Alliance Global Group Inc.’s venture with Star Cruises plans to invest US$740 million ($1 billion) through 2012 in their Newport City casino project in Manila.
About US$600 million will be invested in tourism-related facilities and US$140 million in residential condominiums, Alliance Global President Kingson Sian said at the company’s annual meeting in Manila.
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A new Wi-Fi certification is nearing completion to allow direct connections between Wi-Fi devices without joining a traditional Wi-Fi network. Known as Wi-Fi Connect, Alliance plans to begin certifying devices by mid-2010.
– The Wi-Fi Alliance is nearing completion of a new specification to allow Wi-Fi devices to connect to one another without joining a traditional home, office or hotspot network. The Wi-Fi Alliance expects to begin certification for the new specification in mid-2010 and is currently called Wi-Fi Direct…
With the 802.11n standard officially ratified by the IEEE, the Wi-Fi Alliance has lived up to its promise by grandfathering all Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n Draft 2.0-labeled products to its new certification, called Wi-Fi Certified N, while simultaneously trying to reduce some of confusion that will arise from the dizzying array of feature configurations that comprise 802.11n.
– When the Wi-Fi Alliance announced earlier this summer that the 802.11n Draft 2.0 certification program would be forward-compatible with the full 802.11n standard upon formal ratification of the latter, wireless LAN implementers finally had concrete assurance that they could move forward with 802.11n…
Amazon.com, Microsoft and Yahoo join the Internet Archive in launching the Open Book Alliance to challenge Google’s Book Search settlement with publishers and authors. Google, which scoffed at Microsoft’s participation in the OBA because the company closed its own book search service in 2008, remains unfazed. A Google spokesperson says it sounds like sour grapes.
– Amazon.com, Microsoft and Yahoo Aug. 26 joined the Internet Archive in
launching the Open Book Alliance to challenge Google’s Book Search settlement
with publishers and authors, which if approved by a U.S.
district court would allow Google to scan the world’s books onto the Web and
offer them to…
When Microsoft and Nokia formed a partnership to load a mobile version of Microsoft Office onto Nokia smartphones, the better to compete against RIM’s BlackBerry line, analysts immediately began discussing how the alliance would weaken Microsoft Windows Mobile. However, Microsoft has shown signs that it fully intends to keep backing Windows Mobile, even if the operating system has a small share of the smartphone market.
– Immediately after Microsoft
and Nokia
on Aug. 12 announced a deal to load a mobile version of Microsoft Office onto
Nokia smartphones, debates erupted online as to what the alliance would mean
for Microsoft Windows Mobile, Redmond’s own mobile operating system.
Under the terms of the agreement…
The Alliance of Independent Unions of Serbia on Thursday addressed an open letter to President Boris Tadić. It informs him that between 5,000 and 6,000 workers had lost their jobs in water management, metal, agricultural, food and tobacco industries over the past several months.
Microsoft and Nokia will team up to offer a mobile version of Microsoft Office for Nokia’s smartphones, starting with the phone-makers business-oriented Eseries before expanding into other lines. The two companies will continue to compete in other areas, particularly mobile operating systems, where Microsoft is pushing Windows Mobile and Nokia is backing its Symbian OS. However, the alliance could allow them to compete more effectively in both the consumer and enterprise markets against the likes of Apple and Research in Motion.
– Microsoft and Nokia have announced a partnership that will see Microsoft Office applications ported
onto Nokia smartphones, starting with the Nokia Eseries, which are primarily
marketed towards business users.
The Microsoft and Nokia executives announcing the deal took
pains to emphasize that…
Samsung’s Android-powered i7500 Galaxy has been around for some time now but has yet to find its way onto a US carrier. However, Samsung seems to have the device’s younger sibling, the i5700 Galaxy-lite, in the works.
What you see above is …
Mitch Hawkins, CEO of JatrophaBioJet Corporation announced today founding of the World Biojet Alliance (www.biojetalliance.org), a worldwide industry non-profit trade group to serve the needs of the rapidly forming Bio Jet Fuel sector. Mr. Hawkins, who will serve as Chairman of the Board of Governors, stated “The World Biojet Alliance will be an independent and [...]
President Obama has a powerful new set of allies in his corner, the Associated Press reports: lobbyists. In Obama’s reform package, lobbyists for the health…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri researchers have launched a new effort in their fight against worldwide hunger: bringing together a doctor who has long treated the malnourished with plant scientists working to improve the nutritional content of food.
The group hopes to create a bridge from greenhouses and labs in Missouri to health centers and farms [...]
NATO’s sec.-gen.says the alliance’s mission in Afghanistan is essential to international security and leaving the country would leave the way open for Al Qaeda. Speaking in London on Monday, two weeks before he finishes his tenure, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the alliance has made progress, but faces challenges in the 21st century and must adapt to the modern world.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are arriving in the…
Nato head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has warned that walking away from the alliance’s mission in Afghanistan would have a "devastating" effect.
Speaking in London, the Nato secretary-general said failure would give free run to al-Qaeda.
His comments come as Afghanistan suffers a spike in violence ahead of elections on 20 August.
More foreign troops have been killed in July than in any other month since the US-led invasion in 2001.
In a speech at a think tank, Mr de Hoop Scheffer said Nato allies could not afford to abandon their campaign.
"If we were to walk away, Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban, with devastating effect for the people there – women in particular," he said.
‘Burden sharing’
He also said any such move would have an impact on the wider region.
"Pakistan would suffer the consequences, with all that that implies for international security," he said.
"Central Asia would see extremism spread. Al-Qaeda would have a free run again, and their terrorist ambitions are global."
He said Nato members had to realise that the mission was "essential" to their security.
"As much as we may long for the near-perfect security of Cold War deterrence, we must accept that security today requires engagement in far away places – engagement that is dangerous, expensive, open ended, and with no guarantee of success."
Earlier on Monday, the Nato-led force in Afghanistan announced the deaths of four US soldiers in the east of the country.
The deaths bring the number of Nato soldiers killed in July to 55.
Seventeen of those are from the UK, where the rising toll has sparked debate over the country’s participation in the Nato-led mission.
Mr de Hoop Scheffer, who met UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier on Monday, acknowledged the sacrifices being made by soldiers from the UK and other allies.
He also called for what he called more equitable "burden sharing" between members of the Nato alliance.</p
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(AP) Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader warned the Pakistani people in a new audio message that the U.S. interference in their country’s affairs poses a grave danger to Pakistan’s future and very existence.
The English-language audio message by Ayman al…
