According to a report by China’s Center for Disease Control, the anti-tobacco efforts has not proved to be very successful in the world’s most populous nation with 301 million Chinese still smoking. A survey of more than 13,000 people earlier this year found no significant improvement in the country’s smoking rate since 2002, China’s CDC [...]

Microsoft has announced that they are now adding support for Facebook Chat in their Windows Live Messenger application. In this updated test version of Windows Live Messenger, people can send instant messages to those logged into Facebook Chat. This service is being rolled out in stages and is going to be initially available in United States, United Kingdom, France, [...]

Facebook’s troubles seem never ending, with users now being targeted by a rogue application for access to their profiles – following which they are offered to have a ‘dislike’ button installed. The scam, then posts spam messages, and even lures users into completing surveys for which these scammers earn money. The dislike button scam prompts [...]

According to a report from a Brazilian news site ‘MacMagazine’, Apple’s annual refresh of its iPod line is almost a week away. MacMagazine pegs the unveiling of the next-generation iPods between August 14 and 16, 14th and 15th being the weekend, thus making 16th a likely choice. Also several rumours about details of the next-generation iPod Touch [...]

A 14-year-old was forced into prostitution and sexually abused by a series of men after going missing from her home in Greater Manchester, which took place in February and March 2008. Police said that the girl was vulnerable to a large extent and thus “used as a commodity” for sexual activity with the men. Police [...]

Justin Bieber has already made his fans swoon when they listen to his music, and now this teen sensation is all set to  make his fans read or at least look at lots of pictures, they might have never come across before. The 16-year-old pop singer has signed a deal with HarperCollins to publish an [...]

Songs that did not form a part of Michael Jackson’s albums while he was alive and several forgotten recordings that were left behind on computer hard drives will be on an album released this fall. As per Jackson estate spokesman Jim Bates, Jackie Jackson, one of the pop singer’s older brothers, has been working in [...]

Lohan began her 90-day sentence on July 20 for violating probation in a DUI case. Although jail hasn’t exactly been easy for her, but Lindsay Lohan is trying to pass by this phase by focusing her attention elsewhere. “She’s looking forward to her release,” attorney Shawn Chapman Holley said Thursday after visiting the actress, 24, at Century Regional [...]

Britain’s Ivy Bean, the oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104. Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service. Mrs Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook and very soon attracted attention for being the oldest “tweeter”. Her celebrity [...]

The iPhone 4 complaints were no less for Apple that it now has to face further complaints. It has been seen that Apple’s official forums have lit up up with complaints over the way iPhone 3GS devices handle the iOS 4 firmware. Apple just announced that it is investigating reports from users who say that after [...]