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However, the OS was designed to be adapted to mobile devices in general, and earlier this year Chinese firm Skytone revealed its Alpha 680, the first Android-powered netbook.
Acer has a larger role to play – as third-largest global PC manufacturer, its netbooks are widely bought, and with the option of a cheaper price tag due to Android source code being free to use and develop, this may prove some competition for Windows.
It also has some other perks: "The Android OS offers incredibly fast wireless connection to the internet. For this reason, Acer has decided to develop Android netbooks," said Jim Wong, president of Acer’s IT products global operation, at the Computex 2009 conference where the Android-powered netbook was unveiled.
Acer’s Android netbook is expected some time in the third quarter of 2009.
Favorable weather conditions helped firefighters make progress on the Butts Fire, which has burned 4,300 acres in a remote section in Napa County. All evacuations have been lifted.
Two homes and seven outbuildings have been destroyed in the fire, which is being battled by more than 1,700 personnel from agencies across the region.
Evacuations: All evacuation orders have been lifted.
The fire raging near in Napa and Lake counties continues to burn as 1,000 firefighters work to contain the blaze.
BATTLE CREEK -- Bryan Byrne saved his best for last Wednesday afternoon. Bryne sparked a three-run, ninth-inning with a two-run single to help the South Bend Silver Hawks earn a 6-2 victory over the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays in Midwest League baseball action. Guilty of an error in Tuesday's 1-0 setback to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays affiliate, Byrne redeemed himself with two hits and two RBIs. Trailing 1-0, the Hawks drew even in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly by Ricardo Sosa before grabbing the lead in the fifth with two more runs. Leyson Septimo provided the big blow with a double, scoring Steve Mena and Pedro Ciriaco. Justin Upton added three hits for South Bend, including an RBI single in the ninth. Right-hander Anthony Cupps (2-3) notched the victory, surrendering one run on four hits with four strikeouts over 6?240-208? innings. HAWKS 6, DEVIL RAYS 2 SOUTH BEND SW MICHIGAN ab r h bi ab r h bi Ciriaco ss 4 1 1 0 Matulia cf 5 0 0 0 Septimo rf 5 1 1 2 Jamsn dh 4 2 3 1 Upton cf 4 2 3 1 Hall lf 3 0 0 0 Byrne 1b 5 0 2 2 Groce rf 4 0 0 1 Sosa 3b 3 0 0 1 Spring c 4 0 0 0 Hendricks lf 4 0 0 0 Beth 1b/ss 3 0 2 0 R. Mercado c 4 0 0 0 Devins 3b 2 0 0 0 Curreri dh 3 0 0 0 Vick 2b 2 0 0 0 Ferrer dh 0 1 0 0 Rousve ss 2 0 0 0 Mena 2b 2 1 1 0 Hughes 1b 2 0 0 0 Totals 34 6 8 6 Totals 31 2 5 2 South Bend 000 120 003 -- 6 SW Michigan 100 000 010 -- 2 E -- Vick 2, Rousseve 2, Matulia. DP -- South Bend 1, SW Michigan 2. LOB -- South Bend 8, SW Michigan 8. 2B -- Septimo (7), Bethel (1). 3B -- Jamieson (1). HR -- Jamieson (1). SAC -- Mena. SF -- Sosa. CS -- R. Mercado. IP H R ER BB SO South Bend Cupps (W, 2-3) 61/3 4 1 1 3 4 Newby 12/3 1 1 1 1 1 Julio 1 0 0 0 2 1 SW Michigan Reinhard(L, 0-4) 52/3 4 3 2 2 2 Bigda 11/3 2 0 0 1 2 Evers 2 2 3 0 2 0 WP -- Evers. T -- 2:46. A -- 1,419.
Prudential Financial Inc., the second-biggest U.S. life insurer, posted a first-quarter loss as the value of the company’s derivative contracts fell.
Net loss was $967 million, compared with a net income of $561 million a year earlier, the Newark, New Jersey-based company said today in a statement distributed by Business Wire. Operating profit, which excludes the results of policies sold before the company went public and some investments, was $1.56 a share, missing the average estimate of $1.72 from 18 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Chief Executive Officer John Strangfeld is expanding outside the U.S. and buying back stock as he seeks to boost return on equity. Prudential’s derivatives, which are used to guard against market risks, often lose value when interest rates rise and the company’s credit spreads narrow, as they did in the three months ended March 31.
