Microsoft has dropped its bid to buy Yahoo.

Negotiations fell through after the two sides failed to agree on an acceptable sale price.

Bosses at the software giant formally withdrew the offer in a letter.

Yahoo shares have lost 20% as a result.

Shareholders are fuming. It appears that Yahoo CEO Jerry yang’s ego got in the way of a deal that made good economic business sense!

A laptop developed for poor children around the world, called “the $100 laptop,” has now reached a price tag of $200.

The One Laptop per Child Foundation, founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte, has started offering the lime-green-and-white machines in lots of 10,000 for $200 apiece on its Web site.

These laptops were meant to be a cheap and cost effective way of introducing the world’s poor children to information technology and to give them a fighting chance at receiving an education.

Whoever came up with the original $100 price tag was way off with their estimate …. guess it means that only half of the poor children will now get a laptop.

Why can we never get it right? The poor and the voiceless are always the first to lose out!

according to the experts!

1. Don’t oversleep
2. Be Optimistic
3. Have more sex!
4. Get a pet
5. Get your cholesterol tested
6. Be rich
7. Stop smoking
8. Chill out
9. Eat your antioxidants
10. Marry well!

Honda is the latest Japanese car maker to unveil a new environmentally friendly gas-electric CR-Z hybrid car.

According to Honda the car maintains “the essence of the sports car” while still delivering good mileage and less pollution.

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Paper batteries could soon be powering household gadgets, medical devices and electric vehicles.

Scientists have devised a new kind of ultra-thin battery that looks like a sheet of black paper. Because ink is used to produce the paper batteryr, they are considered dry, and don’t need the metal casing that conventional batteries do to contain harmful, toxic chemicals.

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Nokia Corporation today warned that up to 46 million batteries used in some of the Finnish company’s handsets could be faulty and pose a risk of overheating. The warning applies to batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006.

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Scientists have discovered the universe’s largest known planet.

It’s a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling a star 1,400 light years away.

Scientists believe the planet is 1.7 times the diameter of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and has a temperature of 2,300 degrees (1,260 degrees Celsius).

Lowell Observatory in Arizona, along with the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory and telescopes in Spain’s Canary Islands, discovered the planet circling a star in the constellation Hercules.

Scientists first spotted the new planet, called TrES-4, last spring. Scientists at Caltech, Harvard University and the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii later confirmed the discovery.

Scientists are also working on the possibility of another planet in the same constellation.

Lowell Observatory is best known for the 1930 discovery of Pluto, which since has been demoted from planet status.

In 2002, a kidney specialist tried to find scientific evidence to support the advice that drinking eight glasses a day is more than adequate. His report in the American Journal of Physiology found that the rule was wrong.

The dietary guidelines provided by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council do say that humans need 1 millilitre of water for each calorie of food (about 10 cups a day). But the same guidelines say that we get much of this liquid from the water in solid food.

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