Microsoft showed a variety of products for ARM's Windows 8

D9 General Assembly yesterday, Microsoft officially showed Windows 8, this day has brought more news. According to Engadget, Microsoft at Computex 2011 show a variety of conference ARM architecture based on Windows 8 tablet PCs and laptops. It is reported that these products from Fujitsu, Wistron and Quanta production, used data from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia processors based on ARM architecture, in which there is Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El products.

As shown, like Microsoft, Windows 8 the beginning of the interface and Windows Phone 7 graphical user interface is very similar, of course, there are the familiar Windows desktop. In addition, and also on display along with Windows 8 IE 10, IE 10 customized specifically for the touch screen, zoom is more flexible. Microsoft said in a 16:9 screen to get the best experience, they want to allow users to Windows 8 tablet PCs and notebook computers get the same experience.

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Rubio and the Timberwolves reached an agreement: the golden boy in the base into the NBA next season

Spanish golden boy Ricky - Ricky Rubio is finally coming NBA, and Rubio has reached an agreement with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Timberwolves next season he will campaign on behalf of NBA. The journey in Barcelona after the end of the season, Timberwolves will officially announce the news.
Werner Qiaosi Ji, first in the micro-Bo said: "According to league sources, Rubio has reached an agreement with the Timberwolves next season he will join the NBA. "
Under the current collective bargaining agreement, if Rubio on Tuesday before signing with the Timberwolves completed, then the team will be the current wage levels provided to the Rubio rookie contract. If after the final deadline, this does not mean he missed the next season, landing NBA. Since both sides are to negotiate new collective bargaining agreement, so you can Rubio released until after the new labor agreement signed with the Timberwolves.
So Warner Qiaosi Ji said that: "According to the provisions of existing collective bargaining agreement, Rubio needs to Minnesota on Tuesday before signing. but it is expected the journey in Barcelona this season is not over until there will be no formal The declaration. Rubio is unclear whether the Timberwolves reached an agreement in advance, or just committed July 1 to buy out the contract on Barcelona, and then signed the Timberwolves. "
Rubio in 2009 NBA Draft by the identity of the fifth pick selected by Minnesota, at the age of 18 years old, he do not want to immediately log NBA, the Timberwolves are not willing to pay more than 6 million U.S. dollars in buyout Fee. Before the news from the point of view, the Timberwolves general manager in mid-Kahn had traveled to Europe in May to discuss contract matters with Rubio, but Rubio himself and his family also believes that the time has come to the NBA should try again.
The most Houwo Na Qiao Siji in micro-Bo said: "But the source said, Rubio has committed to next season, NBA, playing for the Wolves. "

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an apparent tornado struck the downtown area of Springfield , MA , one of the state's largest cities.

June 1, tornadoes hit the U.S. again. Atlantic coast in the eastern United States, Massachusetts 4 has been confirmed dead and many injured, damaged large areas of housing, the Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts announced that night a state of emergency.

The National Weather Service spokesman, said the evening of 1, the central and western Massachusetts, residents of settlements with at least 19 tornadoes hit communities are reporting. At that time coincides with the rush hour, many people are driving less to avoid a tornado on the way home, so casualties increased.

From 16:30 until that evening were a number of tornadoes hit Springfield, Massachusetts, the third largest city, coerced hail strong winds, heavy rain and lightning, with 15 million people to Springfield to bring hit.

Currently, the Springfield Fire Department, said hundreds of houses were damaged in a tornado or severe damage. The local government has opened schools and other public facilities as emergency shelters, homeless residents. Currently, the U.S. has been voted one thousand National Guard in search and rescue work.

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Apple is certified iPad3 components: an early 2012 launch

It is reported that Apple is certified iPad 3 components, suggesting that this flat market in 2012.

Certified manufacturers mainly from Taiwan, the main components of certified Radiant Opto-Electronics from Taiwan LED backlight provided, and the CMO's display panel. There are rumors that Apple's previous visit to Samsung Electronics executives to consider the use of AMOLED displays for the iPad 3, but the rumors false view of this, the display panel will have Chi Mei Optoelectronics.

Introduction of new products from Apple's traditional schedule for analysis, iPad 3 is likely to release in early 2012.

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Mladic latest detention

Spokesperson of the international court has briefed the media on the latest condition of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic. He is receiving equal treatment with other accused detainees as well as high standard medical treatments. The court also says he is expected to appear in court within several days, though he may give up pleading and ask for a delay in response.

Europe's most wanted war crimes suspect was waking up in an isolation cell on Wednesday.

And facing Ratko Mladic is his indictment handed by the International court's war crimes tribunal.The tribunal's spokeswoman briefed the media on Mladic's latest conditions.

