How to save thousands on your health care

10 easy ways to trim costs on everything from physicals to surgeries…..
After a car accident left Michelle Katz, a Washington, DC, nursing student, with persistent back pain and numbness in 1998, she consulted a neurosurgeon, who told her she’d need an operation to repair her slipped disk. Katz, then 26, didn’t have health insurance, so [...]

Report: Home networking still too complex for most users

Home networking is “pretty dismal for the average consumer,” and complexity and DRM issues are limiting the growth of the market. That’s the word from research firm Gartner, which recently released a report looking at the “Hype Cycle for Consumer Technologies.”
Gartner Research VP Van L. Baker believes that most consumers are unwilling to deal with [...]

Ancient diamonds unlock secrets of early Earth

LONDON (Reuters) – Diamonds more than 4 billion years old — nearly as old as the Earth itself — have been discovered in Western Australia, giving scientists vital clues about the early history of our planet.
Found trapped in zircon crystals in the Jack Hills region, the small gems are the oldest identified fragments of [...]

Ancient organisms discovered in Canadian gold mine

Scientists have suspected that the three known domains of life — eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea.
Now, a team of scientists present direct evidence that the three domains of life coexisted at least as long as 2.7 billion years ago.
The discovery came from chemical examination of shale samples, loaded with oily lipid remains of archaea found [...]

Zoho Goes Offline (in a good way)

Online office suite Zoho will launch offline functionality for Zoho Writer this morning, and other applications in their suite will follow shortly.
The offline functionality was built on Google Gears, an open source project launched by Google in May 2007. Users will need to install a browser plugin to take advantage of the functionality. After that, [...]

Earth and Mars are Converging at 25 Miles per Sentence

August 21, 2007: By the time you finish reading this sentence, you’ll be [...]

Dell takes huge hit as Apple laptop sales soar

‘Halo effect’ generated by demand for iPhones has caused a transformation in Apple’s laptop sales.
New research indicates that Apple laptop sales have soared to new highs on the back of a new halo effect for the company’s [...]