Kicking off a new revolution in video game technology, the Microsoft Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on – which will hit the stores November 18 - virtually transforms a gamer’s body into a games controller. 

According to Chart Track, there is a change at the top of the UK all-format video game chart – with developer 2K Czech and publisher Take Two’s gangster-oriented third person shooter, Mafia II, knocking down the top-ranking ultra-violent game ‘Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days’ to the overall second place this week.

That the evolution of digital interfaces does not potentially sound the death-knell for the conventional mouse is evident from the fact that a bigwig company like Microsoft has launched a new mouse – the ARC Touch Mouse which is a shape-shifting ‘pop-up’ mouse that can be folded flat and carried around easily!

According to the findings of a survey by UK’s broadband ISP O2, consumers waste over £700 million – that is about £2.1 million per day - every year by going in for an internet service which is based on speeds rather than needs.

A British study found this week that people who consume a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates for more than five years may be increasing their chances of developing cancer of the gullet or esophagus by two times.

Employees have to pay a bigger share of their health insurance as the companies pass on more costs to their employees to survive recession.

As per a national study released this week, workers paid an average of 14 percent more in premiums this year while employers held their own cost increases to ‘a modest 3 percent’.