On Monday, Amazon.com informed about its initiative under which it is working with retailers to cut back on the packaging to provide the consumers with easy to open packaging.

It has been decided by the Seattle-based company that instead of putting a pre-boxed or plastically sealed item inside another Amazon box, it will start shipping items in plain brown cardboard boxes.

Washington, Nov 5: Even as Democrat Barack Obama today registered a historic landslide victory with 338 votes against 155 to his rival John McCain, a leading Republican election wizard in the US, who was instrumental in US President George Bush’s two successive victories, had predicted a clearcut victory to Obama, even in the states where the Democratic candidate led by only a slim margin.

Karl Rove had predicted a landslide for Barack Obama, sweeping to victory with 338 electoral votes against the 270 he needs to win.

MySpace, the social networking site and MTV networks are all set to launch a new technology, which would allow them to make profit from piracy.

MySpace and Auditude are working together with Viacom’s MTV to earn money from video clips put online by users in breaching of copyright. Auditude is an online advertising technology company.

It is quite common for people to update video content every day to popular sites such as YouTube or MySpace through the help of simple technology, even when they do not own the rights to the content being uploaded. This content is usually removed once the copyright owners complain about it to MySpace or Google, which owns YouTube. MySpace is owned by News Corporation, parent company of The Times.

Hanoi - Vietnamese in the city where Republican candidate John McCain was held captive during the Vietnam War were tuned to international news channels Wednesday morning to see whether the former pilot once shot down over their city would become the next US president.

Several dozen Vietnamese and over a hundred Americans turned up for an election party hosted by the US Embassy at the Hanoi Hilton - the hotel, that is, not the prison where McCain was held which was mockingly called the same by American prisoners of war.

New Delhi, Nov 05: President Pratibha Patil today left for Thimphu on a four-day visit to attend the coronation ceremony of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk, the fifth King of Bhutan.

President Patil would be the guest of honour during the coronation ceremony, which starts from November 6.

Present King Jigme Singye Wangchuk and Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley would receive President Patil at Paro airbase.

In order to mollify antitrust regulators who are threatening to block the alliance, a list of concessions has reportedly been submitted by Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. This list will deflate their proposed Internet advertising partnership.

During the weekend, the U.S. Justice Department received the revisions from the two companies.