Archive for February, 2008

4.8″ Portable Navigation System NV-U83T

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

4.8" Portable Navigation System NV-U83T Get there with time to spare. The large, 4.8" touch-panel widescreen display of the nav-u portable navigation system offers an intuitive color display and real-time traffic reports. Dual view - 3D Junction Guide Dual View capability displays dynamic route information, in addition to the conventional map view, to ...

Siemens Plans to Cut Up to 7,000 Jobs

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Siemens plans on Tuesday to announce that it intends to eliminate up to 7,000 jobs, or 40 percent of the workers in its troubled business telecommunications unit in Germany and Brazil, as it seeks a buyer for the business, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said. Executives were to ...

Questions over extent of YouTube blockade

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Conflicting reports emerged out of Pakistan on Tuesday over the duration of a Pakistani government block on the video-sharing Web site YouTube for showing a "highly blasphemous Dutch" video. Protests burn a Danish flag in Karachi over the publication of drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The video, which ...

Indonesia to consider buying F-16 fighter planes from US

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Air Force will consider a US government offer to sell multi-role Block 52 F-16 Fighting Falcon and heavy transport 130-J Hercules planes to Indonesia, a spokesman said. "We will consider buying the planes under our procurement plan for 2010-2014," Vice Air Marshal Soenaryo, chief of ...

RI explores enhanced economic cooperation with South Africa

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Batam (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is looking into the possibility of stepping up economic cooperation with South Africa by forming a joint commission at a meeting on the industrialized island of Batam on Monday, an Indonesian Foreign Ministry official said. Both countries still had little knowledge of each other`s potentials so ...