The UK’s economy suffered a shock contraction of 0.5% in the last three months of 2010, figures have shown. The severe weather hit activity in the quarter, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said even if the weather impact had been excluded, activity would have been “flattish”.
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RIM BlackBerry PlayBook Suffers with Battery Woes, Limited Apps: Analyst
December 30th, 2010 |
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RIM has likely delayed the launch of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet due to issues with the battery, says a new report, adding that the device may also have other problems. – Poor battery life is likely the reason that Research In Motion has
delayed the launch of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet until the second
quarter of 2011, according to a new report from Kaufman Bros. analyst
Shaw Wu.
quot;We hear that the PlayBook needs to improve [its] relatively poor
battery …
Skype Suffers Massive, Multi-hour Network Outage
December 23rd, 2010 |
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Skype went down for several hours Dec. 22, the result of server crashes linked by peer-to-peer technology. Millions of VOIP users were affected by this worst outage since 2007. –
Skype suffered a serious server outage Dec. 22 that left swaths of its 560
million or so worldwide users without PC-calling capabilities for most of the
day.
Skype the VOIP service that many use to make free or low-cost long-distance
calls from their PCs and phones began going down for users a…
Android Market Suffers Download Failures with Android 2.3 Imminent
November 10th, 2010 |
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Google’s Android Market is having major problems letting Android smartphone users download and install apps. The issue comes as Android 2.3 is prepping for launch. – Google Android smartphone users may be thrilled about the prospect of the
new Android 2.3 operating system build that is allegedly coming out this week,
but there is a new nagging issue that has some fans frothing.
Users of Android phones all over the world are unable to install or
uninstall app…
KS Energy Services suffers $11.6m net loss in 3Q
November 9th, 2010 |
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Mainboard-listed integrated energy services provider, KS Energy Services, today announced a net loss of $11.6 million for the third quarter ended 30 September 2010 due to lower sales and capital equipment awaiting deployment.
Compared to the same period last year, the group saw a 30.5% decrease in its revenue $103.4 million due to lower contributions from both its distribution and drilling businesses. Demand for parts and components in the oil and gas industry in general were still weak as customers continued to adopt a conservative outlook. On the drilling front, performance of the business was affected by some of the roup’s drilling assets awaiting charter commencement with their new customers.
Google Android Market Suffers Paid App Problem
August 19th, 2010 |
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Google Android developers can sell apps to consumers through Android Market in only 13 countries. That’s a major disadvantage for developers trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone App Store. – Google’s Android Market is criticized for spam, piracy
and inadequate security, but there is another big issue that is hindering the
application store’s growth.
That snafu is paid applications, or the lack thereof in
Android Market. Android developers can sell apps to consumers through Android
…
Apple Partner Foxconn Suffers Eighth Worker Death in 2010
May 24th, 2010 |
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A worker at Foxconn, which makes the Apple iPhone, among other electronics products, was the 10th Foxconn worker to fall from a building and the eighth to die in this way in 2010 alone. While similar deaths over the years are said to be bad PR for Apple, iPhone and iPad sales remain strong. – In what appears to be another suicide, a worker at the Foxconn facility in Shenzhen,
China, fell from a
building on the company’s campus May 21. The man’s death is the 10th falling
incident at the Foxconn facility in 2010.
The 21-year-old man was the eighth employee this year to be killed in…
Merkel coalition suffers big defeat
May 10th, 2010 |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right coalition parties have suffered huge losses in elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. It robbed her government of a majority in the upper house of parliament.
North America Suffers from E-Mail Fatigue, Study Finds
February 10th, 2010 |
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E-mail marketing firm Implix releases data tracking common performance indicators on e-mail, such as bounce rates, across 95 countries and six continents.
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Implix, an e-mail marketing leader and online solution
provider to global small office/home office and small and midsize
business markets, released a study of 1.65 billion e-mails sent from the
GetResponse e-mail marketing platform between July and December 2009. The resulting report…
Microsoft Suffers from Creative Difficulties, Says Former Exec
February 4th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s new product R D suffers from an internal culture of infighting and refusal to evolve, according to an op-ed piece by former Vice President Dick Brass published in The New York Times. As a result, Brass asserts, the Windows maker is failing even as it reports record profits. Furthermore, he says, Microsoft’s attempts to develop a tablet PC nearly a decade ago were at least partially doomed by a refusal to modify popular Office applications to interface properly with such a device.
– Despite announcing strong revenues for the second fiscal quarter of 2010,
Microsoft is quot;failing quot; due to an inability to innovate and a tendency
to let infighting kill potential blockbuster projects, according to a former
Microsoft executive who says he worked on projects such as a comme…
Former No1 suffers injury setback
January 10th, 2010 |
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A leg injury has forced Justine Henin to withdraw from this week’s Sydney International, after the former world No1 strained a muscle during her epic loss to fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters in the final of the Brisbane International yesterday. Henin, competing in her first tournament since coming
Video Game Industry Suffers Sales Drop in October
November 14th, 2009 |
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The video game industry witnesses a disappointing October after a small hike in sales last month, with industry sales falling 19 percent overall.
– After the video game industry received an encouraging boost last month from
the release of the highly anticipated “The Beatles: Rock Band” title and a
slight improvement in hardware and software sales, research firm The NPD Group
reported that sales dipped once again in October.
The firm said h…
Obama suffers setback as Republicans snatch two governor races
November 4th, 2009 |
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Republicans have surged to victory in two governors’ races, wresting control from the Democrats and delivering a blow to President Barack Obama heading into next year’s congressional elections. The victories in Virginia and New Jersey were triumphs for a Republican Party looking to rebuild
Scarlett Johansson suffers from “crippling†stage fright
October 21st, 2009 |
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American actress Scarlett Johansson has revealed that her dream of making an appearance on Broadway will have to be put on hold, as she suffers from “crippling†stage fright.
Surprisingly Johansson, 24, had happily appeared in numerous plays as a child actress, but now she admits that she has to overcome the phobia of performing live [...]
Taiwan suffers worst flooding in 50 years
August 9th, 2009 |
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Taiwan’s government mobilised troops on Sunday to rescue tens of thousands of residents trapped in the island’s worst flooding in 50 years, which left one person dead and at least 29 missing, officials said. Typhoon Morakot pounded Taiwan over the weekend with powerful winds and torrential
Ruling coalition suffers “serious disruption”
August 7th, 2009 |
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G17 Plus official Vlajko Senić says developments concerning amendments to the Law on Information have seriously disrupted relations in the ruling coalition. He added that he expected that the parliament voting scheduled for August 31 would be an opportunity to improve the relations.
Pope falls and suffers broken wrist
July 17th, 2009 |
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The Pope is recovering in hospital after falling and breaking his wrist. The Vatican said Benedict had slipped in the bath at his holiday chalet near the northern Italian town of Aosta, and suffered a minor fracture of the right wrist.
Endeavour Suffers Debris Dings on Liftoff
July 16th, 2009 |
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As the Endeavour space shuttle streaks toward the International Space Station, NASA mission managers are reviewing the blastoff videotapes for heat shield damage to the spacecraft. NASA reports that Endeavour endured multiple debris hits during the liftoff.
– As the Space Shuttle Endeavour heads for a July 17 docking with the
International Space Station, NASA mission managers are poring over photos and
data to determine extent of the July 15 launch damage to Endeavour’s heat
shields. The spacecraft took multiple debris hits from what are likely to be …