Touchscreen phone users are discovering that much of the fun in their devices stems from applications — those little nuggets of convenience, amusement and distraction available for download on the slightest whim. A good example is Google Inc's newly updated Mobile App for Apple Inc's iPhone, which has been generating a lot of buzz for
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Blockbuster Inc on Monday said it would roll out a new digital media player that brings fewer, but more recent titles from the Internet to consumers' televisions than a six-month old offering from rival Netflix Inc. The MediaPoint player by broadband device maker 2Wire allows Blockbuster customers to download high-definition quality movies to their TVs
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Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows. Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and his colleagues found few factual errors in their evaluation of Wikipedia entries
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The suicide of a Missouri teen could have been avoided had she not been tormented online by a mom who lived a few houses away, prosecutors said on Monday, describing the girl's death as a tragedy. The jury will begin deliberating on Tuesday in the federal case against Missouri woman Lori Drew, who is accused
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Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyiannis has described as a success for President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and the island as a whole, the fact that the Turkish Cypriot side has at last accepted the principles of a single identity, a single indivisible sovereignty and a single nationality. In an interview with CNA
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Cypriot Minister of Justice and Public Order, Kypros Chrysostomides expressed Cyprus’ support to a multi-annual programme of cooperation for migration and development, which was adopted by more than 80 delegations from Europe and Africa that met in Paris on Tuesday. Following on from the first conference held in Rabat in July 2006, the Second Euro-African
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U.S. banking executives should forgo big bonuses since the economy is faltering and hundreds of thousands of workers face job cuts, President-elect Barack Obama said in an ABC News interview airing on Wednesday. Asked whether bank executives should forgo their bonuses, Obama said: "I think they should." He also said it would show they are
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A financial sector rally lifted Hong Kong and South Korea stock markets on Wednesday following an $800 billion Federal Reserve effort to bolster U.S. lending, while the aftermath of BHP Billiton's dropped bid for Rio Tinto gave a boost to metals shares. Major European stock markets were expected to open as much as 1.5 percent
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Ocean Tankers Holdings Public Company Ltd (OCT) announced that it decided to sell tanker M/T Gemi at the price of $28 mln, which had been acquired by the Company for $22.9 mln resulting in a net profit of $5mln. The company decided to sell M/T Gemi taking into account the global economic crisis and in
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Moody's announced that it has affirmed all ratings of Bank of Cyprus, with their stable outlook, following the completion of its acquisition of an 80% majority and controlling stake in Russia's Uniastrum Bank. Moody's comments that the relative size of Uniastrum is not material enough to impact BOCY's franchise value or financial fundamentals. The ratings
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