The 1998 movie, "Fight Club', based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, may have seemed far fetched, but it struck a chord with men who say they feel emasculated by the mundaneness of the corporate, high-tech world. ESPN reported that since 1998, a fight club has been meeting once a month in Cornell educated software engineer, Gints Klimani's, garage. Fifteen men, mostly white, middle-aged technology workers meet to beat each other using fists, toilet seats, and cookie sheets. The group improvises weapons, even stabbing each other with dulled knives.

Millions of British adults are becoming bad spellers and they are blaming this on predictive text functions of their mobile phones. In a study conducted by of spelling and grammar software firm whitesmoke. com 40 percent of the 2,500 surveyed could not spell "questionnaire", 38 percent misspell "accommodate" and 37 percent are confused by "definitely".

Hungarian scientist's claim they have come up with a computer program, which would enable people to understand dog, barks. The group o scientists said the software is able to decode dog's barks, howls, yaps and growls.

The technology revolution has yet again taken ahold of present-day work ethics, with the birth and the usage of the new slang word "moof. " Standing for "mobile out of office", the term is known as an indication of a worker's capability to remain active with work, even outside the workplace.

A new subgenre of malware that ransoms your PC is now stalking the internet for victims, says a security developer. The so-called "ransomware" locks up your PC and demands $35 to return control to you is on the prowl, said Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software Distribution in Clearwater, Florida. Victims of the Delf. ctk Trojan horse are told to dial a 900 number that can be traced to a payment processor used by hardcore pornography Web sites, he added.