For many marketers who were sitting on the sidelines of social networking as recently as four months ago, advertising on social networks has become a top priority.

China has announced plans to build a satellite navigation system that will include up to 35 satellites and be working in the Asian region by 2008.

Andy Frost owns the world’s fastest street car — a tricked-out VAUXHALL he paid £60 for. The father of three has transformed his 1972 K-reg into a mean machine that does 0-60 in ONE second. (w/pic)

With a rise in the popularity of Christian-style weddings in Japan, some Westerners are finding they can make a lucrative living by acting as priests. But it does not please everyone, particularly genuine priests.

The British army is planning to extend its training for young recruits because so many potential soldiers are obese, an official report discloses today. The military has had to relax its criteria over the physique and weight of recruits as a result of the problem.

In a new report, "US Mobile Marketing forecast: 2006–2011," JupiterResearch predicts that advertising for messaging and display ads for mobile devices will more than double over the over the next five years.

They vote ­ but not always. Compared with Americans who regularly cast ballots, they are less engaged in politics. They are more likely to be bored with the political process and admit they often do not know enough about candidates to cast ballots. But they are crucial to Republican and Democratic fortunes in the Nov. […]

Imagine the following situation: a flight of 12hours on United Airlines and your iPod is dying! Don’t panic! You won’t have to stick your head in the toilet bowl for the entire duration of the flight because you’re suffering from flying UA… Elecom has THE solution for you!

When it comes to glamming, British women put the continent to shame, spending more than women in France, Germany and Spain, research showed.

Over the last few weeks, two men have tried four times to lasso an ATM with a chain and drag it away with a pickup truck, sheriff’s officials said. Each time, they’ve come up empty-handed.

In a controversial study, researchers have resurrected a retrovirus that infected our ancestors millions of years ago and now sits frozen in the human genome. Published online by Genome Research this week, the study may shed new light on the history of these genomic intruders, as well as their role in tumors. Although this particular […]

One in five workers are tuning into their iPods and turning away from their colleagues, according to research.

The meteoric rise of search engine marketing (SEM) has been well documented, but marketers have been reluctant to discuss the growth of click fraud. That is changing.