Archive for: June, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi agrees to accept 1991 Nobel Peace Prize

Aung San Suu Kyi agrees to accept 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Oslo: Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader of Myanmar, has finally accepted her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today. Suu kyi, who has lately carved out a new recognition of a freedom fighter, has faced over 15 years of under house arrest. […]

NGO’s report on plight of families in Syria

More than 1,000 families were trapped on Saturday in several neighbourhoods of the central city of Homs and under bombardment by regime forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “More than 1,000 families, including women and children,” are trapped in the Khalidiyeh, Jourat al-Shiah, Qarabees, old Homs and Qusour areas. “They have no food […]

Efforts to revive stalled peace talks; Saeb Erakat to meet Clinton next week

Efforts to revive stalled peace talks; Saeb Erakat to meet Clinton next week Washington: In order to revive the stalled peace talks between Palestine and Israel, the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat will visit USA and meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next week.   Disclosing details of the news, the US state department’s […]

Accountability of watchdogs

Everyone is talking about the latest scandal of behind-the-scenes footage of a private TV channel that hit the airwaves on Thursday. The leaked video, which appeared on YouTube, proves that the interview of Malik Riaz with Mehar Bokhari and Mubashar Lucman was planed and scripted. Malik Riaz, the real estate tycoon and central figure of […]

Celebrities dominate the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Celebrities dominate the Queen’s Birthday Honours The list also includes actresses Jenny Agutter and Amanda Redman and chart-topping choirmaster Gareth Malone as well as the designer of the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress. It also sees the re-introduction of the British Empire Medal (BEM), often described as the "working-class gong", which was revived by David […]

Bjarne Riis could not stop UCI from excluding Alberto Contador’s UCI points

Bjarne Riis could not stop UCI from excluding Alberto Contador’s UCI points Alberto Contador will mark his comeback at professional cycling on August 5th, 2012 after he was banned by Court of Arbitration for Sport. UCI has re-confirmed that all the points the Spaniard earns in the remaining part of 2012 and the whole 2013 […]

Huma Qureshi: I think you don’t have to be size zero to prove yourself!

After the likes of Vidya Balan and Sonakshi Sinha, the newbie Huma Qureshi has also opposed the ‘size-zero’ concept, as she believes one should be able to impress the audiences with their acting and not with their figure. Qureshi has worked in theatre productions and television advertisements but now she is all set for her […]

Burton, the Royal wedding dress designer, honoured with OBE

  Order of the British Empire (OBE) is the accolade that has been recently given to fashion designer Sarah Burton on account of her contributions to the British fashion industry and Royal wedding. Burton, creative director of fashion house Alexander McQueen, described the process of designing the Duchess’s gown as the “experience of a lifetime”. […]

MacBook Pro with Retina Display: Over priced and hard to find – Part 1

Ordering the new MacBook online takes three to four weeks before shipping and the other way is to waive off your house luxuries The new MacBook Pro 2012 is overpriced, starting at $2199 and comes in only two denominations. Though it has the eye-candied Retina Display but still its price goes overboard in many respects. […]

MacBook Pro with Retina Display: Over priced and hard to find – Part 2

Another reason why the Apple product is not sparsely available in the market is that it is available in only two denominations and both are 15-inch versions. The base model with a quad-core Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU, clocked at 2.3 GHz, is available at $2199 and the high-end device with the same processor, clocked […]

Unavailability of navigation and speech to text services on iPhone 3GS and 4 is potential fragmentation – Part 1

Apple released the new version of iOS 6 at the annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) on June 11. The new version has more than 400 features added to the previous version, some for iPad, some for iPhone and others for both. However, that is the base tier of segregation of features. Further probe into the […]

Unavailability of navigation and speech to text services on iPhone 3GS and 4 is potential fragmentation – Part 2

Moreover, there are third-party applications on App Store that offer both turn-by-turn navigation and voice recognition services. If a third-party software can run on an iPhone 3GS than why not Apple’s own. Even a layman knows that third-party software are always heavier than the company’s own version built into the operating system. If 3GS and […]

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