Greece publishes tax dodger list to name and shame (Reuters)

Reuters - A famous singer and a retired basketball star were on a list of 4,000 top tax dodgers released by the Greek government as part of a name-and-shame policy to get evaders to pay up.

Categories: Funny News | Humor | News | Odd News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Oddly Enough
Are Apple, Google and Facebook Natural Monopolies? (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | They may not be the power company, but you won't find too many threats to their dominance. All three are not only at the top of their game, they have few, if any, competitors. And the law helps keep newbies out of the market.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
Sex & Parenting Genes Discovered in Mice (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests.

Categories: News | Science | Science News | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Science
Canalys: Smartphones outship PCs for first time in 2011. Or did they? (Appolicious)

Appolicious - Take a break from Android-iPhone wars for a moment and focus on another battle smartphones vs. PCs.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)

A general view of New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Britain's for-most and largest police serviceFriday, Feb., 3, 2012. Hackers have intercepted a conference call between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scotland Yard it has emerged . At the heart of the conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was a strategy aimed at bringing down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, which has launched a series of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.




Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
Storm blankets Nebraska after dumping on Colorado (AP)

Rhonda Johnstone wipes out while snowboarding with her friends dogs Sake and Lola as a snow storm hits the Denver metro area Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 in Lakewood, Colo. A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday as it headed east, bringing blizzard warnings to eastern Colorado and winter storm warnings for southeast Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska. The storm stretched as far south as New Mexico, where Department of Transportation reported difficult driving conditions on several state highways because of the winter weather, leaving highways snow packed and icy. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)AP - A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.




Categories: News | Science | Science News | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Science
Android Games from Capcom and Square-Enix on Their Way ... In Japan (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
WillCall and other iPhone apps are changing the ticket game (Appolicious)

Appolicious - The other day, TechCrunch tipped us off to a hot new last-minute ticket-selling app called WillCall. The app currently lets users choose their purchases from a select list of concerts, but will soon expand to include tickets to plays and symphonies as well. WillCall is currently only available in San Francisco but will expand to Los Angeles and New York City in March.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site (AP)

AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
New version of Showyou is a Flipboard for video (Appolicious)

Appolicious - While there is no shortage of video to consume online and via mobile devices - 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute! - finding clips and programs most relevant to you is challenging.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
School bans fuzzy boots used to hide cell phones (Reuters)

Reuters - Singer Nancy Sinatra may have had boots made for walking, but she never attended Pottstown Middle School.

Categories: Funny News | Humor | News | Odd News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Oddly Enough
German city's parking fines are just the ticket (Reuters)

Reuters - German authorities are giving parking violators in one city an unexpected break by issuing tickets without fines.

Categories: Funny News | Humor | News | Odd News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Oddly Enough
TouchPal Keyboard Tablet tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)

Appolicious - The touchscreen keyboard gets an upgrade with TouchPal's Keyboard for Android tablets. It lets you easily switch between swiping and tapping, as well as gestures to get the most out of your finger follies. This week also brought some big name updates to the Android Market, including special upgrades from McAfee Security and Mint's personal finance app. Salesforce debuted its Rypple app this week, as did Eventbrite for managing events on-the-go.

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology
Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball' (AP)

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, left, talks with head coach Bill Belichick during practice on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in Indianapolis. The Patriots are scheduled to face the New York Giants in NFL football Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.




Categories: News | Science | Science News | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Science
New record set at Wing Bowl eating extravaganza (Reuters)

Reuters - More than 17,000 mostly beer-fueled spectators packed a Philadelphia indoor arena on Friday for the city's annual early morning eating extravaganza in which competitors vie to eat the most chicken wings.

Categories: Funny News | Humor | News | Odd News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Oddly Enough
Big freeze stops famed Brussels statue from peeing (Reuters)

Reuters - The Manneken-Pis, a bronze statue of a young boy urinating that is a symbol of Brussels and a major tourist attraction, has had to stop peeing because of sub-zero temperatures, Belgium's tourist office said on Wednesday.

Categories: Funny News | Humor | News | Odd News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Oddly Enough
$5 here, $37 there: Americans' indulgences add up (Reuters)

Reuters - Those venti lattes add up.

Categories: Funny News | Humor | News | Odd News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Oddly Enough
First 'Vampire' Bat Fly Fossil Discovered (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 million years, scientists report in a pair of studies Friday (Feb. 3).

Categories: News | Science | Science News | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Science
Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Planet (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system.

Categories: News | Science | Science News | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Science
Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Baby Boomers (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - The new  mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you  hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked ...

Categories: News | Technology | Technology News | Yahoo News | Yahoo News Technology