Sunday, August 15, 2010
Man charged with setting a small fire outside Canadian Prime Minis....
Man charged with setting a small fire outside Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s official residence
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
U.S. worried more secret documents may be released
U.S. officials are worried about what other secret documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid their release, the State Department said on Friday.
The shadowy group publicly released more than 90,000 U.S. Afghan war records spanning a six-year period on Sunday. The group also is thought to be in possession of tens of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables passed to it by an Army intelligence analyst, media reports have said.
"Do we have concerns about what might be out there? Yes, we do," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told a briefing, adding that U.S. authorities have not specifically determined which documents may have been leaked to the organization.
He said the State Department could not confirm the longstanding reports that WikiLeaks is in possession of a large set of U.S. diplomatic cables.
But the fact that the documents released on Sunday contained a handful of State Department cables suggests that other secret diplomatic messages may have been included in data transmitted to WikiLeaks, Crowley said.
"When we provide our analysis of situations in key countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, we distribute these across the other agencies including to military addresses," Crowley said. "So is the potential there that State Department documents have been compromised? Yes."
Both Crowley and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs urged WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, not to release further classified U.S. government documents.
Gibbs, noting WikiLeaks claims to have at least 15,000 more secret Afghan documents, told NBC's "Today" show there was little the government could do halt the release of the papers.
"We can do nothing but implore the person who has those classified top secret documents not to post any more," Gibbs said. "I think it's important that no more damage be done to our national security."
MESSAGES PASSED TO WIKILEAKS
Crowley said the U.S. government had tried to make contact with WikiLeaks but had not been successful in establishing a line of communication.
"We have passed messages to them," he said. "I am not aware of any direct dialogue with WikiLeaks."
Both Crowley and Gibbs expressed concern that the document dump might expose U.S. intelligence gathering methods and place in jeopardy people who had assisted the United States.
"You have Taliban spokesmen in the region today saying they're combing through those documents to find people that are cooperating with American and international forces. They're looking through those for names. They said they know how to punish those people," Gibbs said.
"Intelligence services all over the world will be looking over them and seeing what they can glean in terms of how we gain information," Crowley said.
"Behind these documents is a very important intelligence system that is vital to our national security and we are concerned ... that if WikiLeaks continues on its current path this will do damage to our national security," he said.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both said on Thursday the document leak had undermined trust in the United States.
Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter asking Gates asking for an assessment of how badly the military's sources and methods of gathering intelligence had been hurt.
"I am concerned about the nature and extent of the damage caused by the release of these documents," he wrote in the July 28 letter, which was released by his office on Friday.
The Army investigation into the release of the documents is focusing on Army specialist Bradley Manning, who was already charged earlier this month with leaking information previously published by WikiLeaks, U.S. defense officials say.
Manning, who was moved from a detention facility in Kuwait to one at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia on Thursday ahead of his trial, is charged with leaking a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists.
Manning has not been named as a suspect in the latest leak and investigators are not ruling out the involvement of multiple individuals.
Moscow faces the most heat during the 150 years.
Hot weather in Russia caused many fires in the middle of the country. Formal immigration people have substantially When faced with Moscow during the hot weather over 150 years.
Forest fires occur in the suburb Voronezh. The center of the Russian fire source incurred the farmland outside the city and then spread into residential and burning homes, people to more than 20 after the formal need to evacuate people from the area and patients in the hospital three of the students and tourists. also reported a death นัก FIREFIGHTERS said.
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The other areas. Russia also faced heat waves and forest fires since the start of last month. By yesterday. Weather Forecast Office reported. Moscow faces hot weather most in more than 150 years, temperature was 38.2 degrees Celsius while the fire brigade have been notified of fire up to 150 times a day and is expected during the weekend temperatures in Voronezh. will surge as high as 42 degrees Celsius
Monday, July 12, 2010
Chinese Investment in Europe Soars
Beijing’s Buying Up EuropeEurope’s economic distress could be China’s opportunity. In the past, the country has proved a hesitant investor in the continent, but figures show a 30 percent surge in new Chinese projects in Europe last year. And these days Europe looks ever more tempting. Bargains proliferate as the yuan strengthens and cash-strapped governments forget concerns over foreign ownership of key assets. On a recent visit to Greece, Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang sealed 14 deals, reportedly the largest Chinese investment package in Europe, covering a range of sectors from construction to telecoms. And Chinese shipping group Cosco paid the state $4.1 billion to lease much of Greece’s largest container port, a useful gateway for Chinese goods headed for Southern European markets.
Meanwhile, Irish authorities have opened talks with Chinese promoters to develop a 240-hectare industrial park in central Ireland where Chinese manufacturers could operate inside the EU free of quotas and costly tariffs. In time, that could bring 10,000 new jobs. “It’s good business,” says Vanessa Rossi, an authority on China at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. “There’s big mutual benefit here.” Europe needs money; China needs markets.
Meanwhile, Irish authorities have opened talks with Chinese promoters to develop a 240-hectare industrial park in central Ireland where Chinese manufacturers could operate inside the EU free of quotas and costly tariffs. In time, that could bring 10,000 new jobs. “It’s good business,” says Vanessa Rossi, an authority on China at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. “There’s big mutual benefit here.” Europe needs money; China needs markets.
Central Bank of China adjusted the value of the reference rate at 6.7718 yuan today versus dollar
Central Bank of China adjusted the value of the reference rate at 6.7718 yuan today versus dollar
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Rafael Nadal wins Wimbledon, his eighth Grand Slam title.
The Journal provides minute-by-minute analysis of today’s Wimbledon men’s singles final as Rafael Nadal defeated Tomas Berdych 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. Guest blogger Tom Perrotta is at Centre Court to offer commentary on the match.
European heat wave face .. long expected Wednesday
European heat wave face .. long expected Wednesday
Change of command ceremony today. Gen. Petraeus has formally assumed command of the 140,000 US & NATO forces in Afghanistan
Change of command ceremony today. Gen. Petraeus has formally assumed command of the 140,000 US & NATO forces in Afghanistan
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Warren Buffett posted billionaire investor. Donate stock Berkshire Hathaway worth 1,900 million dollars for five of the Foundation.
Warren Buffett posted billionaire investor. Donate stock Berkshire Hathaway worth 1,900 million dollars for five of the Foundation.
How "GoogleBook" could kill FaceBook:
Why Google could actually kill Facebook
With rumors flying about Google's much-anticipated Facebook killer, many speculate if the company can pull it off. It can, and here's why.
Ever since Digg founder Kevin Rose spilled the beans on Twitter about Google's soon-to-arrive Facebook-killer (how many social media brands can you fit in one sentence!) the internets have been abuzz with speculation as to whether they can actually pull it off.
