When Apple finally added cut, copy and paste support to iOS, it made the long and painful wait its customers endured completely worthwhile. Apple’s implementation was so much better than competing platforms, it really wasn’t even in the same league. The UI was fantastic and the operation was both intuitive and precise. This is what we have come to expect from Apple when it corrects its …
One of the bigger pieces of news about the Wii U was its third-party developer support and the wide variety of hardcore games which would be available for the system. As part of its press conference yesterday, Nintendo showed a third-party games highlight reel featuring upcoming titles such as Batman: Arkham City, Ninja Gaiden III and a number of others. In an interview with GameTrailers, though, …
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President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Afghanistan offered an unvarnished assessment of the nearly decade-old war on Wednesday as Pentagon officials said that Gen. David H. Petraeus was at least a week away from recommending the number of American troops to come home in an initial withdrawal set for next month. But as pressure to get out of Afghanistan mounted on Capitol Hill, Ryan C. Crocker, …
Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester admitted today that there may have been “leakage” from taxpayers money to bonuses at the beleaguered bank, Sky News reports. Hester was being questioned by the UK’s Treasury Select Committee, who sought to ascertain why the banks were not lending as much as promised in bailout plans. RBS is now 83 percent owned by the British taxpayer and 3,500 …
Video of the very first “Potter” screen test between Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint has hit the web, and it’s everything that we could have …
TT Racing legend John McGuinness is back where he belongs – on the podium. The Morecambe Missile made up for not achieving a single top-three position at last year’s Isle of Man TT Races by winning the Dainese Superbike at the weekend. He also opened up a 10-point lead in the overall TT Championship after finishing second behind Michael Dunlop in the 360 Superstock race and …
VIENNA (Reuters) – OPEC talks broke down in acrimony on Wednesday without an agreement to raise output after Saudi Arabia failed to convince the oil cartel to lift production. “We were unable to reach an agreement — this is one of the worst meetings we have ever had,” said Ali al-Naimi, oil minister for Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest producer. The failure to do a deal is …
Hong Kongs Kai Tak Airport (formerly the “Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)”) opened in 1936 and served Hong Kong for more than sixty years. In 1947, only three airlines operated through Kai Tak with a monthly total of 141 aircraft movements and 1,958 passengers. In 1954, as the existing terminal building was becoming congested, land reclamation commenced and this was followed by the construction of a …