4 boats filled with 515 refugees were detected by Yemen`s coastguard, last week; a gun battle began between the Yemenite authorities and the smugglers, and two boats, who were trying to escape, flipped over

So how much do those endless commercial breaks cost companies during prime time? It looks like booking a spot on `American Idol` will cost them top dollar. For the third consecutive year, Fox`s rating king will charge between half a million to 700,000 for a 30-second spot.

A computer hacker was sued by Microsoft for distributing a free program to help users to overcome the Media player protection and to download files to their computers.

After a year-long investigation by the FBI and Houston Police Department, Li Chen was apprehended for selling $9.9 million worth of fake Symantec products from April 2002 to October 2004.

In "The Art of Business", Yeh profiles how the best leaders from Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines to Gordon Moore of Intel and Michael Dell of Dell Computers create soulful, authentic companies using the five strategies from Sun Tzu`s ancient classic primer, "The Art of War".

A new corporate web site has been created and launched recently for EDTS, Elliott Davis Technology Solutions.

In a move to clean the NBA`s reputation, League Commissioner David Stern said Wednesday that he would prefer his players leave their firearms behind when they go out

MySpace, the popular social network on the Internet, where people and webmasters all over the world share their personal profiles as well as their favorite music, has recently announced that it has licensed technology that will assist it in preventing unauthorized copyrighted music from being posted to MySpace users? pages.

The European Union last Wednesday launched the first satellite in its $4.5 billion Galileo global positioning system in a bid to enhance the world`s growing reliance on satellite navigation as well as to break America`s monopoly on space-based networks. The United States has warned it could diminish or even cut off GPS satellite coverage to countries considered enemies in times of national emergency.

With FIFA World Cup just around the cornet, more and more countries are getting the "World Cup Fever." Many soccer fans around the world are waiting anxiously for the soccer ball to hit the filed on June 9th, and the entire soccer community is focused on the upcoming event.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Thalidomide was used to treat pains in pregnant women. The drug was distributed throughout Europe and pregnant women were ecstatic by its pain relieving abilities, what they weren`t so impressed with was the fact that when their children were born a few months later, there were serious defects.

For all of you trivia game lovers who happen to adore the hundreds of cooking shows on television, Foodie Craze, the new, fun trivia game for food lovers, is the ultimate foodie gift this holiday season! With an included bonus - the chance to win great foodie prizes - this game as the perfect gift is a no-brainer!

The president of Serbia and Montenegro, Boris Tadic, is blaming the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague for Slobodan Milosevic`s death, though he reiterated it would not hamper Serbia`s future cooperation with the court.

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The world has waited five years for Microsoft to come out with a new version of its operating system, Windows.