Facebook's growth seems unstoppable, topping nearly half a billion users, but the social networking behemoth is facing a growing tide of trouble. It has been assaulted recently for its overly liberal privacy settings, causing a wave of people to quit the network. Moreover, Facebook has been strangely aggressive as of late towards certain groups like Boycott BP, which was mysteriously taken down yesterday. (It was later restored.)
This has prompted a slew of startup contenders like Diaspora that want to make a totally user-controlled peer-to-peer network that would put the power of privacy directly in the hands of the individual user.
Most doubt that any company, save Google, could actually take on Facebook, but everyone still wonders whether Google's arsenal of funds and its army of genius-IQ engineers are sufficient to stop the Facebook tide before it takes over the world (except of course India and Brazil where Google's Orkut social network is the dominant player).
This is a HOW question. There's no doubt that Google could come up with something awesome, but will it be awesome ENOUGH to get people to leave Facebook? My sincere hope is that Google is asking the WHY question, not the HOW question — WHY would anyone want to leave Facebook? It turns out there are two major reasons why people would indeed move to greener pastures, and if Google can exploit Facebook's exposed dual Achilles heels, I believe they will succeed.
Facebook's biggest problem stems from a poorly strategized development path. Because it has grown so fast and because so much of its product development effort has focused on opening up the social graph to third-party app developers, the company missed something very, very important ... the user experience. Businesses adore Facebook for its nifty advertising tools and easy access to consumer data, but that has come at a high price ... the alienation of Facebook users.
1. Concentric rings of privacy
The greatest weakness for Google to exploit is Facebook's total disregard of the user's need to segment their "friends." Facebook currently offers only three levels of privacy — stuff only your friends see, stuff friends of friends can see, and stuff all Facebook users can see. That's it. How many job terminations have resulted from someone in the HR department seeing things they shouldn't?
Such horror stories are endemic of Facebook's critical failing (which from what I understand is irreparable, based on the design of Facebook's database). To be truly useful, the online social network of the future NEEDS to be modeled on natural social behavior. We all stand at the center of a series of "concentric rings" of privacy. All acquaintances are not "friends" and all friends are not "confidants."
Each person's inner circle may include just two or three people. The next level out may be 10-20 including family and good friends. In the outer ring ... we may have hundreds of acquaintances that we like and want to include in our lives without giving them access to the inner circles. This data needs to be attributed at the friend level (i.e. when you accept a friend you assign them to a certain privacy level). So our "best friends" automatically get to see everything. While our acquaintances, unbeknownst to them, are blocked from seeing certain images not meant for broader consumption.
At least three more rings need to be added to the "friends" zone:
This sounds simple, but it represents an enormous technological challenge. A whole new set of data needs to be assigned each time the user uploads a picture or wall post. From the user perspective it would look simple — nothing more than a checkbox — but that interface is something that few companies besides Google could tackle.
2. Publishing power
If you are like me and you regularly attempt to publish video or article links, you will have grown INCREDIBLY frustrated with Facebook's clunky publishing interface. Literally 30 percent of the time (I tracked it), I am unable to successfully publish a link that shows the thumbnail or video embed. It's a strange bug that I know Facebook is aware of, yet there has never been a permanent fix for it.
But that's a small problem compared to Facebook's inability to support the user in personalizing his self-presentation. Facebook is just not cool. That plain grey-blue palette works great for professional and collegiate matters, but if you are a band, artist, poet, or the creator of any sort of media that might garner a following, you're out of luck (unless you can afford a huge media buy). Nobody wants to see the return of those god-awful Myspace backgrounds with sunsets and unicorns, but a little customization would enable the user to take pride in the page as a work of self-expression, rather than an archive of things that happened.
Myspace, for all its flaws, was pretty good at fulfilling this need. They had decent tools to message and update your fans, you could customize the look of your page and decide what you wanted to feature, and you could promote a wide variety of media types specifically tailored to your followers.
What's astonishing is that for close to a year, Myspace just stared like a deer in Facebook's headlights as clunky, plain Jane Facebook siphoned off nearly all of its U.S. members. The innovation that allowed Facebook to vie for creatives (like bands and artists) was called "the Fan Page." Without it, individuals and brands with loyal followings would never have migrated to Facebook.
Facebook's recent decision to get rid of the Fan Page, an act that essentially discourages fan-based networks is almost as mysterious as Myspace's total inaction when it came to enhancing the platform to better serve its fan-based networks. It's now the "Like page" (for lack of a better term) and it has few of the features actually required by artists to properly communicate with "fans." All a page admin can do is send updates, and the updates have now been removed from the recipient's home page (you actually have to click into your inbox and then click the "Updates" folder inside) making updates all but meaningless. Facebook should allow more direct and personal communications between individuals and fan groups within the broader social network:
To sum up, there is a enormous unmet need right now for a social networking platform that provides powerful publishing tools for its most influential members — bands, artists, creatives — AND that allows segmentation of a user's circle of friends. If Google play its cards right, the social network of the future could be there for the taking.
With rumors flying about Google's much-anticipated Facebook killer, many speculate if the company can pull it off. It can, and here's why.
Ever since Digg founder Kevin Rose spilled the beans on Twitter about Google's soon-to-arrive Facebook-killer (how many social media brands can you fit in one sentence!) the internets have been abuzz with speculation as to whether they can actually pull it off.Facebook's growth seems unstoppable, topping nearly half a billion users, but the social networking behemoth is facing a growing tide of trouble. It has been assaulted recently for its overly liberal privacy settings, causing a wave of people to quit the network. Moreover, Facebook has been strangely aggressive as of late towards certain groups like Boycott BP, which was mysteriously taken down yesterday. (It was later restored.)
This has prompted a slew of startup contenders like Diaspora that want to make a totally user-controlled peer-to-peer network that would put the power of privacy directly in the hands of the individual user.
Most doubt that any company, save Google, could actually take on Facebook, but everyone still wonders whether Google's arsenal of funds and its army of genius-IQ engineers are sufficient to stop the Facebook tide before it takes over the world (except of course India and Brazil where Google's Orkut social network is the dominant player).
This is a HOW question. There's no doubt that Google could come up with something awesome, but will it be awesome ENOUGH to get people to leave Facebook? My sincere hope is that Google is asking the WHY question, not the HOW question — WHY would anyone want to leave Facebook? It turns out there are two major reasons why people would indeed move to greener pastures, and if Google can exploit Facebook's exposed dual Achilles heels, I believe they will succeed.
Facebook's biggest problem stems from a poorly strategized development path. Because it has grown so fast and because so much of its product development effort has focused on opening up the social graph to third-party app developers, the company missed something very, very important ... the user experience. Businesses adore Facebook for its nifty advertising tools and easy access to consumer data, but that has come at a high price ... the alienation of Facebook users.
1. Concentric rings of privacy
The greatest weakness for Google to exploit is Facebook's total disregard of the user's need to segment their "friends." Facebook currently offers only three levels of privacy — stuff only your friends see, stuff friends of friends can see, and stuff all Facebook users can see. That's it. How many job terminations have resulted from someone in the HR department seeing things they shouldn't?
