Yahoo! snaps up Flickr

Monday, March 21, 2005
Portal and search company Yahoo! has purchased Ludicorp Research and Development Ltd., the private corporation which owns the photo sharing site Flickr.The news was officially disclosed in a Sunday posting to the corporation’s staff blog and is credited to Caterina Fake, Flickr’s vice president of marketing and community. The posting announced the sale, but did not disclosRead More…

What Other Persons Won’t Tell You Regarding Repairing Your Credit

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The following piece of content is mostly about repairing your credit, but then might help virtually anyone focused on repairing your credit. Spend some time going through the piece of writing and you likely will concur with me that it is going to amplify your knowledge as well as understanding of the subject maRead More…

India: Jodhpur police arrests man for ‘sacrifice’ of four-year-old daughter for Allah

Monday, June 11, 2018
On Saturday, in Rajasthan, India, Jodhpur district’s rural police arrested 26-year old Nawab Ali Qureshi for allegedly slitting the throat of, killing, his four-year-old as a “sacrifice” for Allah in the Islamic holy month of Ramzan.
Four-year-old Rizwana was the eldest of the two daughters of Nawab Ali Qureshi. She was killed in Piparcity on Thursday night. According to poRead More…

Calls for corporate tax reform in Australia goes unheeded

Friday, May 12, 2006
Peter Costello’s budget announcement has led to rejoicing for small businesses, but the lack of joy for those pushing for radical corporate taxation reform has led to many businesses asking “what about us?”
Personal taxation and small business have been the big winners after this year’s federal budget. Although dampened by the twin economic threats of rising interestRead More…

Report reveals Top 10 most-confusing tech buzzwords

Sunday, March 27, 2005
Danville, California — The California-based Engligh language tracker, Global Language Monitor, released its 2005 list of most confusing – yet frequently cited – high tech buzzwords to be “HTTP,” “Voice Over IP” (VoIP), and “Megapixel.” Closely following were “Plasma,” “Robust,” “WORM” and “Emoticon.” In early March, the group used a predictive index computer algorithm Read More…

Mandela discharged from hospital

Monday, September 2, 2013
Nelson Mandela in 2008 Image: South Africa The Good News.Nelson Mandela has left hospital to return to his home in Johannesburg, in a critical condition, South African officials said on Sunday.
The 95-year-old anti-apartheid leader and former South African president has spent nearly three months in hospital for treatment of a recurring lung infection and has returned toRead More…

English court jails policeman over insurance fraud

Thursday, July 1, 2010
A court in England, UK has jailed a policeman for ten months after he was convicted of defrauding his car insurance company. Police Constable Simon Hood, 43, arranged for a friend who dealt in scrap metal to dispose of his Audi TT, then claimed it had been stolen.
Hood had been disappointed with the car’s value when he tried to sell it two years after its purchase in 2008Read More…

Chula Vista, California becomes model for blight control laws in the US

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
A recently developed residential neighborhood in Chula Vista, California. Image: Catalan.The San Diego, California suburb of Chula Vista has responded to the recent housing crisis with an aggressive blight control ordinance that compels lenders to maintain the appearance of vacant homes. As foreclosures increase both locally and throughout the United States, the one yeRead More…

In depth: XM and Sirius merger

Wikipedia Wikipedia has more about this subject:XM/Sirius merger On 19 February 2007, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio announced a move that will change the face of satellite radio in the United States and Canada: XM and Sirius will be merging, creating a single satellite radio provider.
This in-depth page will track Wikinews and outside articles to provide you with up to date iRead More…

Apple introduces iPhone and Apple TV

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The iPhone features touch-screen operationThe rear view of the new iPhoneApple Inc. today has introduced the much-anticipated iPhone at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco.
The iPhone is claimed to be “a revolutionary mobile phone” as stated on the Apple website. The device appears to be running a mobile version of the Apple operating system Mac OSX. It is approxRead More…