Tweeps have revealed that Swedish fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is getting ready to open its first store in Malaysia in Autumn. The store will be located in the Lot 10 shopping center in Kuala Lumpur’s Bukit Bintang shopping district. “Just in case you want to start staking out the front of the line, [...]
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PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose limited role in promoting the No. 1 social network’s market debut has drawn criticism, laid out its growth strategy to investors on Friday, saying that transforming its mobile and advertising experience are top priorities in 2012. Integrating online apps more strongly into Facebook is also [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. Facebook’s chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network’s biggest week ever. The company is expected to start selling stock to the public [...]
Genres: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi Year: 2012 Director: Joss Whedon Cast: Robert Downey Jr. / Jeremy Renner / Scarlett Johansson / Chris Hemsworth / Cobie Smulders / Chris Evans / Samuel L. Jackson / Gwyneth Paltrow / Stellan Skarsgård / Paul Bettany / Mark Ruffalo / Tom Hiddleston / Amanda Righetti / Lou Ferrigno [...]
(Photo: Marvel) You know all that military action that goes on in a lot of Hollywood blockbuster films? Well, the U.S. government usually likes to get involved to help filmmakers more realistically portray it. This was not the case with “Marvel’s The Avengers.” The U.S. Defense Department pulled out because they deemed the film too [...]
Bing has had an epiphany. Rather than compete with Google in the sheer number of features it can cram onto its results page, Microsoft’s search engine is going the opposite direction towards simplification by releasing a clean, more streamlined results page. The result is pretty nice: Microsoft has stripped the Bing results page down to [...]
No man is an island. Especially online. Examples of networks used in privacy attack algorithms. User u is the subject of the attack, f1::f6 are friends of u and f2::f5 have been photo tagged in u‘s photos. f2 and f3 have been tagged twice, f4 once and f5 four times. João Paulo Pesce, Gustavo Rauber, Diego Las Casas, Virgílio Almeida We tend to think about privacy in personal terms: my data, my personal [...]
The pitched political battle over student loans isn’t going away. On Friday, the White House threatened to veto a bill to keep interest rates on a popular kind of loan from doubling come July 1 because the Republican-crafted legislation pays for it by tapping a special fund in President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Look! Up in the sky! It’s a … space shuttle? An unusual flying object came to New York from Washington on Friday — the space shuttle Enterprise. Enterprise zoomed around the city, riding piggyback on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its trip included flyovers over parts of the city and [...]
Mozilla announced today the availability of Firefox 12, a new version of the popular open source Web browser. The release brings some minor incremental feature improvements, a number of fixes under the hood, and a significant change to the browser’s update system on Windows. Ever since Mozilla transitioned Firefox to a shorter development cycle, the [...]
Did you know we have Cyber Guardians who protect the world from cybercrime? The spirit of these cyber warriors can be seen in the SANS Cyber Guardian shield. “It has two encoded messages: The first is a Latin Message, ‘Sapere aude’ which means ‘Dare to be wise.’ The second message is written in binary code [...]
Gideon Sundback celebrated with an interactive zipper Google doodle on the search engine’s homepage. Photograph: Screengrab Google’s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing [...]
ReutersOracle’s chief executive, Larry Ellison, center right, is pictured being questioned by Google’s lawyer Robert Van Nest during the second day of trial. It was Larry vs. Larry as two powerful chief executives of two of the most successful tech companies squared off in court in person. The rare appearance of two chiefs squaring off [...]
BACK in 2004, as Google prepared to go public, Larry Page and Sergey Brin celebrated the maxim that was supposed to define their company: “Don’t be evil.” But these days, a lot of people — at least the mere mortals outside the Googleplex — seem to be wondering about that uncorporate motto. How is it [...]
A trauma relived: Women cry on a street in Banda Aceh after a strong earthquake struck off Aceh province on Wednesday. The powerful 8.5 magnitude earthquake and strong aftershocks sent people as far away as southern India scurrying from buildings and raising fears of a repeat of the disastrous 2004 tsunami. Reuters/Junaidi HanafiahPeople in [...]
Indonesia, India and Thailand downgrade tsunami alert issued after 8.6-magnitude earthquake off the Sumatra coast. Indonesia, India and Thailand have downgraded tsunami alerts that had been issued following powerful earthquakes off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province, prompting evacuations from coastal regions. Wednesday’s first quake was measured at a magnitude of 8.6, according to the US Geological Survey, which [...]
INDONESIA’S tsunami early warning system, widely praised during this week’s Indian Ocean-wide alert, has been compromised by thieves and vandals in the country’s waters, officials have confirmed. The $US130 million ($A124.96 million) system of tidal gauges, buoys and seismic monitors sent warnings to Indonesian authorities on Wednesday after an 8.6-magnitude quake struck off Sumatra island. [...]
During one of my talks on mobile computing and development on apps for mobile devices, I was asked whether it is already worthwile to use HTML5 and mobile JavaScript frameworks like PhoneGap or SenchaTouch to create WebApps that behave like native apps on mobile devices and can be installed using the respective market places. Some [...]
All businesses understand that mobile is exploding. The number of smartphone subscribersin the U.S. surpassed the 100-million mark in January, up 13% since October, and mobile Internet usage is continuing to increase at a rapid rate. In fact, Cisco reports that the number of mobile connected devices will exceed the world’s population this year. In [...]
A hoodie won’t fly on the House floor, where dress code mandates no hats – and a hoodie counts as a hat, even when its used to bring attention to Trayvon Martin. Washington Hoodies on the House floor are verboten, apparently. Rep. Bobby Rush (D) of Illinois was scolded and escorted from the chamber of [...]
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