Prudential has risen 22 percent this year in New York trading, compared with a 15 percent gain for MetLife.
Strangfeld, 58, told investors last year he was focusing on boosting ROE, a measure of how well the company reinvests shareholder money, to 13 percent to 14 percent in 2013. That compares with Prudential’s ROE of 11 percent to 11.5 percent last year and less than 10 percent in 2010.
Strangfeld is scaling back in some U.S. markets as he focuses on life insurance sales abroad. Prudential sold its real estate brokerage and relocation business in December and in March said it will halt sales of individual long-term care policies. Prudential bought two Japanese life insurance units from American International Group Inc. in February 2011 for more than $4 billion.
Prudential has raised its dividend three times since 2008, and in June it announced a $1.5 billion buyback. MetLife has been blocked twice in the last year by regulators from increasing its dividend and starting a share repurchase. New York-based MetLife is subject to greater U.S. scrutiny than Prudential because of its status as a federally regulated bank holding company.
Peter Petherick was a wizard with the ball in hand. Photo from <i>ODT</i> files.
Peter Petherick was toiling away as a mechanic in an Alexandra garage in the early summer of 1975-76 when he was given the news he had finally been selected for the Otago cricket team.
The retirement of the Alabaster brothers, Gren and Jack, had finally given him the chance to emerge from cricket obscurity at the age of 33 and what followed was a fairytale sporting story.
He was the sensation of the New Zealand first-class cricket season with his offspin bowling during which he took 42 wickets at 20.16. These included nine wickets for 93 against Northern Districts (he was only the third Otago bowler to take nine wickets in an innings) and six for 36 against the touring Indians, renowned players of spin bowling.
His selection in the New Zealand team to tour Pakistan and India later that year became a formality but, with his figures reading none for 96 in his test debut against Pakistan in Lahore on October 9, things looked grim not only for the Kiwis but Petherick.
Then, in the space of a few short minutes, he became an international cricket hero. Javed Miandad top-edged a pull shot and was caught by Richard Hadlee at square leg, Wasim Raja hit a return catch the next ball and Intikhab Alam was caught off his gloves close in by Geff Howarth.
None for 96 became three for 96 and Petherick remains one of only three players - the others are Maurice Allom (England) in 1930 and Damien Fleming (Australia) in 1994 - to claim a hat trick on test debut.
New Zealand lost the test by six wickets but Petherick had match figures of five for 129.
His test career was brief. He played in six matches in which he took 16 wickets at 42.81. He was part of some notable Otago successes, including the Shell Trophy victory in 1976-77 but he transferred to Wellington in 1978 and finished his first-class career in 1981.
He played 52 matches and took 189 wickets (average 24.47) but he will be remembered as one of the characters of the game with his sense of humour and his deep braying laugh.
He enjoyed a smoke and a beer, he was comfortably built, he moved at a leisurely pace in the field and, as a batsman, he was a genuine No 11, although he did make some sizeable scores in club and minor representative matches. But it was as a genuine spinner of the ball - Petherick could make the ball turn square on any pitch which gave him help - that he earned his place in cricket folklore.
He later became prominent in lawn bowls at national championships and he was quick to see the funny side of his success at the underarm bowling game.
Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH) today published an in-depth analysis of 2011 Facebook attacks within its Internet Threats Trend Report, a year-end synopsis of Internet threats. The report and infographic present a comprehensive analysis of scores of malicious Facebook activities during the past year, as identified by Commtouch Labs. Affiliate marketing sites are the final destination in three-fourths of all Facebook deceptions, according to the report. Visitors to these sites are induced to fill out surveys that generate affiliate payments for the scammers, victimizing legitimate businesses that pay affiliate fees.
