President Elect Obama’s Phone Records Breached By Verizon

Verizon Wireless today admitted that some of its employees had been looking into President Elect Barack Obama’s cell phone billing records. In a release, the company said:

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Gmail Introduces Themes But Search Is Still Broken

You're google for christ's sakes! Can't you stem the gmail search???? This slide show says it all.

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6,500-year-old village found in Greece

Neolithic-era remains were discovered during work to lay a gas pipe.

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Web retailers in U.S. are waging seasonal price wars

SAN FRANCISCO: As deserted malls and department stores in the United States struggle to court cash-short consumers with steep discounts this holiday season, a similar and even more ferocious price war is being waged online.

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Gas Prices at a 90 Year Low

Yesterday's PPI report showed the biggest plunge on record thanks to gas prices dropping by nearly 25%. If we adjust for inflation, gas prices are much lower than they've been for much of the last 90 years.

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Saudi Prince Comes To Rescue Of Citigroup

The billionaire Saudi prince, who invested in Citicorp in 1991 when it was in financial straits, said he would raise his stake from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. At Citi’s current market value of just over $25bn, the new investment would cost about $350m.

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Hundreds of Cairo Teens Arrested for Flirting With Girls

EGYPTIAN police have rounded up hundreds of teenage boys in Cairo in a day-long crackdown on sexual harassment. "We have arrested a large number of boys who were flirting with girls," Cairo's police director Faruq Lashin said. About 400 teenagers, aged between 15 and 17, were arrested on Wednesday and will be brought before a judge, he said.

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