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Netflix Will Stop Selling Used DVDs

Netflix will stop selling used DVDs by the end of this month. The company says it will discontinue these sales, which are as low as $5.95 per DVD, on November the 30th, but the rental of DVDs will continue. Most likely, Netflix will sell the used DVDs to wholesalers, which will eventually resell them. The company seems to focus more on...

SanDisk and MusicGremlin To Become One

SanDisk Corporation, the multinational company that designs and markets flash memory card products, will sign an agreement to purchase the MP3 player company MusicGremlin. The purchase cost has not yet been disclosed. The New York based MusicGremlin has become known for promoting a portable digital music player and a subscription...

Microsoft Releases 9 Patches for 14 Flaws

Microsoft released nine patches which fix 14 security flaws on this month's "Patch Tuesday." Eight of the patches, of which six are rated "critical", address security flaws which could enable remote code execution. The ninth patch, rated "important", addresses a security flaw which enables a so-called...

Safari for Windows Beta 3 Tops 1M Downloads in 48h

Apple announced that the beta version of the Safari browser for Windows XP and Vista has been downloaded more than 1 million times in less than 2 days.The interest for the so-called “fastest browser on the market” was so big that Apple registered probably one of the biggest affluence towards its download servers in history. The...

Apple Announces Safari Browser for Windows

Everyone was expecting something big, but instead Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs only made the announcement that Safari browser will now work with Windows PCs and that no SDK for iPhone will be available.High hopes were surrounding last night San Francisco’s Moscone Center, where industry’s beloved Steve Jobs was preparing his keynote,...

After Novell, Xandros Signes Interop Deal with Microsoft

Last November, Microsoft and Novell stunned the open source world with an interoperability partnership that was supposed to ensure peaceful compatibility of Windows apps on SUSE and viceversa.No matter how strict or exigent the open sourcers started to become with other major Linux vendors after this unnatural union, despite the recent...

Microsoft plans to invest 60 million dollars in South Korea

Microsoft Corp plans to invest 60 million dollars in South Korea's software industry over the next three years, chief executive Steve Ballmer told President Lee Myung Bak Monday during a visit to the Asian country. The world's largest software maker wants to concentrate its investment on advancing software developers and new...

Gay Activists March In India

Almost 1,000 homosexual protesters and their supporters marched in three main Indian towns on June 29, wishing to put an end to discrimination. It is said that this was the largest display of gay pride to happen in India. The activists marched in New Delhi, India’s capital, for the first time, setting off on a...

U.S. Hospitals Don’t Succeed In Pleasing Patients

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One In Four American Girls Got Vaccinated Against HPV In 2007

Pediatricians Recommend A Higher Amount Of Vitamin D

Physicians’ Association Apologizes For Decades Of Rasism

The American Medical Association, the US most important physicians’ organization, offered its apology on Thursday for a history of discrimination against African American doctors. Membership was rejected to many black physicians for a long period of time. The excuses came from the work of an independent group of specialists assigned in...

Does Gardasil Vaccine Lead To Death?

Several years ago, Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a way to prevent four strains of HPV, a sexually transmitted virus which can trigger cervical cancer. Since its approval, more than 8,000 complaints about the controversial Gardasil emerged, according to Centers for...

Videotape Shows Patient Dying Ignored By Hospital Employees

New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation decided on Tuesday to expand the monitoring of patients at a public psychiatric region in Brooklyn. The agreement was reached after a shocking surveillance video emerged. The tape showed a patient at Kings County Hospital Center collapsing onto the ground and lying there...

Adverse Events In Californian Hospitals

Almost 100 California residents are being harmed in hospitals in adverse events thought to be preventable. Records reveal the astonishing fact that during a 10-month period doctors performed a wrong surgical procedure, on the wrong part of the body or on the wrong patient 41 times. Moreover, for 145 times foreign objects such...

Kaiser and Microsoft To Provide Health Care Program

Microsoft Corporation and Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the United States, have united powers to create a special pilot program according to which patients can have a control upon their health records. This is not the only provider of such patient information exchange program. Revolution Health...