Users are induced to click on the scams through social engineering tactics such as free merchandise offers, celebrity news, new (fake) Facebook applications, or simply a trusted friend sending a message stating: "You have to see this!" After users first click on the scams, malware or malicious scripts are to blame for the further spread of slightly over half the analyzed scams, with those falling into three main categories: likejacking, rogue applications, and malware or "self-XSS," each of which is described in the report.
In 48% of the cases, unwitting users themselves are responsible for distributing the undesirable content by clicking on "like" or "share" buttons.
"Facebook scammers are out to make money, and affiliate marketing is a rich source," said Amir Lev, Commtouch's chief technology officer. "The same social engineering techniques that malware distributors and spammers have been using for years to induce people to open their unwanted mail or click on malicious links are being leveraged within Facebook and other popular social networks for ill-gotten gains."
Besides Facebook threats, the report discusses Web threats, phishing, malware, and spam throughout the year. The content of the report is based on data from Commtouch's GlobalView Network, which tracks and analyzes billions of Internet transactions daily.
The trend report describes the explosion of email-borne malware in the third quarter of 2011 to the highest levels observed in over two years, followed by its subsequent drop to earlier low levels during the fourth quarter. While emails with attached malware subsided to a mere trickle, email messages with malware links hosted on compromised Web sites increased significantly, using themes like pizza delivery notifications and airline itineraries to trick recipients into clicking on the malicious links.
More details, including samples, statistics, and a brief presentation summarizing the trend report are available here View the infographic here.
Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH) safeguards the world's leading security companies and service providers with cloud-based Internet security services. A cloud-security pioneer, Commtouch's real-time threat intelligence from its GlobalView Network powers Web security, messaging security and antivirus solutions, protecting thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
Six people have been killed by a gas explosion in an abandoned coal mine in South Africa, the national broadcaster is reporting.
About 20 others are still trapped at the Gloria coal mine in Middelburg, east of the capital, Pretoria.
A police spokesman said some people had gone into the mine to steal copper wires when a gas pipe exploded.
Local media said rescue efforts were being hampered by dangerously high levels of toxic gas.
“We’re still waiting for engines and generators to arrive to start putting oxygen into the ground”, local government official Speedy Mashilo told South Africa’s national broadcaster SABC.
He said that engineers would join the rescue efforts by rigging up lighting in the mine shafts.
The mine was closed after its owners, the Gupta brothers, found it difficult to continue doing business in South Africa following corruption allegations against them.
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has become embroiled in the allegations. Both parties have denied any wrongdoing.Mining accidents are common in South Africa. More than 80 fatalities were recorded in mines across the country in 2017.
Seeing all of those young girls screaming their heads off at the recent Eclipse premiere was as funny as it was familiar: many of us had our superfan days, and now's your chance to share them with your fellow readers.
We're looking for pictures of your devotion in action: wearing a band's t-shirt, wrapping yourself in a Harry Potter scarf, a shot of your former bedroom, plastered in band posters or Tiger Beat pullouts, shots of your giant NKOTB pin collection, concert pictures, sports team obsessions, boy band screaming sessions, notebook doodles, and even pictures of you meeting up with your heroes, if you have them. Whether you're currently obsessed with Dr. Who or 20 years removed from your obsession with New Edition, there has to be some photographic evidence somewhere. So why not celebrate the best parts of fandom—the truly fun and silly aspects—by sharing those ridiculous pictures with the internet? You can even blur out your faces, and the faces of your accomplices, if you'd rather celebrate your Backstreet Boys poster without actually having to admit to owning it in front of the entire world.
Interested? Send the pictures to me (already altered, if that's how you want them published) with "Past Fashion" in the headline, before Friday, July 9.
GWU president Saviour Sammut’s claim that the extension to the Mellieha Holiday Complex was an opportunity to create work has somewhat petered out, as a project development statement has revealed the new villas will only create 15 jobs.
The General Workers Union’s interest in the Mellieha holiday village attracted attention last June when MaltaToday Midweek revealed the union-owned company intended privatising part of Ghadira Bay by applying for a beach concession to cater exclusively for paying clients.
MaltaToday also revealed that the GWU had lobbied with the Prime Minister’s office to hasten the approval of an application for 30 bungalows in a Special Area of Conservation.
