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Iran test fires surface-to-surface missileTehran (AFP) Aug 25, 2010 Iran has test fired its home-built surface-to-surface Fateh 110 missile, state television reported on Wednesday, less than a week after a similar test was carried out on another missile. The television showed a sand-coloured missile being launched from a vehicle and blasting into the sky from a desert terrain, leaving behind a thick plume of smoke. It did not say when the missile was fired. Iran's English-language Press TV said the short-range Fateh 110 (Conqueror) missile is nine metres (29 fee ... read more |
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San Francisco (AFP) Aug 25, 2010IBM on Wednesday reported that the number of discovered cracks that hackers could exploit in computer software surged in the first half of the year. The number of new "vulnerabilities" documented by an X-Force Research and Development team at IBM increased 36 percent to 4,396 from the same period last year and more than half lacked patches to fix the flaws. "This year's X-Force report re ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Aug 25, 2010 Germany's defense minister has unveiled five options how to reform the country's armed forces, with the one he favors proposing a cut of nearly 100,000 troops. Earlier this summer, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the German defense minister, was urged to identify how to cut the military budget by several billions of dollars. Most observers expected Guttenberg to be protectionist about the B ... more  
Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2010The United States on Tuesday offered to help major economies such as China and India develop shale gas, a rapidly growing sector in North America which US officials bill as a clean alternative. Twenty nations held two days of talks in Washington in first-of-a-kind shale gas talks initiated by the United States, where some forecast that shale - a miniscule presence a decade ago - could domi ... more |
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Secure card use on the rise in S. AmericaMiami (UPI) Aug 25, 2010 Improvements in online security for credit and debit card transactions in Latin America and the Caribbean led to an upsurge in the business, figures for the year's second quarter showed. Visa Inc. reported a 21.6 percent growth in total payments volume in the region, excluding Brazil and Mexico, to reach a total of $62 billion, in the three months ending June 30. Transactions for Brazil and Mexico for the period weren't included in that total provided by Visa. The rise in credit and debi ... read more |
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