Welfare cheat cauhgt on Facebook.com in New Zealand

You can cheat people some of the time but you cannot cheat all the people all the time. This is the saying that proved to be true.

A young lady who claimes to be a solo mom (that is what we call single mother in New Zealand) and claims up to NZ$480 per week instead of NZ$140 a week (as she is legally staying with her partner)! She was "careless" enough to annouce to the world of her real life relationship with her partner.

She is convicted by the court of law for welfare cheat, thanks to facebook.com and bebo.com. This is something like what you read on the interent about "stupid criminals". Read the full story here.

UK teenager 'saved by Facebook', a real story

6-6-2009-- A British teenager who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting to online raised the alarm.

The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire had sent her a message suggesting he intended to commit suicide.

Although she did not know where he lived, calls via the White House and the British Embassy enabled Abingdon police to save the boy's life.

The boy, who has not been named, made a full recovery after hospital treatment.

Still conscious

It is believed that he was using the social networking site late on Wednesday night and sent a private message to a girl in Maryland saying that he was going to harm himself.

She told her mother, who called local police.

The police called a "special agent" at the White House, the British Embassy in Washington and finally the police control room in Abingdon.

Staff narrowed down his location to eight possible addresses, and officers found the teenager at the fourth house they tried. He had taken an overdose, but was still conscious.

(Source: BBC News)

SkyFire: A Brand New Browsing Experience for Nokia E71 (Auckland, New Zealand)

Now you can experience a totally different surfing experience on your Nokia E71 pda phone with the help of SkyFire free software.

It runs flawlessly on my Nokia E71 and linked up to your social web account like facebook.com

You can either download via your mobile phone or via your computer. See this page for more information.

This is what SkyFire is all about (info abstracted from the official website):

Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile browser that gives you a web browsing experience exactly like PC browsing. For the first time ever, on your phone, you can watch any video, connect with friends, listen to music, shop, and browse the web using the full-featured PC versions of your favorite websites. With Skyfire, mobile browsing just works -- speedy page loads, full video, images and audio. Search Engine Submission

Search Engine