But the project development statement, presented before the approval of the project, states that the only new jobs to be created are those of two pool boys, six gardeners, six maids and a supervisor.
The PDS claims that presently the complex attracts more than 17,000 tourists each year and that the 30 new bungalows will serve to boost these numbers.
The General Workers Union only owns a nominal share in the Danish company which possesses 99 per cent of the shares in the Mellieha Holiday Complex. Saviour Sammut and Tony Zarb, in their respective roles of president and secretary-general of the GWU, are directors of the company, but are not paid for their post in the company.
The PDS also reveals that the new development will involve the removal of a number of protected trees which are to be relocated elsewhere. It also acknowledges that the visual impact of the development will be “widespread and adverse” but proposes the planting of native trees as a mitigation measure.
Oliver Townend, the world number one and leading British points winner, dominated proceedings in the headline classes at Burnham Market International Horse Trials.
Due to huge entries from many of the top horse and rider combinations in the world, two sections of Four Star competitors ran on Sunday, and Townend led both from pillar to post.
The first win came from his Burghley 2017 winner Ballaghmor Class. The pair posted a dressage score of 21.8 to which they added just 0.4 of a cross country time penalty, giving Oliver a four-penalty advantage over runners-up Alexander Bragg and Zagreb.
Next up was Cillnabradden Evo who scored 21.3 for the dressage, finishing the day on that score. Both of Oliver’s horses broke the previous Burnham Market record for dressage scores at the level. Laura Collett was runner-up, riding London 52, five penalties off the pace.
This remarkable performance takes Townend’s tally of Four Star wins at Burnham Market to 12 since 2007 – the class had to be abandoned last year due to inclement weather.
Lizzie Baugh, 21, won the Three Star riding her Young Rider British team horse Quarry Man.
“We’ve learnt together – he’s Mr Perfect and always tries to please,” said Newark-based Baugh, who has produced the horse up through the rankings. She is currently doing a Masters degree in Equine Performance at Nottingham Trent University, but plans to become a professional event rider.
In second and third places were British team gold medallists Tom McEwen and Gemma Tattersall riding Dreamaway II and Arctic Soul respectively, while fellow team gold medallist Piggy French was again in the ribbons, taking fifth place on Calling Card.
It was a good weekend for Baugh, who on Saturday finished runner up to French in an intermediate section, French denied a double in one of the open intermediate classes by Jesse Campbell. Nicola Wilson picked up a second win of the weekend, this time in the other open intermediate, while the remaining intermediate section was won by Townend.
A look at all the ups and downs in Pakistan's relations with key countries in the outgoing year.
Pakistan had a busy 2018 with regards to developments on the external front.
The Foreign Office diary was full of new chapters on Pakistan's ties with the United States, China, India and Afghanistan. Some estranged allies, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), also featured prominently in the second half of the year after pledging financial support to shore up Pakistan's sagging economy.
Turkey and Malaysia too found honourable mention.
While Turkey was the only country to support Pakistan against a US move to put it on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, it also vowed to support the country on the matter of Kashmir in the United Nations.
Similarly, Malaysia welcomed Prime Minister Imran Khan on his first visit to the country, and Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad also accepted PM Khan's invitation to visit Pakistan on March 23 next year.
The visit was marked by goodwill and bonhomie, which wasn't surprising given the similarities between the anti-graft missions of both heads of state and the circumstances in which they assumed power in their respective countries.
Take a look at the key developments in Pakistan's foreign relations by clicking on the tabs below.
Compiled by Hurmat Majid. Header illustration by Mushba Said.
The year literally started with US President Donald Trump saying that Pakistan has only given "lies and deceit" to the US. The US president also tweeted that Islamabad thinks of US leaders "as fools".
It took only an hour for then foreign minister Khawaja Asif to come up with a rejoinder. “We will respond to President Trump’s tweet shortly Inshallah...Will let the world know the truth...difference between facts & fiction,” he tweeted.
The White House then confirmed it was suspending $255 million of military aid to Pakistan, a move seen as the first step to implementing Trump’s pledge to hold Pakistan to account.
Trump's tweets and Washington's changing behaviour towards Pakistan received much criticism, not only from the country but also on the international stage.
