Posted on February 1st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft chief Bill Gates, on a European tour to promote the group’s new Windows Vista operating system, has stopped in Romania and announced plans to invest in the newest EU member.
Gates opened a technical support centre destined to serve European customers, saying the group planned to expand operations in Romania, which joined the European Union [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Windows Vista is here at last.
One of the largest software projects ever undertaken, Vista is indisputably a milestone — despite Microsoft’s having abandoned many of its most ambitious goals for the OS — and not just for Microsoft but for the entire PC industry.
Of course, Vista is not without its skeptics. PC makers say it [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
The head of the research division of Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, said Sunday that Syrian President Bashar Assad is preparing for a war with Israel.
He said that Assad has ordered increased production of long-range missiles and instructed the Syrian army to position its anti-tank missiles closer to the Syrian border with Israel, on [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
- From across the pond.
Robbers who carried out two attacks in quick succession on teenagers are being hunted by police.
Both attacks happened in Huntingdon, but they took place so close together that investigating officers cannot be sure which occurred first.
In one, a 24-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, both from the town, were sitting on [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, in fighting and airstrikes Friday that targeted al-Qaida in Iraq militants northwest of Baghdad, the military said. The mayor of the village, which was the site of an earlier U.S. raid, said 19 civilians were killed, including seven women and eight children.
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Posted on November 25th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
By now I’m sure that you’ve heard about the $100 dollar laptop program which is designed to get a new laptop computer into the hands of needy children living in poor nations. Ask yourself this question: Wouldn’t it be more beneficial just to give the needy children the $100 dollars to buy food for their [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
According to a report by World News Australia and Tagesspiegel newspaper, Israeli F16 fighter jets allegedly fired upon a German navy vessel patrolling the coast of Lebanon on a UN peace keeping mission. It was reported that the Israeli F16’s fired upon the vessel and launched anti-missile defense flares.
A spokesman for the command of the [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
During an interview with ABC news correspondent George Stephanopoulos, President Bush conveyed a strong message to the North Korean government stating that if they attempt to sell nuclear weapons or technology to other nations they will be held accountable. President Bush continued to say that if needed the U.S. will board ships or do [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Following intensive negotiations triggered earlier this month when the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) claimed to have conducted a nuclear test, the United Nations Security Council today imposed sanctions against the country as well as individuals supporting its military programme and demanded that Pyongyang cease its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
By a unanimously [...]
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