Since July 2011, heavy monsoon rains in southeast Asia have resulted in catastrophic flooding. In Thailand, about one third of all provinces are affected. On Oct. 23, 2011, when this image from ASTER, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft was acquired, flood waters were approaching the capital city […]
Flooding in Thailand, which disrupted more than a dozen hard disk drive (HDD) factories, will have a direct impact on worldwide PC shipments through the first half of 2012, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) report. In a statement released on Nov 10, the global IT consulting firm said that in the first […]
The discovery of how measles spreads could lead to promising new approaches in treating cancer, according to a new study published in Nature. Measles – the leading cause of death among young children, according to the World Health Organization – is commonly spread through coughing or sneezing.
Internet giant Google has begun a pilot program, allowing users of its “Maps” service to look inside businesses. This tool is aimed to further the controversial Street View feature which already allows the public to access 360° images of streets. A spokesman for Google described the new feature: “Building on the Google Art Project, which […]
BANGKOK, 20 October 2011 (NNT) – Thai-based Japanese motor companies has decided to suspend their production lines after their factories have been severely hit by the deluge. The suspension takes effect today, said NHK Broadcasting Corporation. According to NHK, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation, a giant truck maker located in the flood-ravaged industrial estate […]
BANGKOK, Oct 14 – Toyota, Japan’s biggest automaker, announced Friday that production at its three plants in Thailand would be suspended for a further week following a parts supply shortage due to heavy flooding. Toyota Motor (Thailand)’s three plants shut down their production lines on Wednesday. The company said its plants in Samrong, Gateway and […]
The C programming language creator and co-developer of the Unix operating system Dennis Ritchie died at home on October 8 after an extended illness, at the age of 70. Former colleague Rob Pike first publicly announced the death, which Alcatel-Lucent then confirmed. Ritchie, born in Bronxville, New York on September 9, 1941, joined Bell Labs […]
Oh, RIM! It looked like things couldn’t get any worse, and then your messaging services go down for days. And right before the iPhone launch, too. BlackBerry owners will already know about it, but for the rest of you, BBM (BlackBerry Messaging) went down hard on Monday morning, and is still staggering along two days […]