In a clear disagreement with the American president's scathing assessment, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said: "Pakistan has made tremendous efforts and sacrifices in combating terrorism and made outstanding contributions to the international anti-terrorism cause. The international community should fully acknowledge it."
A day after the Trump administration announced that it was suspending its entire security assistance to Pakistan, the Foreign Office (FO) issued a statement saying the country's officials were engaged with the US administration on "security cooperation" and awaiting further details.
The chief of the military's media wing, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, said Washington should realise that the misunderstandings between Pakistan and the United States could negatively impact the security situation in the region, particularly in Afghanistan.
Less than a week after Trump's tweet, then US Defence Secretary James Mattis said that the Pentagon was maintaining its communication with the Pakistani military establishment, including with Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, even after suspending its security assistance to Pakistan.
Not long after the exchange of verbal blows between the two countries, Pakistan told American interlocutors that a major military offensive against the Taliban from both sides of the Afghan border, if ending in failure, will have negative consequences for the entire region.
Diplomatic sources believed at the time that a key element of the new US strategy for Afghanistan would be to launch a two-pronged military offensive that inflicts a military defeat on the Taliban and forces them to join the Afghan reconciliation process on Kabul’s conditions.
They reminded their interlocutors that Pakistan was still coping with the consequences of Britain’s Afghan adventures. Those adventures led to the creation of a buffer zone — Fata, which later became the source of many troubles.
The United States then told Pakistan what it must do if it wants Washington to resume paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid.
“Our expectations are straightforward,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Rob Manning told reporters at the time.
The Trump administration's attempt at “humiliating and penalising” Pakistan for allegedly failing to take decisive action against militant groups hostile to the US was unlikely to work, former American ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson has argued, warning that Islamabad has greater leverage over Washington than is usually perceived.
American diplomat Alice Wells then acknowledged Pakistan’s efforts in eradicating terrorism and conveyed the Washington's desire to work with Pakistan in furthering the shared objective of stabilising Afghanistan.
United States' (US) Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen Joseph Dunford insisted that he had not given up hope on US mending ties with Pakistan.
The same month, the US urged Pakistan to prosecute Hafiz Mohammad Saeed "to the fullest extent of the law", endorsing the Indian view on the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief.
Despite the tense relations between Pakistan and the United States, the volume of bilateral trade between the two countries touched new heights, Voice of America reported in February.
Pakistan was then placed on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list on Washington's suggestion in late February. Even though China and Saudi Arabia were expected to vote in favour of Pakistan, they chose to not oppose the motion, leaving only Turkey in Pakistan's corner.
The 37-nation FATF held its plenary meeting in Paris where it placed Pakistan on a so-called 'grey list' of the countries where terrorist outfits are still allowed to raise funds.
Pakistan had expressed serious concern when the motion was first submitted to FATF for placing it on the watchlist. It was said that ongoing anti-terrorist operations by the Pakistan Army were proof of the country’s commitment towards combating this menace.
In March, the United States assured Pakistan that it does not want to sever bilateral ties with an "important ally" while Islamabad extended its “wholehearted support” to a US-backed Afghan offer of peace talks with the Taliban.
The two statements supplement renewed efforts to improve relations between the US and Pakistan. The US also acknowledged that both Pakistan and the Taliban have legitimate grievances and it was said that those concerns will be addressed.
In June, then Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alice G. Wells visited Pakistan to explore the possibility of a permanent peace in Afghanistan.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also offered to discuss with the Taliban their demand for the withdrawal of US and international forces from Afghanistan, adding that Washington would “support, facilitate and participate in these discussions”.
Soon after the general elections, a brief controversy ensued when the US issued a readout on a phone call between PM Khan and US secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The statement issued by the US State Department read: "Secretary Pompeo raised the importance of Pakistan taking decisive action against all terrorists operating in Pakistan and its vital role in promoting the Afghan peace process."
The Foreign Office took exception to the statement, calling it "a factually incorrect statement issued by the US State Department" regarding the discussion during the phone call, saying there was "no mention at all in the conversation about terrorists operating in Pakistan".
Following the FO's statement, US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said: "We stand by our readout."