Nerma Jelacic, ICTY Spokesperson, said, "He has been introduced to the rules governing the life in the ICTY detention unit as well as the work of the tribunal and he has undergone a thorough medical examination. He will remain in the detention unit until it is time for his initial appearance here in the court.It will certainly happen as soon as practicably possible so within the next couple of days."

When he appears in court, Mladic will be asked to formally confirm his identity and enter a plea to the genecide charges against him.

The court has given him a list of defence lawyers who could help him through the initial proceedings. But many believe he may decline to plead at his first appearance, instead opting to delay a formal response by up to a month.

Mladic is also to be examined by a doctor and receive any treatment he may need.

Herma Jelacic, ICTY Spokesperson, said, "We are confident that he has access to the best possible medical care both in the detention unit where we have our own doctor and within the penitentiary hospital in a wider Dutch system as well as in the civilian hospitals in the Netherlands."

And, despite charges over massacre of thousands of Muslims, Mladic is treated in accordance with the highest international srandards.

" The detention is functioning in accordance with the highest international standards, in accordance with the European Convention of the Human Rights. The cells are exactly the same for each one of the accused." Herma Jelacic said.

Mladic was extradited from Belgrade on a Serbian government executive jet Tuesday evening. He was captured last Thursday in a Serbian village after 16 years on the run.

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IAEA inspection of nuclear power plant safety in Japan

UN inspectors have faulted Japan for underestimating the risk of adevastating tsunami on its crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. But theypraised its overall response to the crisis as exemplary.

The preliminary report by a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency says the tsunami hazard was also underestimated at several other nuclear facilities in Japan. It calls for experts worldwide to learn from the disaster to avert future accidents.

The report says Japan's crisis underscores the value of disaster-proof emergency centers onsite to protect workers, and to provide a safe command headquarters for response management.

Micheal Weightman, IAEA Team Leader, said, "There are different extreme hazards around the globe. What you have to do is look at what's around your country, and design things to withstand those hazards for your country. And I'm sure Japanese government and technical experts will look to see how they can provide better protection against the tremendous forces of tsunamis that hit Japan."

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Singapore's nuclear issue must be studied

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the city state has not made a decision on nuclear power but it must study the nuclear power as an option, local media reported on Thursday.

Lee made the comments at a press conference on Wednesday on the two-day official visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Singapore government has previously said that the country is in the midst of pre-feasibility study on nuclear energy, but that it will be a long time before any decision is made.

"We need to understand it, because I think this is something which will not go away. And even if we don't do nuclear energy, our neighbours will do nuclear energy, and we need to understand the implications for us," Lee said.

Germany has announced recently that it would shut down its nuclear reactors by 2022.

Merkel is on her first official visit to Singapore as German chancellor. She made a courtesy call on President S R Nathan and met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.

Lee also said the next round of free trade talks between the European Union and Singapore will start in two months.

Asked about his choice for the post of the International Monetary Fund chief, Lee said this would be decided on merit.

"I would not say that I'm looking for an Asian candidate. I think we want to look for the best person who can do a very difficult job, which is crucial towards the stability of the global monetary system," he said.

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North Korea rejected the recommendations of the Summit

 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea says that South Korean officials offered to hold a summit meeting, if Pyongyang would offer an apology for two military attacks that killed 50 South Koreans last year.

A spokesman for the DPRK said the two sides met secretly in Beijing on May 9th, where Pyongyang rejected the proposal.

It's the latest war of words on the Korean peninsula.

The DPRK's National Defense Commission spokesman disclosed that a secret meeting was held, where South Korea had proposed holding inter-Korean summits in late June, August and March next year, as well as ministerial-level preparatory talks in late May this year.

But as a precondition for bilateral talks, South Korea asked the DPRK to apologize first over the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan and the shelling of Yonphyong Island last year.

The DPRK denies responsibility for the sinking of the warship and says it was acting in self-defense in the Yonphyong attack, after the South test-fired shells into nearby disputed waters.

A KRT news reader said, "We have made it clear there would never be a summit meeting as long as the South maintains a hostile policy and insists the DPRK should abandon its nuclear programme and apologize over the two incidents."

The DPRK spokesman says South Korea "begged" for concessions over inter-Korean summit talks.

However, the South Korean Unification Ministry says that Seoul does not need to respond to Pyongyang's "unilateral" claims that "distort real intentions" of South Korea.

Calling Pyongyang's move "very regrettable," the ministry renewed its call on the DPRK to resume inter-Korean dialogue.