Such horror stories are endemic of Facebook's critical failing (which from what I understand is irreparable, based on the design of Facebook's database). To be truly useful, the online social network of the future NEEDS to be modeled on natural social behavior. We all stand at the center of a series of "concentric rings" of privacy. All acquaintances are not "friends" and all friends are not "confidants."
Each person's inner circle may include just two or three people. The next level out may be 10-20 including family and good friends. In the outer ring ... we may have hundreds of acquaintances that we like and want to include in our lives without giving them access to the inner circles. This data needs to be attributed at the friend level (i.e. when you accept a friend you assign them to a certain privacy level). So our "best friends" automatically get to see everything. While our acquaintances, unbeknownst to them, are blocked from seeing certain images not meant for broader consumption.
At least three more rings need to be added to the "friends" zone:
This sounds simple, but it represents an enormous technological challenge. A whole new set of data needs to be assigned each time the user uploads a picture or wall post. From the user perspective it would look simple — nothing more than a checkbox — but that interface is something that few companies besides Google could tackle.
2. Publishing power
If you are like me and you regularly attempt to publish video or article links, you will have grown INCREDIBLY frustrated with Facebook's clunky publishing interface. Literally 30 percent of the time (I tracked it), I am unable to successfully publish a link that shows the thumbnail or video embed. It's a strange bug that I know Facebook is aware of, yet there has never been a permanent fix for it.
But that's a small problem compared to Facebook's inability to support the user in personalizing his self-presentation. Facebook is just not cool. That plain grey-blue palette works great for professional and collegiate matters, but if you are a band, artist, poet, or the creator of any sort of media that might garner a following, you're out of luck (unless you can afford a huge media buy). Nobody wants to see the return of those god-awful Myspace backgrounds with sunsets and unicorns, but a little customization would enable the user to take pride in the page as a work of self-expression, rather than an archive of things that happened.
Myspace, for all its flaws, was pretty good at fulfilling this need. They had decent tools to message and update your fans, you could customize the look of your page and decide what you wanted to feature, and you could promote a wide variety of media types specifically tailored to your followers.
What's astonishing is that for close to a year, Myspace just stared like a deer in Facebook's headlights as clunky, plain Jane Facebook siphoned off nearly all of its U.S. members. The innovation that allowed Facebook to vie for creatives (like bands and artists) was called "the Fan Page." Without it, individuals and brands with loyal followings would never have migrated to Facebook.
Facebook's recent decision to get rid of the Fan Page, an act that essentially discourages fan-based networks is almost as mysterious as Myspace's total inaction when it came to enhancing the platform to better serve its fan-based networks. It's now the "Like page" (for lack of a better term) and it has few of the features actually required by artists to properly communicate with "fans." All a page admin can do is send updates, and the updates have now been removed from the recipient's home page (you actually have to click into your inbox and then click the "Updates" folder inside) making updates all but meaningless. Facebook should allow more direct and personal communications between individuals and fan groups within the broader social network:
To sum up, there is a enormous unmet need right now for a social networking platform that provides powerful publishing tools for its most influential members — bands, artists, creatives — AND that allows segmentation of a user's circle of friends. If Google play its cards right, the social network of the future could be there for the taking.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Haiti Brazilian soccer fans people aged 18 years jump off the car accident - pray crease Melo head to the door itself.
Haiti Brazilian soccer fans people aged 18 years jump off the car accident - pray crease Melo head to the door itself.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Apple iPhone 4 on sale for £99
A discount website specialising in 'city deals' is offering users the chance to purchase the new Apple iPhone 4 on 1 July for just £99, compared to the £499 Apple charges . Groupola.com only has a limited number of handsets available and is offering them exclusively to its email subscribers.It says it is able to offer such low prices because it relies on group-buying to regularly offer discounts of up to 90% on events and products across the UK's major cities and tourist attractions.
O2 is selling the 16GB iPhone 4 for £209 if you sign up to an 18-month contract and spend £30 a month, while Vodafone wants £219 for the 16GB version if you also spend £30 a month for 18 months. You can compare packages here.
Mark Pearson, managing director of Groupola, says: "Given that the iPhone 4 sold out through pre-orders alone in just 48 hours through the Apple store, we thought it was only right to offer loyal Groupola.com discount hunters another bite of the cherry. We've proved that the concept of group buying can work within the UK."
To purchase the iPhone for £99 you need to be an email subscriber, so you'll need to visit the site and sign up to receive daily alerts. You will be sent a link on 1 July which will allow you to purchase the phone on 2 July on a first come, first served basis.
"My advice is to open the link the second the clock ticks over at 9.30am – by 9.31am you may already have been too late," adds Pearson.
The firm has admitted that the deal is a loss-leader and there is only a limited number of phones available. It has also said that people can easily unsubscribe from the daily alerts should they wish to.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
พระเอกดังเกาหลีฆ่าตัวตาย
สื่อมวลชนเกาหลีใต้ รายงานวันนี้ว่า ปาร์ก ยอง ฮา ดาราและนักร้องชื่อดังวัย 32 ปี ถูกพบเป็นศพที่บ้านของเขาในกรุงโซลเช้าวันนี้ ในสภาพแขวนคอกับสายไฟที่ชาร์ตแบตเตอร์รีโทรศัพท์มือถือเบื้องต้นตำรวจสันนิษฐานว่าเป็นการฆ่าตัวตาย แต่ปฏิเสธแสดงความเห็นว่าผู้ตายได้ทิ้งจดหมายลาตายไว้หรือไม่ รายงานข่าวระบุว่า เมื่อคืนวันอังคาร ปาร์ค ยอง ฮา ใช้เวลาช่วงสุดท้ายของชีวิตอยู่กับบิดาที่กำลังป่วยเป็นโรคมะเร็งกระเพาะอาหาร โดยเขาพร่ำพูดคำว่า ผมเสียใจ ขณะนวดให้บิดาเป็นเวลานานหลายชั่วโมง
ปาร์ค ยอง ฮา โด่งดังจากละครเรื่อง " วินเทอร์ โซนาต้า " หรือ เพลงรักในสายลมหนาว เมื่อปี 2545 มีแฟน ๆ ติดตามผลงานมากมายทั้งในญี่ปุ่นและประเทศอื่นๆในเอเชีย นอกจากนี้ เขาเป็นนักร้อง ที่มีอัลบั้มของตัวเองและเปิดคอนเสิร์ตหลายครั้งในญี่ปุ่น เพื่อนในวงการและแฟนละครของเขาพากันตกตะลึงกับข่าวร้ายนี้ เพราะไม่มีวี่แววใดๆมาก่อนว่าปาร์ค ยอง ฮา จะคิดสั้นในขณะที่อาชีพนักแสดงนักร้องของเขากำลังรุ่งโรจน์ เขาเพิ่งได้รับเลือกเป็นดารานำแสดงในละครเกาหลี ที่รีเมคจากภาพยนตร์ดังปี 2539 ของฮ่องกงเรื่อง เถียน มีมี ซึ่งมีกำหนดเริ่มถ่ายทำในเดือนกรกฎาคม
เกาหลีใต้เป็นประเทศที่มีอัตราฆ่าตัวตายสูงที่สุดใน 30 ชาติสมาชิกกลุ่มความร่วมมือด้านการพัฒนาและเศรษฐกิจ หรือ โออีซีดี ซึ่งหากข่าวนี้ได้รับการยืนยัน ปาร์ก ยอง ฮา ก็จะเป็นคนบังเทิงรายล่าสุดของเกาหลีใต้ที่ฆ่าตัวตายตามหลังคนในแวดวงบันเทิงอีกหลายคนในช่วงไม่กี่ปีมานี้
A pop, "said David. Beckham, a chance to win a new sound consultant team against England, without children to experience came off just
A pop, "said David. Beckham, a chance to win a new sound consultant team against England, without children to experience came off just "have to be!
