‘Global News’ Archives
Canada to investigate school ship sinking
LUNENBURG, Nova Scotia, March 4 (UPI) -- Canada's Transportation Safety Board Thursday began investigating the sinking of a Canadian sail training ship off the Brazilian coast last month. The board's manager of marine investigations, Ken Potter, told The (Halifax) Chronicle-Herald the MV Concordia is registered in the Barbados, which is [...]
Canada looks to build on Olympic glory in generating Paralympic torch relay excitement
Fresh off its successful staging of the Winter Olympics, Canada started the celebration for its upcoming hosting of the Paralympics on Wednesday with the launch of a torch relay that will see the flame travel from Ottawa to Vancouver over the next 10 days. At a ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the nation’s capital, the flame arrived in [...]
Microsoft embraces another Linux company
Another day, another company developing Linux-based tech falls into line with Microsoft's intellectual property wonks. Japanese Flash maker I-O Data Device Inc has agreed to cough up an undisclosed sum of cash to Microsoft under a Linux software deal. This is the latest such agreement Microsoft has made with a tech company that uses Linux in [...]
Microsoft: Windows 7 Fastest-Selling OS Ever
Microsoft has sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 to date, making it the fastest-selling operating system in history, according to Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer. Klein made the comments earlier this week while speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. While most of what Klein had to say dealt [...]
Tag: Microsoft’s First Android App
ictures of its print barcode Tags to gets URLs to info, content, offers, and more. Software giant Microsoft has, oddly enough, released its first application for Android smartphones: a version of its Tag program that enables users to snap pictures of Microsoft’s digital barcodes. The idea behind tags is to provide an easy way for phone users [...]
Microsoft Browser Ballot Makes it Debut in Europe
This week saw the debut of a scheme which prompts Internet Explorer users in Europe to choose one or more browsers from a list of the 12 most popular on the continent. It's a system put together by Microsoft to stave off regulator criticism that including Internet Explorer as the default browser in Windows gave it an unfair advantage in its market [...]
Microsoft (re)confirms HTC HD2s won’t run Windows Phone 7 operating system
After APC Magazine recently quoted a Microsoft official saying Windows Mobile 6.x devices wouldn’t be able to get an upgrade to the Windows Phone 7.0 OS, the Softies spread a little uncertainty as to the veracity of that report. We were all told that we’d get the real and official backward-compatibility story at the upcoming Mix 10 [...]
Shares fall on Greece, global outlook
Hong Kong: Asian shares edged down on Thursday as worries about Greece and the outlook for the global economy made investors cautious. Confidence ebbed ahead of the key monthly US non-farm payrolls report on Friday. The dollar fell to its lowest level in three months against the yen as declines in regional stocks prompted a cutback in risky [...]
What should schools teach about global warming?
The teaching of climate change is under attack in some U.S. public schools. This week, South Dakota's legislature passed a resolution calling for the "balanced teaching of global warming." "Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a highly beneficial ingredient for all plant life," says the resolution, which passed with mostly GOP votes. [...]
Leonard Asper exits Canwest Global
TORONTO -- Leonard Asper is stepping down as president and CEO of Canwest Global Communications as the debt-laden Canadian broadcaster and newspaper publisher moves closer to emerging from creditor protection. Asper, whose late father Israel Asper founded the Canadian media giant during the 1970s, two weeks ago failed with an eleventh hour [...]
