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• Cisco boosts TelePresence strategy
• Punjab girls degree colleges staff contracts have not been renewed
• Karachi intermediate results of Commerce Part-II 2009 announced
• Apple Buyout of Mapping Firm Hints at Future Breakup With Google
• Google Pulls Pirate Bay From Search Results
• Internet helps young Chinese shine
• We take Altec’s new USB Orbit speaker for a spin
• Nokia flips out with the Shade
• Twitter to introduce ‘friend lists’ feature
• Public Communications Worldwide Names New President

Cisco boosts TelePresence strategy Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:59 AM PDT MANILA, Philippines – Cisco recently announced major steps in the company's strategy to bring Cisco TelePresence with continued global momentum for inter-company TelePresence services and the introduction of a new one-screen, one-camera system for multipurpose conference rooms. In less than two years, Cisco has enabled eight of the world's top service providers spanning five continents to [...]

Punjab girls degree colleges staff contracts have not been renewed Posted: 04 Oct 2009 12:00 AM PDT Rawalpindi, Oct 3: The future of over 10,000 female students is at stake as contracts of the teaching staff at eight girls degree colleges have not been renewed by the education department. The contracts of 98 female lecturers expired on August 30 and since then their cases have been pending with the office of the Punjab [...]

Karachi intermediate results of Commerce Part-II 2009 announced Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:58 PM PDT Karachi, Oct 3: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the results of Commerce Part-II (Regular and Private) annual examinations-2009 on Friday. Seventy colleges yielded less than 30 per cent results, while seven colleges produced no results, revealed BIEK Chairman Anwar Ahmed Zai, adding that serious action would be taken against these colleges and [...]

Apple Buyout of Mapping Firm Hints at Future Breakup With Google Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:45 PM PDT Apple quietly purchased Placebase, an online-mapping company, earlier this year. The acquisition could indicate the Cupertino, California, company's plans to reduce its dependence on Google services, such as the Google Maps application currently built into the iPhone operating system. The news of the acquisition broke unofficially on Twitter in July, but the buyout was only recently [...]

Google Pulls Pirate Bay From Search Results Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:33 PM PDT The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google's search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site. The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, the site's spare landing page contains no content to speak of — just links, a logo and a search box. [...]

Internet helps young Chinese shine Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:21 PM PDT Beijing, Oct 3 (Xinhua) Website business manger Shao Yibei describes herself as ‘a tiny waterdrop in the ocean of Chinese netizens longing to shine’. But she never knew she would shine overnight. The 26-year-old music lover had a five-minute video clip uploaded on the Internet in February, in which she was singing while playing guitar a [...]

We take Altec’s new USB Orbit speaker for a spin Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:11 PM PDT To date, Altec Lansing’s little portable Orbit speaker has come in a few different colors and designs. The latest offering, the Orbit USB ($49.95), offers USB connectivity so you can conveniently plug it into your laptop. In going to USB, the overall design of the speaker hasn’t really changed (though we do prefer the black finish), [...]

Nokia flips out with the Shade Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:01 PM PDT This cheap ‘n cheerful flip phone from Nokia is arrving in the US on the Verizon network but may not be coming to Europe – after all, the flip phone isn’t exactly a common sight here, and we generally prefer our N95s and E722, and other smart phones. The Nokia 2705 Shade is a flip phone [...]

Twitter to introduce ‘friend lists’ feature Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:10 AM PDT Twitter’s new lists feature will allow users to put the people they are following in to separate groups, to make it easier to manage their Twitter stream Twitter said it would initially test the Lists feature with a “small subset of users”, but the service will be rolled out across [...]

Public Communications Worldwide Names New President Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:23 AM PDT Public Communications/Worldwide (PC/W), one of the oldest independent public relations and marketing communications firms in California, has named Susan van Barneveld, APR, as its new president, effective May 1. Her strategic message development and her numerous creative campaigns for clients have earned her numerous prestigious awards. She brings over 20 years of exceptionally diverse public [...]

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