Record highs for new-media ads

Advertising on the Internet continues to be an increasingly lucrative sector of the market, according to results announced Monday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The revenue figures, which were released at the MIXX 2.6 Conference and Expo in New York, show that Internet advertising revenues have increased 37 percent from the first six mon...

Atlantis Astronaut Collapses During Ceremony

An astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper left the hangar at Ellington Field through a side door but was not taken to a hospital. Officials said she was doing fine.

Piper, fifth of the six astronauts t...

New Orleans-Superdome reopens
The stadium that symbolised New Orleans' suffering during Hurricane Katrina last year has re-opened.
More than 30,000 people took refuge at the Louisiana Superdome after the storm struck. They lived in squalor for four days until they were evacuated.
But a major refurbishment programme has allowed the venue to host Monday's sell-out game between the New Orleans Saints ...

Lionel Richie: Nicole Is Not Anorexic!
After months and months of speculations on Nicole's ever slimming frame, her father finally takes a stand and says that it's not anorexia that which makes his daughter permanently lose weight. This comes only approximately one month or so after he said in an interview that he is also concerned about Nicole being so skinny.

In a more recent interview, published in the Swedish newspaper...

Will We Miss Michael Schumacher
The question on everyone's lips this weekend can only be one. Will Michael Schumacher quit Formula One or won't he? Even if you are a fan of the German ace or even if you cannot stand the guy, you still want to find out the answer to that question. As he promised the media, we will get out answer Sunday afternoon, around 7 or 8 PM.

One of the strongest arguments for him not to leave...

Doctors Warn Against Buying Drugs on the Internet
Medical experts around the world are seriously concerned about how online procured drugs can lead to serious health problems . Instead of curing and treating health impairments, the drugs bought from the Internet pharmacies seem to do more harm to patients.

Doctor's attention was drawn by the case of a woman who has been achieving medication treatments from the online drugstores for ...

Most Advanced Digital Camera LCD by Samsung
Samsung Electronics announced yesterday that it has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras.

Digital camera makers use an interface known as ITU-R601, an international standard for cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs that operates at 30Hz. This standard is incompatible with LCD...

Recycle Mobile Phones for Travelers
Travelers often buy international pay phone cards when they are abroad. But the phone cards can't be bought anytime anywhere. And it is a problem that families, friends or even travel partners can't communicate with each other at anytime and they only can contact one way.

"Paper says" offer international roaming service for communication and it can make users avoid the risk to break...

Google's Schmidt Extends Hand to Advertisers
Search engine giant Google is sending a message to advertisers: It wants to be more responsive to their needs. In a keynote address at the Search Engine Strategies Expo in San Jose, and at a rare media briefing that followed, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Google wants to “find ways we can give information to advertisers that is truthful” and more complete. Schmidt said Google wants to be more fort...

TNT Brings TV Drama Online
Time Warner's TNT cable network is launching an ad-supported online video initiative to showcase its library of drama series, original movies, and TV tie-ins.

"The network wants to be able to bring our brands to anyone, at any time, in any place. From an ad sales perspective, we want to be able to provide that same access to our advertisers as we give consumers," Chris Pizzurro, VP of...