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  1. Jimmy the Cat <-- VS --> Kyusha the fluffy Kitten

    Jimmy's the cat with his very own party trick and Kyusha's the fluffy kitten who loves tight spots. Who will win this week's Freak Out: Battle of the weird photos? Kyusha the playful kitten from Moscow managed to knock Ambam off his feet in last week's Freak Out, and now she's up against...
  2. VIDEO Topless Feminists Protest 'Win a Wife' Competition

    A feminist group in Ukraine has protested a radio station competition to "win a wife" in the most eye-catching way possible -- by removing clothes. The Femen Movement is angered by a contest organized by a New Zealand radio station that offered a listener the opportunity to travel to Ukraine...
  3. Iditarod Race goes high tech with GPS devices

    When the 39th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts in Anchorage on Saturday, 62 mushers and their dogs will embark on an annual trek that has evolved far from its shoestring roots. The leading contenders are professionals, working year-round to prepare for the race and financed by corporate...
  4. Eurovision Song Contest on a Roll With Crazy Bike

    After more than five decades featuring over 1,100 songs, the Eurovision Song Contest, widely considered Europe's favorite TV show, is gearing up for its May 14 finale. Countries, represented by their individual public broadcasters, compete in the show every year, which is transmitted to all...
  5. Windows 8 tablets “closer to competitive” than expected: ARM-based Win-slates in late

    Microsoft’s tablet ambitions may reach fruition a lot earlier than previously expected, according to the latest leaks from the company, with Windows 8 based slates running frugal ARM chipsets tipped for as early as the end of this year. Business Insider ‘s sources claim Microsoft has set around...
  6. Top ten winter sports

    The winter is a much loved season by many sportive individuals. The snow and the low temperatures create the best conditions for winter related sports. There are many winter sports practiced all over the world during winter. Some originally winter sports can be practiced indoors so skating, ice...
  7. Ballmer Plugs Windows 7 as an OS for All Devices

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition. More...
  8. Time Warner Cable can't call its network "fiber optic"

    The back-and-forth between AT&T and Verizon over the quality of their wireless services ended up making its way into some high-profile primetime commercials. But it's not the only fight that Verizon has been waging with competitors. The company also took issue with advertising run by Time...
  9. Elite Gamers Play Video Game for 50 Hours, Setting Marathon Record

    Elite Gamers Set Marathon Record by Playing Video Game for 50 Hours He just set a whole slew of world records for playing video games and knows just where he's going to put the official certificate from Guinness World Records. "I'll put it right next to my master's degree," Dino said...
  10. World's Longest Handshake Record Within Grasp

    World's Longest Handshake Record Within Grasp A good, firm handshake shouldn't last more than two or three seconds. Any longer and it starts to get a bit awkward. Unless, of course, you're trying to set a world record. Last night, four teams of two from around the world congregated...
  11. Windows 7 Rumour: Bulldozer 50% faster than Core i7 950 and Phenom II X6 1100T

    DonanimHaber have revealed early Link Removed indications for AMD's much anticipated next-gen Bulldozer architecture, in the form of Zambezi CPUs. The benchmarks were sourced from an official AMD document, in three categories, Media, Rendering and Games, and the Bulldozer 8-core sampled ended up...
  12. Motion Computing's Windows 7 tablet: what chance against the iPad?

    A longstanding player in the tablet market for the past nine years, Motion Computing has seen Apple blow past it with the iPad. So can it make it up now, and how will Steve Ballmer's coming announcements affect it? Motion Computing was one of the first companies to really try to make tablets...
  13. Ballmer plugs Windows 7 as an OS for all devices

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed
  14. Ballmer Plugs Windows 7 As an OS for All Devices

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed
  15. Ballmer plugs Windows 7 as an OS for all devices

    IDG News Service - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed
  16. Ballmer plugs Windows 7 as an OS for all devices

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed
  17. Ballmer plugs Windows 7 as an OS for all devices

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed
  18. Lenovo announces LePad Tablet with Android and Windows 7 functionality

    Tablet devices are big news at the moment and so as not to be undone by the competition the laptop manufacturing giant Lenovo is the latest company to announce a new LePad tablet (on show at this year’s CES). However, this one seems a little different, the most notable difference being that it...
  19. Windows 7 – not sticky enough?

    Poor old Microsoft, damned of they do and damned if they don’t. With US or EU competition regulators ever ready to pounce on them if they add a new feature that somebody claims is anti-competitive. The Sticky Notes feature in Windows 7 offers only minimal functionality, and there’s a far better...
  20. Nokia May be Considering Windows 7 Phones

    Microsoft, Nokia may find common ground in battle against Apple and Android in mobile market. More...