MySpace users with mobile phones are about to find out if they can walk and watch TV at the same time. On Wednesday, News Corp's online social network will make video clips from its members' pages available for viewing on mobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and
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Telus Corp, Canada's No. 2 phone company, said on Wednesday it is buying new technology from Nortel Networks Corp that lets telecom companies quadruple the capacity of their networks. Telus's deployment of 40G optical technology from Nortel, North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment, comes after rival Canadian telecom group BCE Inc announced in September
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President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias has sent a second letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in which he protests the continuation of Turkish harassments against research vessels within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ)of Cyprus. In his letter to the UNSG, dated 25 November 2008, President Christofias notes that “subsequent to my
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Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) and the Syrian Telecommunication Establishment (STE) have signed a package of bilateral agreements, within the framework of their strategic cooperation. According to a press release, issued by Cyta, the package includes an agreement for the international cable capacity in Europe, a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of submarine cable link
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A tentative rebound in global stocks spluttered on Wednesday while euro zone government bond yields hit a three-year low as gloomy economic news highlighted the case for more aggressive interest rate cuts in Europe this week. The euro stayed on the backfoot and oil held near a 3-1/2 year low a day before the European
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Organised international art smugglers, in cooperation or with the tolerance of the Turkish occupation army, have virtually flooded international black markets with stolen icons and other religious and architectural artifacts stolen from the occupied areas of Cyprus, said German professor Klaus Gallas. Speaking at a gathering at Dortmund, Germany on the destruction of the cultural
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There aren’t many reasons to be cheerful at the moment, but the massive collapse in the oil price is one of them. As recently as July, oil scaled the record-breaking heights of $147 a barrel – pushing up petrol prices, the cost of heating, and inflation. But since then, the fear of global recession and
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By Rebekah Curtis People dumped from finance jobs who hope to find employment in the voluntary sector may have to reconsider, because as Britain slips into recession, ailing charities are struggling to absorb the unemployed. So far 180,000 financial professionals worldwide have lost their jobs as banks implode, prompting talented and financially astute people to
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British recruiters reported a record fall in job appointments and wages in November, a survey showed on Wednesday. Figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation published with accountants KPMG showed both permanent and temporary staff appointments fell to their weakest level last month since the start of the survey in October 1997. Rates of pay
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The CySEC announced that at its board meeting on 24 November 2008 it decided, upon a request from Costakis Loizou to grant an exception from the obligation to make a mandatory takeover bid for Louis Pcl (LUI.CY). The CySEC said Costakis Loizou is given a transfer deadline of the 15,399,200 shares of LUI to independent
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