Windows Phone 7

Microsoft have launch their own OS for smart phones called Windows Phone 7. Singapore will be the first country to use this smart phone OS.

You can also try the demo on Facebook. More information on the feature of the OS, go HERE.

Start screen & Live Tiles

Search & Maps

People Hub

Email

Calendar

Internet Explorer Mobile

Find My Phone & Windows Live

Pictures Hub & Camera

and many more.

EURO 2012 Qualifier - Germany 3:0 Turkey

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Gay prince killed servant during sex?

A Saudi prince strangled and beat his male servant to death during an apparent sex attack in a London hotel room, a British court heard Wednesday.

Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, a member of the Saudi royal family, denied murdering 32-year-old Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz on February 15 at the Landmark Hotel.

Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told the Old Bailey in London that Saud admitted killing his servant.

The jury now has to decide whether the prince is guilty of murder or manslaughter.

Laidlaw said the victm was found beaten and strangled in bed in a room he was sharing with the prince.

Injuries including bite marks to the servant's cheeks revealed the "ferocity of the attack to which he had been subjected", which had happened when the pair were alone, said Laidlaw.

The prosecution went on to claim the prince had attacked his servant on several previous occasions, including one that was caught on CCTV in the hotel's lift in January.

Saud had claimed the pair were friends and that he was heterosexual, but "the evidence establishes quite conclusively that he is either gay or that he has homosexual tendencies," the prosecutor said.

"The defendant's concealing of the sexual aspect to his abuse of the victim was for altogether more sinister reasons and it tends to suggest that there was a sexual element to the circumstances of the killing," Laidlaw said.

The prince, who appeared in the dock with a shaven head and listening through an interpreter, also denies causing his servant grievous bodily harm.

credit: news.sky.com

United States sues Visa, MasterCard and American Express

The Justice Department on Monday sued the three largest U.S. credit card companies for anticompetitive practices and reached a proposed settlement with two of them, MasterCard and Visa.

"We want to put more money in consumers' pockets, and by eliminating credit card companies' anticompetitive rules, we will accomplish exactly that," Attorney General Eric Holder told an afternoon news conference.

"The companies put merchants and their customers in a no-win situation" and "consumers are being held hostage."

At the same time, the Justice Department filed a settlement it has reached with Visa and MasterCard. Court approval of such settlements is usually a formality.

Under the settlement, Visa and MasterCard agree not to prohibit merchants from offering customers discounts or rebates for using a particular kind of card.

Visa and MasterCard also must allow merchants to express preferences for the use of a low-cost card within a network or other form of payment.

The lawsuit says the card companies are impeding merchants from promoting the use of competing credit or charge cards with lower acceptance fees.

Each time consumers use a credit card to make a purchase, the merchant must pay a fee.

Such fees brought in $35 billion last year to the three credit card companies and their affiliated banks.

"We're partway there" with the proposed agreement with Visa and MasterCard, Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, head of the department's antitrust division, told the news conference.

"We remain open" to seek a settlement with American Express," Varney added.

At mid-afternoon, shares of American Express were down more than 6 percent; Mastercard was down less than 1 percentage point, and Visa was up less than half a percentage point.

Joining the lawsuit were state attorneys general from Maryland, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Texas. - AP

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9)

Internet Explorer 9 are available for test drive.  I think only for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

What’s new in Internet Explorer 9?

The improvements to Internet Explorer are as much about what you don't see as what you do see. Internet Explorer 9 has a streamlined design, fewer dialog boxes to click through, more intuitive navigation, and many new features that speed up your web browsing experience. Features like Pinned Sites let you pin your favorite website directly to the taskbar for one-click access. Other features, like hardware acceleration, deliver an all-around faster browsing experience. With Internet Explorer 9, websites perform and feel more like the programs you use every day on your PC.

Here's what's new:

Streamlined design

The first thing you'll notice when you open Internet Explorer 9 is the compact user interface. Most command bar functions, like Print or Zoom, can now be accessed by clicking the Tools button, and your favorites appear when you click the Favorites button. Otherwise, Internet Explorer gives you the basic controls you need, and lets the web take center stage.

Pinned Sites

If you visit certain webpages regularly, Pinned Sites allows you access them directly from the taskbar on your Windows 7 desktop.

Pinning a site is simple: click the icon to the left of the web address in the address bar (or the website icon on the New Tab page) and drag it to the taskbar—the website's icon will stay there until you remove it. When you click the icon later, the website will open in Internet Explorer.

Whenever you open a pinned site, the website icon appears at the top of the browser, so you have easy access to the website home page. The Back and Forward buttons change color to match the color of the icon.

More info..Go here.