Most interesting for me was an author named Kim Harrison, who is the third top selling female author of e-books with Dead Witch Walking.

FORBES: The Top Selling Female E-book Authors

But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.

CNN: When losing e-mail is like a snow day

According to th e New York Times the reset is dead.

FORBES: Farewell To The Reset, We Hardly Knew Ye

It involves scam artists - often masquerading as corrupt officials or sons and daughters of dead dictators - offering people via e-mail or faxes shares in hidden fortunes in exchange for simple administrative assistance.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Bank scam trial opens in Nigeria

The inquiry followed an E.coli outbreak in Wales in 2005 which left one boy dead and over 150 other people ill.

BBC: Health committee

Wrexham council leader Aled Roberts said only last week the authority completed its investigations under the Pennington report, the public inquiry into the E.coli outbreak in south Wales in 2005 which left one boy dead and more than 150 other people ill.

BBC: Chip shop showed 'poor hygiene'

More than two weeks after a food poisoning epidemic broke out in northern Germany, at least 14 people have been reported dead and hundreds have fallen sick from an extremely dangerous strain of the E. coli bacteria found on imported cucumbers.

FORBES: Deadly Cucumbers Kill 14 in Germany, Death Toll Still Rising

The publisher, BenBella Books, said "Networking is Dead" has sold about 8, 800 copies to date, including paperbacks and e-books.

WSJ: Authors Buy Their Way Onto Best-Seller Lists

Just a day earlier, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam was hit by another bomb in the northwest Kurram tribal region that left 25 people dead and 70 wounded, said government official Javed Khan.

WSJ: Bombs Kill 17 in Pakistan