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Bikepacking, great way to travel !

(Taitung Taiwan 2010) Bikepacking? This concept of travelling with your bicycle I believe is not new. Probably touring by bicycle, which you can see it happening more and more ...

Taipei Bicycle Exhibition 16-19 March 2011

Show Dates & Hours: March 16 to 19, 2011 Admission: March 16-18, open to trade by invitation only March 19, open to trade and public ＊ Minors under 12 are not admitted to the s...

How good is cycling sandal ?

A very good pair of cycling/trail sandal is a must for tour cyclist. Very comfortable and with quicklocks, its so easy to take off and put on Lightweight and you can wear it on beaches or eve...

Reminiscing Shangrila backpacking trip

Reminiscing my solo backpacking trip to Shangrila from Penang... Penang->Bangkok->Vientianne-> LuangPrabang->Boten->Jinghong-> Kunming->Dali->L...

Mt Everest base camp trip, anyone?

The legendary Khoo Swee Chiow is organising a treking trip to Everest base camp via Tibet, China, instead of the usual Nepal route, this coming April. He will be taking a group up to base camp, an...

Thailand shuts down key dive sites

The Thai government announced that 18 diving sites will be off limits for up to 14 months to allow the reefs' bleached coral to recover. A decision to close a selection of diving site...

Security apps boost Apple as BlackBerry alternative

A slew of small security software developers are helping Apple's iPhone gain a foothold within corporations that were once the exclusive domain of Research In Motion's BlackBerry. The shift r...

Mono-clawed mini-cousin of T.rex found in China

An artist's impression of how Linhenykus monodactylus might have appeared A tiny distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China with only a single claw on each upper li...

Medicine By Mail Service Launched

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai launched Monday the 1Malaysia medical service through the post specifically for sufferers of chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. W...

BlackBerry program may help RIM defend its turf

Research In Motion aims to keep its dominance of the corporate smartphone market by enabling the BlackBerry to segregate a user's personal data from work-related emails and other applications s...

Google to launch Groupon competitor

Google Offers is designed to help potential customers find great deals in their area, a fact sheet says. Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, the search giant's Groupon compet...

Sharks are probably colour-blind

Researchers in Australia have discovered a secret weakness of one of the ocean's most impressive predators. Sharks, it seems, are completely colour blind. The scientists, who examined retinas of...

WikiLeaks: Swiss banking secrets next

A Swiss whistle-blower Monday handed over what he said were secret Swiss banking records to WikiLeaks, the website dedicated to revealing secrets. Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed two discs to Wik...

Youtube, Google Maps Most Popular in Samsung Smart Tv App

YouTube and Google Maps have been among the most popular applications for Samsung Electronics Co.'s smart TV users, Yonhap news agency quoted the South Korean tech company as saying on Monday. Yo...

iPad reading may cut into TV time

The iPad is changing how folks read stuff online -- no surprise if you think how different a gizmo it is to a PC. But a new study shows it's moving online reading into primetime TV hours, which is...

Planet Discovered Outside Solar System

A NASA spacecraft has detected a rocky planet that is the smallest ever discovered outside the Sun's solar system, the agency announced. The exoplanet -- so named because it orbits a star other t...

Skype Acquires Qik Mobile

Internet telephone service Skype said it acquired mobile video company Qik for an undisclosed amount. Qik's service -- available on more than 200 mobile phones, including Android and Apple's iPhon...

Toshiba Plans Glasses-Free 3D TV

Toshiba Corp will begin selling large-screen glasses-free 3D television sets in fiscal 2011 and plans to start marketing the groundbreaking devices beyond its home turf of Japan, executives said. ...

Microsoft Uses Mobile Phone Chips

Microsoft has shown a full version of Windows running on chips usually found in mobile phones. The desktop version of Windows was demonstrated working with three processors built around chips des...

Hair Colour Predicted From Genes

Scientists say they have developed a way to predict a person's probable hair colour using markers in their DNA. The study paves the way for a forensic test that could estimate the hair colour of a...

Teen Heart Risks Can Be Tackled

Health campaigns targeted at teens could help reduce their risk of heart problems as adults, a study suggests. Concerns have been raised that warning signs like high cholesterol are being seen in ...

Microsoft Restores Hotmail Service

Microsoft Corp's Hotmail service, the world's most-used online email system, is back to normal operations after some users over the weekend lost access to emails or found them transferred to a delet...

Deal Values Facebook At $50b

Facebook has reportedly raised funds from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal valuing the social networking site at $50bn (£32.3bn). The New York Times said that Goldman was investing ...

New Bacterium To Wipe Out Dengue Fever

Australian scientists have developed a bacterium that will wipe out dengue fever. The bacterium acts as a vaccine for mosquitoes, which could in turn stop the disease spreading in humans, the Aus...

iPhone Alarms In New Year Glitch

A glitch on Apple's iPhone has stopped its built-in alarm clock going off, leaving many people oversleeping on the first two days of the New Year. Angry bloggers and tweeters complained that they ...

China May Ban Skype Internet Phone

The popular Internet telephone service Skype could be dealt a major setback in one of the world's largest markets as the Chinese government cracks down on what it called illegal Internet telephone p...

WikiLeaks: U.S. long concerned by trial

Russia has hit back at criticism by western governments of the guilty verdict against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on embezzlement charges. But diplomatic cables obtained by the website Wi...

How Facebook passed Google in 2010

Facebook beat out Google as the No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in 2010, according to internet analytics firm Hitwise. How was Facebook able to outplay the former Web champion? And ca...

South Korea confirms bird flu outbreak

South Korea works to contain foot-and-mouth, bird flu South Korea confirmed an outbreak of bird flu Friday as it struggles to contain foot-and-mouth disease, which has rapidly spread acros...

Software Bug Causes Skype Crash

Server overloads and a bug in Skype for Windows caused the two-day outage for the net phone firm. Details of what caused the service to be unusable for millions of users prior to Christmas have b...