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Posted Mon, 03/30/2009 - 07:00 by newton
A tenacious computer worm which has wriggled its way onto machines worldwide is set to evolve on April Fool's Day, becoming harder to exterminate but not expected to wreak havoc. A task force assembled by Microsoft has been working to stamp out the worm, referred to as Conficker or DownAdUP, and the US software colossus has placed a bounty of 250,000 dollars on the heads of those responsible for the threat.
Posted Sun, 03/29/2009 - 06:30 by newton
Powerful Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, who for more than 33 years has run the key ministry's crucial internal security and anti-terror operations, was named second deputy prime minister on Friday by King Abdullah, a promotion that means he will run the kingdom when the monarch and crown prince are away.
Posted Thu, 03/26/2009 - 17:26 by binoy
IBM will cut about 5,000 jobs in the United States, adding to similarly large cuts in the past few months, sources with knowledge of IBM the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
The job cuts will account for over 4 percent of IBM's US workforce, which totaled around 115,000 at the end of 2008. The sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly on the issue, said the cuts will mostly be in IBM's global services business, which includes outsourcing and consulting services.
Posted Tue, 03/24/2009 - 06:48 by binoy
Amid camera flashes and the occasional shoving match between photographers, specifications and on-sale dates for the highly anticipated Tata Nano were finally announced at two elaborate media events here on Monday.
“We have made a promise and we have kept that promise,” Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, said during the first press gathering, held in the Taj Hotel.
Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 06:36 by newton
British reality television star Jade Goody, who won the nation's heart with her rags-to-riches success and her very public battle with cervical cancer, died Sunday aged 27.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown led the tributes to the mother-of-two, who lived her adult life in the spotlight but died in her sleep at home at 03:14 am (0314 GMT), with husband Jack Tweed and mother Jackiey Budden by her side.
Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 06:36 by newton
Five Indian soldiers and two Muslim rebels were killed in a gunbattle in Kashmir on Sunday, police said, a day after Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire across the de facto border.
The deaths came during some of the fiercest fighting for months and follow Saturday's cross-border firing that left one Indian soldier dead.
The fighting on Sunday erupted in northern Kupwara district as Indian troops launched a search operation in thick forest.
Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 07:46 by binoy
Bill Gates retains the title, "The richest man on the world", in a recent assessment by Forbes Magazine. In these troubled days of business, the billionaires across the world has lost billions of dollars. While 1125 people have found there place in the billionaires list in 2008, year 2009 has accounted for only 793 people.
Due to the recession, Bill Gates lost 18 Billion in value and yet topped the list with a net worth of 40 billion dollars. With a net asset of 37 Billion, Warren Buffet stands in the 2nd place where he lost 25 billion dollars in the last year.
Posted Wed, 03/11/2009 - 06:31 by newton
Fierce sandstorms in the gulf states of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Tuesday disrupted oil exports and forced seaports and airports to close.
Visibility was blurred at the international airports in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia.
The city's harbor was shut down and incoming flights to King Khalid International Airport were being diverted to Damman in the east and Jeddah in the west, as the storm raged for several hours.
Posted Tue, 03/03/2009 - 21:14 by binoy
Shrugging off the T20 defeats, India bounced back with a solid batting display to spank New Zealand by 53 runs on the basis of Duckworth-Lewis method in the rain-marred first Cricket one-dayer and take 1-0 lead in the five-match series in Napier on Tuesday.
India rode on skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's unbeaten 84 and blistering half-centuries by Virender Sehwag (77) and Suresh Raina (66) to rattle up 273 for 4 in 38 overs and then put up a disciplined bowling performance to prevent the Kiwis from upstaging them.
