Create your own free news widgets.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has reported its first confirmed case of the H1N1 flu that has sickened thousands of people around the world, the Public Health Ministry said on Monday.

View video interviews with industry experts, on-demand sessions and keynotes, and Tech·Ed blog posts from around the world.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new strain of H1N1 flu that has killed 56 people in Mexico and has been carried around the world by travelers acts more like a pandemic strain than regular seasonal flu, researchers reported on Monday.

Several major record retailers around the country have reported significant increases in their supply of used CDs. Since the economic crisis began, more people have been bringing in CDs to sell for cash or store credit. Both Amoeba Records in California and Newbury Comics in Boston see the same trend.

Last week, Kentucky Fried Chicken stores around the nation struggled to accommodate a surge of roughly 4 million new customers, after Oprah Winfrey told viewers of her show that they could get a free meal at KFC by printing out an Internet coupon. By most accounts , the marketing gimmick was a...

(Telecompaper) The Italian competition and communications authority issued a report highlighting high prices and limited transparency in the SMS and mobile data markets. The two services had a turnover of EUR 4 billion in 2008, of which around 60 percent came from SMS. While most heavy SMS users pay around EUR 0.01 per message in Italy due to special plans, the majority (62%) of SMS consumers are paying an average price of EUR 0.15. This is more than the recently set price cap for SMS while roaming in the EU of EUR 0.11, suggesting there is room for wholesale and retail prices to come in Italy, the regulators said. Given the expected continued strong growth in the market for SMS, which has been growing at over 40 percent in recent years, the regulators also want to see operators provide more information to customers on the pricing plans available. Consumers also need more information when deciding on mobile internet services, the regulators said, noting the 'unfavourable' contract term

peterwayner writes 'Six of the top ten links on a Google search for one of my books points to a pirate site when I type in 'wayner data compression textbook.' Others search strings actually locate pages that are selling legit copies including digital editions for the Kindle. I've started looking around for suggestions. Any thoughts from the Slashdot crowd? The free copies aren't boosting sales for my books. Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions.' of this story at Slashdot.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the commander of the Afghanistan war Monday, saying the Obama administration needed 'fresh thinking' to turn around the war against a resurgent Taliban. Gen. David McKiernan was replaced after less than a year in the job....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - If may affect as many as half of U.S. teenagers, can be as bad or worse than being beaten up in the schoolyard, and is so relentless and emotionally devastating that suicide can sometimes be the result.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is replacing its top general in Afghanistan as President barack obama tries to turn around a stalemated war....