Google Lively says bye bye

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Google says it will shut down its virtual world, Lively, by end of the year, to focus more on its core search, advertisements and applications business. “We’ve also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off”, says Google on the official blog.

Virtual sex leads to real divorce

Friday, November 14th, 2008

A woman is divorcing her husband after discovering his Secon Life character was having an affair with a virtual woman in the fantasy world.  Amy Taylor, 28, said her three-year marriage to David Pollard, 40, came to an end when she twice walked in on him watching his online character, Dave Barmy, “having sex with [...]

OLPC 2.0 announced

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the design for the foundation’s second-generation laptop, which isn’t really a laptop at all but a double-screened, fold-up electronic book. Negroponte says the cost of this 2nd-generation device, which uses dual-touch screens with 16:9 aspect ratios, will be kept to $75.

Intel Classmate 2 to fight Eee PC

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Intel unveiled a new design of the Intel-powered classmate PC today at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. As announced in a keynote by Andrew Chien, Intel vice president, Corporate Technology Group and director of Intel Research, the second-generation Intel-powered classmate PC is an affordable, fully functional, rugged Internet-centric computer platform. These simple-to-use PCs have [...]

Gwen Stefani - officially pregnant

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Gwen Stefani is pregnant with her second child, her father-in-law confirmed yesterday, according to blogs and press. Singer and fashion designer Stefani, 38, Rossdale, 40, are already the parents of son Kingston Rossdale. He turns two years old on May 26.