Archive for: August, 2012

Fact finding mission to Balochistan – HRCP launches report in Islamabad

Islamabad, August 30: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) launched on Thursday the report of a fact-finding it had conducted in Balochistan. An HRCP mission had visited the province from May 15 to 19 in order to assess the impact of the recent measures by the government with respect to the province and to hear suggestions […]

Troubles playing PS One games on Playstation Vita

Some players are launching complaints about Playstation Vita not being able to download classic games on the console of  PS One, functionality that was implemented this week with firmware 1.80 delivered from Playstation Network. Apparently, the games can not be purchased / downloaded directly from the handheld, but must be going through a Playstation 3, where you buy […]

Cars of British Celebrities

Cars of British Celebrities Most of our celebrities have wealth. Some of them have good looks, or health. Many have all three, meaning beautiful people driving around in beautiful vehicles – a level of hyper-unattainability for Joe Public. Rich stars in their expensive cars draw adoration and resentment in equal measure. To celebrate (or decry […]

Badminton Hutt Valley Age Group Championships: Benjamin Hillier grabs Boy’s Singles U17 title

New Zealand’s Benjamin Hillier proved his mettle on court and won the Boy’s Singles U17 title after putting up strong show in the final match when he toppled Alan Wong at Badminton Hutt Valley Age Group Championships 2012 on August 26, in New Zealand. The in-form Benjamin, who was placed at number two in main […]

Kindle-exclusive titles have been downloaded more than 100 million times, Amazon says

Amazon.com is making strong and encouraging statements that surely are going to inculcate confidence in investors. The company said Tuesday that its 180,000 books available for Amazon Prime membership have received over a hundred million-plus hits in terms of downloads, borrows and purchases. Though it has been less than a year since the service started […]

Western Digital reclaims the spot as the largest hard disk drive supplier, report says

Western Digital has won back the top spot in the global ranking of hard disk drive shipments in the second quarter 2012, said a new report from IHS iSuppli. The top position went to Seagate temporarily when WD’s Thailand plant was hit by flooding last year. The monsoon flooding in Thailand destroyed some parts of […]

Pandora expected to announce profit increment in the quarterly report, sources say

Pandora Media, the online satellite radio service is expected by analysts to move to profitability after a year-earlier IPO. Wall Street forecasts a 2 cent per-share profit minus items, reversing the 3-cent loss in the year-earlier quarter, according to the consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The company will report its third-quarter performance sheets […]

Semiconductor equipment makers KLA-Tencor and ASML stocks fall 3.4 percent in late trading

Semiconductor industry is declining by the day due majorly to the aching global economic health. KLA-Tencor and ASML Holding were two more companies that received the negative effect. The shares of both companies were down 3.4 percent down in late trading. Deutsche Bank’s downgrade of stocks hit both ASML and KLA, both had a 28 […]

VMware raises curtains on new product bundles and pricing models

VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing developers, showed off new product bundles, clouding packages and new pricing models in wake of the rapidly growing market. VMware is one of the biggest companies that specialize in cloud computing infrastructure. Moreover, VMware also develops tools that virtualize physical servers to run on different operating systems and software […]

Lexmark says it will downsize by 1,700 jobs in restructuring to explore more of the inkjet market

Lexmark, the printer makers, announced on Monday that they will probe deeper into the inkjet printer market more and will undergo downsizing by a volume of 1,700 jobs. The company has seen a slow growth in consumer and corporate market and its share price has paid the toll. Lexmark, trading under LXK has seen a […]

Google starts new service Google Shopping to help retailers increase customer traffic

Google, Inc. has come up with yet another service on its search engine Google.com. The new service Google Shopping will target shoppers that search for consumer products online and will connect them directly to the retailers. The main feature of the service is to add visualization to advertisements in search results. The search queries on […]

FIA team fails to record statement of key accused in fake passport scandal

A two-member team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has failed to record statements of Ali Asad, the central character in the fake passport scam. The team returned from London with empty hands, saying it was unable to record statement of the key accused in the case. According to the media reports, the team submitted […]

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