Following in the footsteps of a few artists before her, the Australian singer/songwriter Joss Stone has begun encouraging fans to share her music online, going as far as to call piracy "brilliant".In a recent interview, the artist admits she loves

Perhaps only the government and the political class have been caught by surprise at the outpouring of appreciation...

I was present at the Bangalore launch of his autobiography by Dev Anand recently. Among other things he has said in the...

The] local Taliban commander blew his whistle, and hundreds of observers plugged their ears, held their breath and waited...

What is happening in Pakistan's Frontier province and in the surrounding semi-autonomous tribal areas...

In order to "set an example", Portugal's first convicted file sharer has been sentenced to 90 days in prison. The man, who remains unnamed, had been in court after the Portuguese version of the RIAA accused him of unauthorized uploading

Panasonic executives are denying recent reports that they will have a 37-inch OLED TV on the market by 2012, and instead say that the launch date is closer to 2015. Official timelines were not available but the company did say

Would-be iPhone 3G customers in Canada have just been hit with the news that Rogers will require a 3-year contract for the smartphone along with the mandatory data plan. The carrier also announced the price of the plans, with the

According to an article in the Financial Times, the BBC is planning on bringing a set-top box to the market that will allow iPlayer users to transfer web video to their HDTVs.The set top box, which will face competition from

Kumar Sangakkara notched up his ninth one-day international century and Ajantha Mendis claimed four wickets...

Three top-most nuclear scientists, P. K. Iyengar, A. Gopalakrishnan and A.N. Prasad...

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni seems to be omnipresent these days, nonchalantly going about with the task of keeping a...

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Dr Naseem Ashraf flew to Dubai on Sunday evening to attend the five-day chief...

Avi Rappoport has written about the search usability research conducted at Open University in the UK. To quote: Whitney Quesenbery and her colleagues convey the findings of a long study about how search is used at the UK's Open University,...

Craig Thomler has written an article on making government data freely available. To quote: Rather than struggling, as it currently does, to design [web ]sites that meet each end-user need, we argue that the executive branch should focus on creating...

A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were usedinstead of blank ones, said officials. Four of the wounded werein serious condition, including a 3-year-old child, Bernard Lemaire,chief of the regional

Intellpuke: This commentary was written by Spiegel Onlinecolumnist Gabor Steingart. It appeared in the Spiegel Online editionfor Thursday, June 26, 2008.Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the UnitedState Federal Reserve Bank, is facing an investigation by theInternational

Intellpuke: This editorial appeared in the New York Times edition for Sunday, June, 29, 2008.This month, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, broke from theusually banal official pronouncements about the dollar to talk bluntlyabout the risks of inflation. He told

The Iraqi government announced Sunday that it intends to file suit inUnited States courts to recover funds allegedly embezzled from theUnited Nations oil-for-food program during Saddam Hussein's rule.A statement by government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said the lawsuits wouldtarget companies and

Filesize: 57MBIn this episode our intrepid travelers reach the Big City, discovery rudimentary accounting, argue about the level of bureaucracy back home and gawp at everything like a bunch of ill-bred hicks. Ten minutes of role-playing goodness packed into two