from Economist.com
TECH firms constantly moan about software piracy and no wonder. Last year it accounted for 35% of the worldwide market and cost the industry $39.6 billion according to the Business Software Alliance, a trade body. America and China lead the world in terms of total losses from piracy at $7.2 billion and $5.4 billion [...]
Recently even more discoveries have been made on other planets outside our special solar system. A total of 28 new planets have been discovered, which is great news for Jason Wright of the University of California, who says, “We added 12 percent to the total in the last year, and we’re very proud of that”. [...]
Rod Baber, a mountain climber from Britain, recently set a new Guinness record after making the world’s highest phone call from the top of Everest. He managed the special call twice while on top, he first called to a special voice mail account and then once again to his family. His cell phone was an [...]
There have been cartoons that allow cars to be folded into a suitcase. This may seem a bit far away in the future, but not so far-fetched when it comes to the suitcase bike. The great news is that it’s ready to hit production:
could be available to interested consumers “later this year.”
In a couple seconds [...]
The digiframe market has grown bigger and better every month. Digiframes are, as the name implies, digital picture frames that can store more than one photo. This allows you to change the photo displayed into anything you want, or you can usually command it to rotate the pictures in a slide show format.
Digiframes are moving [...]
The name alone implies that you’re going to hurt yourself.The design is based on both a bicycle and inline skates, an interesting idea. Though this could just be a compact bicycle, as you will pedal a bit more than skating. A great idea in itself.
For more information and a video, go to Gizmodo.
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The IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) , a partnership betweeen the FBI and the NW3C (National White Collar Crime Center) issued a report for the year 2006.
From physorg.com
Download the report : 2006 Year Report
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