The fans of the Sacramento Kings have had a nice stretch of seasons where the team was able to make it to the playoffs and even to the conference finals. The team has been somewhat disappointing this season boasting a record of 3-5. Te team has some nice pieces, but the chemistry is obviously missing.

If the Artest- Stojakovic trade doest go through, that the Kings will find themselves in quite a jam. You see, now they have to trade Stojakovic by the trade deadline. By trading him on paper to the Pacers and the manner in which they did closes the door on him resigning with the team at the end of the season.

The 27-years-old Nathan Peterson from Los Angeles, an owner of a software piracy Web site, who sold copyrighted software at a huge discount, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

The biggest acquisition the Sixers have made this off-season was signing Maurice Cheeks as the head coach of the team. Cheeks who is a former Sixer-great himself will have to make a tough decision early on, which concerns Allen Iverson?s position on the Court.

A fourth party has boycotted the congressional election in Venezuela, this time a political opposition party. The party states that the electronic voting machines to be used are would be simple to manipulate.

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Rice University, one of the leading universities in the U.S., is home to the smallest car in the world. Scientists have developed a single molecule `nanocar`containing a chassis, axles and four wheels.

VariLogiX, a company that specializes in real time telephony fraud prevention, has joined forces with the osCommerce service provider AlgoZone in order to provide an osCommerce module for their FraudCall product. The osCommerce Module will integrate with the FrauCall service to place a verification call to customers.

On the eve of talks, the EU remained at odds over whether to admit Turkey. Europeans haven`t agonized this much about Turkey since the Ottoman Empire was unravelling 100 years ago.

Lead Lander, Inc., which is a provider of on-demand customer solutions, announced this week enhancements to their hosted application that provides support for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 web browsers. Lead Lander is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

An explosion in Gaza killed a Palestinian terrorist leader and a gunman killed a settler in the West Bank on Wednesday, earlier this week.Khaled al-Dahdouh, 45, was a commander of the terror group Islamic Jihad`s armed wing. He was driving through Gaza City when his car exploded, and while Israeli officials denied responsibility for the attack, Islamic Jihad blames Israel for the bombing.

Tiger Woods was hoping to make the news in Ireland this weekend by leading Team USA at the 36th Ryder Cup. Instead, nude photographs wrongly identified to be of his wife, Elin Nordegren, appeared in a local magazine.

Surfing has become a basic need in this day and age, and who would of thought of surfing the net while in an offline mode. Well, start-up `Webaroo`has.

Erratic behavior and poor mothering of her children has lead Britney Spears to some serious boycotting issues. From her ex-husband Kevin Federline, to even co-workers and bodyguards, Britney is now feeling some severe whiplash from her actions.

Silhouette FX has recently released Silhouette Paint, an add-on to its acclaimed Silhouette Roto application. Designed to handle the demands of television and motion picture visual effects, Silhouette Paint is available as a plug-in or stand-alone product.