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A woman in the United States was sent to the hospital emergency room after a cellphone became lodged in her throat. And how could the cellphone end up in places like that? The woman tried to swallow it so her boyfriend wouldn’t have it.
Two months ago, HP similarly has recalled 135,000 laptop batteries (info).
Beware for those who depend on online dating websites to find the perfect love. Because you might end up ‘dating’ employee of theirs.
Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
Yahoo is also being accused of falsiying the number of potential dating partners to make it look as though many more singles subscribe to the service than actually do.
Both companies choose to have no comment about the lawsuits.
Continue reading ‘Online daters sue match.com and Yahoo Personals’
Is your printer betraying you by secretly outputting hidden data? If you own a Xerox, your printer is probably printing something extra that you probably are not even aware of. You can be tracked by investigators by magnifying and decoding the hidden info.
Continue reading ‘Decoding DocuColor tracking dot’
Intel has unveiled Robson, a technology that could significantly reduces the time it takes for a notebook PC to power up or access programs.
The key to this success is the use of nonvolatile NAND flash memory. Instead of booting from the hard drive, laptop with Robson technology would read from the flash memory, which is much faster and consumes battery power too.
Continue reading ‘Intel unveils Robson’
Attention if you own a HP laptop.
HP has recently recalled 135,000 laptop batteries after the company has received 16 reports of battery melting which 4 of them causing damage to the laptops. Affected customers will receive the new battery in 5 to 10 days and will be given a postage-paid envelope to return the old battery to HP.
Continue reading ‘HP recalling laptop batteries’
U.S. crude oil futures soared nearly $5 a barrel in opening trade to touch a fresh peak of $70.80 a barrel as one of the country’s biggest storms, Katrina tore through the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, forcing 40% of oil producers and refiners to shut down operations.
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Due to the fact that VOIP users can’t connect with a live emergency dispatch operator when calling 911, the FCC has set a Monday deadline for providers of Internet-based telephone calls to get acknowledgments from their VOIP customers that they understand the problems they may encounter when dialing 911 in an emergency. Users who fail to respond will have their service disconnected next week.
The major players cried to extend the deadline.
Are you an online game addict? Now here is the good (bad) news. To prevent the people from becoming addicted to online games, the Chinese government has unveiled a new system to prevent individuals from playing online games for more than three consecutive hours, and that system is going to be installed for every online game in the country.
The new system will cut the ability level of a player’s online game character by half after 3 consecutive hours of gameplay, and will further cut it to the lowest level allowed by the game after 5 consecutive hours of gameplay.
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