Articles in the NewsSources Category
Posted in NewsSources on 18 January 2012
(WASHINGTON-AFP) – Wikipedia went dark, Google blotted out its logo and other popular websites planned protests on Wednesday to voice concern over legislation in the US Congress intended to crack down on online piracy. Wikipedia shut down the English version of its online encyclopedia for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 18 January 2012
(WASHINGTON-AFP) – Wikipedia went dark, Google blotted out its logo and other popular websites planned protests on Wednesday to voice concern over legislation in the US Congress intended to crack down on online piracy. Wikipedia shut down the English version of its online encyclopedia for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 17 January 2012
(TOKYO-Relaxnews) – Japan is working on a new global positioning system that will be 10 times more accurate than the system that is currently in use and will be able to pinpoint a location down to just one meter. At present, Japan uses an American-made system for GPS devices, but Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 17 January 2012
(HONG KONG-Relaxnews) – Gift-giving has long been an integral part of life in mainland China — regardless of the murky area of motives when it occurs in the world of business — and now a new survey has lifted the lid on just what it is the country’s rich have been handing out. The “Top [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 17 January 2012
(LAS VEGAS-AFP) – Goodbye boob tube. Hello smart TV. oard at 2012 CES A woman touches the screen on Sharp's 80-inch touch screen TV set Aquos Board, an Interactive Display System, on the opening day of the International Consumer Electronics Show on January 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. ©AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 17 January 2012
(BEIJING-AFP) – The number of Internet users in China rose last year by nearly 56 million to more than half a billion, nearly half of whom used weibos, or microblogs, according to official figures released Monday. China’s online population — the world’s largest — hit 513 million in 2011, a 12.2 percent increase on the [...]
Posted in NewsSources on 14 January 2012
(TOKYO-Relaxnews) – The hugely popular Prius gas-electric hybrid was the best-selling car in Japan again in 2011, with the Toyota Motor Corp. vehicle holding the top spot for the third straight year. A total of 252,528 units of the Prius were sold over the year, thanks in large part to the growing environment-friendly attitude among [...]
