Articles Archive for 6 November 2010
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Sony Bravia and Play station 3 have launched Hulu Plus as the new premium version of online video service.
Hulu plus has started for Sony PlayStation 3. The Plus premium version of the online video service for Sony Bravia has been released to the market by Hulu. This gives users of Sony PlayStation 3 a great chance to download and subscribe to the service.
The new service was available on Thursday for Bravia 2010 sets, and set to be released to other Bravia user’s in the near future. While still in preview …
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NASA’s new Space Shuttle launch Discovery has been postponed again until Monday because of a leak of hydrogen.
NASA’s planed launch of the new Space Shuttle discovery failed to take place for the fourth time on Friday, thus pushed up to the specified date on Monday.
The flight was scheduled to take off at 3:04 p.m. but the 39th discovery and last flight got cancelled six hours before take off EDT launch, on delivery of cargo mission headed to the ISS (International space Station).
The leak in hydrogen did develop within the …
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Trucks have outsold cars by the widest of margins for the first time in five years.
According to statistics in 2010, more trucks were sold over cars. Cars and trucks have been outselling each other for the past five years and 2010 has the widest margin. The most preferred ones are the light duty types and have a variety of vehicles.
The varieties include minivans SUVs and rossovers. They exclude freights for business that are tractor-trailed. That category is referred to as heavy commercial vehicles.
Light duty trucks weigh between 4,000 pounds …
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It is a month plus to Christmas, but the GTA malls are already in the festive mood.
A few days after Halloween, Christmas decorations are all over the place, taking the place of skeletons and pumpkins with Santas and reindeers, and aptly nauseous to those with candy hangover.
Shoppers have different views on the unexpected change of scenario to the red and green.
One man told 680 News that he was unconcerned on the early display of decorations.
A female shopper understood the situation and thought it was an early and better way to …
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A man from Ohio, Northeast has pleaded guilty in a $20million investment fraud scheme.
Kelvin Harris, 45, from Warren on Wednesday pleaded guilty in Youngstown federal Court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and money laundering. If convicted he will be sentence to eight years in prison.
Around $3million worth of investment in real estate in the Middle East could be recovered from Harris according to attorney Harry Wise who represents more than 100 victims.
Harris offered investors big profits on foreign currency exchanges according to authorities. On the contrary, authorities claim he …
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Facebook, the socio-networking giant, placed some of its developers on a six month suspension for suspicion that they have been involved in selling the user information to a data broker from app development.
The announcement made by Facebook on its developer blog, follows the revelation that many of its apps were transmitting user IDs, which can be used to look up users’ names and, other times, the names of the app user’s friends, not more than 25 advertising and data films.
The socio-network giant is yet to know the data broker who …
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PayPal has launched a new site, PayPal Israel, which is in Hebrew and has customer service in Hebrew, Israeli telephone number.
eBay through its unit PayPal, started offering e-commerce in shekels in mid-2008 and in the late 2009 has also given people in the business sector to transfer money from a PayPal account straight to an Israeli bank account.
PayPal president Scott Thompson observed that in all places where the body was launched in the local language, e-commerce among both consumers and business surged and went on to recognize the importance of …