RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The beachfront house featured in the movie “Nights in Rodanthe” will soon have a new home itself, thanks to a bail bondsman who fell in love with the surf-threatened house after his wife bought the movie for him as a Christmas present last year. Ben Huss of Newton said Monday he [...]
By Christopher Hope, Whitehall EditorPublished: 9:30PM GMT 31 Dec 2009 Some police officers are hiding behind red tape as an excuse not to go out and catch criminals, Jack Straw said Photo: PA In an unprecedented attack, Jack Straw said some officers had the “wrong approach” to dealing with the public. He said he was [...]
In a column on Datamation, industry analyst Rob Enderle details the implications from the latest bout of interest in what we today call “cloud computing”. Who’s best positioned to capitalize on the trend? And who’s likely to fail? It’s interesting that we tend to go through cycles. We started off with big centralized computers and [...]
IDG News Service – 2009 was a very big year for Clearwire, as the wireless Internet provider took its ambitious rollout of mobile WiMax from just two cities to nearly 30 markets. After years of planning and false starts, a national 4G (fourth-generation) mobile data network began to take shape in the U.S., and in [...]
New Year’s Eve is never dull. But nights like tonight happen just once in a blue moon. The term “blue moon” now refers to the second full moon in a month, but folklorists say the phrase has a long and rich history. (Getty Images) Not only will a full moon light up the festive evening, [...]
Three decades, three countries, three incidents. Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1984: A car had run off the dirt road into a ditch. We came upon the scene about 10 minutes after the accident. No one was hurt. The car was surrounded by about 50 people, all yelling suggestions, commenting on the suggestions of others [...]
Arnold Stang, an actor who appeared alongside Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra and was known for his nerdy looks and distinctive nasal voice, has died. He was 91. Stang died Sunday of pneumonia at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts, said JoAnne Stang, his wife of 60 years. She attributed her husband’s career longevity to his willingness [...]
French rock star Johnny Hallyday has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after emergency surgery. Hallyday, 66, was treated at Cedars Sinai hospital for an infection allegedly received during an operation for a slipped disc in Paris. Doctors at one stage put him in a coma in order to conduct two operations. He will [...]
WASHINGTON — It may be the only bipartisan agreement that Congress reaches this year on overhauling health care. Republicans, under pressure not to wreck Christmas for lawmakers and their staffs, agreed Tuesday that Senate passage of the Democrats' controversial bill seemed inevitable and scaled back procedural-delay mechanisms to allow a vote by the morning of [...]
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Several developing nations rejected on Saturday a climate deal worked out by U.S. President Barack Obama and four major emerging economies, saying it could not become a U.N. blueprint for fighting global warming. Earlier, European Union nations reluctantly agreed to sign up for the accord worked out at a summit of 120 [...]
