1046: English monks record the onset of a cold snap so harsh that “no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was.” Little do they realize that they are chronicling what might have signaled the beginning of a centuries-long cooling period now referred to as the Little Ice Age.
The monks set [...]
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Feb. 2, 1046: There’s a 400-Year Nip in the Air
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Singapore Air net falls on fines, lags estimates: Update
January 28th, 2011 |
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Singapore Airlines, the world’s second-largest carrier by market value, reported a worse-than- estimated 29% drop in third-quarter profit after it booked charges relating to antitrust cargo fines.
Net income declined to $288.3 million in the three months ended December from $404 million a year earlier, the carrier said in a statement to the Singapore stock exchange today. Profit was expected to be $299 million, based on the average of six analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Singapore Air made a provision of $199 million for the fines.
Singapore Air net falls on cargo fines, lags analyst estimates
January 28th, 2011 |
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Singapore Airlines, the world’s second-largest carrier by market value, reported a 29% drop in third-quarter profit after charges related to antitrust cargo fines.
Net income fell to $288.3 million in the three months ended December from $404 million, a year earlier, the carrier said in a statement to the Singapore stock exchange today. Profit was expected to be $299 million, based on the average of six analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales rose 12% to $3.84 billion. Singapore Air said it made a provision for $199 million toward the fine.
Macquarie downgrades Tiger Air to ‘underperform’
January 21st, 2011 |
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Macquarie has downgraded Singapore budget carrier Tiger Airways (TAHL.SI) to “underperform” from “neutral”, and lowered its target price to $1.50 from $1.80.
Macquarie said Tiger Airways is looking fully valued compared to its peers and the firm may be more sensitive to the rise in jet fuel prices.
Greenhouse-gas monitoring: Not hot air
January 13th, 2011 |
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A new, private initiative should help show which gases come from where
IN 1955 a young man called David Keeling started to measure the level of carbon dioxide in the Californian air. It seemed of little practical value, but he liked designing and building the equipment—and driving back and forth along the Pacific Coast Highway to his sampling site at Big Sur was fun. Scientists with a new-found interest in the world’s carbon-dioxide levels soon learned of his work and gave him a job setting up monitoring stations in Hawaii and Antarctica for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in La Jolla. He continued to work there for almost 50 years, devoting his life to the monitoring effort. His son, Ralph, runs the carbon-dioxide programme at Scripps to this day.
In those 50 years measuring carbon-dioxide levels has gone from being a fun problem for a postdoc to a crucial issue for the planet. But the amount of effort put into it remains surprisingly small. America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) runs the biggest network of monitoring sites. A dozen other countries run a few here and there as well, with an expanded European effort getting under way. However, the scientists involved have been pointing out for years that it would take a very small investment, in a scientific world of satellites and supercomputers, to make such networks a lot more capable. On January 12th, such an investment was at last revealed—but not by any of the governments to which the pleas had been addressed. …
Tiger Air reports 32% rise in passengers in 12 months to December; load factor in December …
January 10th, 2011 |
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Tiger Airways has reported solid passenger volumes and load factors in December.
For the month of December, Tiger Air carried 555,000 passengers, a 22% increase compared to the same month last year. The average load factor across Asia and Australia for the month was 91%, an increase of 1 percentage point over December 2009.
Apple retail worker vacation blocked, Samsung MobilePrint, Zeppelin Air
January 6th, 2011 |
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Word has come in that retail works at Apple Stores have been told they can have no vacations on some days later this month. In the past these blocked dates have been the launch of new important products, could this be the Verizon iPhone? Samsung has unveiled the MobilePrint app for iOS devices like the [...]
iPad, iPhone 4, MacBook Air, Mobility Focus Marked Apple`s 2010
December 27th, 2010 |
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Apple started 2010 with a bang, when it answered months of speculation with the unveiling of its 9.7-inch iPad near the end of January. Released in April, the iPad enjoyed a spectacular sales run and a spate of imitators, as rival manufacturers began introducing their own tablets into the market. Apple followed the iPad with the iPhone 4, the latest version of its popular smartphone, although the latters device release was marred by reported issues with the exposed antenna rim. And as the year came to a close, Apple reinforced its dedication to mobile devices with the MacBook Air, which emphasized the companys increased focus on lighter, slimmer, and lower-power devices. The iPad quickly seized 95.5 percent of the consumer tablet market, according to analyst reports, and the iPhone continues to dominate the smartphone space. But the company nonetheless finds itself locked in increased competition with Google, whose Android operating system has seen rapid adoption in both the smartphone and tablet spaces. In addition, Apple also faces vigorous competition in the mobility arena from Research In Motions BlackBerry franchise and Microsofts new Windows Phone 7. Whether Apple can maintain its market leads in the face of all that is the question for 2011. – …
HBO To Air Pee-Wee Herman Broadway Special
December 22nd, 2010 |
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HBO will air a special presentation of comedian Paul Reubens’ Pee-Wee Herman Broadway stageplay next year. The Emmy-winning cable network will tape a performance of Reubens’ production next month for broadcast later this winter, Deadline Hollywood scooped this week. Reubens played Pee-Wee on the Saturday Morning smash Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and in two movies — Pee-Wee’s [...]
