Google’s Chrome Web browser topped 10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December 2010. Safari grew as well, while IE 9 is performing better. – Google’s
Chrome Web browser continued to grow through the first month of 2011, reaching
10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December
2010.
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Applications also noted that Apple’s Safari rose to 6.3 percent
from 5.9 percent over the same period. Thi…
The Real Housewives of Orange County — the Bravo reality docu-soap that spawned a multi-city franchise — will return with a sixth season of all-new episodes on March 6. And the gals are bringing a feisty new firestarter along for the ride. Stay-at-home mom of two Peggy Tanous is set to join the cast of [...]
“If anything is close to certain it’s that the renminbi will appreciate,” Head of Product Development Marc van de Walle said at a media briefing in Singapore today, using the yuan’s alternative name. “It’s got the potential to appreciate between 4% and 6% annually, and maybe even a bit faster,” he said, without providing a specific time frame.
MONDAY, JAN 31
CATCH Villagers – Live! Dublin troubadour Conor O’Brien has charmed many with his melodramatic folk-pop music and by presenting ordinary life as something extraordinary. He is accompanied by pianist Cormac Curran in his intimate recital here.
Date: Jan 31
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio
Tickets: $68 from Sistic
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1912: French social critic Jacques Ellul is born. He will become a thoughtful skeptic who worries about the negative impact of technology on the human condition.
Jacques Ellul wore many hats: sociologist, philosopher, humanist, theologian, law professor. He studied the work of Karl Marx and embraced a good deal of Marxist theory, which he did [...]
The following companies may have unusual price changes in Singapore trading today, say Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close. Singapore’s Straits Times Index gained 0.1% to 3,254.25.
Singapore shares may rise in early trade on Thursday after Wall Street indices gained overnight following strong data on US private-sector jobs, boosting confidence its economy is on a recovery path.
The inhabitants of Priština, Kosovo, have heating only six hours a day, three in the morning and three in the evening. This comes due to shortages in heating oil and lack of funds to buy more of the fuel, used for heating residential and other areas.
There are a lot of photo editing programs on the market today. There is a broad range for the beginner, novice and expert. This can make it
difficult to decide which one is right for your needs. Read to find out about six of the most popular photo editing software packages around.
So far, we’ve talked in some detail about just how document management software can turn your workplace into a paperless office with some degree of ease. Now, let’s look at a hypothetical example of what this process might look like in the office itself.
What Christmas isn’t complete without the obligatory festive Christmas tree? The symbol of the holidays, spruce, fir and cedar trees dressed in colorful lights and ornaments go a long way in getting us into the festive mood. In an apparent effort to get into the holiday spirit themselves, the guys at Google have decided to [...]
Apple announced that the Mac App Store will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing, and updating Mac apps easier than ever. The Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries at launch and will feature paid and free apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics and Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, and Utilities.
Apple plans on a Jan. 6 launch for its Mac App Store, the PC equivalent of its mobile App Store. Apple hopes third-party developers will be drawn to the new platform. – Apple plans to launch its
Mac App Store, which will offer full-screen apps for the companys PCs, Jan. 6.
The storefront will operate in a manner similar to Apples App Store for mobile
devices, allowing users to purchase and download apps in one click.
While supported by Snow Leopard, the curren…
There are 6 great tips to make a website more appealing to web users: know your audience, start a blog, include a web video and share functionalities, start a forum, provide fresh content regularly.
Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines (NEPS.SI) (NOL), the world’s sixth-largest container shipping firm, carried 6% more containers in the four weeks to Nov 12 compared with a year ago.
NOL said in a statement it shipped the equivalent of 220,800 40-foot containers (FEU) on its vessels in the period, up from 208,000 a year earlier, due mainly to higher volumes carried on the intra-Asia and Asia-Europe trade lanes.
The average revenue in the period from each container was $3,649, up 25% from the year ago period.
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1850: German physician Hermann von Helmholtz, who devoted much of his career to studying the eye and the physics of vision and perception, demonstrates his ophthalmoscope to the Berlin Physical Society. The invention revolutionizes ophthalmology.
Although von Helmholtz was not the first person to develop an ophthalmoscope, nor the first to examine the interior of the [...]
Finland’s top refiner Neste Oil (NES1V.HE) expects its renewable diesel plant in Singapore to reach full capacity in six months, its chief executive said.
“It is a big refinery and we want to proceed slowly and see how it works and see if there are any bottlenecks,” Matti Lievonen told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
“It will take probably six months before full capacity will be reached. We are scaling up from 70,000 tonnes to 800,000 tonnes (annually),” he said.
The latest Linux-based OS from Red Hat offers a strong foundation for hosting virtual workloads, complete with distinctive capabilities such as security features rooted in SE Linux. – Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6, the latest version of Red Hat’s flagship Linux-based
operating system, began shipping last month, boasting a bevy of core
improvements around scalability, resource management and virtualization. What’s
more, the system ships with a slate of updated open-source softwar…
