Drug maker Merck plans to cut 15,000 jobs and close plants to save billions of dollars in their annual costs by 2012. The company focuses on cost controlling, and believed to save $3.5 billion in their annual expenses by 2012. In the company’s third quarter profit report, Merck reported to have a slight increase of [...]
US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) cleared three aircrafts at Philadelphia and Newark later this morning previously held for suspected cargo. According to Elizabeth Rasberry, United Parcel Service (UPS) spokesperson, said that after an inspection of suspicious cargo last Friday, the TSA detained three UPS planes this morning for a clearing operation, two from Philadelphia and [...]
A pair of gas leaks delayed the final launch of Discovery, NASAs space shuttle, by a day. The shuttle will be carrying six astronauts from NASA and a humanoid robot to the International Space Station. The space shuttle is now scheduled to lift off on Tuesday at 4:17 p.m. Discovery, NASAs space shuttle, is supposed [...]
As China unveils its supercomputer, people start to wonder if this will be a threat to the United States. China’s National University of Defense Technology has recently unveiled its newly developed supercomputer. Due to this, China takes another step in reclaiming the world technological lead. This is China’s way to show the country’s growing technological [...]
Investigative Commission reported Thursday that BP oil rig explosion may possibly caused by unstable cement job. According to the investigative special commission for environmental disaster, weeks before the explosion of the BP well, the company and its Halliburton subcontractor were aware that the cement mixture used in sealing the well is unstable based on their [...]
China’s ability to build the world’s fastest computer in the future can be a warning to the US technology. China is expected to gain the official record for the supercomputer performance early November to surpass the supremacy of the US in supercomputing On Thursday China announced that it had built a 2.5 petaflops powering the [...]
Many candidates for presidency in Haiti calls for freezing the elections as the number of cholera outbreaks start to spread outside the rural valley. Leslie Voltaire, one of the presidential candidates who are asking to postpone the upcoming election on November 28, said that if cholera outbreaks spread to the north and west she may [...]
A telecom group in Nepal said that people who want to climb the Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, will now be able to access the Internet and make video calls on their mobile phones. In addition, Ncell, a subordinate of phone giant in Sweden, TeliaSonera, also said on Thursday that it had [...]
James MacArthur, the boyish-looking, hard-driving sidekick on the longest-running television detective show Hawaii Five-O, died at 72 in Florida Thursday. Richard Lewis, agent of James MacArthur, announced to the press about the latter’s death is due to natural causes. The old detective show Hawaii Five-O first aired on television in 1968 and ended in 1980, [...]
Microsoft said that it gained a net income of $5.41 billion on record revenue of $16.2 billion dollars in its fiscal year’s first quarter. Microsoft also beats the expectation of Wall Street as the company’s net income increased 51 percent amounted to 62 cents a share. Moreover, the stock of the company also increased 3.5 [...]
