Melbourne, July 11 : The results are in, and the World Wide Web has been declared as the ''best thing'' to ever happen to us humans since the invention of the Rohwedder Bread Slicing machine that cut bread into perfect slices back in 1928.
Over 5000 people were put to the test in an online poll to decide what has been the greatest invention since 1928.
As it turns out, an overwhelming number (40.6 percent) voted for the medium that they were using to answer the poll - the Internet - brainchild of British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
Second spot on the list went to the medicinal use of penicillin, a leap made by Australian Howard Florey in 1943.
Tokyo - Apple Inc's iPhone 3G debuted Friday in Tokyo, attracting more than 1,500 fans to the first sale, before being launched in the rest of the nation.
A long queue formed outside Softbank Mobile Corp's flagship store in Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando district early Friday morning.
"I want to try what's available on the iPhone as far as the new software goes," Jiji Press quoted a 25-year-old Japanese university student as saying. He travelled to Tokyo from Nagoya City in central Japan to win the first spot in the queue.
Sales of the iPhone were expected to help Japan's third-largest mobile phone carrier Softbank Mobile beat its rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp and lead the domestic market.
Stockholm - Sweden's new law on monitoring data traffic within the country is coming under pressure with the heads of the eight leading mobile phone service providers signing a letter protesting ag
Melbourne, July 10 : You will soon not have to shudder with revulsion when every time you open your garage door in the morning, instead of oil, petrol and rubber, the sweet smell of flowers may soo
