Facebook for Feature Phones is a mobile app designed to provide users without smartphones easier access to their social network information. – Facebook Jan. 19 rolled out a new mobile application to
allow people with feature phones to access the social network on the go without
incurring data charges.
Built in conjunction with mobile app specialist
Snaptu, Facebook for Feature Phones aims to approximate
the user experience of smartph…
Everyone agrees that the number of cavities have plummeted in the U.S. over the last couple of decades, after water fluoridation was introduced (that is why health officials call water fluoridation “one of the ten greatest public health accomplishmen…
CoE investigator Dick Marty told Swiss daily Le Temps that the majority of countries had been aware of the criminal activities of Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci.
“Numerous reports of the intelligence services, the German, British, Italian, and Greek ones, as well as reports of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were sent to various foreign ministries,†he explained.
It’s not just the “peripheral” European countries which are in trouble.As Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported yesterday:The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of …
Google expanded Android Market paid application support for developers to 29 countries and boosted to 32 the number of countries where consumers may buy apps for their Android phones. – Google took steps to alleviate a major pain point of its Android Market by expanding support for paid
applications sales and purchases to additional countries.
The search engine is now letting developers sell apps
built for the Android operating system in 29 countries, up from just nine
through …
New research from AVG Technologies ranks the countries where Web surfers come under attack the most. Topping the list are places such as Turkey and Russia. But the countries with the least attacks may surprise you. – A snapshot of the threat landscape by AVG Technologies named Turkey the most dangerous place to surf the Web.
AVGs analysis is based on an examination of attacks during the last
week of July. According to the company, AVG software detected attacks
against one in 10 customers browsing the Web in…
Serbia will accept talks, but not a drastic change to its UN General assembly Kosovo resolution, MFA sources said in Belgrade today. The United States and the EU have been increasing their diplomatic offensive, while media reports place the forthcoming visit of German FM Guido Westerwelle in that context.
Apple will launch the iPhone 4 in 17 countries July 30, including Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Switzerland. Despite some hardware controversy, the device has been a bestseller for Apple since its June release. – Apple plans on launching the
iPhone 4 in 17 countries July 30, including Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Switzerland. The device, which is
already available in major international markets such as Japan and Germany, has experienced both
massive sales and a fair bit of controversy over its hardw…
Apple’s iPad will be available in nine more countries starting July 23, namely Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore. – Apple announced July 19 that its iPad will be available in
nine more countries starting July 23: Austria,
Belgium, Hong
Kong, Ireland,
Luxembourg, Mexico,
the Netherlands,
New Zealand and
Singapore.
Given that this is consistent with Apple’s previously announced plans for a
July rollout in …
Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive, and fun way than ever before.
Current EU presidency holders Belgium is clear that the future of all the Balkan countries is Europe, Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme said. But any candidate EU member must earn its membership by meeting all requirements, he noted.
The regulators of Malaysia and Singapore are ordering cellcos to reduce the roaming rates between the two countries by 20% for retail and 30% for wholesale rates by Aug 2010, according to CIMB’s industry contacts.
The research house says this is not entirely surprising as the issue was first brought up two years ago but subsequently died down.
Gays are under attack in poor countries—and not just because of “local culture”
THEIR crimes were “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts”. Their sentence was 14 years’ hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others. He has succeeded. A court in Malawi last week horrified many with its treatment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a gay couple engaged to be married. The two men are the latest victims of a crackdown on gay rights in much of the developing world, particularly Africa.
Some 80 countries criminalise consensual homosexual sex. Over half rely on “sodomy” laws left over from British colonialism. But many are trying to make their laws even more repressive. Last year, Burundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza, signed a law criminalising consensual gay sex, despite the Senate’s overwhelming rejection of the bill. A draconian bill proposed in Uganda would dole out jail sentences for failing to report gay people to the police and could impose the death penalty for gay sex if one of the participants is HIV-positive. In March Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, who once described gay people as worse than dogs or pigs, ruled out constitutional changes outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation. …
Beginning Friday, May 28, at 8 a.m. (local time), customers can buy iPad at their favorite Apple Retail Store in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, or the UK and get free Personal Setup.
Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from the Apple Online Store in all nine countries beginning Monday, May 10.
Ten countries wrote a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt complaining about Google’s approach to releasing Web applications such as Google Buzz, which touched off a privacy furor when the company launched it in February. The countries ask that Google incorporate fundamental privacy principles directly into the design of new online services going forward. The letter was sent before Google is expected to launch a new privacy initiative later today.
– Privacy watchdogs from 10 countries wrote a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt complaining
about Google’s approach to releasing Web applications such as Google Buzz,
which touched off a privacy furor when the company launched it in February.
Data protection leaders in Canada, France, Germany,
Isr…
Emerging powers have helped poorer nations weather the global recession
IN COLD-WAR days America and the Soviet Union vied for influence among the poor world’s minnows. Now the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India and China—are getting into the game, and changing it. This month, Sri Lanka got $290m from China for a new international airport and $67m from India to upgrade its railways. As poor countries emerge from recession and the rich world flounders, big middle-income countries see a once-in-a-generation chance to win friends and influence people.
The process is sometimes direct (through aid, trade, remittances, investment) and sometimes indirect (through commodity prices or competition in third markets, for instance). But it is always hard to pin down. None of the new donors (all of which, except Russia, still get aid themselves) publishes comprehensive, or even comprehensible, figures. But a new study* by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a British think-tank, says the emerging countries (such as the BRICs) increasingly affect the growth prospects of poorer ones. In other words, after decades of talk about the importance of “south-south” ties, those links have finally started to mean something. …
According to a recent survey it has been known that among all the countries which have established their positions in the global arena for their outstanding contribution in the application development, the name of India comes on the top.
