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Rajeev Suri appointed Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks
Favouritism in Sindh Education department
Twittering teens add hundreds of words to dictionary
Grand Theft Auto game coming to iPhone
Pakistani rapper making waves Adil Omar
Automatically Monitor & Restart Crashed Applications
Canon EOS 7D’s Leaked Out
Comex Gold Futures Falter With Oil, Equities
Cotton Review: Jumps On Late Industry Buying;Seen In Range
Sensex dips by 255 pts on profit booking
KSE bullish trend seen on 31-08-2009
LSE index up 81.61 points on 31-08-2009
20 best new features in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Apple sets iPod launch day for September 9

Rajeev Suri appointed Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 08:11 AM PDT

Rajeev Suri appointed Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks; Simon Beresford-Wylie to step down after successfully leading the company’s integration. Nokia Corporation Stock Exchange Release September 1, 2009 at 13.00 (CET +1) Espoo, Finland – The Nokia Siemens Networks Board of Directors has appointed Rajeev Suri as Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2009. Suri succeeds Simon Beresford-Wylie, [...]

Favouritism in Sindh Education department

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 12:16 AM PDT

Favouritism continues to make presence felt Karachi, Sep 01: Despite tall claims made by the Sindh government and authorities at the Education department, practices of out-of-turn postings, detailments and hiring of non-technical staff at administrative post are still being carried out, it has been learnt. Earlier this week, Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Muhammad Ibrahim Kumbhar issued [...]

Twittering teens add hundreds of words to dictionary

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 11:43 PM PDT

Teenagers are helping to introduce hundreds of new words into the language thanks to their use of social networking sites like Bebo, MySpace and Twitter. The editors of this year’s Collins English Dictionary have made 267 additions, including words which have previously been considered nothing more than [...]

Grand Theft Auto game coming to iPhone

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 11:39 PM PDT

Rockstar Games, the developers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, announced on Monday that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be coming to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch this fall. The developer also announced that Beaterator, an app that allows users to create “world-class beats and songs,” will also be made available on the App Store. [...]

Pakistani rapper making waves Adil Omar

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 11:06 PM PDT

I've never been a fan of rap music and I was skeptical about a Pakistani rapper. Always having considered pretty Asian boys crooning English music as asinine entertainment for example, I didn't know what to expect from Adil Omar. I wasn't even sure what I would ask him, but when he forwarded his 'myspace' profile [...]

Automatically Monitor & Restart Crashed Applications

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:53 PM PDT

There are times when you confront some applications getting stuck or hung causing you to close or restarting them manually. For example, if you are downloading a file through your favorite download accelerator etc and it closes in your absense due to an error, it'll surely make you crappy when you are back. Here's an [...]

Canon EOS 7D’s Leaked Out

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:25 PM PDT

Well here is details have been leaked of latest DSLR from Canon, Canon Eos 7D, with few photos and complete specifications. Canon EOS 7D will come with a 18 mega pixil sensor, a 3 inch LCD display, dual DIGIC 4 processors and ISO range of 100 to 6400, with extends to 12800. Below are specifications: 18 megapixels APS-C [...]

Comex Gold Futures Falter With Oil, Equities

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 09:34 PM PDT

NEW YORK–Gold futures sank Monday as weaker equities damped inflation expectations and crude oil faltered, but the metal recovered some losses as the U.S. dollar weakened. December gold fell $5.30 to settle at $953.50 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Declining equities can bring a “chill” of economic concern to the [...]

Cotton Review: Jumps On Late Industry Buying;Seen In Range

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 09:32 PM PDT

NEW YORK–Late commercial buying lifted ICE Futures U.S. cotton Monday in otherwise listless trade guided by outside markets. Most-active December cotton settled up 140 points at 59.74 cents a pound and the nearby October contract settled 146 points higher at 57.76 cents. Cotton eased in early dealings as outside markets were weaker. Speculators took profits as is [...]

Sensex dips by 255 pts on profit booking

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 09:24 PM PDT

Mumbai: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex snapped a seven-day advancing streak and plunged 255 points, as investors sold shares ignoring strong economic growth numbers. The 30-share index, which had gained 1,112 points, or 7.5 per cent in the last seven sessions, plunged by 255.70 points to 15,666.64 points. The 50-stock National Stock Exchange index Nifty lost [...]

KSE bullish trend seen on 31-08-2009

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 09:19 PM PDT

KARACHI: Bullish trend was observed at Karachi share market on Monday and the KSE-100 index surged by 134.45 points to close at 8,675.67 points from 8541.22 points due to strong interest of both local and foreign investors on the back of £665 million pledged for Pakistan stability by Britain. The expectation of significant reduction in CPI [...]

LSE index up 81.61 points on 31-08-2009

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 09:04 PM PDT

LAHORE: Bullish sentiment was observed on Lahore Stock Exchange on Monday and the equities moved upward amid improved trading turnover following investors’ interest in oil and banking sector shares. The LSE index jumped to 2738.87 points against 2657.26 points of last Friday, denoting an improvement of 81.61 points, while transaction volume improved to 23.646 million [...]

20 best new features in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 05:11 PM PDT

Many of Snow Leopard’s changes are under the hood – new architecture that provides a foundation for the Mac going forward. But while there’s no Spotlight, Time Machine or Quick Look equivalent this time round, Snow Leopard still packs in new user-oriented features, big and small. Here are our favourites. 1. Exchange support The biggie for corporate types, [...]

Apple sets iPod launch day for September 9

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:59 PM PDT

Apple has sent out invitations to its annual iPod event, for next Wednesday September 9. The invite – themed ‘It’s only rock and roll, but we like it’ – will probably see a new raft of iPods and possibly a music label deal or two, but is unlikely to feature the much-hyped iTablet. The hot money is [...]