Singapore’s Straits Times Index lost 0.3% to 2,889.63 as of 9:57 a.m. Three stocks fell for each share that rose on the 30-member gauge. The following shares were among the most active in the market.
Hyflux (HYF SP): Singapore’s biggest publicly traded water treatment company, slipped 1.4% to $3.50. Istithmar World PJSC has issued summons against the company in relation to warrants Hyflux sold to Istithmar in 2004, Hyflux said.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds lower court decision that found Microsoft infringed an XML-related patent held by i4i Ltd and orders world’s largest software maker to stop selling its popular Word program effective Jan. 11.
– Microsoft
lost its appeal Dec. 22 of a $290 million judgment that found the world’s
software maker infringed an XML-related patent held by i4i Ltd of Canada. As a
part of the ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an
injunction barring Microsoft from selling from versio…
In the first three months of 2009, Internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia ‘lost’ 49,000 of its volunteer editors, according to University research.
Over the same period in 2008, just 4900 people, who voluntarily amended and updated the information on the website, had stopped contributing.
Felipe Ortega, from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, who carried out the study, [...]
Microsoft finds itself under fire from a Chinese court, which ruled that older versions of Windows violate an intellectual property agreement between Microsoft and Beijing-based software company Zhongyi Electronic. The property in question is two Chinese fonts used in Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft is also fighting a handful of stateside battles over patents and intellectual property.
– A Chinese court ruled on Nov. 16 that Microsoft
had violated the intellectual property rights of a Beijing-based software company,
Zhongyi Electronic, in its use of two Chinese fonts.
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled that Microsoft’s use of
those fonts in Windows 98, Windows …
In an alarming disclosure, the British Defence Ministry has admitted to losing over 100 computers and dozens of memory sticks this year.
According to official figures, some 91 MoD laptops were lost or stolen in the first 10 months of 2009, while 23 desktop computers have gone missing.
Forty-seven USB flash memory devices have also [...]
Google board member Arthur Levinson steps down from Google’s board more than two months after Google CEO Eric Schmidt vacated his seat on Apple’s board. Schmidt and Levinson had come under scrutiny this year from the Federal Trade Commission, which was concerned that the men’s positions on both Google and Apple’s boards violated the Clayton Antitrust Act. The moves come as Google and Apple are opposing each other on the battlefields of mobile phones, and eventually, operating systems.
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Arthur Levinson, the former Genentech CEO who held
positions on both Google and Apple’s board of directors quit his post at Google
Oct. 13, severing another tie between Google and Apple.
The move comes more than two months after Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from his
post as an…
In the latest legal twist, Gary McKinnon, the hacker accused of compromising computers at NASA and the Pentagon, may be out of options to fight extradition to the United States. A court in the United Kingdom today denied him permission to appeal to the British Supreme Court.
– Computer hacker Gary McKinnon may finally be heading to the
United Statesto stand trial on charges of breaking into
U.S.military and NASA computers.
McKinnon, who has fought extradition for seven years,
was denied permission today by a court in the UK to take his
battle against extraditio…
Ever greater numbers of Americans are disconnecting their home telephones, with momentous consequences
MUCH has been made of the precipitous decline of America’s newspapers. According to one much-cited calculation, the country’s last printed newspaper will land on a doorstep sometime in the first quarter of 2043. That is a positively healthy outlook, however, compared with another staple of American life: the home telephone. Telecoms operators are seeing customers abandon landlines at a rate of 700,000 per month. Some analysts now estimate that 25% of households in America rely entirely on mobile phones (or cellphones, as Americans call them)—a share that could double within the next three years. If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025.
The impact of this trend will be greater than most people realise. It will make life increasingly difficult for telecoms firms, naturally. But it will also hurt all business that require landlines, as bills rise and business models are disrupted. No less seriously, the withering fixed-line network threatens the work of the emergency services, such as the police and fire brigade. …
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker accused of breaking into U.S. military computers, lost his latest attempt at avoiding extradition to the United States. McKinnon is accused of hacking computers at the Pentagon, NASA and the U.S. Army and Navy in 2001 and 2002.
– A British hackers latest attempt to block extradition to the
United Stateshas failed.
The British High Court ruled today that the case of Gary McKinnon, who stands accused of hacking NASA and other
U.S.federal agencies, should go forward. It is the latest twist in a case
that has stretch…
Kelly Clarkson unsuccessfully fought her record label not to release “Already Gone” as the third single off her new album, as the music is the same as the music from Beyonce’s hit “Halo.”
Clarkson co-wrote the lyrics and was provided the trac…
Brit actor Christian Bale was seen sporting an emaciated appearance on July 13 in preparation for his new movie role.
Bale, 35, who will be playing the part of drug-addicted boxer Dickie Eklund, looked gaunt as he walked through Los Angeles, where he is filming ‘The Fighter’, reports the Daily Express.
The ‘Dark Knight’ star [...]
Supermodel Adriana Lima has lost her love for chocolate ever since she’s got pregnant.
The Victoria’’s Secret stunner had recently announced that she and new husband, NBA player Marko Jaric, were expecting their first child in May next year.
“It’’s funny because I used to love chocolate — I was such a chocolate lover until I got [...]
