MONEYTALK: Update Aug 4th 2008 SEC, $2 bn bribes to secure Siemens orders

Update Aug 4th 2008New York stock exchange SEC visits Siemens (electronics) in Germany for corruption case. SEC may fine Siemens with $1.5 bn, for not respecting listed NY stock market rulings Siemens has...

Australian farmers misled by Rural Network dating agency

Rural Network dating agency routinely lied and misled clients about prospective romantic interests.Their clients mostly farmers and miners had all paid registration fees to Rural Network because they...

Google testing “AdSense for Games”

The video game market generates something like $7 billion a year, much of that coming from people who might not otherwise watch a lot of television. It seems that Google is looking to tap into that potential...

Twitter Survives Earthquake

When disaster strikes, utilites tend to fail. With mobile phones, this is particularly likely, as damage to infrastructure is also going to damage a few mobile phone antennae. In the case of yesterday's earthquake in Los Angeles, people had difficulty communicating via phone,...

NBC to Stream Olympics Live on Web

"NEW YORK Olympics fans will have a bevy of opportunities to get content from NBC Universal next month -- 2,200 hours of live online coverage, live events on their mobile phone and even a way to download coverage...

China on the lookout for earthquakes during Beijing Olympics

The memories of the horrendous earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province on May 12th of this year, claiming the lives of nearly seventy thousand people and leaving anywhere between five to eleven million...

Emergency Beijing Olympic pollution scheme begins

"Emergency Beijing Olympic pollution scheme begins By Ben Blanchard Reuters - Sunday, July 20 12:01 pmBEIJING (Reuters) - Beijingers breathed easier on Sunday as traffic restrictions and factory...

Canadian IPTV Airs Philippine UNTV programs, Razon's Good Morning Kuya

Canada-based IPQube Channel airs Philippine UNTV channel's programs, in hopes of reaching the more than 10 million Filipino overseas.  Among the top programs of UNTV picked for airing is the morning magazine...

CoffeeClub Network: finally something different in the coffee world!

It is amazing to see how fast social networks simply do the obvious, put everyone who has something in common together in a virtual place. This is not new and happens since internet was born. The incredible...

Michael J. Fox Returns to Television

Michael J. Fox, star of Family Ties, Back to the Future, and Spin City, retired from acting after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but is set to return to television on the hit Denis Leary show "Rescue...

Disgruntled Hacker Takes Control of San Fran Computer Network

Well this is quite interesting. A computer engineer, disgruntled with his job working as a system administrator for San Francisco's brand new computer network, is holding the system hostage, even as he sits in jail.Terry Childs took exclusive control of the system and was...

Canadian Flashpoint No. 1 Ranked Show in U.S. and Canada

It started off with a bang - CTV's Friday night Canadian-made series Flashpoint blew away the mold for ratings. And not just in Canada. In fact, the Toronto-based show, which follows a team of Special Response...

Comcast Faces FCC Sanctions for Blocking Web Traffic

Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, violated federal guidelines when it blocked and degraded Web traffic, the head of the Federal Communications Commission will announce Friday." The sanctions would be the first time the commission has come down on an internet...

"Smart Parking": Balm for San Francisco's Parking Woes

Parking in San Francisco sucks. That's not opinion, alas, but fact."Lack of parking is a serious issue in San Francisco. Donald Shoup, an urban planning expert at UCLA, says his research shows that drivers on the...

Malawi Expo 2008 Marked as a Success

"SAN BERNARDINO, July 11, 2008 (Cheetah Index)-The Malawi Expo says it is overwhelmingly impressed with the turn out at Malawi Expo 2008 which commenced from Tuesday July 1-3, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel in San...

Recent Comments

Top Members Today

  • Top Veterans

  • Top Rookies

 

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from