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World Peace and Nuclear Weapons

This article deals with one of the most debatable discussions of all time. Read on to know more about nuclear weapons pros and cons.

Nuclear weapons have been in this world since World War 2 and have been used, till date only twice and that too in the same war we are speaking about. The only country to use nuclear weapons was the United States of America. The US dropped two atomic nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the world witnessed the power of the man-made nuclear weapons. Read more >

Posted by Naseer Ahmad Virk on 11 Aug 2010 [00:39] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Google cleared of Wi-Fi snooping

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)

Google did not grab "significant" personal details when collecting data from Wi-Fi networks, according to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO).

The finding came after the body reviewed some of the data Google scooped up from unsecured networks. Google said the data was "mistakenly" gathered while logging Wi-Fi hotspots to help with location-based services.
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Posted by CBN Extra Staff on 30 Jul 2010 [05:01] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Nokia Siemens to acquire majority of Motorola's wireless network infrastructure assets

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Monday July 26 it is buying the majority of Motorola's wireless network infrastructure assets, in a move aiming to improve the NSN's global competitiveness in wireless technology. Read more >

Posted by CBN Extra Staff on 30 Jul 2010 [05:00] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Microsoft signs deal on mobile processors

Microsoft has signed a deal with chip designer Arm that will give it in-depth access to processor blueprints.

The licensing deal means Microsoft can look at the entire instruction set that Arm chips use. Arm designs the chips that power the vast majority of the world's mobile phones as well as an increasing number of netbooks and tablet computers.
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Posted by CBN Extra Staff on 30 Jul 2010 [04:59] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Baidu lawsuit against domain register approved

Chinese search engine Baidu can proceed with negligence claims against its domain register following a hacking attack, a US judge has ruled. The claims arose from an attack in January on Register.com by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army.

Baidu alleges the hackers had contacted Register claiming to be Baidu employees and were given access to their account. This enabled them to change the server number that the address baidu.com normally takes users to.
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Posted by CBN Extra Staff on 30 Jul 2010 [04:58] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Snapshot of global internet speeds revealed

A report based on analysis of huge amounts of net traffic has revealed the state of the internet around the globe.

The data, from network giant Akamai reveals the average global net speed is only 1.7Mbps (megabits per second) although some countries have made strides towards faster services. The fastest broadband city in the world is Masan in South Korea. In the speed league table, the UK is ranked 27th out of 201 countries, with an average speed of 3.8Mbps.
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Posted by CBN Extra Staff on 30 Jul 2010 [04:56] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

What Can I Do About Terrorism?

The first thing a person should do about terrorism is to learn to respect it. Terrorism is real and it is very dangerous. When I say respect terrorism, I don't mean that you have to educate yourself on every faction and extremist organization that exists today. What I'm saying is that you must learn to respect the threat and the problem. Read more >

Posted by Naseer Ahmad Virk on 27 May 2010 [03:55] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Sperm and the Single Girl

Successful 30-something women are turning to the Web to shop for top-notch sperm donors, vetting personality traits, listening to voice samples, and even enduring wait lists.

Michelle Mobilia, a clinical researcher in Boston, Massachusetts, was contemplating grad school when she saw an episode of Lipstick Jungle that changed her life. "A woman was freezing her eggs, and it hit me: I'm 37, and I want to have children." Within three months, Mobilia had purchased eight vials of sperm from a bank, an experience she likens to "match.com, because you're looking for qualities in someone you'd want to date. I used Google for everything." Read more >

Posted by Naseer Ahmad Virk on 11 May 2010 [06:19] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

In Abuse Crisis, a Church Is Pitted Against Society and Itself

As the sexual abuse crisis continues to unfold in the Roman Catholic Church, with more victims coming forward worldwide and three bishops resigning last week alone, it is clear the issue is more than a passing storm or a problem of papal communications.
Instead, the church is undergoing nothing less than an epochal shift: It pits those who hold fast to a more traditional idea of protecting bishops and priests above all against those who call for more openness and accountability. The battle lines are drawn between the church and society at large, which clearly clamors for accountability, and also inside the church itself.
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad Virk on 11 May 2010 [06:14] | Tell a friend | Comments 0

Shanghai Is Trying to Untangle the Mangled English of Chinglish

For English speakers with subpar Chinese skills, daily life in China offers a confounding array of choices. At banks, there are machines for “cash withdrawing” and “cash recycling.” The menus of local restaurants might present such delectable as “fried enema,” “monolithic tree mushroom stem squid” and a mysterious thirst-quencher known as “The Jew’s Ear Juice.”

Those who have had a bit too much monolithic tree mushroom stem squid could find themselves requiring roomier attire: extra-large sizes sometimes come in “fatso” or “lard bucket” categories. These and other fashions can be had at the clothing chain known as Scat.
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