Foals have taken aim at The Stone Roses and other reformed ’90s acts that have come back to steal the spotlight from today’s hard-working younger acts.
- Mar 26 Tue 2013 16:05
Foals Take Aim At Stone Roses And Other Reformed Acts
- Mar 26 Tue 2013 16:03
I Would Support Same-Sex Marriage
In a recent column in the Washington Post, columnist George F. Will trumpets a brief submitted by the conservative "Institute for Marriage and Public Policy" in the pending same-sex marriage cases for the proposition that the Supreme Court should be skeptical of social science data showing that children raised by same-sex couples are belt conveyor manufacturers not harmed by having same-sex parents. Quoting the brief, Mr. Will cautions that such studies are unreliable because they have been "driven by politics and ideology."
Both the brief and Mr. Will have the argument backwards. It is those who would deny same-sex couples the right to marry on the premise that same-sex marriage is bad for children who must bear the burden of proof. And it is a heavy burden, indeed.
- Mar 18 Mon 2013 17:01
Africa takes lead in mobile revolution
Africa’s top banking and mobile phone executives assembled in Nairobi recently to listen to the counsel of one of the world’s leading technology companies. “Software is the manufacturing of the future,” IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty told them.
- Mar 18 Mon 2013 16:59
Intuit unveils UK mobile payment offering
Intuit, the maker of Quickbooks accounting software, is entering the increasingly crowded mobile payments market.
Its 'Intuit Pay' Bluetooth device and mobile app will enable SMEs, start-ups and sole traders to accept credit and debit card payments through chip and pin or swipe transactions, providing they have an internet connection and have passed a mandatory credit check.
- Mar 11 Mon 2013 17:03
Making magic on the big screen(s)
“Anything you can put a logo on, we can do it,” is the proud boast of Trademark Screenprinters, a Fairbanks family-owned business since 1982 — and they mean it.
- Mar 11 Mon 2013 17:01
Could dual display screens make for 'more is better' smartphones
Amid signs the smartphone industry may have to gird itself for a period of slower growth and reduced profit margins, manufacturers are casting about for a new smartphone feature that could capture the public's eye and convince buyers to pull out the old credit card yet again.
That search is a difficult one, as just about every China Feeder Screen Offers feature users might imagine in a smartphone -- web browser, music player, GPS, camera, flashlight -- is already here as a fully mature technology.
- Mar 05 Tue 2013 15:22
Shah Rukh Khan to work together in Balki's film
Bollywood's biggest actors Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan are all set to be share screen space after a gap of seven long years, reports suggest.
- Mar 05 Tue 2013 15:20
Movies guide: March, screen fever
With over 30 movies on the schedule, March is quite a crowded month for movie screening. After the Chinese Spring Festival season, a period left for domestic movies, almost a dozen Hollywood blockbusters will come together this month; and as holidays like the White Valentine's Day, Women's Day and April Fool's Day are all around mobile impact crusher the corner, there will be quite a number of different types of movies.
Fans of fantasy or science fiction will find a lot to watch this month including The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Upside Down, Resident Evil: Retribution and Oz The Great and Powerful.
- Feb 26 Tue 2013 16:42
Caterpillar Machine-Sales Drop Accelerates as Asia Slumps
Caterpillar Inc., the biggest maker of construction and mining equipment, said the drop in its global retail machine sales accelerated because of bigger declines in Asia and North America.
- Feb 26 Tue 2013 16:39
Google stokes hype machine over Project Glass robospecs
Google has been talking up its augmented-reality specs, dubbed Project Glass, for the past year. Now its hype machine has kicked up a notch with a competition on social media to allow members of the public to get in the queue for the $1,500 prototypes.
The wire and screen glasses are one of Sergey Brin's pet projects and there's hardly a public event these days where he isn't seen wearing them. At last year's I/O developer conference, two freefallers fell from the San Francisco skies while wearing the specs and streamed the entire event into the keynote session.