Lumia 710 owners won't get a shot of Windows Phone 7.8 from T-Mobile.(Credit:T-Mobile)Owners of Nokia's Lumia 710 who expected an update to Windows Phone 7.8 are out of luck.The phone's sole U.S. carrier, T-Mobile, confirmed the news in a statement sent to CNET today:At this time, the Nokia Lumia 710 will not receive the Windows Phone 7.8 software update. T-Mobile is committed to enhancing customers'...
Boy Scouts leaders make announcement on gay ban
Labels: Health Updated at 11:07 a.m. ET IRVING, Texas The Boy Scouts of America put off a decision Wednesday on whether to lift its ban on gay members and leaders, saying the question will be taken up at the organization's national meeting in May. "After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the...
US Postal Service to End Saturday Mail Delivery
Labels: Business Feb 6, 2013 8:28am (Image Credit: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Weekend mail delivery...
Tunisia protests after government critic shot dead
Labels: WorldTUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian opposition politician was shot dead on Wednesday, sending protesters onto the streets of cities nationwide two years after the uprisings that swept Tunisia's president from power and inflamed the Arab world. The headquarters of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which rules in a fractious coalition with secularists, was set ablaze after Chokri Belaid, an...
Govt to assess effectiveness of early travel discount scheme
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: Three to four per cent of MRT commuters have moved their travelling times into the Central Business District out of the peak 8am to 9am period since the SMRT implemented its Early Travel Discount Scheme.In Parliament on Wednesday, Minister of State for Transport Josephine Teo said the scheme was enhanced from 10 cents to 30 cents in October 2011, and then to 50 cents last August...
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Baumgartner's supersonic freefall: Faster than you thought
Labels: LifestyleFelix Baumgartner in the hatch of his balloon-hoisted capsule, 24 miles above the Earth.(Credit:Red Bull Stratos)The wheels of bureaucracy do not turn at a supersonic rate.It's been nearly five months since Felix Baumgartner traveled many, many miles into the sky in order to come hurtling back down to Earth in a freefall faster than the speed of sound. Judging by the data released by his backers at...
Ireland admits involvement in Catholic laundry slavery
Labels: Health DUBLIN Ireland has admitted some responsibility for workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once kept thousands of women and teenage girls against their will in unpaid, forced labor.The apology comes after an expert panel found that Ireland should be legally responsible for the defunct Magdalene Laundries because authorities committed about one-quarter of the 10,012 women to the workhouses from 1922...
Boy Rescued in Ala. Standoff 'Laughing, Joking'
Labels: Business The 5-year-old boy held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama is in good spirits and apparently unharmed after being reunited with his family at a hospital, according to his family and law enforcement officials.The boy, identified only as Ethan, was rescued by the FBI Monday afternoon after they rushed the underground bunker where suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, was...
Iran's Ahmadinejad in Egypt on historic visit
Labels: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Egypt on Tuesday on the first trip by an Iranian president since the 1979 revolution, underlining a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of state. President Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood politician elected in June, kissed Ahmadinejad as he disembarked from his plane at Cairo airport. The leaders walked down...
FJ Benjamin Holdings posts lower net profit for Q2
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: Singapore-based fashion and lifestyle group, FJ Benjamin Holdings, posted lower net profit for its second quarter ended 31 December 2012. Its net profit for the quarter fell 72.5 per cent to S$1.3 million from S$4.8 million a year ago mainly due to a decline in sales of luxury timepieces in North Asia, weaker festive spending in Southeast Asia, and higher rentals. Mr Nash Benjamin,...
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