Quick, how many gift cards were in your Christmas stocking, and how
many will you actually get around to spending? Needham, Mass.-based
researcher TowerGroup estimates that of the $97 billion worth of plastic cards purchased in
2007, nearly $8 billion has gone unused, although no one has an exact
count.

WebProNews Editor,
Jason Lee Miller, has put together an interesting scenario as to how bloggers will reinvent the publishing industry. 

For a time, it looked like there was no stopping WiMAX, a form of
wireless broadband that can blanket whole cities for less than rival
technologies cost. WiMAX is backed by a who’s who of telecom and
consumer electronics firms and carriers around the globe with grand
plans to roll it out in the coming months. But all that […]

A joint Canadian-Chinese study indicates that children learn to tell social lies around age four!

Remember the 70’s toy Weeble ("Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down")? Well, no matter what position you place weebles in, they always sproing upright. They do this because their bottom end are weighted. But can an object "self-right" simply by its shape alone? Turns out the answer is yes: meet the "gomboc", the world’s […]

A letter that a young girl in Japan sent into the sky in a balloon some 15 years ago has been found on a fish hauled from 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) below the Pacific.

There once was a person who lived in a shoe…

A leatherback sea turtle recently completed the longest recorded migration of any sea vertebrate: 12,774 miles (20,558 kilometers) across the Pacific Ocean.

The Airbus A380 is somewhat unique as it is a double-decker all
the way back - think of a 747 with the upper deck extended.
When that airplane was introduced back in the early 70’s,
cocktail lounges and even piano bars were on-board, but these
soon went away for economic reasons - the same
as with the A380. (Amazing pic) […]

More than 300 million mobile phones and devices shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to
IDC’s "Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker." That was a record, and was up 15.3% over the previous quarter. Total shipments for 2007 reached 1,144.1 million units, up 12.4% over 2006.

Believe it or not, middle age makes you miserable. So, don’t blame your job,
your kids, your spouse, your income or lack of it. A team of researchers from
Britain and the United States has carried out a study and found that people are
more likely to feel depressed in their mid-life, with the peak age for
depression being […]

More than a quarter of
people who bought Apple Inc’s iPhone are using them on wireless networks other
than AT&T’s, the exclusive iPhone carrier in the US, a
“stunning” number that will pressure the company’s business model,
an analyst said.