A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed ‘Suomi NPP’ on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner […]
Google Thailand is helping Thai small business operators do business online. The Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (Osmep) plans to conduct business training courses and provide financial support to SMEs this year. The plan is aimed at producing new entrepreneurs and strengthening SMEs ahead of Asean’s integration in 2015. Read more: Bangkok Post
‘Hacktivists’ Anonymous group has published the discography of Sony as a reprisal by the closure of Megaupload, the online file sharing service, and support for soup. Anonymous has posted links on its website’s header, Pastebin, so users can download all the albums produced by Sony. On the occasion of the controversial law soup and Megaupload […]
China has finished production of the first of its Chinese-built magnetically levitated (maglev) trains in Zhuzhou, Hunan. Described as low-cost and eco-friendly, the trains are to begin operating next year on the Daitai line between Haidian District and Beijing. The three-coached trains are able to carry up to 600 passengers and run at a top […]
The day after several major websites staged a mass blackout over proposed United States anti piracy legislation, namely the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) proposals, members of online activist group Anonymous have knocked US Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI), Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) and Universal […]
CAT Telecom and Advanced Info Service (AIS) have emerged as the biggest winners from mobile-phone number portability after the service was launched in December 2010. The requests from all cellular networks for number transfers as of January 16 had reached 401,053, of which 304,779 were completed. Read more: The Nation
The Associated Press is reporting that federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down Megaupload.com, one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites. The indictment accuses the company’s founder and others with violating piracy laws. Earlier today, we reported confirmation from Swizz Beatz’s publicist that the recording artist is indeed Megaupload’s current CEO, but he did not […]
What good is an iPhone 4S without its venerable 8 megapixel camera? If you have answered that it is no good, you might be right. But there are sectors that believes a camera-less iPhone 4S is still a very good phone. Being in a similar situation myself, I can see why a camera-less iPhone 4S […]