Report: Yahoo negotiating to buy AOL

Troubled US web portal firm Yahoo! is in negotiations to buy Time Warner Inc.'s AOL business, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Yahoo!, which earlier in the week rejected a 47.5-billion-dollar takeover bid by Microsoft in a move that saw the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang, is according to Bloomberg bidding for...

Yahoo co-founder, chief Yang to step down

Jerry Yang, who helped kick start the internet revolution in 1995 as co-founder of web portal Yahoo, is stepping down as the company's chief executive. The announcement by the ailing internet giant came after months of falling revenue, fierce proxy battles and a series of botched negotiations that scuttled what now seems to have been...

Microsoft unveils Windows 7, a fix for disappointing Vista

Microsoft released key details Tuesday of the next generation of software that it hopes will run the world's computers. The software giant, whose dominance is under threat, said Windows 7 will replace the disappointing Windows Vista in January 2010. Microsoft said the new operating system was designed to function like a tighter...

Plane Crash in Oregon Leaves 5 Dead People

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Accused Kidnapper Is Taken Into Police Custody

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Mother of Kidnapped Girl Asks for Her Return

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An Earthquake Originated under Chino Hills Shakes Southern California

California Gov. Wants to Pay States Employees Minimum Wage of $6.55 an hour

Police Catches Man Having 0.491% Blood Alcohol Level

Obama Arrives to Berlin in his Presidency Campaign Tour; the World Loves Hi

New Information Related to the 2-Year-Old Missing for Nearly 2 Months

Dogs Trained to Have Sex; Might Somebody Be Responsible for Something?

Union Pacific Railroad Co. Pays $102 Million for Fire Damage on Sacramento

Middle Aged Man Threatens to Jump from the Seventh Floor of the Senate Buil

Authorities Search Clues in the Bizarre Disappearance of 2-Year-Old Girl

Terrible Lightning Stroke Boston Leaving 10 People Hospitalized

Tropical Storm Threatens North Carolina

Gray Wolves under Endangered Species Protection

Crane Kills 4 and Wounds 7 after Collapse

Mixed Up Bodies at Home Funeral

Chicago Police Search for Suspects in the Murder of 8-year-old Girl

Cruise Ship Detained in New York

Life in Prison for the “Black Widows” Who Killed Two Homeless

Life in Prison for Killer in Metrolink Crash

Detainee Describes Life in Guantanamo Camps

Lost in the Waters at Kemil Beach

Basil, New Suspect in Salmonella Outbreak

Judge to Give Penitence to Woman Who Abused Her Adopted Children

Woman to Plead Guilty in Spitzer Case

Forecasters Announce Risk of Rip Currents

After Divorce Ended, Cook Says He’s Sorry for His Affair

Missing Body of Army Nurse Found near Camp Lejeune

Missing Medical Files Recovered

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the burglarized tapes which contain around 1.5 million health care billing data, Social Security numbers and medical procedure codes were retrieved on Tuesday. Investigators in the case said Wednesday they received a call which led detectives to University of Utah billing records that were...

Humans Endanger Coral Reefs

A report carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration points to the alarming fact that half of all US coral reefs are in poor health and that responsibility belongs to human beings. Today will take place the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, which will be hosted at The Broward...

Oregon Man’s Balloon Journey

A 48-year-old non-conformist man succeeded Sunday in conquering the American skies, flying about 230 miles for nine hours across the Oregon state. On this third attempt, this time successful , he used a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 helium-filled balloons. Having a GPS gadget, an altimeter and coffee, Kent Couch, owner...

Woman’s Body In St. Croix River Found By Divers

On Sunday morning, divers discovered the body of 41-year-old Lona Donahue, who drowned struggling to get to shore. The tragic incident occurred Saturday afternoon in the St. Croix River, where the woman has taken her youngest daughter, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth’s friend, both aged 13, to Pembles Beach. They were enjoying a...

