Tag Archives : Indonesia

One of the foremost names in mobile handsets and the world’s biggest cell phone manufacturer, Nokia has announced that, the Finnish company will now be pulling out its free music download service from 27 countries across the globe due to declining sales and less consumer interest in the regions. However, some of the strongest markets of Nokia such [...]

RIM, a company known for making the BlackBerry, announced today financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2011, which ended in November 2010. The numbers surprised the market. The number of units sold increased 40% compared to the same period last year, ie 14.2 million handsets. Revenue grew in the same proportion, hitting $ 5.5 billion. RIM [...]

A large deposit of amber 50 million years found in India can change the Earth’s geological history and anticipate the emergence of some species on the planet. All because the insects found trapped in the material show that the subcontinent was not as isolated as previously thought. Indian, Americans and Germans researchers spent two years in [...]

The tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake near the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has killed at least 40 people and left 380 others missing, officials said this Tuesday, 26. The death toll was expected to rise, since the authorities still seek victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The quake had a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale. Witnesses [...]

The world is on the brink of war. But instead of bombs and explosions, chaos will come through blackouts in the electrical system and breakdown in communications. The cause for all this: a powerful computer virus. The concept of cyber warfare, attacks on the infrastructure of the state by means of computers, it sounds like a movie script, but governments, [...]

The anti-terrorist police elite arrested in Indonesia on Monday influential radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, for alleged ties to a group accused of planning terrorist attacks against foreigners and the killing of top people. Bashir, 71, has been arrested twice and spent several years in prison. This time, he was arrested in western Java Island [...]

Researchers Ken Aplin, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, and Kris Helgen, the Smithsonian Institution, U.S., found at an archaeological site in East Timor bones of a mouse that would have weighed 6 pounds, which would be largest animal of this species that we know today. Analysis done by the scientists indicated [...]

Almost every Facebook users, who has ever played any sort of game on the social networking service, must be accustomed to the intricacies of how Facebook Credits work. In the virtual world of creating armies, farms or simply maintaining one’s mafia familiy would require a user to have access to money and to facilitate virtual money for the users, [...]

Shocking as it may sound, Islands are being stolen by businessmen in Indonesia. Sand, gravel and rocks are dug up and sent by ship loads to China, Thailand and other affluent countries where sea reclamation projects are being taken really seriously. In order to reclaim land which is covered by sea, you would fill the ocean with sand and gravel. This [...]

Over 130 countries have agreed to the Nusa Dua Declaration on the environment, a proclamation that covers the major issues of green economies, biodiversity, and international environmental management. The monumental mandate of the declaration is to underscore the importance of preserving biodiversity and the need to adopt a low-carbon green economy [...]