Manila - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday it was providing a 55-million-dollar loan to Afghanistan's leading mobile phone provider to expand its coverage to parts of the country with little or no telecommunications infrastructure in place.
The Manila-based ADB said the loan to Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd (Roshan) would also support the roll-out of a mobile banking system that allows subscribers to transfer money through their mobile phones without having to open bank accounts.
A new line of 2.5” portable hard drives, which include the world’s first half-terabyte 2.5” drive featuring an industry standard 9.5mm Z-height drive, has been announced by Verbatim.
The consumers and businesses would also get an advantage to add from 120 to 500GB removable capacity to their computers through these new external drives.
The new drive has weight of 170 grams and measures only 86mm x 137mm x 16mm. Another fabulous features of these drives are Verbatim's 500GB 2.5" SmartDisk HDD, which makes it extremely easy to carry while traveling with the lap top and also requires less desk space when connected to a desktop system.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's IT research company Mimos is to begin joint research with Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum in efforts to tackle cybercrime, a news report said Tuesday.
Both parties had recently signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct joint research into a hardware that could block security invasions on the internet, The Star newspaper's online news portal said.
"Phishing, pharming, virus attacks and hacking of systems belonging to companies is no longer done for fun or curiosity but is now big business, as there is money to made from such invasions," Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin, head of Mimos' Information Security Cluster, was quoted as saying.
Now users can avail shaadi.com matrimonial service via Vodafone in their cellular phones.
Vodafone Essar Limited and Shaadi.com have joined hand with an intention to launch ‘Shaadi.com’ on mobile phones.
In a plush event held in Mumbai, the companies made announcement of the first-of-its kind affiliation, which will bring India’s biggest matrimonial site to the widely used mobile service.
Powered by Mauj Mobile, the newly launched service can be used through WAP, SMS and Voice.
Washington, August 12 : Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg, Germany, have come up with a computer simulation method that can predict in record time when and where heavily stressed engine components are likely to fail, and thereby significantly reduce the time required by car manufacturers new engine components.
Exhaust fumes coming out of car engines at up to 1050 degrees Celsius expose the engine components to tremendous stress, for they expand heavily in the heat. On frosty days, on the other hand, the material contracts.
Such temperature fluctuations put the material under enormous pressure.
Manila - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday it was providing a 55-million-dollar loan to Afghanistan's leading mobile phone provider to expand its coverage to parts of the country with little or no telecommunications infrastructure in place.
The HTC handsets would be available during the first half of 2009. 
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