Bigger earthquakes expected for Thailand:
Bigger earthquakes expected
Thai academics expressed concerns about the more severe and frequent earthquakes expected to shake the Earth in the future, while others warned people to beware even if they did not live near active faults.
BANGKOK: -- Foundation for National Disaster Warning System of Thailand's chairman Smith Dharmasaroja said the huge quakes that hit Chile and Haiti early this year had been caused by strong movement of the Earth's crust and could probably affect faults nearby and lead to more frequent earthquakes.
For instance, he said, if big earthquakes occurred in neighbouring countries, they would affect Thailand's 13 active faults, making it prone to more tremors.
"The cumulative energy under the earth that can move faults is the main cause of earthquakes, and the colossal solar storm that caused a massive blackout in Canada and the US East Coast around 20 years ago, could have resulted in more severe earthquakes," Smith said.
Over the past few years, people have heard about recent earthquakes in several countries and reports about small tremors this month in Kanachanaburi raised their concerns.
In an interview with Channel 3, Smith talked about the huge quakes predicted by Kongpop U-yen, a Thai engineer who works for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa).
He said Kongpop had sent him dates between July and October when he predicted that quakes of 7-9 Richter-scale magnitude would occur.
Assoc Prof Pennung Warnitchai, a lecturer at the Asian Institute of Technology and project leader of Seismic Hazard Assessment and Mitigation of Seismic Risk in Thailand, said residents in Kanchanaburi and provinces in the North should not just beware of the areas on active faults, but also areas nearby.
"There are lots of blind faults hidden in the active faults that can cause quakes of 5 to 6 Richter-scale magnitude, and if they occur in areas where people live, there will be huge damages. People are wrong to believe that only active faults can cause seismic activity. They should not overlook blind faults. People in Kanchanaburi's Tha Muang and Muang districts will probably suffer earthquakes even though they are located far from two of the 13 active faults," Pennung added.
Adichat Surinkhum, a senior geological expert at the Department of Mineral Resources, warned people to not settle in areas facing the risk of earthquakes. "I've been told that people are moving to live in risky areas. They shouldn't do this," he said.
He added that more than 100 small tremors, in magnitude of less than 3 Richter scale, occurred in Thailand every year and bigger ones of 3 to 5 Richter-scale magnitude took place 20 times on average, which were the same frequencies as 10 to 20 years ago.
Adichat, however, does not believe that a solar storm could affect the earth's structure and cause an earthquake.
However, both he and Pennung are calling on Thai citizens and the authorities to build homes and buildings that are able to resist earthquakes.
They also recommend that people visit the earthquake.usgs.gov website to learn how to brace themselves for possible quakes.
Thai academics expressed concerns about the more severe and frequent earthquakes expected to shake the Earth in the future, while others warned people to beware even if they did not live near active faults.
BANGKOK: -- Foundation for National Disaster Warning System of Thailand's chairman Smith Dharmasaroja said the huge quakes that hit Chile and Haiti early this year had been caused by strong movement of the Earth's crust and could probably affect faults nearby and lead to more frequent earthquakes.
For instance, he said, if big earthquakes occurred in neighbouring countries, they would affect Thailand's 13 active faults, making it prone to more tremors.
"The cumulative energy under the earth that can move faults is the main cause of earthquakes, and the colossal solar storm that caused a massive blackout in Canada and the US East Coast around 20 years ago, could have resulted in more severe earthquakes," Smith said.
Over the past few years, people have heard about recent earthquakes in several countries and reports about small tremors this month in Kanachanaburi raised their concerns.
In an interview with Channel 3, Smith talked about the huge quakes predicted by Kongpop U-yen, a Thai engineer who works for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa).
He said Kongpop had sent him dates between July and October when he predicted that quakes of 7-9 Richter-scale magnitude would occur.
Assoc Prof Pennung Warnitchai, a lecturer at the Asian Institute of Technology and project leader of Seismic Hazard Assessment and Mitigation of Seismic Risk in Thailand, said residents in Kanchanaburi and provinces in the North should not just beware of the areas on active faults, but also areas nearby.
"There are lots of blind faults hidden in the active faults that can cause quakes of 5 to 6 Richter-scale magnitude, and if they occur in areas where people live, there will be huge damages. People are wrong to believe that only active faults can cause seismic activity. They should not overlook blind faults. People in Kanchanaburi's Tha Muang and Muang districts will probably suffer earthquakes even though they are located far from two of the 13 active faults," Pennung added.
Adichat Surinkhum, a senior geological expert at the Department of Mineral Resources, warned people to not settle in areas facing the risk of earthquakes. "I've been told that people are moving to live in risky areas. They shouldn't do this," he said.
He added that more than 100 small tremors, in magnitude of less than 3 Richter scale, occurred in Thailand every year and bigger ones of 3 to 5 Richter-scale magnitude took place 20 times on average, which were the same frequencies as 10 to 20 years ago.
Adichat, however, does not believe that a solar storm could affect the earth's structure and cause an earthquake.
However, both he and Pennung are calling on Thai citizens and the authorities to build homes and buildings that are able to resist earthquakes.
They also recommend that people visit the earthquake.usgs.gov website to learn how to brace themselves for possible quakes.
Accident player to mimic the space rocket in Shenzhen Dead 6.
News agency Agence reported today. The local authorities claim that the Chinese. The patient died six people and wounded at least 10 people from the accident with the player at one Theme Park in Shenzhen City of China Located near the border with Hong Kong Xin Hua News Agency, China's official statement claiming that of those who survived the burning smell. And very loud once the player "space waiting socket, which has capacity of 44 people playing and mimics the state of sending rockets up into space. Victims said one reason the cut after the accident. And the smell of burning. They can escape out the door before going to the firemen to help others For those experiencing another reason. Told that the noise prior to the unconscious.
