November 5, 2018

Google planning PayPal rival

Monday, June 20, 2005 Financial analysts say Google is planning an e-wallet service that could eventually compete with eBay’s payment service PayPal. Google has not confirmed the development. The rumor is a first sign of Google’s expected expansion of revenue sources to capitalize on its advertising customer base and search-engine traffic. What form that expansion […]

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November 5, 2018

Apple collecting location data from iPhone, iPad

Saturday, April 23, 2011 Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad periodically send location information back to the company, according to new reports. The data is transmitted to a secure database that only it can access, Apple claims. Bruce Sewell, an attorney for Apple, sent a letter to two US Representatives last year, discussing the company’s data […]

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November 4, 2018

The Power Of The Dragon}

Read More About: Blinds In Melbourne Bedheads Sydney Submitted by: Lanh Nguyen Vietnamese people are said to be the offspring of a dragon and a Fairy. Central to the nations founding myth; the dragon is an important symbol in Vietnam. More than 1000 years ago, dragon images were used to decorate the royal palaces of […]

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November 3, 2018

2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Three awards, One target

Monday, June 23, 2008 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, the largest trade fair since its inception in 1982, featured several seminars and forums, expansions on show spaces to TWTC Nangang, great transformations for theme pavilions, and WiMAX Taipei Expo, mainly promoted by Taipei Computer Association (TCA). Besides of ICT industry, “design” progressively became the critical factor for […]

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November 3, 2018

BBC spends £3.4m on sell-off

Friday, June 27, 2008 Newspaper The Guardian reports today that the sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC Resources Ltd., has cost £3.4m in consultancy fees — over £1m more than the £2.3m trading profit the commercial division is estimated to have made for the last financial year. Details of the failed privatisation were released by […]

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November 3, 2018

Suicide car bomber kills seven in Kohat, Pakistan

Monday, April 19, 2010 Seven people were killed and 26 injured in the city of Kohat in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a police station, police officials said. “It was a suicide attack, the target was a police station,” Dilawar Khan Bangash, police chief of Kohat, told […]

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November 3, 2018

Roadside bomb kills NATO soldier in Afghanistan

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 According to NATO, one of its service members has died from a bomb attack at an army base in southern Afghanistan. In addition, an Afghan soldier reportedly died and the blast left three others injured. The International Security Assistance Force released a statement yesterday, saying that “[the soldier] died today following […]

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