WikiLeaks cables show the U.S. concern over weapons arriving through illegal channels to countries and regions with active terrorist organizations.
The Guardian, one of the five newspapers in the world which publishes the U.S. diplomatic cables, reported that in December 2009 the Yemen government bought weapons worth USD 100mn through a Cypriot company from a Serbian illegal arms trader.
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“Serb involved in arms trafficking”
December 7th, 2010 |
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FBI Nabs iPad Hacker Allegedly Involved in Security Breach
June 17th, 2010 |
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The FBI has taken into custody a hacker who may be involved in the AT&T security breach that exposed the names of more than 100,000 Apple iPad 3G users, including high-profile government officials. – The FBI announced it detained a member
of a group of computer programmers allegedly involved in the Apple iPad
3G security breach
that exposed the identities of more than 100,000 iPad users, including
celebrities and top government officials. The breach occurred through
an exploit of AT amp;Ts …
Microsoft Week Involved Phone 7, Office Web Apps, Cloud
June 13th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s key news this week came out of its TechEd Conference in New Orleans, where the company pushed the gathered developers and enterprise customers on the business-centric virtues of its upcoming Windows Phone 7. In addition to promoting that upcoming smartphone platform, Microsoft also indicated that its Yahoo search-and-advertising agreement was on track, and released its Office Web Apps, it own cloud-based productivity offering, to users in select countries. While Microsoft currently dominates the traditional productivity software space, it faces a potential battle against browser-based Google Apps. – Microsoft used its TechEd Conference in New Orleans
this week to push a vision of the company as aggressive in the smartphone and
cloud spaces, encouraging the gathered developers and enterprise customers to
think about creating business-centric applications for its upcoming Windows
Phone 7 plat…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Ballmer Mea Culpa, Google Dump
June 6th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s week centered largely on CEO Steve Ballmers comments during the D8 conference, where he admitted that Microsoft had fallen behind in smartphones but that the company would continue to be a presence in multiple other segments, including tablets and traditional PCs. Microsoft also responded to Googles reported dumping of Windows from its employees computers, supposedly out of security concerns, by insisting that its flagship operating system was as armor-clad as possible. Meanwhile, market share for Microsofts Internet Explorer 8 continued to rise, even as users fled previous versions of the browser. – Microsofts week climaxed with CEO Steve
Ballmer taking the stage at the D8 conference June 3 to admit that the company
had made certain crucial mistakes in the smartphone space. At the same time,
Ballmer also suggested that Microsoft was well-positioned to take advantage of
the mobile market, al…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Apple, Shakeup, Alcatel Appeal
May 30th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s week involved a number of shakeups. First, the departures of two top executives from the Entertainment and Devices Division sparked questions among analysts about Microsofts consumer product lines and need to compete more heartily against the likes of Google and Apple in that area. Then Apple’s market capitalization, based on stock price, passed Microsoft’s, sparking another round of outside analysis. Despite a tough week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted that his company remains the most profitable technology concern on the planet. – Microsofts week involved some major shakeups: in addition
to the departures of two top executives from its Entertainment and Devices
Division, responsible for consumer products such as the Xbox and Zune, the
company also saw its market capitalization briefly surpassed by that of Apple.
Both thos…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Apple, Shakeup, Alcatel Appeal
May 30th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s week involved a number of shakeups. First, the departures of two top executives from the Entertainment and Devices Division sparked questions among analysts about Microsofts consumer product lines and need to compete more heartily against the likes of Google and Apple in that area. Then Apple’s market capitalization, based on stock price, passed Microsoft’s, sparking another round of outside analysis. Despite a tough week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted that his company remains the most profitable technology concern on the planet. – Microsofts week involved some major shakeups: in addition
to the departures of two top executives from its Entertainment and Devices
Division, responsible for consumer products such as the Xbox and Zune, the
company also saw its market capitalization briefly surpassed by that of Apple.
Both thos…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Office 2010, Kin Phones, i4i Lawsuit
May 16th, 2010 |
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Microsoft had a week full of events, including the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for business customers, the release of its social-networking-focused Kin phones, and another legal twist in its long-running courtroom battle against i4i over Microsoft Word. Microsoft clearly hopes that strong sales of Office 2010 will convince the public of the continued viability of desktop productivity software, despite the increased prevalence of cloud-based applications such as Google Apps. The Kin phones, on the other hand, mark the first release in Microsoft’s new mobile strategy. – <p>Microsoft’s week centered on arguably its biggest software launch since
Windows 7: the final versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, released to
business customers on May 12. In keeping with Microsoft’s long-running attempts
to make every major software release into a national event, the …
Microsoft’s Week Involved Kin Phones, Spindex, Newsgroups
May 9th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s week revolved around social networking, with the company announcing preorder and release dates for its Kin One and Kin Two smartphones, targeted at a young and always-connected demographic, as well as the technical preview of a social-networking-site aggregator called Spindex. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie launched FUSE Labs in October 2009 to focus company efforts on developing applications such as Spindex, but whether audiences attach themselves to Microsofts social-networking initiatives remains to be seen.
– Microsofts week was all about the social: on May 5, the
company announced that its Kin One and Kin Two phones would be available for
preorder starting May 6, with an in-store rollout to follow on May 13. The
phones are geared toward a younger demographic “the sharing generation,” in
the words of…
U.S. Recants Claims that Detainee Who Was One of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Report, and Repeatedly Tortured, Was Involved in 9/11 or Even Al Qaeda
April 3rd, 2010 |
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Abu Zubaydah was the first “high-value” detainee who was tortured, as the U.S. claimed he was a top Al Qaeda terrorist who knew a lot about 9/11.He was waterboarded at least 83 times in August 2002 alone.In fact, Abu Zubaydah was one of the main source…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Cloud Strategy, EU Ballot Screen, Windows 7 Sales
March 7th, 2010 |
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Microsoft put heavy emphasis on the cloud this week, with CEO Steve Ballmer announcing during a March 4 discussion at the University of Washington that the company intended to use cloud functionality as the jumping-off point for its future products and services. In the meantime, Microsoft’s issues with the European Commission, the EU’s antitrust regulatory body that voiced concern over the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows, may not be over yet. And Windows 7 reportedly continued to sell strongly.
