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Cardiff in race to prepare a pitch fit for the Ashes Posted: 18 May 2009 10:13 PM PDT Seam and swing bowling did most of the damage in Co Durham. But, come Cardiff and the start of the Ashes series in a couple of months, England may be more tempted than ever to go down the spin route following official condemnation of a pitch that turned square during a recent one-day game. The controversial [...]

Cisco Sees Billions Ahead in Smart Grid Posted: 18 May 2009 10:08 PM PDT From the “It’s time to get smart about power” files: The Smart Grid, the idea of transforming the century old electrical grid in the United States into a more efficient and optimized platform for electricity management and delivery is big business. It’s a business in which networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ: CISCO) is very interested in playing [...]

Crude palm oil futures continue losing run Posted: 18 May 2009 09:55 PM PDT Palm oil in Malaysia yesterday dropped for a third day, headed for the longest losing run in two months, as investors deemed recent gains excessive amid concern demand may wane in the global recession. The vegetable oil also tracked declines in crude oil and soybeans as a drop in equities raised concern that the global economy [...]

Killer Xeno Pro Network Card Lightning Review Posted: 18 May 2009 09:13 PM PDT A specialized networking card—with blingtastic LIGHTS—designed to murder lag for gamers, the $130 Killer Xeno Pro practically screams “snake oil.” It’s not quite. If you’ve got a crappy ISP, obviously, a special thingamajig on your end won’t help you—it can’t fix the whole internet, and it doesn’t claim to. What it claims is that network traffic [...]

Tag Heuer Headset Constantly Whipsers ‘You’re So Rich’ Into Your Ear Posted: 18 May 2009 08:55 PM PDT This Tag Heuer Bluetooth headset isn’t quite as gorgeous as the company’s watches, but it’s still unlike anything else on the market. The light, 40g headset snaps in/out of what is essentially a combination flash drive/USB charger. Rather than just offering a charging cable or dock, this design allows you to carry all that stuff in [...]

5 Tips To Reduce The Size Of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations Posted: 18 May 2009 08:32 PM PDT Microsoft PowerPoint presentations can take up lots of hard drive space. The size of the presentations depends largely on the multimedia content - that is pictures, videos and audio - that has been added to the presentation by its creator. While this usually is not a big problem for presentations that do not have to [...]

ISPs, PTCL row settled Posted: 18 May 2009 08:21 PM PDT ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has decided to allow the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and DSL operators to buy Internet bandwidth from backbone operators other than PTCL, thus settling a two years row of ISPs versus PTCL. ISPs has been complaining to PTA to amend their DSL Interconnect Agreement with the PTCL signed during the [...]

Rachel Weisz never uses a body double Posted: 18 May 2009 08:07 PM PDT Cannes: Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz has said that she is confident about her body to appear naked in her latest film ‘Agora’ and that she never uses a body double. The 38-year-old actress plays a real-life 4th century Greek philosopher and astronomer named Hypatia in the film, 'Daily Mail' online reported. The film is a love triangle [...]

Sensex hits 14k market, trade halted for day Posted: 18 May 2009 08:02 PM PDT Mumbai: The BSE benchmark Sensex extended gains to 17.24 per cent on Monday, halting trade for the rest of the day after the surge triggered the final circuit breaker for the market. The 30-share BSE index rose 2,099.21 points to 14,272.63 points when trading resumed following a two-hour initial halt, after the ruling Congress-led alliance swept [...]

Equities move both ways on LSE Posted: 18 May 2009 07:57 PM PDT LAHORE: Equities moved both the ways on the Lahore Stock Exchange on Monday and finally closed with fractional gain amid descending transaction volume due to lacking buying support as the investors remained on the sidelines. The LSE-25 index fractionally improved by 0.13 points and closed at 2119.15 against 12219.02 of last Friday while shares volume [...]

