Indonesian military plane crash kills 97May 20th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 97 people were killed when an Indonesian military plane with more than 100 people on board crashed Wednesday into a residential neighbourhood in East Java province, the military said. Nineteen people were also injured when the Hercules C-130 crashed in Magetan district while on a regular flight to the country's easternmost province of Papua from the capital, Jakarta, hospital staff said.
Indonesian air force plane crashes, 24 killedApril 6th, 2009 JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said. The Fokker airplane was carrying 17 officers from the Indonesian Air Force's special force and seven crew when it crashed at about 12.30 p.m.
Elecon unveils 'In Case of Emergency' softwareJanuary 27th, 2009 VALLABH VIDYANAGAR - Material handling equipment manufacturer Elecon Engineering Wednesday launched a software that stores health information on mobile phones for use during crisis. Called 'In Case of Emergency' (ICE), the software can help communicate one's health information, which can be communicated to pre-identified family members and friends during crisis through the mobile phone.
IAC to close RushmoreDrive search site aimed at black communityJune 11th, 2009 IAC to shutter Web site aimed at black community
NEW YORK — IAC/InterActiveCorp will shut down the year-old RushmoreDrive, a search engine geared toward the black community. Spokeswoman Stacy Simpson said Wednesday that the Barry Diller-led Internet services company will close the site Friday after an unsuccessful effort to sell it.
Twitter Rises Above Digg's Market Share, What's Next?January 20th, 2009 We all knew this is gonna happen some day, but not so soon! Twitter has actually reached and overwhelmed Facebook in case of market shares. Hitwise reported that as of Tuesday, Twitter, the popular microblogging service, had for the first time surpassed the market share of visits of the hit content aggregation site, Digg.
CIT Group falls off S&P 500 index, to be replaced by open-source software maker Red HatJuly 18th, 2009 CIT Group falls off S&P 500 indexNEW YORK — Standard & Poor's is replacing the struggling CIT Group Inc. with software maker Red Hat Inc.
Top names quit board of Raju promoted bodyJanuary 12th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Almost all the top names including former president of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam have resigned from the board of Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), promoted by disgraced founder and former chairman of Satyam Computer Services B.
Need for international crisis management plan to detect cyber crimes: Govt.March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Concerned over the growing number of cyber crime cases in the country, the Government on Thursday said that an international crisis management plan needs to be put in action. It also laid emphasis on information exchange, investigation and coordinated response at a global level by the law enforcing agencies to deal with the menace effectively.
'Need for Speed' titles lead pack of upcoming racing video gamesSeptember 18th, 2009 'Need for Speed' titles lead pack of racing gamesLOS ANGELES — The video game racing genre is gearing up for a traffic jam. Nearly a dozen racing games are expected to drive onto store shelves before the end of the year, competing for the attention of gamers at a time when sales have tapped the brakes.
Internet scientist says, you can't hack data from militaries. Then who did and how?May 21st, 2009 BEIJING - An acclaimed Internet scientist has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military on government networks. Former National Computer Network Emergency response team's Director Professor Fang Binxing said there is no scientific basis to blame either China's military or the government for hacking other nations' networks because most of them are "out of reach".
Dealertrack Holdings upgrading service that tracks identity theft preventionOctober 5th, 2009 Dealertrack upgrading identity theft trackerLAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — Dealertrack Holdings Inc., which makes software for auto dealers, said Monday it has upgraded a service that tracks identity theft prevention.
Coach, Dow Chemical, RPM International, PetSmart, are among big market movers MondayOctober 5th, 2009 Coach, Dow Chemical, RPM International big moversNEW YORK — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange:
NYSE:
Coach Inc., up $1.17 at $32.25
Coach is suing low-price retailer Target Corp. over bags the luxury handbag maker says too closely resemble its own designs.
High tech Obama's web team beats him into officeJanuary 20th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - The inauguration of US President Barack Obama was greeted by an instantaneous avalanche of chatter and commentary on the Internet. But the web team of the new leader was not far behind.
NKorea has set up Cyber warfare unit to wage a hacking war against US and SKorea!May 5th, 2009 Report: NKorea operating cyber warfare unitSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.
Congress tries to figure out how much power government should have in securing Web in a crisisSeptember 26th, 2009 How much government control of Web in cybercrisis?WASHINGTON — There's no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer. Yet when a Senate committee was exploring ways to secure computer networks, a provision to give the president the power to shut down Internet traffic to compromised Web sites in an emergency set off alarms.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:58 am
I didn’t know that Schwarzenegger tweets too, haha! Everyone just tweets nowadays, I’m afraid that soon no one’s going to blog anymore. Good to hear that they’re safe, though.