– Microsoft announced a substantial bet this week, with
CEO Steve Ballmer indicating during a March 4
talk at the University of
Washington that his company would
henceforth rely on the cloud as inspiration for its upcoming products and
services.
quot;We shipped Windows 7, which had a lot tha…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Battery Complaints, Falling Mobile Share, Security
February 14th, 2010 |
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Microsoft dealt with a number of issues this week, including complaints from a small number of Windows 7 users about degraded battery life for their laptops running the operating system, and reports that some users who installed one of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security updates are receiving the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. Microsoft is gearing up for next weeks Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the company is scheduled to make a high-profile announcement regarding its plans in the mobile space. This announcement will most likely be the unveiling of Windows Mobile 7, its much-rumored smartphone operating system, although recent rumors suggest that Microsoft is interested in potentially acquiring BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
– This week, Microsoft wrestled with complaints from a subset of Windows 7
users about poor battery life for some laptops running the operating system.
Some of those users reported experiencing battery life as short as 15 minutes
after upgrading their laptops to Windows 7, while others received a
…
Microsoft Patches IE Security Vulnerability Involved in Google Attack
January 21st, 2010 |
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Microsoft issues a patch to close a security hole in Internet Explorer linked to the recent attacks on Google and other companies. The update addresses seven other vulnerabilities as well.
– Microsoft
issued an emergency fix Jan. 21 to patch the Internet Explorer
vulnerability at the center of a spate of cyber-attacks
against Google, Adobe Systems and dozens of other companies.
The update actually addresses a total of eight vulnerabilities
in IE, the most serious of which can be e…
Microsoft’s Week Involved Haiti Earthquake, Mobile 7, China Cyber-Attacks
January 17th, 2010 |
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Microsoft found itself dealing with questions over whether Windows Mobile 7, its rumored operating system for smartphones, would indeed make an appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. At the same time, Microsoft found itself donating money and employee skill-sets to the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, and faced the prospect that a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was exploited by Chinese hackers to cyber-attack Google and a number of other U.S. companies.
– Microsoft’s week involved a fresh spate of rumors involving
Windows Mobile 7, widely regarded as the companys best hope to either retard or
reverse its market-share erosion in the smartphone space, where it faces
competition from the likes of Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry, and other
determine…
“I’ve Always Been Convinced that the Exchange Stabilization Fund is Involved in Stock [and] Commodity Transactions by Manipulating Price”
November 8th, 2009 |
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I’m reading Ron Paul’s book “End the Fed”, which is chock full of good quotes.This one caught my eye:I’ve always been convinced that the Exchange Stabilization Fund is involved in stock, commodity, and currency transactions by manipulating price.As pa…
IBM, Intel Executives Involved in Ongoing Insider Trading Case
November 2nd, 2009 |
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The $25 million insider trading scandal that touched such IT heavyweights as AMD, IBM and Intel has now led to charges against six people from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. The case continues to roil both coasts. Federal prosecutors say executives from IBM, Intel and McKinsey Co. gave nonpublic information on such companies as AMD, Sun Microsystems, Google, PolyCom and Akamai to two directors at two hedge funds, Galleon Management and New Castle Funds, which used the information to make their trades. Most of the companies are cooperating with investigators, and some – including Intel, McKinsey and Akamai – reportedly are conducting their own internal probes. Intel also put Rajiv Goel, an executive with its treasury department, on administrative leave after the charges were brought against him and five others. Here, eWEEK offers a look at who is involved with the case.
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Simon Johnson: “If Everyone Involved Is Using the Same Roadmap of Risks, We Will All Drive off the Cliff Again Together”
October 1st, 2009 |
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We have to change our risk models, and not just defer to the big banks’ inaccurate models which got us into this mess.Says who?Nassim Taleb:I have been fighting risk models both as a Wall Street trader and as a professor and my worst nightmares were th…
When the Police or Courts are Involved, You Need Specialist Criminal Lawyer
September 4th, 2009 |
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Police and courts are nightmares to most of us. We always try to avoid issues related to police and courts. Keith Richards quotes, “I’ve never had problem with drugs, I had problem with policeâ€. This view is shared by the majority. But sometimes, you become a victim of ill fate and your stars are not [...]
Late Night Comics Tiptoe around Gates Arrest…Until Beer Is Involved
July 29th, 2009 |
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NEW YORK — Late-night comics found a few things to laugh about in the racially charged arrest of a Harvard professor – once beer was added to the equation.
President Barack Obama’s invitation to the two men involved to hoist a few…
“Kosovo police involved in arms smuggling”
July 16th, 2009 |
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Police Chief Milorad Veljović says there’s evidence to suggest members of the Kosovo police are involved in the smuggling of arms from Kosovo into south Serbia. Speaking to B92, Veljović said that MUP had certain information on one person suspected of planting Tuesday’s bomb in PreÅ¡evo.
‘Foreign hands’ involved in attack on Sri Lanka cricket team: Pak Interior Ministry
July 15th, 2009 |
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The Pakistan government has claimed the involvement of ‘foreign hands’ in the terror strike on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March this year, in which eight persons were killed and seven Lankan cricketers were injured.
A report submitted by the Interior Ministry to the National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on Sports said the [...]