HALF a dozen new cases of “exploding iPhones” have emerged in France, as Apple faces an official inquiry and calls to come clean over possible risks linked to its wildly popular smartphone.
An 80-year-old pensioner from the Paris suburbs said his iPhone screen cracked up in his hands, a day after a supermarket watchman claimed he [...]
August 26, 2009 | Posted in
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The former chief commander of the American Navy has revealed information on UFOs that until recently had been secret. The American Navy had so many encounters with mysterious objects raising from or diving into the ocean that a special analytic group was set to make weekly reports to the naval commander-in-chief. The American website Free [...]
July 25, 2009 | Posted in
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THE world of high-flying young internet entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff came crashing down yesterday when his main company was placed in liquidation with debts estimated at nearly $80 million.
Tzvetkoff, 25, who at his peak was worth about $80 million, watched helplessly as his BT Projects Pty Ltd was placed in voluntary liquidation with KordaMentha’s John Park.
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July 8, 2009 | Posted in
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THE purported theft of a Goldman Sachs trading platform threatens to cost it millions of dollars, a prosecutor told a court, but so far the bank has not reported damage to its business.
Questions were raised about the security of proprietary trading systems at a court hearing on July 4 for a former Goldman computer programer [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in
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F ONLY financial journalists would dish out more insults as good as a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, business columns might suddenly seem so much more interesting.
Alas, the world must turn to its music magazine writers, such as Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone, for the really colourful stuff when it comes [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in
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IT’S the daggy blanket with sleeves that makes you want to snigger.
But Snuggie sellers are the ones laughing all the way to the bank.
Washington leads the stampede in America, where tens of thousands of the burgundy and royal blue fleece fashion eyesores have been snapped up, the Herald Sun reports.
The Snuggie has sparked a global [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in
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A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple’s inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content.
The image appears in the free app BeautyMeter, which enables people to upload photos that are then rated by others, who assign a star-rating to each other’s body parts and clothing. [...]
July 1, 2009 | Posted in
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