Ph. FIFA sorry. "England - Mexico" decision error.
International Soccer Federation or FIFA president apologize to the UK and Mexico. If the referee missed. Resulting in both teams must be eliminated World Cup in South Africa and whether FIFA will open a new show ideas. On technology to help the referee
Fifa said officials of condolence to both teams. And representatives of both teams. I accept the apology And say sorry when they see the evidence about the failure of the judge. Fifa is back and open the Video Conference Technology Committee. Will be held at the Welsh next month and will be nonsense. If you do not consider the change.
Fifa will also update the judge on training program with The deadline is in October or November it. To create a new concept. For improving the control of competition matches. Both judges and assistant judges.
Fifa said officials of condolence to both teams. And representatives of both teams. I accept the apology And say sorry when they see the evidence about the failure of the judge. Fifa is back and open the Video Conference Technology Committee. Will be held at the Welsh next month and will be nonsense. If you do not consider the change.
Fifa will also update the judge on training program with The deadline is in October or November it. To create a new concept. For improving the control of competition matches. Both judges and assistant judges.
Venus Williams and Clijsters Out at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England — Before Venus Williams started her quarterfinal here, the ranking of her opponent, Tsvetana Pironkova, seemed inconsequential.
Then Yen-Hsun Lu knocked Andy Roddick from the tournament late Monday, and he shared two important things with Pironkova — a high-profile American opponent and a world ranking of 82. From this strange coincidence, sprang another upset.
Before this tournament, Pironkova had won all of one match at Wimbledon in her career. On Tuesday, she captured her fifth victory this fortnight, a 6-2, 6-3 dismantling of Williams, the second-ranked player in the world.
Her anticipated semifinal with Kim Clijsters, the No. 8 seed, failed to materialize on either end. Shortly after Pironkova toppled Williams, Clijsters also lost, to Vera Zvonareva, the No. 21 seed from Russia, who lost the first five times that she met Clijsters, yet prevailed in their latest match, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Zvonareva and Pironkova will meet Thursday in the semifinals, two unknowns scrapping for a final ticket.
“Right now, women’s tennis is at a very high level,” Zvonareva said, in way of explanation for the upsets. “There is a lot of good competition.”
For Williams, it felt like 2006 all over again, another bad omen. Over the last decade, at least one Williams sister advanced to every Wimbledon final, and four times, both did. In every year, that is, except 2006, when Amélie Mauresmo topped Justine Henin.
That year also marked the last time Pironkova and Williams played. The result of that match, in the first round of the Australian Open, was as similar as it was shocking.
Pironkova has never won a tournament on the WTA Tour, but she now holds two victories over Venus Williams and a winning record in their three meetings. She also secured her spot in the Wimbledon semifinals, which grew more unlikely, in terms of match-ups, by the hour Tuesday.
Williams looked as shocked as anybody when the first set ended. She appeared to swing momentum back in her direction, too, with an early service break in the second set.
But as stunned family members looked on, Williams appeared tentative and tight. She fell behind, 5-2, and dropped a backhand volley into the net. This set up the first of three match points, and while Williams managed to squeeze out another game, Pironkova eventually prevailed.
The winning shot came when Williams missed a volley wide. Pironkova fell briefly on her back in celebration, then trotted to the net, where Williams forced a smile and the crowd applauded the first upset.
Clijsters entered her quarterfinal on less rest than Zvonareva, who battered Jelena Jankovic, the fourth seed, before Jankovic retired with a back injury. Meanwhile, Clijsters needed three sets to defeat Justine Henin on Monday.
Zvonareva challenged Clijsters from the outset, narrowly losing two long deuce games on Clijsters’s serve, attacking with furious, flat, deep groundstrokes. Clijsters said the pressure felt permanent and forced her to aim for the lines to open up the court.
But Clijsters also reminded reporters that she was not even a year into her comeback. Perhaps her magical run to the United States Open championship last September raised expectations beyond a manageable level.
She pulled out of the French Open with an ankle injury and missed, she said, at least three tournaments she had planned to play leading up to Wimbledon. Clijsters arrived here rusty, and in the second week, it showed.
Since returning, Clijsters said she faced constant questions about how the tour had changed in her absence. Tuesday at Wimbledon, she said, provided proof.
“I really feel there are a lot of the girls out there who can beat the top players, maybe just not on a consistent basis,” she said.
Then Yen-Hsun Lu knocked Andy Roddick from the tournament late Monday, and he shared two important things with Pironkova — a high-profile American opponent and a world ranking of 82. From this strange coincidence, sprang another upset.
Before this tournament, Pironkova had won all of one match at Wimbledon in her career. On Tuesday, she captured her fifth victory this fortnight, a 6-2, 6-3 dismantling of Williams, the second-ranked player in the world.
Her anticipated semifinal with Kim Clijsters, the No. 8 seed, failed to materialize on either end. Shortly after Pironkova toppled Williams, Clijsters also lost, to Vera Zvonareva, the No. 21 seed from Russia, who lost the first five times that she met Clijsters, yet prevailed in their latest match, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Zvonareva and Pironkova will meet Thursday in the semifinals, two unknowns scrapping for a final ticket.
“Right now, women’s tennis is at a very high level,” Zvonareva said, in way of explanation for the upsets. “There is a lot of good competition.”
For Williams, it felt like 2006 all over again, another bad omen. Over the last decade, at least one Williams sister advanced to every Wimbledon final, and four times, both did. In every year, that is, except 2006, when Amélie Mauresmo topped Justine Henin.
That year also marked the last time Pironkova and Williams played. The result of that match, in the first round of the Australian Open, was as similar as it was shocking.
Pironkova has never won a tournament on the WTA Tour, but she now holds two victories over Venus Williams and a winning record in their three meetings. She also secured her spot in the Wimbledon semifinals, which grew more unlikely, in terms of match-ups, by the hour Tuesday.
Williams looked as shocked as anybody when the first set ended. She appeared to swing momentum back in her direction, too, with an early service break in the second set.
But as stunned family members looked on, Williams appeared tentative and tight. She fell behind, 5-2, and dropped a backhand volley into the net. This set up the first of three match points, and while Williams managed to squeeze out another game, Pironkova eventually prevailed.
The winning shot came when Williams missed a volley wide. Pironkova fell briefly on her back in celebration, then trotted to the net, where Williams forced a smile and the crowd applauded the first upset.
Clijsters entered her quarterfinal on less rest than Zvonareva, who battered Jelena Jankovic, the fourth seed, before Jankovic retired with a back injury. Meanwhile, Clijsters needed three sets to defeat Justine Henin on Monday.
Zvonareva challenged Clijsters from the outset, narrowly losing two long deuce games on Clijsters’s serve, attacking with furious, flat, deep groundstrokes. Clijsters said the pressure felt permanent and forced her to aim for the lines to open up the court.
