My Online Monopoly

Performers are starting a new trend: canceling tickets that they find on reseller sites. Kylie Minogue this week joins the ranks of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who may have started the trend with the cancellation of nearly 500 tickets sold during a presale auction on Petty?s fan club site in May.

Minogue insisted that the […]

Mini golf games are usually developed for mobile phones. PC versions of these games are also available. These games bring all the excitement, skill and fun of playing real time golf to mobile phone handsets. Mini golf games enable players to develop new and different skill sets required in the game of golf.

These games provide […]

THE MORAL OF reservations has been built on two grounds, which are often mutually contradictory, and yet, mutually complimentary.

In the first quarter of the 19th century the non-Brahman castes, led by the powerful upper other backward classes (OBCs), demanded, and got as well, reservation for non-Brahman castes, which included Dalits as well. The non-Brahman lobby […]

It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of modern-day Olympics. With so much drama, so much romance, so much pizzazz, it is hard to imagine this world-wide spectacle being anything less than perfect. But you don't have to dig too deeply to discover a humble and oft-times peculiar origin. Truly, it has taken […]

Black boards, or chalkboards as they are popularly called, were developed by a teacher who found it impossible to solve long mathematical equations on every child's personal board. Some chalkboards were as simple as wooden boards painted with black grit others were made of porcelain and imported from the United Kingdom. Eventually, chalkboards made of […]

Microsoft has just released its Vista operating system. There are many other analysts that will tell you that Vista requires new equipment and more memory to run efficiently and that it may have problems using current XP hardware or software. However, in this article I'll look at whether we actually need Vista, and at the […]

If you have an appreciation for historic irony, you?ll love this: Gazprom, our favorite Russian energy monopoly and cornerstone of our strategic portfolio, just announce a major shift in strategy concerning its cooperation with the Germans. Gazprom, which up until recently was planning to take over entire municipal power grids and even buy into German […]

With the introduction of new gaming consoles like Xbox 360, PS3, and Nintendo Wii, video game rental industry has really reached new heights. People can now rent favorite games from the comfort of their homes. Gone are the days when we had to spend a lot of time to find the game of our choice […]

If you're much of a tech geek, you probably have at least heard of the “browser war” between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. For years, Microsoft Internet Explorer has had a near monopoly on the browser market. Sure, they had a little competition from Netscape, but not much. That has all changed with Firefox. […]

Dutch author Janwillem Van De Wetering was born in Rotterdam in 1937. His books and collections are well known throughout Europe and around the world. I found this wonderful piece written my him. It reminds me that life can be like the board game, Monopoly. It reminds me of being 8 years old and thinking […]