At the beginning of this year, both South Korea and the DPRK said they wanted to ease tension and agreed to negotiations, but subsequent military talks broke down quickly without any progress.

Since then, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak has extended the offer of a summit on a number of occasions, but sticking to the precondition that the DPRK apologize for the two attacks.

DPRK leader Kim Jong-il has held summits with former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in 2000, and with former president Roh Moo-hyun in 2007.

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The outbreak of E. coli in Europe has now claimed 17 lives

The outbreak of E. coli in Europe has now claimed 17 lives, with more than 350 new cases reported in Germany. The Czech Republic has confirmed one case of infection, and the Netherlands, five confirmed cases and 4 suspected cases.

On Wednesday, German officials visited a hospital in Hamburg where more than 20 patients are being treated for a potentially deadly strain of the disease.

German authorities say the number of E-coli cases is a third bigger than previously thought. They also deny the German warning against Spanish produce was premature.

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Singapore has the highest proportion of millionaires in the world

About 15.5 percent of the households in Singapore has more than 1 million U.S. dollars of investable assets in 2010, the highest proportion in the world, a latest report said.

The global wealth report released by the Boston Consulting Group showed that the number of households with more than 1 million U.S. dollars of assets aside from properties occupied by the owners grew by almost 33 percent from 2009, local media reported on Thursday.

Switzerland is the second with 9.9 percent of its households joining the millionaire club, followed by 8.9 percent for Qatar, 8. 7 percent for China's Hong Kong and 8.5 percent for Kuweit.

The United States was ranked the 7th at 4.5 percent, but it has by far the largest number of millionaire households -- about 5.2 million. In terms of the total number of such households, Japan was the second and China, the third.

For the world as a whole, the proportion of millionaire households was about 0.9 percent, but they owned about 39 percent of the world's wealth, up from 37 percent in 2009.

The Straits Times quoted an economist as saying that a number of factors contributed to the surge in the proportion of its millionaire households.

"Singaporeans saw their wealth surge because of the stronger Singapore dollar, sharp economic rebound and soaring asset prices, including property," said Chua Hak Bin, Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist. "Openness to foreign talent and wealthy 'new' Singaporeans probably also expanded the number of millionaires."

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One French soldier was killed by local militants late Wednesday in Afghanistan

 One French soldier was killed by local militants late Wednesday in Afghanistan, marking the 59th death of French servicemen in the war-torn country since 2001, the Elysee Palace said in a statement.

The statement said a corporal was killed during an exchange of fire with local insurgents in Alasay Valley, north of the Afghan capital Kabul, while conducting a reconnaissance operation.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reaffirmed his support to Afghan authorities and people, saying France is determined to work with the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force to restore stability in the country.

Around 4,000 French soldiers are deployed to Afghanistan mainly in the district of Surobi and Kapisa province in the east of the country.

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China renews top-100 companies list in electronics, IT industry

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Thursday issued a top-100 list of Chinese electronics and information technology companies, with Huawei, a telecom solutions provider, continuing to stay at the first place.

Huawei was followed by Legend Holding Ltd., whose subsidiaries include the well-known Lenovo and Digital China, and the Hai'er Group, a leading Chinese producer of white goods, according to the list issued by the ministry in the city of Huizhou in south China's Guangdong Province.

The list, the 25th of the kind, was primarily based on the number for main business revenue last year, said Ding Wenwu, deputy chief the ministry's electronics and information department.

The top three corporations all had their main business revenue surpassing 100 billion yuan (15.38 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, according to Ding, who failed to elaborate.

The list also showed the combined main business revenues of the 100 companies totaled 1.5354 trillion yuan in the past year, up more than 20 percent from the previous year. Their revenues accounted for 24 percent of the total in the sector.

The combined profits of the 100 companies last year also surged by more than 50 percent to reach 95.2 billion yuan, according to the ministry's data.

Companies with their main business revenues exceeding 10 billion yuan reached 27 last year, five more than 2009.

The list also showed a company had to have at least 2 billion yuan of main business revenue last year to make it onto the list, up 100 million yuan compared to the year of 2009.

According to the ministry's data, the top-100 companies produced 26.82 million computers, 73.67 million colored TV sets, and 174.52 million cell phones last year, accounting for 10.9 percent, 62.3 percent, and 17.5 percent of the respective total output.

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The fertility doctor who helped Nadya Suleman become the “ Octomom ” has had his medical license revoked by California officials.

Dr. Michael Kamrava, the Beverley Hills fertility doctor who shoved 12 embryos into the baby parts of soon-to-be-"octomom" Nadya Suleman in 2008, will lose his license to practice medicine as of July 1. Kamrava, the California Medical Board argued in its choice, need to have referred Suleman herself to a mental-health evaluation as an alternative to helping her give birth to eight future therapy patients; it also found that the physician had not exercised "sound judgment" within the instances of two other patients, neither of which had been as bizarre or fascinating as "octomom."