Christie Brinkley’s Divorce Trial Continues

Christie Brinkley admitted on Thursday in a Long Island, New York courtroom that she was destroyed the day she found out the fact that her husband was having a mistress. Details of her divorce from Peter Cook continue to be disclosed to the public. Whereas initially the man denied the affair with his 18-year-old assistant,...

Authorities Arrest And Charge 2 Supervisors With Aiding Illegal Immigrants

Federal authorities arrested on Thursday two superintendents at Agriprocessors Inc., Iowa's biggest kosher meatpacking plant, on criminal immigration charges. They are said to have aided illegal immigrants to secure forged IDs before the raid, to have persuaded them to inhabit in the U.S. and to have encouraged them to labor at...

Vermont Girl’s Body Has Been Uncovered

The body of Brook Bennett, the Vermont girl missing since June 25, was found Wednesday, hours after incriminating papers emerged, which led to accusing her uncle of intending to initiate her into a child sex ring. The corpse of the 12-year-old child was found in the environs of her uncle’s property. Michael Jacques was...

Vermont Girl’s Stepfather Faces Charges

Capt. David J. Covell, fromVermont State Police, said family members of Brooke Bennett are to hold a candlelight vigil for the missing 12-year-old girl at the gazebo situated in the center of Randolph Village at 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 2. Consequently, the Randolph Police will close Main Street/Vermont 12 at the...

Harry Potter Author Conquers Harvard

One minute and fifty seconds of applause followed after an impressive speech held by the novelist JK Rowling in front of the 2008 Harvard graduates. And it was not an easy job for the Harry Potter author to hit the jack-pot after heavyweight speakers like Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, former Irish president Mary Robinson, ex-US...

Microsoft Releases Malicious Software Report

The spread of malicious software is on the rise, Microsoft announced through a report on Monday. The software can harm computers and open gateways for hackers and identity thieves. More than 90% of the vulnerabilities affected applications, while only 10% affected operating systems. The reports shows that Trojan downloads and...

The FCC Approves Use of White Spaces

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5 to 0 to approve the new use for the unlicensed frequencies, also known as white spaces. This comes after the objections of TV broadcasters and other groups and it should lead to low-cost, high-speed Internet access and new wireless devices. Even if the TV broadcasters, Broadway theater...

Amazon Fights "Wrap Rage"

Amazon.com has decided to reduce the plastic clamshells, coated wire ties and fasteners that drive consumers crazy by a Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. In 2006, tech billionaire Mark Cuban sliced his hand trying to open a hard plastic packaging. Retailers got the message a bit later and companies like Apple, Johnson & Johnson,...

Google Will Use OpenID

Google has recently announced that it will become a single sign-on provider using OpenID solutions. Google users will login with their Google account information when signing up from new accounts on other sites. The giant company is not the first one to proceed in this way. Microsoft and Yahoo have already adopted the same strategy of...

TiVo Subscribers Will Finally Be Able to Use Netflix

Netflix and TiVo will sign an agreement that brings Netflix streaming to TiVo DVRs by the end of 2008. The beta testing for select TiVo owners will begin immediately, with a roll-out scheduled for early December. It will be available on TiVo HD, HD XL, and Series 3 DVRs. The feature will be identical to the one you can find on the...

Internet Giants Sign Human Rights Protocol

Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft, along with several human rights groups have announced the launch of the Global Network Initiative: Protecting and Advancing Freedom of Expression and Privacy in the Information and Communication Technology Industry (GNI). The agreement comes after giants as Google and Yahoo faced criticism for working with...

Office Apps Online Due To Be Launched in 2009

Microsoft representatives announced on Tuesday, at the Professional Developers Conference, that it will put Office apps Word, Excel and Power Point online. These offer several advantages over software apps. For example, documents can be opened up for sharing and collaboration very simply. On the other hand, online apps have less robust...

Netflix Expands Its Streaming Service to Macs

Netflix announced on Monday that it has expanded its streaming service in order to include Macs. The service is limited to a small percentage of Netflix subscribers and it will only work in Intel-based Macs. According to Netflix data, three-quarters of the Mac subscribers are on Intel-based machines. The company is also adding support...

