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A Bidding War for Well Equipment Maker A group of private equity firms increased their offer for Expro International Group to more than 1.71 billion pounds, or $3.4 billion, entering into a bidding war against Halliburton. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Titans of War: Tanks Reshape the Battlefield : Photo: Robert M Schalk/U.S. NavyThis week marks the anniversary of the first use of the tank, one of the 20th century's most-iconic weapons. To honor this game-changing milestone we're taking a look at past, present, future and those tanks that might have been. During the First Worl Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Titans of War: Tanks Reshape the Battlefield : Photo: Robert M Schalk/U.S. NavyThis week marks the anniversary of the first use of the tank, one of the 20th century's most-iconic weapons. To honor this game-changing milestone we're taking a look at past, present, future and those tanks that might have been. During the First Worl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Media bidding war starts for Guantanamo ex-detainee SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian David Hicks, the only Guantanamo Bay detainee convicted of terrorism charges, is at the centre of a worldwide media bidding war for his story, with a possible price tag of A$1 million (US$892,000), local media said. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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Media bidding war starts for Guantanamo ex-detainee
(Reuters) Reuters - Australian David Hicks, the only Guantanamo Bay detainee convicted of terrorism charges, is at the centre of a worldwide media bidding war for his story, with a possible price tag of A$1 million (US$892,000), local media said. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Top 10: Military goods for sale and miscreants aplenty Psssst ... Hey, you over there! Yeah, you. Wanna buy some F-14 components? According to the Government Accountability Office, purloined military equipment can be found online at eBay or Craigslist. Seems like it was a week for wild-and-woolly Internet-related news. SA Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Land Warrior wearable war-smartphone survives Iraq baptism Txt-happy grunts in virtual-keyboard iPhone bitchslap The world's first unit of digitally networked foot soldiers returns from combat in Iraq this week. Reports have it that the American troops' controversial "Land Warrior" wearable-node technology has changed in both role and configuration durin Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Storage still a priority for IT despite economic problems The economy may be in a recession, and the stock market may be going through convulsions -- prompting talk of possible hiring freezes and layoffs within IT departments. But at this point, data storage doesn't appear to be an area that many companies or other organizat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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War-Funding Bill: $50 Billion for Robo-Planes, Gear The Defense Department is keeping plump war-time budgets fat to fund a "longer war on terrorism" with lots of new gear. A new $165 billion House defense-spending bill goes well beyond what troops need on the ground in Iraq -- $50 billion is allocated for the latest manned and robotic aircraft, as we Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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War-Funding Bill: $50 Billion for Robo-Planes, Gear The Defense Department is keeping plump war-time budgets fat to fund a "longer war on terrorism" with lots of new gear. A new $165 billion House defense-spending bill goes well beyond what troops need on the ground in Iraq -- $50 billion is allocated for the latest manned and robotic aircraft, as we Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Low-cost laptops and new chips on tap for Computex Computex 2008 could be the most exciting IT hardware show in years, complete with the launch of several ultra-low-cost laptops armed with Intel's new Atom microprocessor, a new iMac lookalike from Asustek, and reportedly a new processor from Nvidia code-named Tegra. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Food for thought No question: It's been a long time since the American public was fascinated by farm news. But with sticker shock at the checkout, the passage of a controversial $300 billion farm bill, and the increasingly skeptical coverage of the ethanol boomlet, people sure are interested now. Such news turns a s Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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Electronic Arts hires Morgan Stanley to do its bidding Investment banker signs on to handle EA's unsolicited buyout bid for rival game maker Take-Two. Oh, and did we mention, it's also representing Microsoft in its Yahoo bid. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Bidding reaches $18.55 bln in US wireless auction - Reuters CBS NewsBidding reaches $18.55 bln in US wireless auctionReuters - Feb 1, 2008By Peter Kaplan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bidding reached $18.55 billion on Friday in the US Federal Communications Commission's record-setting auction of government-owned wireless airwaves, but Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Alt Text: Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena I was pleased to see the recent news about alien images appearing on a wall in Canada. If you haven't seen the story, the upshot is that some reflected light shows up every non-overcast day on someone's house in Calgary, and the resulting image looks something like a cross between Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Alt Text: Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena I was pleased to see the recent news about alien images appearing on a wall in Canada. If you haven't seen the story, the upshot is that some reflected light shows up every non-overcast day on someone's house in Calgary, and the resulting image looks something like a cross between Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Lenovo looks for strong finish at Beijing Olympics More than any other official sponsor at the Beijing Olympics, Lenovo may have the most to gain -- and the most to lose -- as a Chinese company trying to reach a worldwide market.Still the strongest name in compu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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May 12, 1941: Fog of War Shrouds Computer Advance 1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Because Zuse designed and built his computer inside Nazi Germany, which was already at war, his achievement went unnoticed outside Germany until after the Thi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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May 12, 1941: Fog of War Shrouds Computer Advance 1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Because Zuse designed and built his computer inside Nazi Germany, which was already at war, his achievement went unnoticed outside Germany until after the Thi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Citigroup and Wells Fargo Said to Be Bidding for Wachovia The government, led by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department, has been involved in the talks as well. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |