Archive for July, 2005
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Sunday, July 31st, 2005The pop star Robbie Williams may never win any prizes for originality with his hugely popular musical output but the chart-topping singer has signed a novel deal with a mobile phone network that could revolutionise the way fans buy his songs.
The singer has signed an exclusive deal with the global telecom giant T-Mobile that [...]
Fuel Prices Up Again, 20 Sen Hike For Diesel, 10 Sen For Petrol
Saturday, July 30th, 2005The government Saturday announced increases in the retail price for diesel, petrol and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) by 20 sen, 10 sen and five sen per litre effective Sunday.
The Prime Minister’s Office, in a press statement tonight, said the increase was part of government efforts to tackle the impact of the increase in the crude [...]
Chinese Blog to List on NASDAQ
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005‘One of China’s most well-known bloggers hopes to ride the current boom in personal online journals and transform his blog site into a U.S.-listed Internet giant.
“We are building a blog-based portal and we will be the first blogger ever to list on the NASDAQ,� Bokee.com chairman and chief executive officer Fang Xingdong said.
Fang, who previously [...]
Bloggers for Ensight
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005For an as-yet unannounced project, I need A Few Good Bloggers, for topics such as Gaming (preferrably a girl, to be honest), Aviation (hobbyist, including the VATSim stuff, Flight Simulator, gliding, etc), as well as a “well rounded blogger� who can do some sports, some humour, some techy gadgety stuff, some movies, etc.
If you’re interested, [...]
Hackers Spreading Spyware From Free Personal Web Sites
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005Attackers are using free personal Web hosting sites provided by nationally- and internationally-known ISPs to store their malicious code, and to infect users with worms, viruses, and spyware, a security firm said Monday.
Websense, a San Diego, Calif.-based Web security and content filtering vendor, has detected a big jump in the use of [...]
Avant Browser 10.1
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005Avant Browser 10.1 is really a cool browser. It acts like Internet Explorer, so you won’t have any problems with IE only websites.
Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up Stopper, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6)
Monday, July 25th, 2005Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in J.K. Rowling’s bestselling series, picks up shortly after we left Harry at the end of The Order of the Phoenix. Lord Voldemort is acting out in the open, continuing his reign of terror which was temporarily stopped almost 15 years beforehand. Harry is again at [...]
Improved security for Citibank
Monday, July 25th, 2005Citibank Bhd has launched a new security feature that the bank claimed would improve the security of those using its Internet banking facilities.
The feature, launched in conjunction with its ongoing customer education programme, is known as “The Dynamic PIN,� – a radical departure from the current Internet banking login procedure used by its customers, [...]
New RFID centre in Malaysia
Monday, July 25th, 2005Symmid Corp Sdn Bhd and Total Industry Solution (TIS) Network Bhd jointly launched a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) centre of excellence here last week.
The centre, called Symmid-Erev RFID Solution Centre, is the first of its kind in Asia and is aimed at increasing the understanding and development of emerging RFID technologies in Malaysia, the [...]
Free Service Transmits Blogs Into Space
Sunday, July 24th, 2005July 19, 2005-MindComet launches a website sending bloggers where no blog has gone before: deep space. BloginSpace.com is a free service for bloggers allowing them to submit their blog feeds for transmission into deep space. The site will aggregate blog content into transmission packages and send the content into deep space via a powerful earth-based [...]
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