Moody's upgrades Saudi Arabia's credit rating to Aa3 with stable outlook    Riyadh Metro to begin partial operations next Wednesday: Report    Al Okhdood halts Al Shabab's winning streak with a 1-1 draw in Saudi Pro League    Mahrez leads Al Ahli to victory over Al Fayha in Saudi Pro League    Al Qadsiah hands Al Nassr their first defeat in the Saudi Pro League    Saudi musical marvels takes center stage in Tokyo's iconic opera hall    Downing Street indicates Netanyahu faces arrest if he enters UK    London's Gatwick airport reopens terminal after bomb scare evacuation    Civil Defense warns of thunderstorms across Saudi Arabia until Tuesday    Saudi Arabia, Japan strengthen cultural collaboration with new MoU    Slovak president meets Saudi delegation to bolster trade and investment ties    Saudi defense minister meets with Swedish state secretary    Navigating healthcare's future: Solutions for a sustainable system    Al Khaleej qualifies for Asian Men's Club League Handball Championship final    Sixth foreign tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos    Katy Perry v Katie Perry: Singer wins right to use name in Australia    Trump picks Pam Bondi as attorney general after Matt Gaetz withdraws    Al-Jasser: Saudi Arabia to expand rail network to over 8,000 km    Sitting too much linked to heart disease –– even if you work out    Denmark's Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

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NASA Space Telescope Confirms Its First Habitable Planet
In a step toward locating Earth-like planets that may hold life, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Monday its Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. The planet (...)

06 - 12 - 2011
Voyager Spacecraft Exploring Eddge Of Solar System
A long-running National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spacecraft that has been exploring the edges of the solar system has entered new territory, the U.S. space agency said Monday. NASA said the Voyager 1 spacecraft is in a new region (...)

06 - 12 - 2011
9,500 Evacuated Due to Nevada Wildfire
AlHijjah 23, 1432, Nov 19, 2011, SPA - Authorities ordered the evacuations of some 9,500 people after a wildfire broke out in the Sierra Nevada foothills and threatened a resort in Reno in eastern Nevada. According to the Reno Gazette, the fire (...)

19 - 11 - 2011
Five Killed in Hawaii Helicopter Crash
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA - Five people were killed Thursday when a tourist helicopter crashed on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, local media reported. According to Mauinow.com there were no survivors and all five bodies had been (...)

11 - 11 - 2011
BlackBerry maker co-CEO calls outages unfortunate
AlQa'dah 20, 1432, Oct 18, 2011, SPA -- The co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is making only a brief reference to last week's outages as he opened a conference for software programmers in San Francisco, AP reported. Mike Lazaridis said (...)

18 - 10 - 2011
Apple's Steve Jobs, father of Mac, iPhone, dies at 56
AlQa'dah 8, 1432, Oct 6, 2011, SPA-- Steve Jobs saw the future and led the world to it. He moved technology from garages to pockets, took entertainment from discs to bytes and turned gadgets into extensions of the people who use them, according to (...)

06 - 10 - 2011
Apple to announce new iPhone next week
Apple announced an iPhone press event on Tuesday where the company is widely expected to announce a new model of its best-selling smartphone, according to dpa. The event is scheduled to take place October 4 at the company's headquarters in (...)

27 - 09 - 2011
Amazon testing book subscriptions
Amazon is considering an annual library subscription model on its upcoming tablet computer device that could dramatically change the way books are consumed at the world's largest bookseller, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, according to (...)

12 - 09 - 2011
Broadcom to buy Netlogic for 3.7 billion dollars
Communications chip maker Broadcom is to take over network chip specialist Netlogic Microsystems in a 3.7-billion-dollar deal, the companies announced Monday, according to dpa. Broadcomm said the deal would allow it to improve its infrastructure (...)

12 - 09 - 2011
An Earthquake Shakes Canada's West Coast
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale shook Canada's Pacific coast on Friday, the US Geological Survey reported, but caused little or no damage. The temblor stuck some 280 kilometres west of Vancouver, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, (...)

