The progressive jackpot at 3D casino WinADay.com has just gone over $100,000 and players at the unique slots and video poker site are getting the feeling that the next big jackpot win could happen any day.
There aren’t a lot of statistics to base that feeling on. Although it’s operated by one of the oldest online [...]

Things are still rolling along at the 2010 Aussie Millions in Melbourne. The Crown Poker Room is continually packed with poker players and it seems like more show up every day.
Just 24 players ponied up the $100,000 buy-in to play in the 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge. Tony G, Gus Hansen, Erick Lindgren, Howard Lederer, [...]

Quicken is a popular accounting software that is used by many people for tracking personal as well as business transactions. It also has the benefit of working well with online banking.
First you’ll need to setup an electronic check register. This will be very much like a regular check register with a few exceptions. One big [...]

A top body that represents Australia’s universities has accused both state and federal governments of ignoring warnings issued by it on problems faced by overseas students, including Indians, in the country.
Universities Australia, which represents 39 universities, said it had alerted governments to problems relating to student safety, poor-quality colleges, lack of concessions on public transport [...]

A 69-year-old woman pulled from the wreckage of a building in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince is being treated in Haiti’s General Hospital on Friday.
Doctors said the woman was rescued earlier on Friday, 10 days after the magnitude-7.0 quake struck.
The woman is being treated with oxygen and intravenous fluids at Haiti’s General Hospital.
Dr. Ernest Benjamin said she [...]

Britain raised its terror threat alert to the second-highest level on Friday, one of several recent moves the country has made to increase vigilance against international terrorists after a Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Europe-US flight.
The threat level was raised from “substantial” — where it had stood since July to indicate a strong possibility [...]

US President Barack Obama is “troubled” by cyberattacks on Google and wants China to provide “answers” to charges of security breaches, his spokesman said on Friday.
The comment came a day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to conduct a thorough probe into cyberattacks on Google and other US companies, and lamented what she [...]

Bollywood ruled the 56th National Film Awards Saturday, bagging as many as 13 awards, with films like “Fashion”, “Rock On!!”, “Firaaq” and “Jodha Akbar” winning two awards each in various categories. But Bengali film “Antaheen” won the best feature film award and three more.
While Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Fashion”, a dark tale about the Indian fashion industry, [...]

Did you know that online banks can now provide you with virtual safe deposit boxes? Yes, it’s true but is still a fairly new concept that became popular after the devastating hurricanes a couple of years ago. At that time a lot of people were looking for ways to protect their important documents.
Just like at [...]

China rejected on Friday a call by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet in the communist country, denouncing her criticism as false and damaging to bilateral ties.
A state-run newspaper labeled the appeal from Washington as “information imperialism.”
Clinton’s speech on Thursday elevated the issue of Internet freedom [...]

Should overweight passengers pay for 2 air tickets instead of one? Most American airlines make it mandatory. Now Air France KLM, the largest airline group in Europe, have decided to follow suit.
From 1st February, they will strongly “recommend” a second ticket for obese passengers. If a flight is full, any passenger who has only one [...]

In the heady days of the Dubai gold rush, when real estate sold and resold even before a shovel hit the ground, the ambitious emirate was hailed as the model of Middle Eastern modernity, a boomtown that built an effective, efficient and accessible form of government.
Then the crash came and revealed how paper-thin that image [...]

The Lahore High Court has disposed the plea of 26/11 mastermind and LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
Lakhvi had filed a petition seeking transfer of case against him from Rawalpindi to Lahore on grounds that there was a threat to his life in Rawalpindi.
The LeT operations commander was indicted along with six other suspects for [...]

Unidentified persons lobbed a bomb targeting the home of opposition Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka’s campaign manager on Friday as violence escalated with just four days left for the polls.
The bomb severely damaged the house of businessman and opposition member Tiran Alles in the Western Province and destroyed his car parked in the compound. But Alles [...]

Declaring that an attack on one nation’s computer networks “can be an attack on all,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a warning on Thursday that the United States would defend itself from cyberattacks, though she left unclear the means of response.
In a sweeping, pointed address that dealt with the Internet as a force [...]

The Pakistani army said on Thursday it cannot expand its offensive against militants for at least six months, and the United States backed off public pressure on an ally considered vital in the war next door in Afghanistan.
Remarks from the Army’s chief spokesman during a visit by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates did not rule [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday urged China to investigate cyber intrusions that led Google to threaten pulling out of that country, and challenged Beijing to openly publish its findings.
“Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the [...]

Google’s threat to pull out of China over concerns about censorship and security should not affect ties with the United States, a top Chinese official said on Thursday, seeking to contain the government’s dispute with the Internet giant.
The comment from Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei came just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham [...]