MobileMe Is One Day Away

The new service from Apple, called MobileMe, is set to be launched this week, right before the Friday release of the 3G iPhone. This means .Mac subscribers won’t be able to access the service for six hours on Wednesday, July 9, as the company will be making the transition.www.mac.com will become unavailable between 6 pm and 12 am PDT;...

No1 is Not Enough: Yahoo Gets New E-mail Domains

On Thursday, Yahoo Inc. officials talked about the two new e-mail domains the company has launched: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Although it may seem hard to believe, good account names are getting more and more difficult to find, especially on the big domains. As John Kremer, Yahoo Mail vice president, said, the company is well aware...

Firefox 3: 24 Hours Worth of Over 8 Million Downloads

The latest version of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 3.0, was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first day of its release this week, said the software’s developers on Wednesday. The 24 hours period lasted from Tuesday 11:16 a.m. until the same time next day, and the final count revealed 8.3 million downloads....

Microsoft Takes Care of Critical IE and Bluetooth Flaws

On Tuesday, Microsoft released a new patch bundle that features three fixes for serious vulnerabilities of several Windows versions, which could be taken advantage of by remote attackers. Among the seven identified vulnerabilities, three were considered to be "critical," three more were rated "important" and...

CBS and Yahoo Start Collaboration

On Wednesday, CBS Corp announced that it had reached a deal with Yahoo Inc., according to which its web videos will be carried by the latter. This means that Yahoo would be part of the CBS Audience Network and would join a rather special group that brings together some of the biggest names out there, including Google Inc's YouTube,...

Sony’s Qore to Come Out on June 5

Starting with the fifth of this month, Sony will launch a new "monthly lifestyle gaming program" called Qore. It was said that it would deliver "exclusive playable demos, game previews, strategies and interviews with developers and key industry figures" and it will do so through the US PlayStation Network Store.For...

Microsoft to Change Its Search Image

At a search advertising conference in Seattle, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, stated that, in order to gain in on Google, considerable effort is being put by the company’s marketing team into "fixing Microsoft's search image." This comes after Microsoft’s decision at the beginning of...

Bugs To Create Security Issues For Apple

Microsoft Corp. has advised its clients to be careful with the use of the Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, since the system seems to have been attacked by dangerous unknown bugs. The Apple’s browser has been intruded by the Safari bug, which keeps downloading files without a user’s permission. The stranger software runs...

Facebook Opens Gates to Developers Everywhere

On Monday, Facebook announced that a "significant part" of its platform code will be released as open-source. This comes one year after the launch of Facebook Platform, which gives third party developers the chance to write programs that work inside the social-networking site. More than 400,000 developers have taken advantage...

AOL Joins the OpenSocial Project

It seems that AOL has decided to support OpenSocial. This piece of information came out on Wednesday, at the Google I/O conference, during the speech of Google Director of Engineering David Glazer. OpenSocial was first announced by Google in October as a response to the multitude of already existing networks and future strategies...

Flash Player 10 Beta Out Now

On Thursday, a beta version of Flash Player 10 was unveiled by Adobe. The Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux installer can be downloaded from the company’s website. The new edition of Flash Player brings about an entire series of features and improvements, including Adobe Pixel Blender filters, 3D rendering effects and an engine for text...

Lexico Publishing Group Joins Ask.com

Ask.com and Lexico Publishing Group, owner of the three very popular websites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, have announced that an agreement was reached and thus the first will acquire the latter for an undisclosed price. There is however some available information that can roughly point out what the company is worth:...

Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope

This week, as Microsoft Corp. finally launched the beta version of the long expected WorldWide Telescope project, users were given free access to a fabulous online collection of telescope images. Curtis Wong, a principal researcher at Microsoft and also one of the project’s leaders, told Computerworld that he has been dreaming about...

Microsoft Responsable for Mass Hack?

Internet security is a very relative and, apparently, vulnerable thing. Every little flaw will be taken advantage of. According to Finnish anti-virus maker F-Secure, more than 500,000 websites, including several hosted by the United Nations and the U.K. government, have recently been hacked and modified in order to download malware to...