MANILA, Philippines – Software companies have expressed support for Philippine initiatives to adapt open source technology. Big names in the software business, including IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, are participating in the Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) which opens Monday, June 23, and ends tomorrow, June 24, in Cebu City. Some 500 delegates from across […]
Severed Heads Reflect Grisly “Marketing” Savvy
Drug cartel killers are taking a page from the marketing techniques of today’s publicity machines, “advertising” their grisly activities in messages accompanying bodies and decapitated heads. The most recent was on a poster, found amid four severed heads along a northern Durango highway. It read, "This is a warning," and listed several Mexican police agencies […]
Indian origin boy, Sameer Mishra, won the US spelling championship
An Indian origin boy, Sameer Mishra, 13 years old, won Scripps National spelling Bee contest beating 288 children in the age group of 8 to 15. He hailed from West Lafayette and has been contesting for the fourth time in the event. When asked to spell ‘guerdon’, he asked for the meaning of the word and […]
China to create Telecom giants
China’s phone companies will merge into three large groups in a long awaited government restructuring of its giant telecoms market that could lead to billions of dollars in new orders for foreign equipment suppliers. A plan announced over the week end calls for energizing competition by bringing together mobile and fixed line operators. Once mergers […]
Afghan Riders Saddle Up for Buzkashi Season
– By Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi in Mazar-e-Sharif (ARR No. 287, 24-Apr-08) Springtime in northern Afghanistan brings the sound of hundreds of horses thundering over the dusty ground near the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. This is the season for “buzkashi”, a wild sport in which troops of horsemen fight to seize control of a dead calf and […]
Home Business Guide
Because tens of thousands of people all across the world want to know how they can work at home and earn enough money to run a household, there is a special need for this report. Today the need for women to work out of the home is stronger than ever. According to recent surveys, almost […]
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