Scanlon, partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was charged Friday with conspiring to defraud Indian tribe clients of millions of dollars in a scheme that lavished golf trips, meals and campaign donations on a member of Congress.
Scanlon was [...]
Its share price has halved over the last seven years as the company struggles to deal with the growing trend for new, healthier drinks. The company is under attack amid concerns about obesity and the effect fizzy soft drinks are having on our health.
For more details see this story from BBC and please let [...]
Spiegel online reports here: Just days before his visit to China this weekend, US President George W. Bush has called on Beijing to pursue democratic reforms and open up the country. There’s just one problem: throughout Asia, Bush has a massive credibility gap when it comes to human rights and freedom.
PC Pro reports here: If Sony BMG was hoping that the controversy surrounding its copy-protected CDs was going to die away, it was reckoning without infamous hacker Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon. It seems that the XCP software from UK company First4Internet that Sony had been using to prevent unauthorized copying of [...]
PC World reports here: "After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to offer customers a way to exchange CDs that contain the flawed copy-protection software. "
Sony Statement from here: We share [...]