But Clijsters also reminded reporters that she was not even a year into her comeback. Perhaps her magical run to the United States Open championship last September raised expectations beyond a manageable level.
She pulled out of the French Open with an ankle injury and missed, she said, at least three tournaments she had planned to play leading up to Wimbledon. Clijsters arrived here rusty, and in the second week, it showed.
Since returning, Clijsters said she faced constant questions about how the tour had changed in her absence. Tuesday at Wimbledon, she said, provided proof.
“I really feel there are a lot of the girls out there who can beat the top players, maybe just not on a consistent basis,” she said.
Monday, June 28, 2010
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British media kid Wayne Rooney and John Terry after England eliminated the World Cup. Get a new chapter in the film about the Out of Africa!
British media kid Wayne Rooney and John Terry after England eliminated the World Cup. Get a new chapter in the film about the Out of Africa!
ส่งออกญี่ปุ่นลดลงการว่างงานเพิ่มขึ้น
การฟื้นฟูเศรษฐกิจของญี่ปุ่น faltered พฤษภาคมเป็นผลผลิตโรงงานลดลงและอัตราการว่างงานของประเทศเพิ่มขึ้นในเดือนตรงที่สาม อุตสาหกรรมการผลิตในระบบเศรษฐกิจใหญ่ที่สุดของโลกที่สองลดลงร้อยละ 0.1 จากเดือนก่อนรัฐบาลกล่าวว่าผลเครื่องหมายลงในสามเดือนแรกเพียงคิดถึงคาดเฉลี่ยสำนักข่าว Kyodo สำหรับอ่านเรียบ ผลผลิตโรงงานล่างของรถยนต์นั่งขนาดใหญ่ที่เกี่ยวข้องกับอุปกรณ์เซมิคอนดักเตอร์และอุปกรณ์แสดงแผงแบนสนับสนุนการพักผ่อนของเดือนตามที่กระทรวงเศรษฐกิจการค้าและอุตสาหกรรมขณะที่อัตราการว่างงานของประเทศที่ปรับฤดูกาลปีนไปร้อยละ 5.2 เพิ่มขึ้นจากร้อยละ 5.1 ในเดือนเมษายนและสูงสุดตั้งแต่ธันวาคม ผลสะท้อนการฟื้นตัวยังเปราะ - สำหรับเศรษฐกิจญี่ปุ่นที่บูมส่งออกมีการชะลอการแปลในการปรับปรุงอย่างต่อเนื่องสำหรับคนงานและครอบครัว
Japan output down, unemployment up
Japan's economic recovery faltered in May, as factory output fell and the nation's jobless rate rose for a third straight month. Industrial production in the world's second biggest economy dropped 0.1 percent from the previous month, the government said.
The result marks the first drop in three months and just misses Kyodo news agency's average forecast for a flat reading. Lower factory output of large passenger cars, semiconductor-related machinery and flat-panel display machinery contributed to the month's retreat, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally adjusted jobless rate climbed to 5.2 percent, up from 5.1 percent in April and the highest level since December. The results reflect a still-fragile recovery for Japan's economy, where an export boom has been slow to translate into sustained improvements for workers and families.
The result marks the first drop in three months and just misses Kyodo news agency's average forecast for a flat reading. Lower factory output of large passenger cars, semiconductor-related machinery and flat-panel display machinery contributed to the month's retreat, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Meanwhile, the country's seasonally adjusted jobless rate climbed to 5.2 percent, up from 5.1 percent in April and the highest level since December. The results reflect a still-fragile recovery for Japan's economy, where an export boom has been slow to translate into sustained improvements for workers and families.
ปูดทักษิณมีทรัพย์สินในต่างแดน4แสนล้าน
รัฐบาลศอฉ.หนักใจ หยุด'ท่อน้ำเลี้ยง' ทักษิณกับพวกไม่ได้ เหตุเปลี่ยนเส้นทางใหม่ผ่านเครือข่ายทางธุรกิจ-เครือข่ายนักการเมือง-บุคคลใกล้ชิด
รายงานข่าวจากทำเนียบรัฐบาล แจ้งว่า จากกรณีที่ศูนย์อำนวยการแก้ไขสถานการณ์ฉุกเฉิน(ศอฉ.)ได้มีคำสั่งให้นิติบุคคลและบุคคล เข้ารายงานตัวชี้แจงเส้นทางทางการเงิน โดยในวันอังคารที่ 29มิ.ย.นี้ จะเป็นคิวของกลุ่มพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณ ชินวัตร ที่ปรึกษาเศรษฐกิจรัฐบาลกัมพูชา และอดีตนายกรัฐมนตรี พร้อมเครือญาติ ทั้งนี้ทางรัฐบาลและศอฉ.ได้มีข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับเส้นทางการเงินและทรัพย์สินของพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณที่มีอยู่ในปัจจุบันมากถึง 3-4 แสนล้านบาท ซึ่งได้มีการส่งท่อน้ำเลี้ยง มาที่กลุ่มแนวร่วมประชาธิปไตยต่อต้านเผด็จการแห่งชาติ (นปช.) เพื่อเคลื่อนไหวชุมนุมในช่วงที่ผ่านมา
ในบางเดือนมีการส่งเงินเข้ามาผ่านเครือข่ายทางธุรกิจ เครือข่ายนักการเมืองและบุคคลใกล้ชิดมากถึง 2 หมื่นล้านบาทต่อเดือน แม้ว่าขณะนี้ทางรัฐบาลและศอฉ.จะสั่งระงับธุรกรรมทางการเงินของเครือข่ายพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณแล้วก็ตาม ก็ยังไม่สามารถหยุดขบวนการได้ เนื่องจากมีการเปลี่ยนเส้นทางส่งท่อน้ำเลี้ยงกันใหม่ด้วยการใช้เครือข่ายอีกชุดหนึ่ง
