According to the Wall Street Journal Asia, Jobs and Co are in Japan working out the details for a domestic iPhone launch. It’s no surprise then that Jobs was rumored to have just met with NTT DoCoMo’s president, Masao Nakamur, to discuss the deal with the largest carrier in the world’s second-largest economy. As usual, [...]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Turkish troops that entered Iraq early Tuesday have returned to the Turkish side of the border, according to Kurdish Regional Government spokesman Jamal Abdullah. The troops crossed into northern Iraq apparently in pursuit of Kurdish rebels two days after the Turkish military launched an air and missile assault across the border. [...]
KIEV, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukraine’s parliament elected pro-Western former premier Yulia Tymoshenko as its new prime minister on Tuesday, the Ukrinform national news agency reported. Tymoshenko won the vote with the minimum number of 226 votes, Ukrinform said. She had failed to win the election a week earlier after receiving only 225 votes, but the [...]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Lebanese man was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday for last year’s failed attempt to bomb German trains but three other defendants were acquitted, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said. The four were charged with planting crude bombs on two trains at the Cologne station on July [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide. Dating Web site Match.com, owned by media mogul Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp conglomerate, plans to launch two new features this week that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than [...]
O2 is to trial an internet-based TV service next year after trialling a similar product in the Czech market, a test bed for the mobile phone company’s wider ambitions. The Czech IPTV launch has proved a big success for O2 and its owner, Telefonica, since it launched in September 2006, attracting 70,000 customers so far. [...]
LONDON — ArcelorMittal said it’s terminated an agreement to sell its Sparrows Point, Balitmore facility to E2 Acquisition, a venture of Esmark Inc. and Wheeling-Pittsburgh, because the venture couldn’t secure financing. The steelmaker is still required to divest the facility as stipulated by the Department of Justice, and it said it would work closely with [...]
Nintendo is set to miss out on an estimated $1.3 billion (£650 million) in sales this Christmas by failing to meet demand for its Wii video games console. James Lin, a senior analyst at MDB Capital Group, believes that Nintendo could be selling twice the 1.8 million Wiis it is manufacturing a month. The $1.3 [...]
On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two Bell Labs researchers, built the world’s first transistor. Their device, called a point contract transistor, conducted electricity and amplified signals, a job then currently handled by bulky and delicate vacuum tubes and other components. Their colleague William Shockley followed soon after with junction transistors. Although [...]
BALTIMORE — Mittal Steel Co. NV announced Sunday that it has terminated its agreement for the sale of the Sparrows Point steel mill near Baltimore to an international investment group led by Esmark Inc. due to the group’s inability to secure financing. The move comes at the direction of the court-appointed trustee who has the [...]
