PARIS: The UFC Que Choisir condemed the increase of motor part prices in France. More than 26% between 2005 and 2010 in France, even though general consumer prices have varied during this period of 7.63%. “The slippage rate is a symptom of manufacturers’ monopoly on this market” says the Consumers Association. In this case it [...]
A computer expert uses ground breaking technology in order to develop an intelligent internet reference website.The website called True Knowledge which can be compared with Wikipedia finds answers to any question using the latest in computer software. The answers are very short based and direct which answers the question without any associated facts or references. [...]
SEATTLE: The sales of the online ebook reader Kindle which retails at around £87 is proving to be a major success for Amazon. Amazon have not released exact numbers of Kindles that have been bought but according to the Press Association Amazon hold around 725,000 books in their store. The Kindle is a wireless application [...]
SAN FRANCISCO: The Social networking giants Facebook who have over 350 million users are launching a new email platform with the extension facebook.com. The founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg introduced the system called ‘Next Generation Messaging’ at an event in San Francisco. The system is designed to give everyone one on Facebook a personal [...]
[ad#Google Adsense] PRESS RELEASE: ABPTA News (12 Nov 10) Video conference is an important element of corporate and small businesses. The release of the Blackberry’s Playbook which has been developed by Research In Motion in order to compete with Apples very profitable Ipad has some supplemental attributes which in turn separates it apart from others [...]
GENEVA: The Large Hadron Collider which is situated 574 ft underground near the French-Swiss border has created its first Mini Big Bangs. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is 27 km long and is designed to collide opposing particles at very high speeds creating conditions close to when the ‘Big Bang’ created the Universe 14 billion [...]
LONDON: New reports have been emerging of the dangers from cyber attacks that have the capability to bring down passenger jets. In a report from the Economic Times which highlighted the dangers from cyber attacks to aircraft where a computer hacker could potentially take over a planes onboard computer system and force the plane to [...]
BRISTOL: A large artificial obstruction known as the Severn Barrage was due to be built on the Severn Estuary in order to generate 5pc of Britain’s electricity at a cost of £30 bn. The project, which was highly controversial amongst environmentalist, is to be scrapped in favour of nuclear power stations. The barrage was due [...]
NEW YORK: The internet portal Yahoo has seen its shares rise by 4.46 pc closing at $15.93 due to speculation that the famous search engine could be the subject to a take over bid by AOL and several equity firms. In a report by the Wall Street Journal, the two equity firms that are interested [...]
LONDON: A threat to Britain’s infrastructure is very real according to the Director of GCHQ Mr Iain Lobban who heads Britain’s electronic spying agency. Britain’s economy could be under threat from Cyber criminals due to the growth of information technology, the internet as well as large data storage which involves billions of pounds. One agency [...]