I first learned about the Google library project last year in some website calling on authors and publishers the world over, whose works could be affected by a settlement of a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google. There wasn’t much noise about it in electronic media then, but I knew the issue had legal implications.

I’ve been hearing talks about Monsanto offering some deals to local farmers here in town and having read some bad press about this multinational, I dug deeper for more information. What I found is a very informative hour-long documentary entitled “Life running out of control” dealing with the effects of genetically-engineered seeds on natural plant [...]

If you’re one person who has a long to-do list or work around several deadlines, and want to keep track of your tasks, then Google Desktop is for you. Google Desktop is customizable, depending on what plugins you want. Mine has a link to the latest news from around the world, a calendar, a [...]

Not only does money make the world go round, it goes around the world, too. And the demand for money remittance services has given rise to more ways by which money is transferred. No longer are we limited to postal money orders or bank-to-bank transfers, through which it takes a while before the cash becomes [...]

I have spent 3 days of the past week figuring out how to disinfect my PC that’s been infested with several viruses from who-knows-where. I admit that I have been remiss since my last reinstall of OS when I didn’t bother to make time to reinstall an anti-virus program. Before I knew it, all [...]

I always ignore email invitations to social networking sites, so if you’ve been among those I have “snubbed” lately and in the past, no offense meant. It’s not that I don’t like you, but the idea that my name, email address or my birthday will be added to a database I have no wish to [...]