Manila: A bomb on a packed bus in the Philippines’ financial hub killed four people on Tuesday, sparking a warning from President Benigno Aquino that the country faced a raised terror threat. Authorities said it was too early to say who was behind the explosion as the bus travelled along one of Manila’s busiest roads, but Aquino ordered security forces on alert. “We have asked the police and military and the intelligence services to review their threat assessment, with the end view of hardening all areas considered under threat,” Aquino said in a…
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MOSCOW — A suicide bomber attacked Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and injecting new pain into a country already split along ethnic lines. There was no indication on Monday night of who was behind the blast. Past terrorist attacks have been traced to militants in the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in the south of Russia. And the city was on edge even before the attacks, after ethnic Russian nationalists lashed out violently at migrants from the troubled region in mid-December. The attack inflicted a deep injury on Moscow’s image just as President Dmitri A. Medvedev prepared to woo foreign investors at the World Economic Forum…
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Image Source: Preserve Dear Pablo: Does recycling your toothbrush really make a difference? Doesn’t mailing it back do more damage than the recycling avoids? It is true that mailing anyt… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …A US engineer has received a 32-year sentence for selling military secrets to China, the BBC reports. Noshir Gowadia, 66, who worked on the B-2 bomber’s propulsion system, was found guilty in August of giving China information that helped it build a stealth cruise missile. He was reportedly paid $110,…
Continue reading …Nokia’s leaked MeeGo device resembles dual-core ST-Ericsson U8500 reference platform
January 25, 2011 No Comment
Yesterday’s leaked image of a purported Nokia tablet device seems to have been more informative than we initially believed it to be. An eagle-eyed forum member over on mobile-review has spotted the similarity between it and a reference platform for ST-Ericsson’s U8500 system-on-chip. Last we heard, that little powerhouse was running a pair of 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores , so excuse us if we find the prospect of it driving Nokia’s next flagship a rather exciting one. You can see video of the reference device in question after the break — it ends on the delicious and unequivocal assertion from the ST-Ericsson rep that Nokia has signed up to deliver the U8500 in an upcoming device. Bear in mind, however, that the video is from November of last year and we still don’t know for sure that the Nokia slate above is its MeeGo progenitor or just a prototype. Either way, the U8500 is expected in smartphones at some point in the first half of this year, which kind of fits Nokia’s roadmap, no? [Image credit: Cor72z ] Continue reading Nokia’s leaked MeeGo device resembles dual-core ST-Ericsson U8500 reference platform Nokia’s leaked MeeGo device resembles dual-core ST-Ericsson U8500 reference platform originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo Credit: Jon Dee The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra announced on Friday 21 January that its campus will discontinue the sale of bottled water by World Water Day (22 March 201). The initiative started by students, assisted by environment action group Do Something! and supported by University administration and campus businesses is thought to make Canberra Uni the first Australian university to eradicate single use bottled water. Representative of the UC Environment and Sustainability Socie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All
January 25, 2011 No Comment
Photos credit: Brian Mohr, Ember Photography , for Wend Magazine Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan, Iran announced it illegal for women to ride bicycles in the city. Wend contrasts this with a 1896 quote from Susan Anthony, who famously proclaimed that, “the bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.” Wend is terrific tome (its digital version being available … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn’t know she had; Rocker Bret Michaels has successful heart surgery; Christina Aguilera to sing national anthem at Super Bowl. (Jan. 25)
Continue reading …Hezbollah’s chosen candidate has won enough support to be appointed as Lebanon’s new prime minister, sparking angry protests across the country and warnings of chaos to come. The government Najib Miqati forms may end up strongly resembling previous governments, but the symbolism of Hezbollah, once a shadowy militant group, picking…
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