Science & Technology
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Mobile internet
$100 of free apps to say sorry
Reflections
The sayings of Steve Jobs
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Not a 5 but an S to iPhone 4
Technology
Will Amazon's Kindle Fire set off a price war and threaten iPad?
Internet
A false tweet on Obama’s death
It was false. President Barack Obama is alive and well. But coming on July 4, America's Independence Day, it was in bad taste. And the Secret Service is investigating how hackers broke into Fox News Twitter account and falsely sent out six tweets on Obama's assassination.
Space
Asteroid whizzes past Earth safely
A giant rock, the size of a garbage truck, whizzed past Earth at a close distance of 12,000 km (7,500 miles) over the Atlantic Ocean without causing any harm, Reuters reported. It quoted D. C . Agle, a spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as saying that the asteroid path followed that predicted by scientitsts.
Space
A close call in space
A giant space rock is making a close encounter with Earth today, missing it by about 12,000 kms (7,500 miles), according to ABC News while the Telegraph says the asteroid will reach within 17,600 kms of the Earth's surface.
Internet
41 Malaysian websites attacked
Reuters reports that at least 41 Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight, quoting government officials as saying on Thursday that no personal or financial data were compromised, as the Southeast nation becomes the latest target of a cyber-war waged by the activists. Bloomberg says the Sabah tourism's website was one of them that had been attacked. Others included the government's main portal and the Tour Malaysia guide.
Technology
Apple in the cloud threatens PCs
Apple's iCloud that allows files to be stored in remote data centres is set to sideline the personal computer industry, according to Bloomberg. It will lead to less consumer dependence on Microsoft Windows software and PCs as Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive officer, aims to make Apple the centre of consumers' digital lives. “The PC will be the most visible casualty of the cloud revolution,” Bloomberg quoted Steve Perlman, a former Apple engineer, as saying. “Apple knows it.”
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In pictures
Quotes of the Day
We are making Sabah not just a gateway for trade, investment and tourism but a modern, vibrant, prosperous and harmonious place to live.
Prime Minister Najib Razak speaking at the open day of the Sabah Development Corridor in Kota Kinabalu on February 16.
Posted on 18-10-2011, 3:04 pm