Mainboard-listed industrial fishing company China Fishery Group says net profit rose 7.9% y-o-y to US$19.7 million ($25 million) for the first quarter of the financial year ending 28 September 2011 (1QFY2011).
Group revenue rose 13.4% to US$115.1 million from US$101.4 million in the same period last year.
If you’re waiting to upload your iPod or your iTunes list, you’ll want to check out some of the up-and-coming artists for 2011. Here are eight to keep an eye on. 1. Graffiti6 With music featured on top American shows, such as “CSI: New York” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” Graffiti6 is becoming well-known. As the compilation [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show to focus on Xbox 360′s hands-free Kinect controller, Windows Phone 7 devices and how the next version of Windows will support ARM chip architecture. ARM chip designs dominate much of the burgeoning mobile market, where Microsoft rivals such as Google and Apple have already made substantial inroads with their own lightweight operating systems. Ballmer also showed off Surface 2, the next version of Microsoft’s table-sized touch-screen tablet. As expected, Ballmer spent much of his speech pointing out what he termed Microsoft’s successes: 8 million Kinect sales in the device’s first 60 days, 5,500 apps in Windows Phone’s applications storefront and an upcoming line of Windows 7 laptops that incorporate technologies like touch screens. Although he offered no sales numbers for Windows Phone 7, he reiterated that Microsoft intends to "aggressively" push the smartphone platform in coming months, when it appears on Verizon and Sprint in addition to GSM-based networks such as AT&T. – …
Implementation of document management software gives you the ability to capture, index, store and retrieve critical documents successfully. When creating your document management strategy, there are 8 factors you should keep in mind.
Amazon.com will sell more than 8 million Kindle e-readers in 2010, according to unnamed sources talking to Bloomberg. That would greatly outpace 2009s predicted figures. – Amazon.com could sell more than 8 million Kindle e-readers
in 2010, according to a new report from Bloomberg. That would outpace earlier
estimates that placed device sales in the 5-million range.
Amazon has traditionally been reluctant to share sales
figures for the device, which it touts as one…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will show off tablets, including Samsung and Dell models, running Windows 7 at the CES event in January, a source has told The New York Times. – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to introduce a number of tablet devices
meant to you guessed it compete with the Apple iPad in the market that
Microsoft first created in 2000 and that Apple revived and reinvented this year
with the iPad.
Citing “people familiar with Microsofts plans,” T…
Twitter has hardly reached a saturation point, according to new data from Pew, which found 8 percent of adult Internet users to be Tweeting, and only 2 percent of those daily. – Whos on Twitter? Eight percent of American adult Internet users, and particularly young adults, minorities and people living in cities, according to Dec. 9 report from the Pew Research Center. Of those users, 2 percent said they visited the site on a daily basis.
Diverting from previous surveys…
Pew Research said Twitter is used by 8 percent of American adults who use the Internet, with the greatest use among young urban adults and minorities. – Twitter is used by 8 percent of American adults who use the Internet, with
the greatest use among young urban adults and minorities, according to the Pew
Research Center’s
Internet amp; American Life Project.
Twitter, which claims to have about 180 million users, is the leading
microblog serv…
The new features in AutoMate 8 are designed to help enable IT and business users alike to automate tasks. – Network Automation has released its latest automation software solutions AutoMate
8 and AutoMate BPA Server 8. These releases expand the current platform with virtualization
and cloud computing automation solutions. With the AutoMate 8 solutions, the
company continues to expand its no-code platfo…
1993: The U.S. secretary of defense opens the global positioning system to civilian use. It’s about to change how people see where they are.
The GPS story starts with Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. The night after it was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, researchers at MIT were able to track Sputnik’s orbit [...]
Punk pop princess Avril Lavigne will release her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby, on March 8, 2011. Goodbye Lullaby is led by the uptempo tune “What The Hell?” which will debut in a live performance by Avril on Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve 2011 special, airing on ABC at the end of this month. [...]
Singapore shares may see a weak start on Wednesday, following Wall Street’s sluggish performance overnight due to lingering euro zone debt concerns. Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index <.FTSTI> rose 0.33% on Tuesday to 3,191.88 points. Here are some stocks to watch, say Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters:
The executive committee of the Java Community Process has approved the specs for Java 7 and Java 8; however, several members expressed disappointment about field-of-use restrictions–including one member who quit. – Oracle
got its wish and gained approval for the technical roadmaps governing Java
Standard Edition 7 and Java 8, but not without hearing the voice of
dissent from several prominent members of the Java community.
The
Executive Committee (EC) of the Java
Community Process (JCP) voted to approve …
Eight cyclists died on Sunday in Lamezia Terme, southern Italy, when a speeding car collided with them.
Italian police arrested the driver – a Morrocan citizen – and said he tested positive for marijuana.
T-Mobile’s self-described 4G footprint now includes eight new metro areas. By year’s end, it plans to cover 100 metropolitan areas, as Verizon shoots to bring LTE to 38. – America’s quot;largest
4G network quot; just got a little larger. Or so says T-Mobile. On Nov. 23, the
country’s fourth-largest carrier announced that it has expanded its HSPA+
network to eight new metro areas: Detroit;
Grand Junction, Colo.;
Harlingen, Texas;
Lafayette and South
Bend, Ind.;…
Britney Spears” parents Jamie and Lynne have reportedly reunited eight years after their divorce. When her parents parted ways after 30 years of marriage, Britney described it as “the best thing that”s ever happened to my family,†reports the Daily Mail. “My mom and dad, bottom line, do not get along. When I was a [...]
Outsourcing has really become a prevalent phenomenon yet creates an extra concern that organizations are now dealing with: How do you develop a powerful business culture in a business context that includes outsource service providers, virtual assistants, freelancers, and consultants?
The nominees for the 2011 People”s Choice Awards has been announced and Vampire sequel ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ tops with eight nominations. The film is up for favourite movie and favourite drama, while its stars – Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – landed acting nods, reports the BBC. Other multiple nominees include the [...]
Bang & Olufsen has announced a new speaker dock that will work with the iPhone and all other dockable Apple devices. The dock is called the BeoSound 8 and promises good sound at a high price of £895. Dexim has unveiled a new battery case for the iPhone 4 called the Super-Juice. The case promises [...]
1895: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen is working in his laboratory in Würzburg when he accidentally discovers the X-ray.
Roentgen was conducting experiments with a Crookes tube — basically a glass gas bulb that gives off fluorescent light when a high-voltage current is passed through it — when he noticed that the beam cast a greenish fluorescent [...]
