Always thought about trying your hand at golf but too intimidated to set foot on the first tee? Are you an experienced golfer whose game is going down the pan, not the pin? Do you feel like you want to make some tweaks to your game but don’t want to hold up play? Lots of [...]
A new law dubbed the “Facebook law”, that prevents teachers from contacting their students over the Internet has led to the filing of charges by a Missouri teacher, who said the law made it illegal for her to chat with her own child using Facebook. Teachers are prohibited by the new law to engage in [...]
President Barack Obama slammed Congress for hurting economic recovery through their bickering even as he reasserted his economic leadership Thursday by promising the delivery of new job creation ideas every week. Obama, who delivered a passionate speech to workers in the auto industry, said the refusal to prioritize the country over party “has got to [...]
The action thriller “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” from the 20th Century Fox has climbed to the top rung of the weekend box office by taking in $54 million and opening as the No. 1 movie. The opening receipt was $15 to $20 million more than what was earlier predicted by analysts for [...]
A news study shows how the policies of three film companies to reduce the use of tobacco on-screen led to the drastic reduction of smoking in movies that are targeted towards children and teens. Tobacco scenes in movies from these companies over the past five years have dropped from an average of 23 to only [...]
A University of Worcester institute of sport and exercise science study published Monday showed how parents overestimated the amount of time spent by their children exercising. While the government said children requires at least 60 minutes a day to keep them fit and healthy, children are actually only physically active for barely half the time. [...]
Three country schools were among the very first schools to connect to the fibre optic lines that will pave the way for faster internet in rural New Zealand. The Government’s rural broadband initiative (RBI) provided up to 100 megabits per second of internet speed to West Coast’s Granity School, Bay of Plenty’s Omaio and Henderson [...]
Demand has been piling up for electronic versions of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling book and movie series “Harry Potter” but the author has refused to explore that area until now. The billionaire writer has launched Thursday her newest project “Pottermore”, an interactive website which will make available to the millions of Potter fans the novels’ e-book [...]
Fans of the wizarding world may think that everything has ended with the last instalment of the Harry Potter movie series but trust author J.K Rowling to keep the fun and the adventure going with a new project that will involve the boy wizard. A news conference was called by Rowling in London Thursday to [...]
Facebook users have been warned about the new scam that has been making its rounds after it has succeeded in bypassing the security systems of Facebook. Users who are getting the notice “Enable Dislike Button” may just fall for the scam which was first detected by security firm Sophos over the weekend. “Like the ‘Preventing [...]
