The Best Office Desktop – Acer Veriton Z411G
Zimmetro — The other day a friend of mine came to me seeking for advice on what is the best desktop PC available for office use.
February 3, 2012 | Posted in Science&Technology | Read More »
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U.S. Congresswomen: No ladies toilet in Saudi govt building!
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A U.S. Congressional delegation on a fact-finding trip to Saudi Arabia discovered one hard fact – the Saudi ministry of defense building has no women’s toilet. Nine members of US Congress including four women, headed by Rep. Peter Welch, traveled to talk with Saudi government officials about how the region assesses the threat of a nuclear Iran. When the lawmakers asked to use the bathroom after a lengthy visit to the Saudi Defense Ministry, they ran into an unexpected challenge: no women’s restroom.
February 3, 2012 | Posted in Politics & Foreign | Read More »
Cash withdrawal limits set: RBZ
HARARE — The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has set US$10 000 as the cash withdrawal limit with amounts exceeding this threshold now requiring prior notice to the processing bank. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono announced the requirement while presenting the 2012 Monetary Policy Statement to bank executives and journalists on Tuesday.
February 2, 2012 | Posted in Financial News | Read More »
Malaysia-born American accused of stealing tech secrets for China
Zimmetro — One of the few remaining industries China fails to dominate in the world, is chemicals. The chemical industry is central to the modern world economy, as it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. Chemicals have a nearly $3 trillion global market, and of the 20 biggest chemical corporations in the world, 18 of them are either Europeans, Americans or Japanese.
February 2, 2012 | Posted in Politics & Foreign | Read More »
Iran’s economy collapsing as its currency plunged 80%
Zimmetro — The race to build the holiest state on Earth can’t seem to save Iran. The country, which is the fourth largest economy in the Muslim world after Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, may be heading for economic ruins. Iran’s currency, the Rial, has lost 71 percent of its value since September, a fact that a senior Treasury Department official said was a direct result of U.S. and international sanctions on Tehran. Today the rial again dropped 11 percent to reach record lows after the European Union imposed new sanctions, which made it an overall 80% in less than 5 months.
February 1, 2012 | Posted in Financial News | Read More »
Iran to execute programmer
Zimmetro — Imagine you are a furniture retailer and one of your customers bought furniture from your shop for a brothel, unfortunately, police raid that brothel and they find the furniture used in there came from your shop. With that, you face charges of associating with prostitution and you’re sentenced to death.
January 22, 2012 | Posted in Politics & Foreign | Read More »
Wikipedia shuts down today protesting the SOPA bill
Zimmetro — Free online knowledge site Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours later to protest the anti-online piracy legislation drafted before the U.S. Congress, founder Jimmy Wales said on Twitter. “Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!” Wales said on the microblogging site. “‘Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.’ MLK – on Wednesday, Wikipedia demands,” Wales said, quoting U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
January 18, 2012 | Posted in Science&Technology | Read More »
$80bn foreign capital flow into ASEAN in 2011, who got most?
Zimmetro — The 10 Southeast Asian nations that make up ASEAN, is increasingly being viewed as an important economic bloc. This is reflected in that last year, $79.9 billion worth of foreign investment flowed into ASEAN states, compared to China’s $105.7 billion and India’s $24.6 billion, this show that international investors now place the investment value of the region somewhere between China and India.
January 18, 2012 | Posted in Financial News | Read More »
Iran bans Barbie dolls, say it will destroy nation
TEHRAN — While little girls in America may look forward to their first Barbie doll, in the eyes of Iran, they are devil dolls. The Iran authorities are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, and a destructive element that will ruin the Iranian nation, shopkeepers in Tehran said on Monday.
January 18, 2012 | Posted in Politics & Foreign | Read More »
Foxconn to replace 1 mln human workers with 1 mln robots
Zimmetro — Taiwan based Foxconn, the largest maker of electronic parts such as printed circuit boards same company responsible for manufacturing and assembling Amazon Kindle, Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, iPad and iPhone announced it intends to replace its current human workforce by replacing it with one million robots.
January 16, 2012 | Posted in Science&Technology | Read More »
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