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World's top high-tech fair goes 3DHanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2010 The world's biggest high-tech fair opened to the public Tuesday as the IT sector sought to rebound from a terrible 2009 by wooing consumers with trendy gadgets to make life easier and more fun. "Connected Worlds" is the theme of this year's CeBIT fair, with companies aiming to showcase energy and labour-saving devices that use wireless technology to communicate with each other and with users far away. But, as ever, the CeBIT is not all work and no play. A host of mind-boggling futuristic dev ... read more |
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Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2010The U.S. Air Force's Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B8 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service in providing secure and reliable communications capabilities for the warfighter. Launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 20, 2000, the B8 satellite is one of 14 DSCS III spacecraft designed and built by Lockheed Martin Space Syst ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 1, 2010Chile is braced for billions of dollars in loses stemming from Saturday's massive earthquake, but the country's reputation for sound economic management has investors predicting a recovery within months. The devastation wrought by the enormous 8.8 magnitude quake, which killed more than 700 people, is painfully evident from the innumerable collapsed buildings and the decimated infrastructure ... more 
Concepcion, Chile (AFP) March 2, 2010Looters pillaged shops, homes and even attacked a fire station in the burning Chilean city of Concepcion, as rescuers try to find quake survivors. Police fired tear gas to try to disperse an angry crowd that set fire to the Bigger supermarket after they were prevented from entering. Black smoke billowed out over the ruins of Concepcion, one of the cities worst hit by Saturday's 8.8-magni ... more |
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Corruption made Haiti's quake worse than Chile's: survivorsPort-Au-Prince (AFP) March 1, 2010 Survivors in Haiti's camps greeted news of Chile's less deadly temblor with resignation, saying poor governance, corruption and shoddy construction magnified their own seismic disaster. "There aren't any real politics in our country. Politics in our country is taking the money and putting it into a bank account, putting it in their pockets and running off," a bitter Pierre-Francis Junior told AFP in a vast tent city where he now lives in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince. Around him, more ... read more |
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