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Reuters gets virtual Second Life

After companies like Major League Baseball, Harvard University, American Apparel Inc. and CNet.com today news giant Reuters announced that it has created a presence in the Second Life world. From its Virtual News Bureau chief “Adam Reuters” who’s real name is Adam Pasick will report regularly. He has setup virtual office and his office hours [...]


Full length (updated: was) online: Who killed the Electric Car?

Those of us that did not get a chance to watch Chris Pane’s documentary “Who killed the Electric Car?” when it was released during June 2006 now, thanks to Google Video, got a chance to watch it in full length from our computers. Wikipedia and IMDb both provide additional information on the movie. We have [...]


Happy Birthday Winnie the Pooh

Today its exactly 80 years ago that A. A. Milne’s book on the fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published with illustrations by E. H. Shepard. “Winnie-the-Pooh” was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, followed by “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928), and the poetry books “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We Are [...]


New Flight Simulator from Microsoft

The long awaited new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will be hitting the stores next week. Microsoft Game Studios has further enhanced lots of the already exiting features of the previous version (Flight Simulator 2004). Additional missions as well as new planes are include with many other new features. Microsoft has created a great Flash [...]


Lego Ice Cubes

New Lego ice bricks allow you to play again with one of your most favorite toys from childhood while pooring you a glass of juice. Also works with Wodka Tonics…. Available from Lego


Singapore plans free wireless Internet

From January next year, Singaporeans will get to enjoy free wireless Internet in public areas for two years. The government hopes this will grow the broadband market from the current 50,000 users to about 250,000 users in two years. Three operators – iCELL network, QMax Communications and SingTel will participate in this government and industry [...]