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/ 25 January 2007
Google announced on Friday that another major United States college library had joined its controversial project to put the world’s books online. The more than one million written works at the University of Texas library in the city of Austin will be converted to digital format and added to the Google Books Library Project.
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/ 25 January 2007
Windows XP, the current dominant operating system, has met its successor. Vista will launch its bid to conquer PCs worldwide under the Microsoft banner starting on January 30. Millions of XP users will supposedly be convinced to make the switch, but that may be more difficult than advertised.
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/ 25 January 2007
Live music and internet-based social networking sites YouTube and MySpace are helping break new music acts — but video games are the latest new cool music space. ”It’s a great way of breaking new artists,” Joseph Stopps of independent, United Kingdom-based dance-music company MofoHifi said.
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/ 25 January 2007
Microsoft plans to extend the free support period for its Windows XP Home Edition software at least one year longer than originally planned, a news report said on Wednesday. Darren Huston, president of Microsoft’s Japan unit, said in an interview that the company would extend the support period on a global basis until sometime after 2010.
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/ 25 January 2007
A man has been charged in connection with the murder of two black teenagers abducted and killed in Mississippi in 1964 at the height of the United States civil rights era, US officials said on Wednesday. James Seale was arrested in the case and charges against him were sealed, according to a US law enforcement official.
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/ 25 January 2007
Ecuador’s first female defence minister was killed on Wednesday after only nine days in office in a mid-air collision of two helicopters, government and military officials said. The accident in the Andean nation further rocks the leftist government of President Rafael Correa, who has clashed with Congress over his executive powers.
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/ 25 January 2007
South African telephone subscribers, enraged by high rates charged by fixed-line provider Telkom, are turning on the government and on Telkom. Analysts attack Telkom regularly, complaining of high charges, especially for access to the internet, and warn that this could obstruct South Africa from achieving targeted annual growth of 6% from 2010.
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/ 25 January 2007
England’s cricketers are under siege after a dismal series of performances in Australia evoked stinging criticism from opponents, media and even their own fans. The tourists had already been slammed after losing the Ashes to Australia 5-0, but they plumbed new lows with a 90-run loss to New Zealand in the one-day series.
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/ 25 January 2007
If it wasn’t for the fresh, sharp scent, you could easily mistake sweet wormwood for any other kind of shrub. But this shrub, also called the Artemisia annua, is widely regarded by medical experts as the best cure for malaria, one of the world’s leading killer diseases.
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/ 25 January 2007
The Two Tenors and a Baritone lacks the easy and familiar ring of the Three Tenors, but the operatic world had better get used to the new line-up: Placido Domingo has decided to make the jump from the tenor repertoire, which he has sung around the world to acclaim for more than 40 years, to become a baritone.