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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A little late on the taking but most of you may have heard that actor, Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to a 3-year jail sentence this past week. 
IMDB reports that Snipes has requested he be allowed to serve his [...]

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Sir Arthur C Clarke was famous for his science fiction writing
British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
The Somerset-born author achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
His [...]

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News Corp has cooled its interest in Yahoo, confirming speculation on Wall Street that the media giant was becoming wary of a bidding war with Microsoft.
Rupert Murdoch’s company had reportedly been in talks with Yahoo with the aim of integrating MySpace with the internet company’s online services.
However, speaking at the annual Bear Stearns media conference [...]

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Any of you budding internet radio stars out there wanting to set up your own station?
Maybe you have your own station already and are looking for a good sound?
Try Greeny Productions, specialists in Voiceover work

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We’ve seen a lot of research and even some products that promise seamless WiFi / cell roaming, but Intel and Nokia are cooking up tech that might one day bring us true uninterrupted broadband connectivity, based on automatic undetectable switchovers from WiFi to WiMAX. Intel’s posted up a brief video demoing the tech auto-switching without [...]

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Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee are in a tossup to be the first town to have fibre cables laid delivering superfast internet connections for consumer use. Fibre company H2O supplies the fibre throughout the sewer network to save costs on digging up roads.
This will be a good move to compete with BT’s next gen broadband and [...]

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Jamestown, Colorado - two teens have been charged with killing a 7-year-old girl by beating her with imitations of moves from the Mortal Kombat video games, prosecutors said Wednesday. 
Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, were charged as adults on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, according to court documents obtained be [...]

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Bolton - the hometown of Vernon Kay, Peter Kay, Sara Cox, Amir Khan, and Imran Hakim. Never heard of the last one? Well, he’s the inventor of the iTeddy - first seen on Dragon’s Den and now set for world domination it seems. 
Imran Hakim’s iTeddy has gone a step further, securing a deal with leading [...]

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As a result of catching his 15-year-old son smoking marijuana, a Canadian father sold his son’s christmas pressie, Guitar Hero III for the Nintendo Wii, for a whopping 100x more than it’s retail price ($90)! 
 
The game, which is proving difficult to find pre-Christmas, fetched an incredible $9,100 (£4,522) on the auction website. It normally sells [...]

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The rumour that David Hassehoff reprising his Michael Knight role in the upcoming Knight Rider TV movie has officially been confirmed via a press release from NBC. 
“David Hasselhoff who starred in the popular lead role as Michael Knight for four season during the original series — returns as the same character in a [...]

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Texting “I luv u” hardly captures the emotion and letter writing can be a bit OTT so here’s the perfect solution, the world’s first talking message tag. 
From now on, you can personalise your feelings to a best mate or a new date by sending a pre-recorded pre.vu Talking Message Tag. These credit card size mementos [...]

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theregister.com reports that from “early 2008″ the top three per cent of uploaders and the top three per cent downloaders will be throttled between 4pm and 9pm as opposed to the current restrictions imposed between 4pm and midnight. 
Once the throttle is applied, it’ll stay in place for five hours. The present regime allows for two [...]

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A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated knockoff of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing users to post copyrighted material. 
Vivid Entertainment Group filed the lawsuit (the first of its kind) in Los Angeles federal court against PornoTube and its parent, Data Conversions Inc., which does business in Charlotte, [...]

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Channel 4 has announced that is it launching a HD service on Sky from today. 
Obviously, the viewers will get be able to enjoy there favourite programmes in crystal clear HD resolution. 
Pocket-Lint reports: 
At launch, Channel 4 has said that the new HD channel will include a selection of entertainment, music, movie and drama content, with highlights [...]

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The uses and functionalities of robots are constantly growing in many areas from industrial to domestic needs, with this in mind, Toyota R&D has been working hard on new robots that they kindly presented to Akihabara. 
The first robot is destined to be used in logistics, it is capable of moving around without touching anything, it [...]

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