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Twitter March 11 switched on its long-awaited location-sharing feature and made the service opt-in. Twitter's geolocation feature, which works for Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome on Windows, tags users' tweets based on where they are tweeting from. The way Twitter has done this should endear it to privacy hounds ...

Abterra, the supply chain manager of resources and minerals, managed to swing back into the black with a net profit of $13.3 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 (FY2009) largely due to a gain from the revaluation of a mining asset. Turnover of the year fell ...

Sarin Technologies, the manufacturer of precision technology products for processing diamonds and gems, says net profit rose to US$4.5 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2009 (4Q2009). The year 2009 was characterised by a weak first half, followed by a strong recovery in the second half. Underpinned by ...

Interra Resources says the group generated a net profit after tax of US$1.82 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q FY2009), compared to a net loss after tax of US$0.34 million in 4Q 2008. Revenue increased by 5% to US$3.64 million from US$3.47 million due to higher weighted ...

The Apache Software Foundation has announced that its Apache HTTP Web Server has turned 15. - The Apache Software Foundations Apache HTTP Web server has turned 15. The famed Apache Web server was launched on Feb. 23, 1994, Apache officials said. It was the ASF's first project and it became ...

Google finds itself in a daunting position on Feb. 22, the third birthday of Google Apps Premier Edition. The company is trying to dislodge legacy on-premises installations from Microsoft and IBM while fighting off SAAS solutions from those same companies. It also has to compete with new cloud offerings from ...

Adobe Systems' Photoshop graphics editing software hits the 20-year mark. - Adobe Systems' Photoshop graphics editing software has hit the 20-year mark. Adobe Photoshop turned 20 on Feb. 19 and is still going strong. In a news release the previous day, the company said: quot;The National Association of Photoshop Professionals ...

STX Pan Ocean Co., South Korea’s largest bulk-shipping line, posted a fourth-quarter profit as Chinese demand for coal and iron-ore shipments boosted freight rates, reported Bloomberg.   Net income of US$33 million ($46.4 million) compared with a loss of US$95 million a year earlier, the Seoul-based shipping line said in a statement ...

British supermodel Kate Moss has added fashion director and stylist to her list of growing credentials. The catwalk queen took to the camera to direct her first photo shoot, a raunchy spread featuring her friend Lily Allen who posed topless with a pair of bunny ears. Moss, who has graced over 300 ...

North Koreans are celebrating leader Kim Jong Il’s 68th birthday amid persistent questions about his health and the future leadership of the impoverished communist nation. Tuesday is a national holiday in North Korea, where Kim rules his 24 million people with absolute authority. His health

ISLAMABAD – Major Opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has warned the PPP-led Government of grave consequences if it did not resolve the judicial crisis immediately by withdrawing notifications about Lahore High Court’s Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif and Justice Saqib Nisar.Insiders informed TheNation ...

Pan Hong Property Group, the Hong Kong-based property developer that focuses primarily on developing properties in the second and third-tier cities in China, has chalked up RMB57.3 million ($11.9 million) in net profit for the third quarter ended 31 December 2009 (3Q2010), reversing the loss of RMB3.6 million in the ...

News Analysis: Facebook, now a 6-year-old company with about 400 million users, is a major player in the way people consume news all around the world, according to ReadWriteWeb and research company Hitwise. Hitwise found that Facebook was the No. 4 source of visits to news and media sites the ...

Singapore Airlines say the group returned to profitability in the third quarter of the financial year with a net profit attributable to equity holders of $404 million. This was a turnaround from losses of $307 million in the first quarter and $159 million in the second quarter. Group revenue ...

Nicole Kidman has ditched her blonde locks and turned into a brunette. The actress resurfaced with the new look at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. She wore an Aztec-inspired gown at the event, reports the Sun. Meanwhile, Jeff Bridges won best film actor for ‘Crazy Heart’, while Sandra Bullock landed ...

DBS Group (DBSM.SI), Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, will grow its staff in China by several hundred this year, adding to the over 1,000 employees there now, its chairman said today. “We’ll continue to grow our footprint in China,” Koh Boon Hwee told a media conference in Taipei. “We have ...

Hollywood actresses Mischa Barton and Sharon Stone have been roped in for cameo roles in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”. While the former O.C. star Barton will play a hooker called Gladys, Stone will play an ex-cop turned prosecutor on the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, Stone will be joining the ...

Katie Price is consulting a psychic in a bid to reunite with ex-husband/singer Peter Andre, it has emerged. The hottie quit I’m A Celebrity jungle in just one week, before splitting with boyfriend/cagefighter Alex Reid. Now, she has gone to seek help from Mama Love, a psychic who has celebrity clientele, including ...

Jordan, real name Katie Price, recreated the look of Sacha Baron Cohen’’s character Bruno and dressed up as a gay man. The 31-year-old, who split with husband Peter Andre earlier this year, said she enjoyed ditching her fake eyelashes, hair extensions and skimpy outfits for heat magazine’’s annual Stars Dress Up ...

The UK government's claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction is to be probed later by the official inquiry into the war. On its second day of hearings in London, the Iraq inquiry will question former senior Foreign Office staff Tim Dowse and William Ehrman.