Research In Motion Inc. (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, apologized Monday for the more than two hours of service disruption that affected millions of its customers in the U. S. and Canada. According to Networkworld. com, the "service disruption" that affected RIM's infrastructure starting at 3:30 p. m. EST prevented BlackBerry phones from sending or receiving messages, browsing the Internet or using the BlackBerry Internet Service Web site.

Tory MEPs confused Birmingham, Alabama for Birmingham, England and put up a picture of the former on their website confusing web browsers in the process. According to the Daily Mirror, web browser were shocked to see skyscrapers instead of what they were expecting - the Bullring and Spaghetti Junction.

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.

A web search reunited two South Florida sisters with their Russian cousin, after being separated for 70 years. The three were pulled apart back in 1937, when the Soviet Union forced their parents to flee to the United States, taking them along. Ossie Rasher, 81, and Sophia Altfield, 78, were reunited with their cousin Rosalie Berkovich, 80, after Berkovich's son scoured Google and found Rasher and Altfield's names on a genealogy website earlier this month. The three met up only a few weeks after.

A Florida based-company claims they have found the first scientific way of finding true romance and said that the body odor is the main source of attraction. The dating company, ScientificMatch. com, claims to be the first service to use used its DNA matching to link somebody to that perfect someone. The service is scheduled to be launched Tuesday in Boston.