It is now six years to the day since donor nations, meeting in Tokyo on January 26, 2002, pledged $ 4.5 billion in aid to Afghanistan. Nearly 60 nations, including Pakistan, attended the conference on rebuilding Afghanistan. The total aid package was less than half the five-year goal of $ 15 billion set by the […]
Ceding of Nigerian territory to Cameroon
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s style of leadership left a communication gap between the executive and the National Assembly. He wrote a letter to the Senate that only served as a sort of information without asking for a specific action or presenting a bill as was constitutional on such matters. Obasanjo did not, however, act unilaterally. He […]
Coconut the Life Style of Kerala
Gods Own Country. Yes its Kerala. We can also call this beautiful place as a Land of Coconuts. I feel Proud to be a Malayali. Our life is so much attached with coconut and coconut tree. In daily life Kerala people is very much attached with this tree. The most interesting thing about this Coconut […]
Can Yahoo ever catch up with Google?
Long before Google came on to the scene as an Internet search engine, there was Yahoo. Yahoo was the search of choice by many Internet subscribers. It was at a time when the Internet was not bombarded by spammers and marketers. This made creating a search engine relatively easy, because there would not be so […]
Op-Ed: How Political is Technology in a Newspaper Context?
Newspapers are suspected of being in danger of evaporating into thin air. Whenever an established newspaper includes hyper-modern tools, we tend to think of that change as technology gaining ground. But can technology replace a paper’s identity? A newspaper’s inclusion of technological gimmicks to interact with readers doesn’t necessarily mean the end of its identity. […]
Europe’s Uniting To Build A Supercomputer – Plans Alone Cost E20 Million
The Europeans are building a new supercomputer. An initiative known as PRACE was launched recently to increase the availability of computing power, in reply to to demand from science and industry. “Whether we’re dealing with the climate, genetics or engineering– researchers are relying more and more on advanced computing power to stay at the forefront of […]