Archive for May 25th, 2008

For Mars lander, a trial by fire

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Artist's montage shows NASA's Phoenix spacecraft en route to and landing on Mars. For a gallery of images of the lander, click on the picture.

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

Come Sunday evening, NASA will have placed some new hardware on Mars. Whether the Phoenix …

‘Phomance’ doesn’t warm developer’s heart

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Phomance might sound like some hip new description of a romantic phone conversation, but Symantec’s senior information developer says there’s nothing sexy about it.

Phomance, writes Ben Nahorney, is actually the foreboding cross-section between phishing and online dating–and he should know, as he recently received a suspicious e-mail …

Baby offered on eBay now in state custody

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Anyone who trolls eBay with regularity has probably gotten used to seeing the odd object up for sale now and again. But the Saturday story of a German pair offering their 8-month-old for purchase on the site may end up topping more than a few creepiest-ever-on-eBay lists.

eBay logo

A police spokesperson …

Aussie mortgage lender put up for sale

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

THE latest ictim of the global credit crunch Wizard Home Loans will be put up for sale this week.

Saved at sea, now pay up

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

AUTHORITIES have called on a couple saved from shark-infested waters to pay back some of the cost of the $100, 000 rescue operation.

Premier’s body exhumed to prove paternity

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

THE body of one of the fathers of federation has been dug up a century after his death for DNA testing as part of a paternity case.

Fashion parade promotes peace

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

TOP African fashion designers have staged show in Nairobi National Park to raise money for victims of Kenya’s post-election violence and show a different face to their continent.

We saved you now pay up

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

AN INTERNATIONAL bidding war has broken out, offering Richard Neely and his partner Allyson Dalton as much as $250,000 for interviews and pictures of their survival against the odds.

Man hit with hammer in road rage attack

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

A 23-year-old driver has been attacked with a hammer in a road rage incident on the Gold Coast.

Half of world’s population has a mobile

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

THE number of mobile phone users world soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 per cent, according to a report by the International Telecommunications Union.