Arun Sarin is leaving Vodafone. The chief executive departs as the mobile group’s profits pass £10bn for the year.
Vodafone made revenues of £35.5bn, up 4.2 per cent, and adjusting operating profit of £10.1bn in the year ended 31 March 2008. Earnings per share were up 11 per cent to 12.5p.
Sarin will be replaced by his […]
Computer keyboards, can be home to more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, says UK consumer watchdog, Which.
Tests on 33 keyboards at the organisation’s offices found four that posed a health hazard and one playing host to five times more germs than the office’s toilet seats. It was ordered to be removed, quarantined and cleaned […]
DANGEROUS DRUGS HAVE BEEN GLOBALLY DISCARDED BUT ARE AVAILABLE IN INDIA .
The most common ones are D cold, action 500 & Nimulid.
ANALGIN
Used as: This is a pain-killer.
Reason for ban: Bone marrow depression.
Brand name: Novalgin
CISAPRIDE
Used for: Acidity, constipation.
Reason for ban : irregular heartbeat
Brand name : Ciza, Syspride
DROPERIDOL
Used as: Anti-depressant.
Reason for ban : Irregular heartbeat.
Brand name : […]
Reorganization is to blame for 250 IT, sales, marketing, finance and support job cuts today in Dell Ireland, apparently.
A report on Silicon Republic said the move means that the firm’s Irish headcount will drop to 4,250 within nine months. Dell Ireland said that no manufacturing jobs would go.
The firm said it is looking to slash […]
1. St. Francis Dam, 1928
Self-taught engineer William Mulholland built this LA dam on a defective foundation and ignored the geology of the surrounding canyon. He also dismissed cracks that formed as soon as the reservoir behind it was filled. Five days later, it ruptured, killing 450 people and destroying entire towns (along with Mulholland’s career).
2. […]
One of the pair, known as GRA 06128, whose origin is unknown
A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica are in a class all of their own, a major space conference has been told. Studies of the extra-terrestrial rocks have revealed qualities that set them apart from any meteorites previously known to science.
Researchers are pondering where […]
SCIENTISTS have worked out why Homer Simpson finds doughnuts so impossible to resist.
A study found that two areas of the brain leapt into action when hungry volunteers were shown photos of doughnuts.
The same response did not occur after participants had stuffed themselves with up to eight of them.
Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago carried out […]
23 February 2008 – 11:59 AM
“The Great Pyramid has lent its name as a sort of by-word for paradoxes; and, as moths to a candle, so are theorisers attracted to it. The very fact that the subject was so generally familiar, and yet so little was accurately known about it, made it the more enticing; there were plenty of descriptions […]
18 February 2008 – 4:38 PM
NEW DELHI: India Inc may soon have to check internet usage during working hours, with an average five hours a week spent on personal web surfing, causing companies an annual loss of about Rs 1.6 lakh per employee.
These are the findings of a survey of IT managers in 450 organisations across five cities […]
15 February 2008 – 12:40 PM
The popular file-sharing service may be forced to shut down if it can not control the uploading of pirated music to its service after a German court ruling.
The German equivalent of the RIAA, GEMA, won a legal battle in district court in Düsseldorf last week which found that Rapidshare should be held responsible for the […]
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