Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s Baidu
05 Jul 2011: Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, saidInternet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2 shows strong progress
05 Jul 2011: Microsoft has released a new Internet Explorer 10 preview, the second pre-release of Internet Explorer 10 designed to give developers access to the new technologies that Internet Explorer 10 will deliver. The new version includes support for a bunch ofAre CIA and Google teaming up?
30 Jul 2010: WASHINGTON: Hey, all you folks who like to plaster all the details of your daily lives on YouTube, did you know that your videos could soon be scanned and evaluated for terror threats? Yes, thanks to a new project funded by the US intelligence community,IAEA meeting to discuss Israel nuclear
08 Jun 2010: The United Nations nuclear agency is expected to discuss Israel's nuclear capabilities at its board of governors meeting in the Austrian capital, Vienna. It is the first time since 1991 that Israel's nuclear issue is included in the five-day meeting ofNon-latin web addresses go live
06 May 2010: Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates areWikileaks temporarily offline due to lack of funds
29 Jan 2010: The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The site, which has been a major irritant to governments and big businesses since it launched in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations.Hormuud Telecom Extends Microwave Backbone Through
27 Jan 2010: Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. a leading provider of wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks, today announced that Hormuud Telecom Somalia, Inc., placed an order for 100 of its high capacityAirports with full body scan: virtual strip search
31 Dec 2009: The wide use of full-body scanning at airports now being discussed at the White House has set off hot criticism from privacy advocates who call it a "virtual strip search," according to media reports Thursday. Ever since the Christmas Day terror attackTwitter in licensing talks with Google and Microsoft
09 Oct 2009: Microblogging service Twitter is in advanced talks with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp about licensing its data feed to the companies' search engines, a Web blog associated with the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Twitter's discussions withICANN parts with US government, gets broader oversight
01 Oct 2009: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is breaking free of the US Department of Commerce. The many-times-amended Memorandum of Understanding between the two groups was replaced today with a new Affirmation of Commitments thatUS Government Sets Up Online 'App Store'
17 Sep 2009: Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government. I'll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA AmesGoogle’s search box has grown in size
12 Sep 2009: Google just got bigger. Not the company, but the search box on its home page, that is. The Mountain View, California, company has been loathe to tamper with the clean and uncluttered look of its home page but the Internet giant this week increased theIAEA: Iran has slowed nuclear work
29 Aug 2009: Iran has slowed its expansion of uranium enrichment and met some demands for transparency but allegations it researched how to build atom bombs look credible and Tehran must address them, the UN atomic watchdog has said. In a report released on Friday,Microsoft asks court to delay ban on MS-Word
20 Aug 2009: Microsoft Corp. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to allow it to keep selling Word software as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found Microsoft infringed on aGoogle caffeine: faster search engine
12 Aug 2009: Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content fasterslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