รายงานข่าวแจ้งว่า สำหรับข้อมูลของทางรัฐบาลเกี่ยวกับทรัพย์สิน ที่พ.ต.ท.ทักษิณยังมีเหลืออีกหลายแสนล้านบาทนั้น ได้กระจายอยู่ในประเทศต่างๆทั่วทุกมุมโลก โดยไม่รวมกับที่ยึดทรัพย์ไปแล้ว 76,000 ล้านบาท
อย่างไรก็ตาม ทรัพย์สินของพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณที่ยังเหลืออยู่จำนวนมหาศาลนั้น มีรายละเอียดดังนี้ 1.ได้มาจากในช่วงมีการลดค่าเงินบาทเมื่อปี 2540 ซึ่งทรัพย์สินก้อนนี้ซ่อนอยู่ที่ประเทศสิงคโปร์ 2.ทรัพย์สินที่ได้มาจากการซื้อหุ้นผ่านโควต้าต่างชาติในรูปของกองทุนในประเทศมาเลเซียเข้าซื้อหุ้นรัฐวิสาหกิจที่ถูกแปรรูปเมื่อปี 2546 ซึ่งเป็นการเข้าซื้อโดยกองทุนที่มีการคุ้มครองข้อมูลทางการเงินรูปแบบเดียวกับประเทศสวิตส์แลนด์รวมกำไรสูงถึง 1.4 แสนล้านบาท
3.การจดทะเบียนตั้งกองทุนบนเกาะลาบวน ในมาเลเซีย ซึ่งได้สิทธิคุ้มครองทรัพย์สินส่วนบุคคล ไม่ให้ถูกเปิดเผยเพื่อซื้อสายการบินพาณิชย์ 4.บริษัทร่วมทุนเพื่อรับสัมปทานดาวเทียมในอินเดีย
5.จอยเวนเจอร์กับบริษัทสื่อสารผ่านบริษัทในเครือเทมาเส็กทำธุรกิจโทรคมนาคมหลายประเภท 6.กลุ่มกิจการโทรศัพท์มือถือในประเทศจีนซึ่งมีกำไรต่อวัน 1 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐฯกำไรปีละกว่าหมื่นล้านบาทแฝงผ่านมาทางประเทศฮ่องกง 7.ที่ดูไบมีคนใกล้ชิดชื่อย่อ “พ” เป็นนอมินีมีรายได้ปีละหลายหมื่นล้านบาท 8.รายได้ผ่านกองทุนประเทศคูเวต 9.ดำเนินธุรกิจผ่านนอมินีภรรยาอดีตนักการฑตและมีหุ้นบางส่วนในห้องแฮร์รอท ประเทศอังกฤษ และ 10.ธุรกิจสื่อสารและโทรคมนาคมในประเทศกัมพูชาและพม่า ซึ่งรวมรายได้จากธุรกิจที่พ.ต.ท.ทักษิณดำเนินอยู่จะมีกำไรมากถึงปีละ 4-5 หมื่นล้านบาท และมีทรัพย์สินสุทธิอยู่อีกราว 4 แสนล้านบาท ซึ่งรัฐบาลและศอฉ.หนักใจกับการหาวิธีสกัดเงินจำนวนมหาศาลของเครือข่ายพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณอย่างมาก
รายงานข่าวจากทำเนียบรัฐบาล แจ้งว่า จากกรณีที่ศูนย์อำนวยการแก้ไขสถานการณ์ฉุกเฉิน(ศอฉ.)ได้มีคำสั่งให้นิติบุคคลและบุคคล เข้ารายงานตัวชี้แจงเส้นทางทางการเงิน โดยในวันอังคารที่ 29มิ.ย.นี้ จะเป็นคิวของกลุ่มพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณ ชินวัตร ที่ปรึกษาเศรษฐกิจรัฐบาลกัมพูชา และอดีตนายกรัฐมนตรี พร้อมเครือญาติ ทั้งนี้ทางรัฐบาลและศอฉ.ได้มีข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับเส้นทางการเงินและทรัพย์สินของพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณที่มีอยู่ในปัจจุบันมากถึง 3-4 แสนล้านบาท ซึ่งได้มีการส่งท่อน้ำเลี้ยง มาที่กลุ่มแนวร่วมประชาธิปไตยต่อต้านเผด็จการแห่งชาติ (นปช.) เพื่อเคลื่อนไหวชุมนุมในช่วงที่ผ่านมา
ในบางเดือนมีการส่งเงินเข้ามาผ่านเครือข่ายทางธุรกิจ เครือข่ายนักการเมืองและบุคคลใกล้ชิดมากถึง 2 หมื่นล้านบาทต่อเดือน แม้ว่าขณะนี้ทางรัฐบาลและศอฉ.จะสั่งระงับธุรกรรมทางการเงินของเครือข่ายพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณแล้วก็ตาม ก็ยังไม่สามารถหยุดขบวนการได้ เนื่องจากมีการเปลี่ยนเส้นทางส่งท่อน้ำเลี้ยงกันใหม่ด้วยการใช้เครือข่ายอีกชุดหนึ่ง
รายงานข่าวแจ้งว่า สำหรับข้อมูลของทางรัฐบาลเกี่ยวกับทรัพย์สิน ที่พ.ต.ท.ทักษิณยังมีเหลืออีกหลายแสนล้านบาทนั้น ได้กระจายอยู่ในประเทศต่างๆทั่วทุกมุมโลก โดยไม่รวมกับที่ยึดทรัพย์ไปแล้ว 76,000 ล้านบาท
อย่างไรก็ตาม ทรัพย์สินของพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณที่ยังเหลืออยู่จำนวนมหาศาลนั้น มีรายละเอียดดังนี้ 1.ได้มาจากในช่วงมีการลดค่าเงินบาทเมื่อปี 2540 ซึ่งทรัพย์สินก้อนนี้ซ่อนอยู่ที่ประเทศสิงคโปร์ 2.ทรัพย์สินที่ได้มาจากการซื้อหุ้นผ่านโควต้าต่างชาติในรูปของกองทุนในประเทศมาเลเซียเข้าซื้อหุ้นรัฐวิสาหกิจที่ถูกแปรรูปเมื่อปี 2546 ซึ่งเป็นการเข้าซื้อโดยกองทุนที่มีการคุ้มครองข้อมูลทางการเงินรูปแบบเดียวกับประเทศสวิตส์แลนด์รวมกำไรสูงถึง 1.4 แสนล้านบาท
3.การจดทะเบียนตั้งกองทุนบนเกาะลาบวน ในมาเลเซีย ซึ่งได้สิทธิคุ้มครองทรัพย์สินส่วนบุคคล ไม่ให้ถูกเปิดเผยเพื่อซื้อสายการบินพาณิชย์ 4.บริษัทร่วมทุนเพื่อรับสัมปทานดาวเทียมในอินเดีย
5.จอยเวนเจอร์กับบริษัทสื่อสารผ่านบริษัทในเครือเทมาเส็กทำธุรกิจโทรคมนาคมหลายประเภท 6.กลุ่มกิจการโทรศัพท์มือถือในประเทศจีนซึ่งมีกำไรต่อวัน 1 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐฯกำไรปีละกว่าหมื่นล้านบาทแฝงผ่านมาทางประเทศฮ่องกง 7.ที่ดูไบมีคนใกล้ชิดชื่อย่อ “พ” เป็นนอมินีมีรายได้ปีละหลายหมื่นล้านบาท 8.รายได้ผ่านกองทุนประเทศคูเวต 9.ดำเนินธุรกิจผ่านนอมินีภรรยาอดีตนักการฑตและมีหุ้นบางส่วนในห้องแฮร์รอท ประเทศอังกฤษ และ 10.ธุรกิจสื่อสารและโทรคมนาคมในประเทศกัมพูชาและพม่า ซึ่งรวมรายได้จากธุรกิจที่พ.ต.ท.ทักษิณดำเนินอยู่จะมีกำไรมากถึงปีละ 4-5 หมื่นล้านบาท และมีทรัพย์สินสุทธิอยู่อีกราว 4 แสนล้านบาท ซึ่งรัฐบาลและศอฉ.หนักใจกับการหาวิธีสกัดเงินจำนวนมหาศาลของเครือข่ายพ.ต.ท.ทักษิณอย่างมาก
Rumor: Google to Launch Facebook Competitor, "Google Me"
Over the weekend, Kevin Rose (of Digg and extensive rumormongering fame) let loose with a tweet involving two of our favorite companies, Google and Facebook. The complete tweet is above: It alleges that Google is to launch a Facebook competitor "very soon" under the name "Google Me." This all comes from a "very credible source."
Kevin Rose is almost as well known for his breaking of rumors as he is for founding and running Digg--his predictions, especially as regards Apple products, have often been unnervingly on the mark. To be fair, he's been wrong as often as he's been right, but in the world of tech rumors, as in baseball, a .500 average is more than enough to get you into the Hall of Fame.
So what of this rumor? Google's constantly experimenting with new services, including social networking and other forms of communication. Some haven't been so successful--Buzz never achieved mainstream success due to a privacy scandal and a lack of consumer interest, and Wave failed due to a lack of consumer comprehension--but some, like Google Voice and Google Talk, have done very well. Buzz may not have toppled Twitter, but Google is a very capable company and could come up with a killer networking product.
SFWeekly guesses that Google Me, if it exists, could be an expansion of Google Profiles, which is totally reasonable. Google Profiles gathers information about you from your use of Google services--with some communication and livestream additions, it could turn into a service much like Facebook.
But, of course, that's all blind guessing. Could Google have a Facebook competitor called Google Me in the works? Sure. Do they? We'll have to wait and find out.
Kevin Rose is almost as well known for his breaking of rumors as he is for founding and running Digg--his predictions, especially as regards Apple products, have often been unnervingly on the mark. To be fair, he's been wrong as often as he's been right, but in the world of tech rumors, as in baseball, a .500 average is more than enough to get you into the Hall of Fame.
So what of this rumor? Google's constantly experimenting with new services, including social networking and other forms of communication. Some haven't been so successful--Buzz never achieved mainstream success due to a privacy scandal and a lack of consumer interest, and Wave failed due to a lack of consumer comprehension--but some, like Google Voice and Google Talk, have done very well. Buzz may not have toppled Twitter, but Google is a very capable company and could come up with a killer networking product.
SFWeekly guesses that Google Me, if it exists, could be an expansion of Google Profiles, which is totally reasonable. Google Profiles gathers information about you from your use of Google services--with some communication and livestream additions, it could turn into a service much like Facebook.
But, of course, that's all blind guessing. Could Google have a Facebook competitor called Google Me in the works? Sure. Do they? We'll have to wait and find out.
Apple: We've Sold Over 1.7 Million iPhone 4 Devices In 3 Days
Apple this morning announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of the iPhone 4 through Saturday, June 26, three days after its launch on June 24.
The company went as far as to call it the “most successful product launch in Apple’s history”, citing its iconic chief executive Steve Jobs.
Bloomberg had predicted Apple would sell over 1 million on launch day alone, but the Cupertino company has not disclosed sales numbers for June 24 specifically.
Just for your reference: it took Apple 28 days to sell 1 million iPads, 59 days to sell 2 million of them and 80 days to sell 3 million.
Jobs also says in the press release announcing the first iPhone 4 milestone that he’s sorry about “all those customers” who were turned away because the company did not have enough supply.
The company went as far as to call it the “most successful product launch in Apple’s history”, citing its iconic chief executive Steve Jobs.
Bloomberg had predicted Apple would sell over 1 million on launch day alone, but the Cupertino company has not disclosed sales numbers for June 24 specifically.
Just for your reference: it took Apple 28 days to sell 1 million iPads, 59 days to sell 2 million of them and 80 days to sell 3 million.
Jobs also says in the press release announcing the first iPhone 4 milestone that he’s sorry about “all those customers” who were turned away because the company did not have enough supply.
Prince Harry fall while horse racing polo in the United States.
Prince Harry of England, which concluded with the age of age 25 in New York visited the U.S. for 3 days by participating Na-shirt with Phil Cho Kun-shirt Grass นัก world-renowned Argentine yesterday. Reason and experience fall from horseback in the first half of the race. He has also disclose by the Suan and contest the finish. The results show that the black team. Watch matches of Philips Grass Google wins.
He participated in this charity tournament to raise money donated four hundred thousand children in Eeosoh. Countries in Africa that are concerned with the spread of AIDS and before he joined the competition ate lunch with the cuisine honored guests to pay to join a donation. Total revenues will be donated to a charitable organization that Prince Harry and Prince of Eeosoh. Set up to help AIDS orphans. Prince Harry. He continued trying to royal duties of Princess Diana. Deceased mother. He is assisting the mother and children infected with HIV has always been.
He participated in this charity tournament to raise money donated four hundred thousand children in Eeosoh. Countries in Africa that are concerned with the spread of AIDS and before he joined the competition ate lunch with the cuisine honored guests to pay to join a donation. Total revenues will be donated to a charitable organization that Prince Harry and Prince of Eeosoh. Set up to help AIDS orphans. Prince Harry. He continued trying to royal duties of Princess Diana. Deceased mother. He is assisting the mother and children infected with HIV has always been.
Vuvuzela 90% of production in China
Xin Hua News Agency reported that China's official World Cup. In South Africa. Murmur among the Vuvuzela. Around everywhere. And receive complaints from both players and audience on television, it was found that the percentage of 1990 Vuvuzela fungi popular for both children and adults all national languages are made in China Despite being seen as a blow Vuvuzela tradition of African The only few people know that Dryer you make with plastic But the sound to 127 decibels is mainly produced in China. But there are few plants that you feel confident that market competition has produced Vuvuzela. An intensely competitive. Tensions have increased as wage inflated The flexible yuan currency. It also found in the export tax again. Wu Yu Yi, general manager of the pendant Ying Plastic Products in Hai Ning, Zhejiang province. Be the first interest Vuvuzela. Because the comics and the internet since 2547, he saw opportunity. When South Africa hosted the World Cup in 2010, which in August last year, his sales Vuvuzela to 1000 the rates 3 yuan, or about 15 U.S. via the website Alibaba Com, but from January until the end of April. He can sell up to one million and the sellers in many countries expect that China is exporting Vuvuzela you only have to 1 million of which Mr Au said that if they produce more power. He may sell up to 10 million.
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