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Washington, Oct 24 (IANS) Cleanliness is next to godliness, so goes an old adage, which has now been borne out by a new study.

London, October 24 (ANI): Google has introduced a new application to prevent users from making mistakes and sending their e-mails to the wrong recipient.

Got time to spare after touching base with your friends and groups on Facebook? It is time to get addicted to online gaming, for social gaming is the latest most happening fad to hit cybertown. Here is a list of some of the most popular games on Facebook.

London, Oct 23 (IANS) Whiteness is a basic property of paper. How does it arise, and how do you measure whiteness? How difficult can it really be to produce good colour prints?

Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) An omniscient eye in the sky can spot natural and man-made disasters, give advance warning about forest fires, water contamination or an oil slick.

Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) An innovative method developed by an American professor can help fruits and vegetables retain their freshness.

Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) A bionic eye implant partially restored vision in a 50-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with a progressive blinding disease when she was 13 years old.

Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) The presence of iron in red wine creates a fishy aftertaste when it is consumed with fish, says a new study.

Podcasting has been around for a while now. But with our Internet service providers finally giving us decent speeds of 1 MB per second and additional bandwidth, users can enjoy more audio and video content on the Web.

It?s been a long time since I took any questions, so I thought, new year, festive season, why not share the love? The first question is from Chandni Shah, who sends me a succint and to-the-point email: QI have just started blogging. I read your articles in HT CAFE. Please give me feedback about my blog as to how I could get better. http://chandni-musicoflife.blogspot.

We?ve all done it: sent an email or a text to someone, we didn?t intend to. Or received an email or text clearly not meant for us.

India, Oct. 18 -- A decade ago, when some of us were aware of the humongous potential of the Internet and convergence technologies, the guesses we were taking on how things would shape up in the convergence game.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's cattle class comment on microblogging site Twitter has ensured a media furore and calls for his resignation. Such is Twitter's popularity that there are several businesses around the service, but Twitter itself has little idea on how to make money.

Washington, October 14 (ANI): The owners of online networking sites generally have access to the personal information of the users on their sites, which can lead to privacy problems.

London, Oct 14 (ANI): Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world-wide-web, has finally accepted that he could have created the web without the two backslashes, //, that Internet users often grumbled about.

London, October 10 (ANI): Netizens watch videos on You Tube more than a billion times a day, it was announced on the third anniversary of Google's acquisition of the video sharing site.

Quentin Hardy, Forbes.com
In recent days, I've spent time with a number of veterans of the social networking business. One of the surprising things I have learned is how much experience these people now have, and how much they agree with each other about some of the basics of the business.

Joyce Huang, Forbes.com
The economic slump has brought misery to many, but it seems to have driven five months of record sales by Soft-World International, Taiwan's largest developer and distributor of online games, with a nearly 60% market share there.

Users of most of the top email services were targeted in a large-scale phishing attack. First to be hit was Microsoft's Live Hotmail. Microsoft also confirmed that a phishing attack was to blame for the 10,000 Hotmail passwords posted online.

Mumbai, Oct. 5 -- Does this model have what it takes to lead the pack? You've got the right speakers, but you're looking for the right screen for your desktop. Is the 21.5-inch Samsung P2250 LCD monitor the right one for you? Design