Burj Khalifa

Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎ "Khalifa Tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is currently the tallest structure in the world, at 828 m (2,717 ft)Burj Khalifa has been designed to be the centrepiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that would include 30,000 homes, nine hotels such...

Firesale

A fire sale is an unpopular term from popular fiction describing a three-stage coordinated attack on a country's transportation, telecommunications, financial, and utilities infrastructure systems. The attacks are designed to promote chaos and foster a leaderless environment. The term "fire sale" is used because "everything must go".The first part of a fire...

Fourth of July

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the chamber will cancel its July 4th recess next week, a decision aimed at pressuring negotiators to reach a deal on the looming debt limit.While the move throws a wrench into long-held plans by senators on both sides of the aisle, it also shows Reid is aware of the optics of taking a week off while the nation...

Canada Day

Typically, Canada Day celebrations include parades, fireworks, barbecues and other get-togethers. Get the complete Canada Day Checklist, including lyrics to O Canada in French and English.Schools, banks, government offices and many other stores and businesses are closed on July 1st. Call ahead to restaurants, stores and tourist attractions to confirm Canada...

Haiti Earthquake

Approximately 35,000 households in Haiti have received 'clean water' buckets - comprises a chlorine solution and an RFID tag of five liters bucket for handling and storage of water - the charity Deep Springs International (DSI).On each bucket has an RFID tag is read during the regular visits of community-based health workers NFC-equipped Nokia 6212 phones. Just...

Twitter Status

Social networking platform Twitter has suffered intermittent disruptions to its service and what it called an 'elevated error rate'.Twitter said the social platform was having stability issues worldwide.The company's status blog said users might experience some problems loading twitter.com and with Twitter clients.Twitter support said it was aware of the elevated...

The Lunar Eclipse December 2010

Last December 13, 2010, star gazers and sky watchers enjoyed the bright Geminid meteor shower. For those who missed watching and witnessing this phenomenon, don’t fret because this December 21, 2010 there will be another meteor shower – the Ursids meteor shower according to space.com. The Ursids meteor shower aren’t supposedly bright enough as the Geminid,...

NComputing

The NComputing solution separates a desktop PC environment from a physical machine to create a client-server computing model. That is, a user's desktop is hosted remotely and accessed via a access device over the network. A user no longer has a physical PC.Windows XP instead of Windows Server softwareOnly under very limited circumstances. If you (the customer)...

Comcast Email

Nov 05, 2010 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSK) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $19.60 to a high of $19.98. Yesterday, the shares gained 2.00%, which took the trading range above the 3-day high of $19.58 on volume of 5.4 million shares. Often times after large one-day gains, short term traders will seek...

Zabasearch

ZabaSearch, a leading people search engine, today announced ZabaSphere, a real-time alert based system that enables users to find out who and when someone searches for them online by their name or social security number. ZabaSearch is bringing a new level of digital transparency to consumers that empowers them to take control over their digital lives.ZabaSphere...

Columbus Day Closings

Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday of every October and this year it falls on the 11th of October, 2010. Columbus Day is mostly a national holiday but still there are some offices and banks which remain open on this day while others honor this day by remaining closed. If you are planning to carry out your day-to-day operations on Columbus Day,...

Yahoo Down Because Of Server Hangup

Yahoo Down Because Of Server Hangup – The front page of Yahoo was down throughout the day. The news quickly made its way to the social networking websites, including Twitter, where Yahoo being down became a trending topic. It was the first time that the homepage of Yahoo had suffered downtime in more than a decade, leading some experts to speculate that...

Brooklyn Bridge Closed Due to Suspicious Packages, Now Reopened

The Brooklyn Bridge was closed to pedestrians and cars due to the discovery of suspicious packages Friday. Reports indicate that there may have been two packages, one on each side of the bridge. Cops were worried that these may have been bombs of some sort.After the police handled the packages, the bridge was reopened to commute...

Geohot Is Back

The world famous computer hacker Geohot is back and he’s already making waves. Geohot next week will be releasing an exploit to jailbreak any Apple iDevices. This included the iPad, iPhones, and the new iPad Touch. This is for people that don’t like the current Apple operating system and are confident enough in what they are doing to jailbreak the devices....

Health Tips

Over the past few years there has been a tremendous increase of nutritional liquid supplements on the market. Many of these products advertise high levels of absorption, claiming that they are much easier to digest than tablets. Some manufacturers even claim that they have a bioavailability rate of 100%. Although there are some good companies in the supplementary...

'Here You Have' Email Virus Spreading Rapidly

If, as I did, you get a message in your email box today with the subject line saying, "Here you have", do not open it and delete it from your inbox immediately. significant percentage of corporate email users in the United States are being deluged with a strong and quickly spreading virus today that appears to be from somebody in your company and/or contact...

Labor Day

This Labor Day weekend, job prospects appear about as inviting as the leftover potato salad. But President Obama found encouragement in the Friday jobs report for August.Despite a rise in unemployment to 9.6 percent and a total loss of 54,000 jobs (farewell, census workers), the private sector created 67,000 jobs actually last month. This is considerably...

Dubai Plane Crash

Two crew members aboard an American UPS cargo plane are believed to have been killed after the aircraft crashed in Dubai today.According to a United Arab Emirates official who appeared on local television station al-Arabiya, the plane was attempting to land at Dubai International Airport when it crashed due to technical problems. Witnesses reported seeing...

Google Voice

On Wednesday, the Web giant announced that American users of its Gmail Web service could call numbers in the United States and Canada for free from within their browsers. Calls elsewhere cost less than many traditional long-distance domestic calls: You pay 2 cents a minute to call Ireland, Korea, Argentina and many other countries. (Google's rates top out...

fiba world championship 2010

USA Team overcame a relatively slow start to cruise past Croatia, 106-78, in their first preliminary game of the 2010 FIBA World Championship. This was a rematch of the 1992 Olympic gold medal game, which, of course, the Dream Team won to capture the gold. Croatia took a 19-18 lead in the first half, but Kevin Durant and company responded with a run that...