sign in • sign up
web | myLot | discussions | tasks | blogs | news | photos
homeinterestsdiscussionstasksblogsnewsmessages friendsphotosearningsmyLotquizzes

News


Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix

A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower...

Started in high tech news • 1 response • Last response by mensab (7510) • 6 hours ago
Tags: united states, microsoft patent, court, word, microsoft
Egyptian court upholds 4 years jailing of blogger

Egypt's High Appeal Court has upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president.

Started in middle east news • 1 response • Last response by mensab (7510) • 7 hours ago
Tags: egypt, blogger, islam
Somali pirates release Greek-owned ship, 21 crew

Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned ship and its 21 crew members, including 14 Filipinos, after more than a month in captivity, the Philippine government and the ship's owner said Friday.

Started in african news • 5 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: piracy
Amazon.com makes ad links easy on Google's Blogger

Amazon.com Inc. is making it easier for bloggers using Google Inc.'s Blogger site to put ads on their blogs.

Started in latest business news • 1 response • Last response by mensab (7510) • 7 days ago
Tags: amazon, google, bloggers
Greek-owned cargo ship to be freed in Somalia

A Greek shipowning company said it had paid a ransom to Somali pirates holding one of its freighters for the past seven months, and the ship's release was expected later Thursday.

Started in latest business news • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: piracy
MySpace buys imeem music site for under $1 mln

MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1...

Started in high tech news • 1 response • Last response by echomonster (2938) • 3 weeks ago
Tags: united states, tec myspace imeem, myspace, imeem, music
Dutch military captures 13 pirates off Oman coast

The Dutch navy captured 13 Somali pirates and seized a haul of weapons off the coast of Oman after the pirates attacked a merchant ship, the Defense Department reported Thursday.

Started in european news • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: piracy
Admiral: Sea too large to stop all pirate attacks

International naval forces will never be able to completely secure the vast area of ocean where Somali pirates are hijacking ships off East Africa, the commander of the EU Naval Force's...

Started in latest business news • 1 response • Last response by lampar (1886) • 4 weeks ago
Tags: piracy, africa
Somali pirates hijack $20M of oil going to US

NAIROBI, Kenya _ Crews on oil tankers aren't allowed to smoke above deck, much less carry guns, for fear of igniting the ship's payload. That's one of the main reasons Somali pirates met little...

Started in latest business news • 1 response • Last response by lampar (1886) • 4 weeks ago
Tags: piracy, crime
In this image made available by NATO in London, Monday Nov. 30, 2009, Portuguese Naval Marines from the frigate 'Alvares Cabral', guard a group of Somali pirates, during a joint operation with Seychelles and EU forces in the Somali Basin, off the Seychelles, Sunday Nov. 29, 2009, against a pirate group that had attacked the-Spanish flagged fishing vessel 'Ortube Berria'. Involved on the operation, besides the NATO flagship, were the Seychelles Patrol Boat 'Andromache' and two Maritime Patrol Aircraft's from the EU Task-Force also operating in the area on counter-piracy mission. The aircrafts detected and tracked the pirate attacking group composed by a mother-ship and two smaller attack skiffs.(AP Photo/Carlos Dias, NATO, ho)
Somali pirates hijack oil tanker going to US

Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying more than $20 million of crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an...

Started in latest business news • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: piracy
return to mylot
We are loading a word from our sponsors. No thanks, cancel loading.