Manchu women have long had a reputation for being tall and slender. This may be because in former times they wore platform-soled shoes, tall hair styles and close-fitting cheongsams. There is a legend behind the height-enhancing shoes ...
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Burma's opposition leader and chairperson of the Lower House's Committee for the Rule of Law and Tranquility, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 25th 2012 spoke out about the furore surrounding the Latpadaung copper mine project in Sagaing ...
Within the settlement of Qiang Ethnic Group in the upper reaches of Min River of Sichuan Province,sorcerers are called Shibi in the southern dialect.However,given numerous branches of Qiang Ethnic Group,sorcerers are called differently in ...
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PORTLAND, OR (BRAIN)—While Portland is a commuter market, it also has a thriving mountain bike, tri and road scene. New shops offering only service are also finding success in this crowded retail market, as are Internet-based ...
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has outlined her strategy for the company, with the focus firmly fixed on mobile and improving the "user experience" of the company's services. Further reading Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on ...
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Microsoft's new mobile operating systems have been affected by a series of glitches that has had users complaining online – and some returning their devices to retailers and mobile telecoms companies for a refund. The most serious ...
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IDG News Service-Facebook,under pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors,posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent on Tuesday,beating Wall Street expectations,but it also recorded a loss. Facebook's revenue for the third ...
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A second-hand laptop purchased on auction site eBay has been found to contain over 5GB of confidential information relating to global telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent. The files,shown exclusively to Computing,include service,fault and ...
Research In Motion's stock price jumped more than 6%Wednesday after CEO Thorsten Heins addressed developers and said,among other things,that BlackBerry subscriptions had climbed to 80 million,up from 78 million in the second quarter. ...
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RIM CEO Thorstein Heins Tuesday reassured some 1,500 developers at the BlackBerry Jam Americas conference that the company's BlackBerry10 smartphones are on track to launch in next year's first quarter. The opening of the event in San ...
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Research in Motion(RIM)CEO Thorsten Heins said that as many as 6%of BlackBerry customers in Europe and Africa may have seen up to a three-hour delay in getting and sending messages early Friday. Heins released a statement about 11:30 ...
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Microsoft says it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6,7,8,and 9 as well as targeted attacks that have attempted to exploit the vulnerability. The zero-day flaw,which does not affect Explorer 10,was ...
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Boy, those girls from Sight Unseen sure know how to put together a fun series of events. We had a great time walking around Noho this year. I made it a point to go this year because unfortunately last year I missed it. London ...
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A new set of terms and conditions has been sent to existing users of Microsoft's online services–including Hotmail,SkyDrive,Messenger,Bing,MSN and Office.com–that effectively prohibits a user from filing a class action lawsuit ...
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Cisco has revealed the six start-up businesses that have reached its BIG Awards final. The Cisco BIG Awards, in partnership with JP Morgan, Bird & Bird, DNX and Octopus Communications, aim to reward the UK's most innovative start-up ...
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