An online community for American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, called TroopNet, went live Monday that allows former and present soldiers from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom to post profiles and pictures, search for others based on a number of criteria, link to “buddies,” and privately message other members.

Ever since Google News changed their algorithm 4 or 5 months back it just isn’t as good.

Reading and viewing online news coverage of the Katrina hurricane disaster in the US over recent days, I’m just awed by the sheer scale of so many people – thousands according to many news reports – losing their lives, family, and property.

Petrobras has agreed to advise Iraqi oil interests on bolstering oil yields that have fallen 47 percent.

For those of you that know me, you know my brother Jonah is in Iraq with his Marine Recon battalion.

Google has added a new twist to the Google Image Search (GIS). When you search for topical keywords, Google not only returns pertinent images, but it also features images based on related topics from Google News.

As bombs continue to fall in Iraq, protesters and patriotic hackers alike have stepped up their war of words on the Internet, defacing hundreds of U.S. and U.K. corporate and government Web sites, a security expert said Friday.