Dull session on KSE Posted: 18 May 2009 07:54 PM PDT KARACHI: The Karachi share market experienced a dull session on Monday with low volume, and the KSE-100 index closed in negative at 7,172.85 points level with a loss of 4.79 points. The market opened on a positive note and the index rose to 7,230.37 points intra-day high. But soon it dropped into negative to reach [...]

Comex Gold Lower On Stocks, Technicals Posted: 18 May 2009 07:49 PM PDT Dow Jones - Comex gold turned lower due to a combination of the moves in equities and technical considerations, says Frank Lesh, broker and futures analyst with FuturePath Trading. The Dow industrials are up by around 100 points. “The equity strength coming in takes away a little of the flight to safety,” Lesh says. Furthermore, [...]

Cotton Review: Climbs On Spillover Support; Eyes New Range Posted: 18 May 2009 07:44 PM PDT NEW YORK (Dow Jones) Spillover support from rallying equities and commodities swung ICE Futures U.S. cotton up from two-week lows Monday as the U.S. dollar weakened. July cotton settled 125 points higher at 57.55 cents a pound and the October contract settled up 135 points at 59.62 cents. Cotton opened lower and fell to the 55.52 low [...]

Did you Know that ?? Future Technology 2009 The year of technology invention Posted: 18 May 2009 04:49 PM PDT Related Posts May 19, 2009 — Cisco Sees Billions Ahead in Smart Grid (0) May 19, 2009 — Killer Xeno Pro Network Card Lightning Review (0) May 19, 2009 — President PTCL Mr. Walid Irshaid says on World Telecom Day (0) May 19, 2009 — Mobile phones have become an ‘instrument for life’ (0)

President PTCL Mr. Walid Irshaid says on World Telecom Day Posted: 18 May 2009 04:11 PM PDT It is an honor to greet the Pakistani Nation on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on behalf of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). 17th May marks the creation of the International Telecommunication Union and hence World Telecommunication Day has been celebrated since 1969. Today, PTCL has redefined the conventional boundaries of the telecommunication market [...]

PTA says it has completed Q1 targets Posted: 18 May 2009 03:58 PM PDT Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has completed targets and goals set for the first quarter (January to March) of 2009. An Authority meeting was held at PTA Headquarters to review the progress on the targets and goals set for the year 2009. The meeting was chaired by Chairman PTA Dr. Mohammed Yaseen, Member Finance Mr. S. Nasrul [...]

Bank-AlHabib chooses Inbox for Disaster Recovery Solution Posted: 18 May 2009 03:53 PM PDT After the successful completion of Oracle E-Business Suite last year at Bank Al-Habib, Inbox signed an agreement with the bank to provide more applications on running ERP System. Inbox being one of the Value Added Reseller, System Integrator, and Certified Implementation Partner of Oracle, offered the bank Disaster Recovery (DR) solution implementation based on Oracle [...]

Mobile phones have become an ‘instrument for life’ Posted: 18 May 2009 03:42 PM PDT Melbourne, May 18 : Mobile phones, though marketed as a business tool, have now become an instrument for life, according to a new survey. The survey involving 1000 workers has shown that cell phones not only keep users “perpetually available”, they also help in stress because “dead time”-for example, waiting for the late morning train-can be [...]

Internet data heads for 500bn gigabytes Posted: 18 May 2009 03:34 PM PDT World’s digital content equivalent to stack of books stretching from Earth to Pluto 10 times The world’s store of digital content is now the equivalent of one full top-of-the-range iPod for every two people on the planet, following the explosion of social networking sites, internet-enabled mobile phones and government surveillance. At 487bn gigabytes (GB), if the world’s [...]

Michael Jackson denies skin cancer reports Posted: 18 May 2009 03:23 PM PDT A spokesman for the King of Pop insists that the star is in ‘perfect health’ and the show will go on. All 50 of them Michael Jackson … the star is apparently keeping up with dancers half his age. Photograph: Martin Godwin A spokesman for Michael Jackson has denied reports that the star is suffering from skin [...]

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