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Stalking in Cyberspace New Medium, Old Crime

Deborah Boehle, whose 9-year-old daughter was a victim of cyberstalking, is suing her former neighbor for $3 million. more »

Pig farmer wins top UK dotcom award

A Somerset pig farmer has been crowned Britain's top dotcom business king. more »

"Sociumas": the New Issue

You are welcome to read articles on globalisation of education and computerization of the Lithuanian schools; crimes in computer networks; racism and Lithuania. more »

Non-citizens in Latvia

About 22,000 non-citizens have not yet exchanged their former USSR passports. more »

The meeting

The visiting Lord Mayor of London Clive Martin, during his meeting with Riga City Council Mayor Andris Argalis, discussed educational, naturalisation and transport issues. more »

Armstrong holds lead after Botero stage win

Colombian Santiago Botero of Kelme won the 14th stage of the Tour de France. more »

Environmentalists Demand Halt To Green Loans

A group of Russian and international environmental organizations have sent a letter to the World Bank’s president James Wolfensohn. more »

Russia says no to polygamy

A decree by the leader of a small Muslim region in Russia allowing men to have up to four wives has been dismissed as unconstitutional by the justice minister. more »

Math’s Mistake May Cost Polish Education Minister his Job

Polish Education Minister Miroslaw Handke faces not only a bad grade but losing his job as well as opposition lawmakers push for his ouster over a math’s mistake. more »

Strange Disappearance

Unexpected disappearance of Gediminas Kesus, the former general director of Lithuanian oil concern "Maþeikiø nafta", his son Valdas and the driver has drawn attention of all mass media. more »

The Dortmund Supertournament got a whole new start in round six!

World number two Vladimir Kramnik defeated his long-time rival Viswanathan Anand in a wild game. more »

Finance of Lithuania is a Zone of Disaster!

E.Kuniavichene, "moderate" conservative, has shared her opinion about the Lithuanian budget more »

Man Charged with Breaking Into NASA Computers

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly breaking into two computers owned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and using one to host Internet chat rooms devoted to hacking. more »

Inexpensive Antibiotic

Health: Drug doesn't fight the virus but prevents many opportunistic infections. Still, even its low cost poses problems for poor nations. more »

Trade Market in Lithuania

In Lithuania the process of centralization and strengthening of trade takes place.In the nearest future powerful invasion into the markets of French, of Spanish and of German companies is expected. more »

Who killed the PC?

Don't bury the beige box yet, analysts say. more »

IBM exceeds expectations with supercomputer

An IBM supercomputer designed for simulating nuclear explosions has turned out to be 23 percent faster than anticipated when the project began. more »

Two Irish companies among world's elite

Two Irish companies, SmartForce and Saville Systems- have made it into the top 1 per cent of fastest-growing companies in the world. more »

The Truth about the Euthanasia in the Netherlands

The euthanasia is widely discussed subject in Lithuania as all over the World, but people barely know how it is performed in the country where this kind of practice has been done for more than 25 years: the Netherlands. more »

Vodafone boom in Europe

Vodafone AirTouch said Wednesday it added a record 6.6 million mobile phone customers in the second quarter. more »