Rim (Research in Motion) plan to make launching the Blackberry touchscreen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm 9530 for Verizon Wireless. After the G1 Android smartphone and the Nokia 5800 touch screen XPRESSMUSIC Tube, Rim is now time to take over the Apple iPhone with BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone. Verizon states that the BlackBerry Storm 9530 will have a global capability. This means that the BlackBerry Storm 9530 will have a CDMA and quad-band GSM. BlackBerry Storm 9530 will be equipped with a touchscreen click with Haptic or tactile feedback and a built-in auto-rotation.BlackBerry Storm...
Info : Swine flu turn 160 countries ( H1n1)
The swine flu virus has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people within the next two years, the World Health Organization has said.A senior WHO official, Keiji Fukuda, said the virus was still in its early stages and would continue to spread for some time. Mr Fukuda said work on a vaccine was intensifying but safety could not be compromised by rushing the process. The virus is thought to have killed almost 800 people in recent months. Mr Fukuda, the WHO's Assistant Director General for Health Security, said the agency had been reporting only laboratory-confirmed cases, but that...
One-time gain boosts Ford results
Ford, the only one of the "Big Three" US carmakers not to have gone bankrupt, has reported a quarterly profit of $2.3bn (£1.4bn).However, the profit was largely due to one-off gains related to debt restructuring, with demand for new cars remaining weak.Excluding the gain, Ford said it made an operating loss of $424m.Ford boss Alan Mulally said the business environment was "extremely challenging" worldwide.Despite the economic downturn, Ford said it gained market share in all the regions in which it sells cars when compared with the second quarter of 2008."While the business environment remained...
Hughes still keen on Terry deal
Manchester City manager Mark Hughes has admitted he still hopes to lure Chelsea captain John Terry to Eastlands. City have already seen one bid for Terry turned down by Chelsea but Hughes says he has not given up hope. "He's obviously the type of player and the calibre of player we need if we're going to progress and compete at the top level," he told BBC Sportsweek. "There may be a point that we concede but I don't think we're at that point as yet." City have had an active summer in the transfer market, signing Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Carlos Tevez and Emmanuel Adebayor in an £80m spree,...
Beckham booed in Galaxy home game
David Beckham was booed and jeered during his first home game for Los Angeles Galaxy since returning from a loan spell at AC Milan.The 34-year-old England midfielder missed the first half of the Major League Soccer season after extending his spell with the Italian side. Ironically, the Galaxy were playing Milan in a friendly and Beckham confronted angry fans at half-time "The majority of fans have been great," Beckham insisted afterwards. "It was only one or two that, you know, it was to be expected. I expected it to a certain point. "Sometimes it goes beyond it. It went beyond it a couple of...
More factories 'are freezing pay'
Welder at UK factoryRecession is hitting the wages of factory workers in the UKTough times for the manufacturing industry mean a record number of companies are freezing salaries, a new survey indicates.Pay data from the EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, reveals two-thirds of employers suspended pay increases in the three months to June.Workers also saw historically low levels of average pay settlements.The EEF says the survey is clear evidence that the economic downturn is hitting manufacturing hard.The EEF's July Pay Bulletin was based on information from 240 pay settlements covering 55,405...
BA announces plan to raise £600m
British Airways plans to raise more than £600m to help it weather the recession, the airline has said.It will issue £350m in convertible bonds to existing shareholders and also release bank guarantees from its UK defined benefit pension schemes. Observers say the carrier wants a safety net in case it faces industrial action from cabin crew over pay, as well as tough summer trading. BA also predicted it had lost £100m in the three months to the end of June. But it added that this was "slightly better than market expectations". "Following discussions with institutional investors, we're taking action...
Tax the rich to pay for ... everything
There may be reasons to tax the rich more, as a lot of people in Washington are talking about doing. But to raise taxes on them, and only them, to pay for the country's most ambitious proposals like health care reform, is a problem, experts say.If nothing else, it makes for some bad math. "We don't have enough rich people. We could tax the wealthy to extraordinary levels. But we cannot afford everything we want," said Ken Kies, a former director of the Joint Committee on Taxation and currently a tax lobbyist for businesses including insurers.Yet, rich households are the focus of several revenue...
