ICT magazine

Six years have passed since the largest ethnically motivated crimes since 1999 occurred in Kosovo, in which 19 civilians were killed. The two-day riots in Kosovo began on March 17, 2004, after UNMIK police found the bodies of two Albanian boys in the Ibar River in the village of ...

In 1985, the domain name .com came into existence, helping to define the modern Internet. Within two years of the registration of the first Internet domain name, major tech corporations such as Intel (Intel.com), Xerox (xerox.com), and Apple (apple.com), along with a host of smaller outfits, had all ...

Ex-NATO Secretary General George Robertson says the Western Balkan countries have made significant progress. He also expressed his belief that the whole region will be part of the Alliance in ten years.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the death of former president of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević. Milošević died while in custody at the Hague Tribunal.

The problem of 'unintended acceleration' is indeed a thorny one and the media is like a dog with a bone. It is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between a genuine issue and something that is contrived by an over-zealous journalist/publisher/broadcaster or simply an unfortunate incident blown up out of all proportion.  Anyway, we have ...

Osim International, Asia’s biggest maker of massage chairs outside of Japan, will add as many as 80 stores annually in China over the next three to five years to tap growing demand in the world’s most populous country.   The company will have between 500 to 600 stores in China within five ...

A Trojan hidden within software for the Energizer Duo USB battery charger may have been around since May 2007, according to Symantec. The software, which affects Windows machines, has been taken off the market by Energizer. Fortunately, the Trojan can be fought with a few easy fixes. - ...

Yahoo could emulate Apple in the 1990s in taking years to restore itself to competitive health, CEO Carol Bartz told reporters during a March 2 event to commemorate Yahoo's 15th anniversary. Although Yahoo has aggressively sought to expand its more popular features while cutting underperforming applications and programs, the company ...

British Ambassador in Belgrade Stephen Wordsworth said that Serbia could join the EU in seven or eight years. This would come "if it focuses all of its efforts on European integration and removes all the obstacles in its path," he told Belgrade daily Večernje Novosti.

You know the big banks have gotten bigger.As Rolfe Winkler noted last September:For the big have gotten even bigger since the start of the financial crisis. At the end of 2007, the Big Four banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells...

SunMoon Food Company has achieved a profit after tax of $6.4 million for FY09 (1st January 2009 till 31st December 2009), translating to basic earnings per share of 0.082 cents or 0.076 cents on a fully diluted basis. Significantly improved gross margins, lower operational expenses and disposal gains contributed ...

Today, Ron Paul accused the Federal Reserve of having a hand in nefarious plots such as Watergate and arming Saddam Hussein. House Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank said that the Committee should look into it.A 1992 article in the Los An...

Time spent in retirement has sharply increasedAS GOVERNMENTS try to tackle huge structural budget deficits, one means of attack is to delay paying state pensions by gently raising the official state-retirement age. Protests are expected in Spain on Tuesday February 23rd against an official plan to lift the retirement age ...

Mumbai witnessed its first ever Cyclothon yesterday where Salman Khan was the star attraction of the event. Cyclothon is the event where Cycling professionals from different parts of the world participate in. It was held around the Bandra suburb that continued till noon. The city’s foremost Cyclothon had two cycling ...

Singapore will increase levies for companies hiring foreign workers as the country attempts to depend less on overseas labour, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said. Levies will be increased in a phased manner over the next three years, Shanmugaratnam told Parliament today in the nation’s budget speech. {jcomments on}

Singapore will spend $2.5 billion over five years in continuing education and training, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told Parliament in the nation’s budget speech today.  

Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of OCBC (OCBC.SI), aims to double client assets in three years to about US$46 billion ($64.9 billion) by exploiting its parent’s strong base in Southeast Asia.    “There is a lot of low-hanging fruit,” said Renato de Guzman, who heads the new unit formed after ...

President Barack Obama Tuesday nominated career diplomat Robert Ford as the first US ambassador to Syria in five years, seeking to engage a US foe and energize his thwarted Middle East peace push. Ford will be the first US ambassador to Damascus since Washington recalled its envoy ...

Facebook, which turned six Feb. 4 and has more than 400 million users, improved its search engine and made several navigational changes to its homepage. The search bar, currently to the right for the majority of the site's users, is being moved to the center of the page, sitting above ...

Todays top products might end up in tomorrows scrap heap. - While coming up with my suggested contributions for this weeks 25 Technologies that Changed the '00s (which I like to call the “Naughties”), I considered whether product or technology played a significant role in my day to day operations ...