Intel Warns AMD on Legal Terms about GlobalFoundries $4.2 Billion ProjectMarch 17th, 2009 Intel and AMD may well be breaking off permanently and never see each other again. Well, its hard to find an instant where two of the closest competitors help each other in technology sharing agreement.
A look at the world's 10 most valuable brands in 2009September 17th, 2009 The world's 10 most valuable brands in 2009Here's a look at the world's top 10 most valuable brands:
1. Coca-Cola, up 3 percent to $68.73 billion
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Woman rescued from dangerous Internet contactFebruary 15th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Armed officers rescued a German woman who flew to Dunedin to meet a man she befriended online from what the New Zealand police described as a 'dangerous situation', a newspaper reported Monday. 'The man was not who he had portrayed himself to be in his Internet communications,' Detective Steve McGregor said in a statement to the Otago Daily Times.
British police hunt for 'Facebook killer'February 9th, 2009 LONDON - British police Tuesday warned women against communicating with a Facebook user suspected to be a killer. Police said women should not meet up with Facebook user George Appleton after the badly burnt corpse of 36-year-old Clare Wood was discovered last week in the bedroom of her home in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Twitter set to go video-tweeting?October 11th, 2009 LONDON - Here's good news for Twitterati - soon the users of the site may get to upload short video clips on their profiles. Founders of the social networking site Twitter are planning to upgrade the site to allow users to paste live videos on their profile from phones, laptops or other devices.
Twitter outage clamps tweets, site says cause 'unknown'August 6th, 2009 Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown'NEW YORK — Twitter is down. For users of the short messaging site, this means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
NASA's new Twitter strategy: Se Habla Espanol; Astro_Jose to tweet bilingually from spaceJuly 2nd, 2009 NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en EspanolWASHINGTON — NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English.
Top Healthcare Apps for TwitterFebruary 13th, 2009 This one is an exclusive section for those health freaks who believe Twitter can't help them to stay in the pink. Well, nobody can tolerate the extra bit of fat hanging from their bay window.
60 percent of the twitterers leave after the first monthApril 29th, 2009 Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter quitters outnumber the flock of habitual tweeters on the rapidly growing online communications service, a new study suggests. Most people aren't joining the Web site's jumble of conversations for very long.
World's largest browser based games portal BigPoint expands to increase monetizing solutionsMay 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bigpoint.com, the world's largest portal for browser games, today announces a partnership with PlaySpanT, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, social networks, and virtual worlds, to bring PlaySpan's PayByCash(r) and Ultimate Game Card(r) payment options to Bigpoint's more than 63 million users globally and 200,000 new registrations daily. Bigpoint.com is the world's largest portal for browser games and is one of the top three gaming portals in the world.
Alaska Gov. Palin promises "less politically correct" tweets once out of officeJuly 17th, 2009 Palin promises to keep on tweetingANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to stay in touch using Twitter even after leaving office on July 26.
Besieged Satyam board to meet SaturdayJanuary 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The besieged board of Satyam Computer Services Ltd will meet Saturday to discuss the various issues that rocked the IT bellwether since the Maytas deal fiasco Dec 16, culminating in the dramatic resignation of its co-founders who admitted to a massive revenue fraud in the company over the years. 'The board will meet as re-scheduled on Jan 10 to discuss the issues related to the company’s operations and the fallout of today’s events and actions thereby,' Satyam interim CEO and whole-time director Ram Mynampati said in a statement here late Wednesday.
Centuries-old tweets? Historians to post John Quincy Adams' brief diary entries on TwitterAugust 4th, 2009 John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. societyBOSTON — It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time.
Meeting to discuss 3G spectrum price postponedJuly 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The wait for third generation (3G) telecom services in the country has got longer as the first meeting of a key ministry panel, set up to take decision on the pricing of 3G auctions, has been postponed. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was scheduled to meet July 31.
Satyam board meets Tuesday, may name new CEOJanuary 25th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The government-appointed directors of embattled Satyam Computer Services will meet here Tuesday to pick a new chief executive officer (CEO) and finalise funding arrangements to ensure the fraud-hit company's smooth operations in the next two months. The six directors, making up the new board, said last Friday that they had shortlisted three candidates for the posts of CEO and chief financial office (CFO) and they will finalise the names this week.