An explosion on a fuel tanker off South Korea’s west coast Sunday killed five crewmen and left six missing, though authorities here do not suspect North Korean involvement. Photographs showed that the blast aboard the 4,191-ton vessel Doola No. 3 broke the ship in half. The explosion took place several miles off the coast of [...]
The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other devices. But what about the old gadgets? Don’t they get any love? Actually, one machine at the show is designed to help recycle gadgets, giving old phones a fitting end, or a better home. Drop your phone [...]
We were promised such great things at CES 2011. We were told the coming year would bring worthy competitors to the mass-market consumer tablet space, an arena conquered — if not pioneered — by the iPad. Poised to challenge Apple’s throne, Motorola and RIM unveiled two serious iPad contenders in the Android-powered Xoom and the [...]
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world’s largest shipbuilder by order value, is targeting $30.6 billion in orders and sales of 27.6 trillion won ($23.85 billion) in 2012, although it expects a “very difficult year” because of the European debt crisis. “We are having difficulty in predicting business environments (for the year) due to volatility in [...]
Rumours that Apple will launch two new iPads at a trade show next month have been dismissed by company ‘insiders’. Asian news service Digitimes, a source of plenty of rumours about Apple these days, had claimed that two new iPads were scheduled for launch at the Macworld Expo conference in San Francisco on January 23. [...]
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