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Casual Video Gamers Are Key Targets

July 24th, 2007 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

Heavy video gamers comprise only 2% of all gamers, yet they spent more than eight times on games than the average gamer did in the last quarter of 2006, according to NPD Group’s "Gamer Segmentation II" study, conducted in January 2007 among gamers ages 6 to 44.



Octopus Finds 900-Year-Old Treasure

July 24th, 2007 at 10:12 pm » Comments (0)

It is a story that combines all the great mysteries and exciting discoveries of the sea – an octopus hauled onto a fishing boat with valuable ancient pottery attached to its suckers.



Leaked ‘Top Secret’ Government UFO Documents Proven Frauds

July 24th, 2007 at 10:06 pm » Comments (0)

Top secret documents alleged to have been written by high ranking government and military officials, including three U.S. presidents, leaked to the public in the early 1980s, have been proven fraudulent by recent forensic linguistic testing. These documents, collectively named "The Majestic Documents" by researchers, contained references to the alleged crash of a flying saucer [...]



Some of the Harry Potter Books Missing Pages

July 24th, 2007 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)

Harry Potter charmed millions of readers this weekend, but the spell was broken at least briefly for some fans when they found pages missing from their precious copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."



Understanding Mobile Search in the US

July 24th, 2007 at 8:40 pm » Comments (0)

Competition for the US mobile search market promises to be fierce, thanks to the large US online ad market and strong pushes by portals.



iPhone Sales Flop

July 24th, 2007 at 10:16 am » Comments (0)

Shares of Apple were off $5.70 to $138.02 on Nasdaq after AT&T, the exclusive service provider for iPhone, said it signed up 146,000 iPhone customers as subscribers in the first two days of iPhone sales, well below analyst estimates for sales.



Emotion-Sensing Furniture Changes Hues

July 24th, 2007 at 10:03 am » Comments (0)

Ancient Japanese people believed that gods lived in all things, whether animate or inanimate. Talking to a wall was not an idle act, but actually a kind of soul-searching. And usually, the wall talked back.



Gamer Kidnapped, Ordered At Gunpoint To Release His Password

July 24th, 2007 at 9:54 am » Comments (0)

An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for [...]



Circumcision Could Save Millions From HIV Infection

July 24th, 2007 at 8:44 am » Comments (0)

Male circumcision could prevent millions of HIV infections every year and play a major role in controlling the virus’ spread in developing nations, a major AIDS conference was told Tuesday.



Index of Online Video Sharing Sites

July 24th, 2007 at 8:39 am » Comments (0)

Online video is a huge trend – so huge that’s it’s proving hard to keep track. Here are the top 31 online video sharing websites.