10 - 09 - 2011
Sprint sues to block AT&T's T-Mobile deal
US mobile phone carrier Sprint filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block AT&T's proposed 39-billion-dollar purchase of T-Mobile, claiming that the deal would harm consumers by creating a duopoly that would control 90 per cent of the profits generated by (...)

06 - 09 - 2011
San Francisco police help look for lost iPhone
San Francisco's police chief says officers helped Apple Inc. investigators look for a missing iPhone prototype that was left in a city restaurant in July, according to AP. Police Chief Greg Suhr (SIR) told the San Francisco Chronicle that four (...)

05 - 09 - 2011
Leading US solar firm files for bankruptcy
Solyndra, a solar energy firm touted by US President Barack Obama as a poster child for the clean energy economy, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, saying it was immediately suspending operations and laying off 1,100 workers, dpa reported. The (...)

31 - 08 - 2011
HP eyes PC spin off, 10-billion-dollar Autonomy buy
Hewlett Packard, the world's largest maker of personal computers, is planning to spin off its PC operation and transform its business model with a 10-billion-dollar purchase of British software maker Autonomy, according to dpa. HP and Autonomy (...)

18 - 08 - 2011
Google's Motorola deal reshuffles the wireless pack
Google's out-of-the-blue, 12.5-billion-dollar purchase of Motorola Mobility took the tech world by surprise, according to dpa. Monday's announcement underlined how quickly fortunes have changed in the smartphone world. Apple and Google, who (...)

15 - 08 - 2011
US transit agency under fire over wireless shutoff
A growing number of free speech advocates criticized a San Francisco Bay area transit agency on Monday, saying its decision to cut off wireless service in an effort to stifle a protest last week was unconstitutional, according to AP. The mounting (...)

15 - 08 - 2011
Study says Bing searches more effective than Google
A new search-engine study has identified Microsoft's Bing as more effective than Google judging by the number of results users actually click on, dpa reported today. The study, by web tracking firm Experian Hitwise found that some 80 per cent of (...)

12 - 08 - 2011
German tourist dies in Grand Canyon lightning strike
A German tourist has been killed by a lightning strike while visiting the Grand Canyon in Arizona, dpa reported. According to the National Park Service, five other tourists were injured in the incident which occurred Thursday afternoon near the (...)

05 - 08 - 2011
Microsoft fires back at Google in Android patent spat
Microsoft has fired back at Google after being accused of collaborating with Apple to strangle Android smartphones, dpa reported. The accusation was leveled Wednesday by Google's chief legal officer David Drummond, who accused the two tech (...)

04 - 08 - 2011
Google antitrust watchers
The U.S. antitrust probe into Google Inc could hem in its growth ambitions for years, even if regulators do not unleash their most formidable weapons: Seeking a breakup of the Internet giant or exerting control over its cherished search algorithm, (...)

17 - 07 - 2011
Apple plans new spaceship headquarters
Apple is planning a new headquarters shaped like a spaceship, which it hopes will be the best office building in the world, according to dpa. The ambitious plans were unveiled Tuesday night in a surprise appearance by Apple CEO Steve Jobs before (...)

08 - 06 - 2011
Intel's challenge to tablets: Ultrabooks
Tablet computers are so 2010. The latest mobile computing form was unveiled Tuesday by chip giant Intel which predicts that "Ultrabook" hybrid devices which marry the best qualities of tablets like touchscreens, and long battery life with the (...)

31 - 05 - 2011
HP results rocked by sales slide
HP slashed its annual sales forecast Tuesday, sending the company's stock tumbling 9 per cent as consumers slashed their computer purchases and the company failed to match competitors' moves into lucrative cloud computing, according to (...)

17 - 05 - 2011
Yahoo shares sink on worries about Alibaba stake
Yahoo's prized investment in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group has turned into a stock market millstone, according to AP. Alibaba's recently disclosed spinoff of an online payment service called Alipay is raising worries about the value of (...)

14 - 05 - 2011
Yahoo shares sink on worries about Alibaba stake
Yahoo's prized investment in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group has turned into a stock market millstone, according to AP. Alibaba's recently disclosed spinoff of an online payment service called Alipay is raising worries about the value of (...)

13 - 05 - 2011
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