Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top high-tech company, said on Tuesday its new graphics memory chip can transmit data equivalent to half a million pages of news print per second. The company said it will begin commercial production of the world’s fastest memory chip around the end of this year.
The bookish calm of a public library might not seem like the most obvious place to hunt for terrorists, but according to a report, the FBI and other United States law enforcement agencies involved in counter-terrorism have made more than 200 requests for information about borrowers from libraries since September 11.
Japan’s quest to overturn a 19-year-old ban on commercial whaling started poorly on Monday when it lost two votes at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The proposals were rejected, by 30 votes to 27 and 29 to 28, suggesting Japan does not yet have support of the majority of IWC members it needs to challenge the ban.
BBC bosses are facing a talent-juggling act to keep a trio of former champions from verbal volleying in the broadcast booth at the Wimbledon Championships.
The volatile Jimmy Connors, one of the original bad boys of the game three decades ago, will be on hand along with Wimbledon TV regulars John McEnroe and Boris Becker.
The United Nations took over Monday the monitoring of the ceasefire in the Nuba mountains, whose people found themselves wedged between the two sides of the civil war who signed a peace accord earlier this year, the world body said. Squeezed between the pro-government northerners and the pro-rebel southerners, more than half of the local population fled.
Michael Campbell may have won the US Open but Tiger Woods underscored the fact that he is the best golfer in the world — by far. Once again, Woods was the only one of the ‘Big Five’ who rose to the challenge when it really mattered — a Major.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s controversial eviction of illegal dwellers will be studied by a United Nations envoy to see whether it has had a humanitarian impact on those affected by the measure, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.
Recriminations flew on Monday over the biggest data breach in United States history as the theft of private information on more than 40-million credit card holders spread to Japan and Hong Kong. About 22-million affected customers are Visa holders and nearly 14-million are with MasterCard.
It passed almost unnoticed when it was published in France last year, but L’amande or The Almond, a slim brown volume billed as the ”first erotic account written by an Arab woman”, has now sold rights in 17 countries, including Britain, where it is to be published next month.
He admires former United States president Ronald Reagan, respects Bill Clinton and bears no grudge against George Bush senior or junior. But he cannot abide Froot Loops. Saddam Hussein can forgive his enemies but not, say some of his US guards, sweet cereal.