The World's Richest Dropouts
Micheal Dell44 Years Old Mr. Dell currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. He has held the title of Chairman of the Board since he founded the Company in 1984. Mr. Dell served as Chief Executive Officer of Dell from 1984 until July 2004 and resumed that role in January 2007. He serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, serves on the executive committee of the International...
Japan university gives away iPhones to nab truants
TOKYO (AP) — A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class.Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That's verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation here.Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo is giving Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G to 550 students...
New incentives for buying original music
SHAH ALAM: The local music industry is having a hard time selling digital song downloads and blames it on the rampant piracy fostered by P2P (peer-to-peer) filesharing platforms.So, the next best thing for the music barons to do is give away digital music as a value-add whenever someone buys an MP3 player.senQ appliance stores is giving away songs when you buy any Samsung MP3 player at its Klang Valley, Seremban or Malacca outlets.The...
Driving mobile broadband to tourists
KUALA LUMPUR: Telecommunications company Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd has launched a new programme to push Celcom Broadband Prepaid — its mobile broadband service for cellphones — to tourists and business travellers in the country.The programme involves decking out 400 limousines operating from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with Celcom Broadband stickers and lighted signs on the vehicle roofs.Inside the limos, Celcom has placed...
USM to help resolve confusion due to technical glitch
GEORGE TOWN: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) will help the special committee set up by the Higher Education Ministry to resolve the confusion that arose because of a technical glitch in its student intake for the 2009/2010 academic session. Its deputy vice chancellor Prof Ahmad Shukri Mustapa Kamal said USM would help the committee, applicants and their parents in the matter.He said USM was in the process of finalising its report for...
Najib: PKR’s Penanti win is no gauge of its popularity
JEJU (SOUTH KOREA): PKR’s win in the Penanti by-election cannot be a gauge of its popularity because it was only challenged by independent candidates, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. He said it was also hardly an encouraging win as only less than half of the registered voters in the constituency cast their votes.“It is not a victory to be proud of,” he told the Malaysia media who were covering the Asean-South Korea Commemorative...
Choong and Lee show they are capable of being spoilers
PETALING JAYA: Veteran men’s doubles shuttlers Choong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah have been short on training and tournaments since leaving the national team.But if their performances in the recent Pahang Open is anything to go by, they could still be spoilers to the more fancied pairs in their last outing in the World Championships next month.In Kuantan, they pulled off an upset win over the country’s top pair, Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong,...
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