In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need.[5] In retailing, products are called merchandise. In manufacturing, products are purchased as raw materials and sold as finished goods. Commodities...

3D or 2D, have you noticed the gentle dripping of Hollywood comic book films into the cesspool of boring, overdramatic, sappy crap? I say, ditch the 3rd Iron Man (if it ever comes out) and someone please fund these super cool Indian comics that have...

This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there’s nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as...

A top U.S. diplomat arrived for talks with Kyrgyzstan’s interim leaders on Wednesday about defusing a crisis in the Central Asian country, where Washington rents an air base to back its war effort in Afghanistan. Russian President Dmitry...

The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has said President Kurmanbek Bakiyev no longer has presidential immunity and has called on him to surrender. Interim security minister Azimbek Beknazarov said the country would use force to arrest Mr Bakiyev if he...

Armed villagers have killed at least 47 policemen who were trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, reports say. A number of civilians were also killed in the violence which erupted in the village of Dongo in...

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WITH elections in Lebanon and Iran occurring in the same week, it’s inevitable that they are viewed as twin tests of efforts to spread democracy to the Muslim world. Should we celebrate the outcome in Lebanon and push for elections throughout the...

The silly season has begun in earnest. How do I know? Sen. Barack Obama, who just announced his presidential exploratory committee, is comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln.