Smartphones and tablets might be the current hot technology, but history says it’s all just another fad. Twenty years from now, almost nobody will own either device. Seems unbelievable, but the same technology that makes them hot today will make them not tomorrow. If this sounds ridiculous, consider what happened to another “must-have” technology that [...]
The Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic says it has recorded almost 10,000 earthquakes during the last three days in West Bohemia, a region located close to the Czech Republic’s western border with Germany. The earthquake swarm started late on Tuesday and continued through Friday. While many have gone unnoticed by the [...]
On Monday Gaddafi’s wife Safia, his sons Hannibal and Mohammed, and his daughter Aisha fled the raging civil war in their own country in an armed convoy, and are now thought to be in the capital city, Algiers. This was despite the fact that just three days before 36 people were killed by al-Qaeda suicide [...]
Part One: Secure steps to take with latest WordPress attacks (Part One) There are many self hosted Blogs depending on open-source WordPress.org and who have lately been affected by hackers. Bloggersweekly has been attacked also and that’s why I am writing this post. I found the Superpuperdomain hacker script in my folders. But before directing [...]
South Korea’s current account surplus hit a nine-month high in July thanks to record exports despite global economic uncertainty, the central bank said Monday. The surplus reached $4.94 billion in July, more than double a revised $2.03 billion the previous month, the Bank of Korea said. The July surplus in the account — the broadest [...]
It is a little after 5 A.M and Hurricane Irene will be landing on top of New York City in about 4 to 6 hours. It has been losing speed and will be considered a Tropical Storm when it enters New York harbor. Nevertheless, it is packing a big punch and will have a strong [...]
Hurricane Irene saved its last blasts of fury for New York, paralyzing the city with hours of relentless rains and fears of flooding before its downgrade to a tropical storm Sunday morning. It also left more than 110,000 people without power, including 32,378 in storm-ravaged Queens. The weakening storm sent a scare from Wall Street [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proposed no new steps on Friday to jumpstart a weakening U.S. economy, but signaled that Congress may need to act to stimulate hiring and growth. Bernanke’s speech followed the release of a Commerce Department report that showed the economy grew at an annual rate of only 1 percent this spring, [...]
Hurricane Irene, a large, powerful Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, continues to plow through the northwest Bahamas, with the U.S. in its sights. As you can see on our projected path map below, Hurricane Irene will be a very dangerous hurricane as it tracks along the East Coast this weekend. Anyone [...]
American and Colombian officials suspected that a decision by the Brazilian government granting political asylum to a prominent Marxist terrorist was made under pressure from former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose Workers’ Party (PT) has frequently been accused of receiving millions of dollars from the drug-trafficking terror group known as the FARC. The [...]
You can be rest assured that the earthquake-hit Washington Monument is not tilting. However, a closer look at the world’s tallest obelisk brought National Park Service officials to discover some cracks near the top of the 555-foot monument. The 5.9-magnitude quake centering in Virginia struck the U.S. East Coast from North Carolina to Toronto early [...]
Hardly covered in the news has been Obama’s recent decision to execute a case-by-case review of over 300,000 illegal immigrants and grant amnesty to those who appear to be “low-priority offenders.” I add that it was hardly covered by the news because its impact on the United States may become profoundly harmful to the economy [...]
Having gained control of much of the capital’s streets following their lightning-quick advance over the weekend, rebel fighters were drawn into a dramatic siege at the heavily-fortified Bab al-Azizia compound as well as skirmishes in a number of districts. Gaddafi, who has not appeared in public for three months, is widely believed to be holed [...]
There’s a fine line to be drawn between Cuban-Americans visiting and sending money to relatives in Cuba and Cuban-Americans enjoying a cheap vacation on the island with a cursory nod to a second cousin. While the first is imbued with genuine humanitarian purpose, the latter is tantamount to tossing a financial lifeline to the Castros’ [...]
A government official in Germany has ordered websites to stop using Facebook’s “like” button, saying they give away personal information. Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, issued a statement Friday saying analysis by his office showed that using the popular buttons transfers data to Facebook’s servers in the United States. [...]
Daily for the past five months, Yusdany Simpson has been at her street-side cafeteria under its gleaming white parasol, doing her part in Cuba’s economic makeover by churning out mayonnaise sandwiches at 12 cents a pop. Not any more. The other day, she headed to a Labor Ministry office in a crumbling old Havana mansion [...]
TEHRAN, Iran — Two American men already held for two years in Tehran have been sentenced to 8 years each in prison on charges of espionage and illegal entry into Iran, state TV reported Saturday. The announcement appeared to dash hopes for the imminent release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal after Iran’s foreign minister [...]
ANNA HAZARE, a 74-year-old activist fond of calling hunger strikes to demand a tougher fight against pervasive corruption in India, was due to start a big protest in Delhi on August 16th. But at dawn, as he and many thousand supporters prepared to gather at a city park, plain-clothes policemen arrested him and, struggling to [...]
FOX Business: The Power to Prosper Nervous traders darted out of equities and flocked into safe-haven assets on heightened euro zone sovereign debt and global economic tensions, launching the markets deep into negative territory. Today’s Markets The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 420 points, or 3.7%, to 10,991, the S&P 500 slid 53.2 points, or 4.5%, [...]
A British court has sentenced two men to four years in prison for their failed attempts to use the social networking site Facebook to incite rioting during last week’s unrest in the country. Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, were convicted of creating Facebook pages aimed at encouraging violent disorder in their hometowns in [...]