The World's Oldest Polar Bear Dies
At age 42, Debby, the world's oldest polar bear, dies at a Canadian Zoo.

China's Baidu.com fights to rescue reputation (AP)
AP - Baidu.com has been the star of China's Internet world. But now the search engine dubbed "China's Google" is scrambling to rescue its reputation after state TV accused it of letting unlicensed suppliers of medical products pay for higher rankings on its results page — without alerting users.

High-street shopping losing appeal in plugged-in Asia (Reuters)

Reuters - The Internet is replacing the high street as the shopping destination of choice in the Asia Pacific, with a new survey showing a majority of Internet users prefer to go online to buy everything from electronics to holidays.

'Bionic' Pair Seeks Webcams for Eyes
An artist and filmmaker want to trade prosthetic eyes for cameras.

Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell this week are announcing upcoming availability of both the beta version of Moonlight, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, and the general release of Advanced Management Pack for Suse Linux Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

There's a Spider on the Loose in Space
Where has the space station's itsy bitsy spider gone?