Air pollution may have triggered 29,000 yearly deaths
December 21st, 2010 |
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Air pollution may have triggered the premature yearly deaths of at least 29,000 people in Britain alone. But the figure could be as high as 200,000 deaths a year because of long-term exposure to an unhealthy environment. It adds to mounting evidence of the health dangers of pollution, which is already known to play a [...]
China Eastern, Singapore Air invest in air-cargo combination
December 20th, 2010 |
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China Eastern Airlines Corp., Singapore Airlines’s cargo unit and two other companies agreed to invest 2.05 billion yuan ($405 million) in China Cargo Airlines to support the takeover of two other freight carriers.
China Eastern will invest 1.05 billion yuan in China Cargo and receive a 51% stake, according to a Hong Kong stock exchange statement today. Singapore Air’s cargo unit and Concord Pacific, a unit of Taiwan-based EVA Airways Corp., will invest 328 million yuan each and get 16% apiece. China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. will put up 348.5 million yuan for a 17% stake.
NATO air strike “kills Afghan soldiers”
December 16th, 2010 |
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Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says a NATO air strike killed four Afghan soldiers on Dec. 15 in southern Afghanistan, apparently mistaking them for insurgents. Defense Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the soldiers had left their base in Musa Qala district, in Helmand Province, when they came under fire from NATO planes.
IBM’s ‘Watson’ Computer to Air on Jeopardy in February
December 14th, 2010 |
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IBM is using the game show to demonstrate the question-answer computer Watsons capability to quickly answer natural language questions. – IBMs “Watson” computer will finally make its appearance on “Jeopardy” in
February, taking on two of the shows all-time winners over a three-day
span.
The
game will test Watsons abilities to think in a human-like way, not only being
able to retrieve information when requested as is done with a …
Singapore Air says A380 Delivery delayed over Koito seats
December 10th, 2010 |
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Singapore Airlines, the first carrier to fly the Airbus SAS A380 commercially, said the introduction of its 12th superjumbo has been delayed after a Japanese contractor failed to deliver the plane’s business-class seats on time.
Dec 10: Genting, Tiger Air, Osim, Bio-Treat, SIA Engineering
December 10th, 2010 |
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Singapore shares may open slightly higher on Friday after Wall Street edged up overnight, with the benchmark S&P 500 closing at a two-year high, a trend investors expect to continue through the rest of the year. Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index <.FTSTI> was up 0.23 percent on Thursday to 3,210.20 points. Here are some stocks to watch, say Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters.
Genting Singapore (GENS.SI) may be in focus as its Resorts World at Sentosa casino is seeking to borrow around $4.2 billion ($3.2 billion) to pay off an existing loan, Reuters basis point reported on Thursday.
Band of Horses Austin City Limits Episode to Air Jan. 15
December 7th, 2010 |
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CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS AT AUSTINCITYLIMITS.ORG
Band of Horses‘ Austin City
Limits TV performance, taped in October the weekend the band appeared at the ACL Festival, has been confirmed
for a January 15, 2011 airdate on PBS (check local listings at http://austincitylimits.org/).
The performance culls material from all three of Band of Horses’ records, Cease To Begin, Everything All The
Time and this year’s Infinite Arms, recently nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music
Album category. The epic set captured the grandeur and sweep of the Band of Horses live experience in the unique
and intimate setting of one of the final episodes to be recorded at the the original ACL soundstage.
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SGI Ice Cube Air Modular Data Center Offers Air Cooling
December 7th, 2010 |
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SGI is rolling out its Ice Cube Air modular data center, a solution designed to give enterprises a cost-efficient and eco-friendly way to exapnd the capacity of their facilities. – SGI is unveiling a modular data center offering that lets enterprises build capacity as needed and cool the IT environment using outside air or water from a hose rather than air conditioning units or chilled water.
SGI is showing off the Ice Cube Air on the floor of the Gartner Data Center Conferen…
Spain’s military takes over air traffic control
December 4th, 2010 |
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Spain’s military has taken over the country’s air traffic control after civilian staff called in sick en masse.
The move, ordered by the government, comes after several airports across Spain were shut after traffic controllers’ unauthorized walkout.