Aug 15
If you happen to live in one of the following four Nordic countries – Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, then you might be pleased to hear that Netflix will be offering their streaming service in that part of the world before the year is over. TV shows and movies are all readily available for your perusal, and you can stuff yourself with unlimited shows with but a single monthly fee. In fact, a wide number of the movies and TV shows made available by Netflix would feature high definition video and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound for added entertainment value. (more…)
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Computing giant IBM has launched an investigation alongside the Kenyan government in Nairobi, opening up a tech research hub there in the process while keeping their fingers crossed (not to mention performing their fair share of quantitative analysis using scientific methodologies and instruments, of course) in an attempt to solve local issues, including traffic congestion. Right now, IBM already has set up 11 research outposts throughout the world, and Nairobi’s research hub will see it house up to 50 researchers in 5 years’ time. 
Have you read the Asterix comics that had this particular village chieftain who was always scared that the sky would fall on his head? Well, there are plenty of phobias out there in the world, but certainly having the sky fall down on our heads would be one of the least problems to have, with a zombie apocalypse having a far higher chance of happening. Well, a businessman from Yiwu, China, recently came up with his very own recipe for disaster survival – calling it “China’s Noah’s Ark.” At the other side of the doomsday escape pod had this label, “Atlantis” – plumbing new depths, perhaps? 
I can see the new title now – travel the Internet on $1 a day, or something to that effect. After all, we have just gotten whiff that Internet search giant Google has decided to flex their purchasing muscle yet again by picking up the Frommer’s line of travel guidebooks for $151 million, making it the latest addition to their growing collection of publishing content that might just help enhance Google’s position to maneuver them into that of a major online travel broker. This purchase comes approximately a year after 
What you see above is the first in a series of full color images in 100,000 dpi glory, and just before you scratch your head wondering where can you purchase a printer that is capable of doing so, you ought to know that this is made possible only with the help of nanotechnology. The 100,000 dpi full color images was made possible thanks to researchers over at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) which is located in the tiny red dot known as Singapore. The presence of nanotechnology has resulted in such high-resolution color images which are several times sharper compared to typical methods which rely on a metal-laced nanometer framework. 
It goes without saying that the more you drink, chances are the poison of your choice will leave you inebriated sooner or later, where your speech starts to slur, you make unintelligible sense of your words, while ensuring that you return home single and available yet again. Well, there is nothing quite like receiving some outside help in the form of the 
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Tough times call for tough decisions. Sadly for Research In Motion, that meant axing a huge chunk of its workforce to stay alive while patiently hoping for a better start next year. 
Dutch multinational electronics company, Philips, has partnered with the Kenyan Urban Roads Authority to install solar-powered LED street lighting in Nairobi. Philips says that, if implemented on a wide scale across the country, the project has the potential to generate up to 100 per cent energy savings. The main goal of the project will be to highlight the benefits of sustainable energy sources and alternatives to expensive, less efficient traditional lighting.
I am quite sure that when you run an operation as large as Amazon’s, there are bound to be moments in your corporate history where there has been shipment to the wrong address, or even mixed up orders. However, how many orders were actually as botched up as this – where a man known as Seth Horvitz placed an order for a new HDTV, but ended up with a spanking new assault rifle instead? I guess somewhere else in the world, a potential terrorist, an avid huntsman, or a firearms collector must be stumped to receive a HDTV instead. It needs to be stressed that Amazon was not the seller despite shipping a Sig Sauer SIG716 semi-automatic assault weapon to Horvitz’s doorstep. 