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Antimatter detector AMS - 02 operating smoothly: Project scientists say

 A senior Chinese scientist with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) project said that all parts of the AMS-02, a particle detector used to detect antimatter and dark matter, have been operating smoothly since the detector was launched into space in May.

"Judging from the data we have received so far, all components and units of the particle detector have been working normally,"Professor He-Sheng Chen, one of the AMS project's team leaders, said on Wednesday .

Chen is also the head of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). As a participant in the project, the IHEP has access to data sent from the AMS-02.

Samuel Ting, a Chinese-born American scientist and Nobel laureate who headed a 600-member multinational team that developed the AMS project, noted that the greatest challenge will be to analyze data collected by the detector.

Ting said that all findings from the project will be publicized after undergoing "strict" verification.

According to IHEP researcher Chen Guoming, the AMS-02 will perform precise measurements of the composition of cosmic rays and measure the charges of particles contained therein, thereby allowing scientists to distinguish antimatter from regular matter.

The AMS-02 embarked on a ten-year-long quest to discover antimatter and dark matter on May 16, when it was launched from the United States.

Scientists theoretically believe that matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts during the Big Bang. The disappearance of antimatter remains a mystery to the scientific community.

According to Professor He-Sheng Chen, the IHEP plans to win more support from the CAS and the National Natural Science Foundation of China in order to strengthen its AMS-02 data analysis team.

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Apple iCloud registered trademark in Europe, covering 12 categories of services

Apple has submitted to the European Trademark Office trademark registration iCloud file, it is learned up a wide range of categories, including through the communications equipment to send digital music services.

Apple has confirmed that June 6 will be posted on the WWDC New iCloud music service, company CEO Steve Jobs will be introduced to you. It is reported that Apple's range of trade mark registration iCloud, including 12 international categories, such as "digital music through the communication device to send, ""online social networking service, ""pre-paid users of multimedia content","e-books and magazines" "Photo Services "and"games " services.

Last December, Apple iCloud first registered trademark in Jamaica. In general, technology companies are registered trademarks in the U.S. and Europe before the first registration in Jamaica. iCloud iTunes users will be able to view the content of the music library and allows users to upload music to Apple's servers. Meanwhile, Apple is rumored to film and television negotiations, hopes iCloud provides remote storage and video streaming content. In addition to iCloud, Apple's WWDC next week will be posted on the latest iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7 operating system.

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Introduction of China Silk Road

Silk Road, referred to as the Silk Road. Refers to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - AD 8 years), by Zhang Qian the Han Dynasty opened to Chang'an (now Xi'an) as a starting point, through Gansu, Xinjiang, Central Asia, West Asia, and land access linking the Mediterranean countries (This road is also known as "Northwest Silk Road " to distinguish between the other two later known as the "Silk Road "and the name of the traffic routes). Because from the road transport of goods in the West to silk products, the greatest impact, it was this name (and a lot of Chinese silk is shipped.) The basic trend set at the Han Dynasty, including South Road, Middle Road, North Road, three routes.

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Boston Weather: Weather today and the week

Thursday, 2
Cloudy to sunny
High temperature: 25 ℃
Low Temperature: 12 ℃
Breeze

Friday 3
Sunny cloudy
High temperature: 24 ℃
Low Temperature: 23 ℃
Breeze

4 Saturday
Cloudy with light rain
High temperature: 27 ℃
Low Temperature: 23 ℃
Breeze

5 Sunday
Cloudy rain
High temperature: 27 ℃
Low Temperature: 21 ℃
Breeze

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Samsung's solar cell business stands at a crossroads

 Solar cell business is one of the five areas that South Korea's No.1 conglomerate Samsung Group has planned to nurture as new growth engines.

Samsung announced in May last year it will inject 23.3 trillion won (21.69 billion U.S. dollars) by 2020 into new growth drivers such as electric vehicle batteries, light-emitting diode (LED), biomedicine and medical equipment as well as solar batteries.

Samsung Electronics' LCD business unit has been tasked with producing solar cells and modules since 2009, but the unit failed to pay off in the past two years, resulting in rumors that Samsung is reassessing its solar energy business.

On May 27, Samsung Electronics decided to transfer its solar battery business to its affiliate Samsung SDI for 160.8 billion won. The flagship unit of Samsung Group will hand over personnel and equipment as of July 1 to Samsung SDI, which produces electric car batteries and plasma flat screens.

Market watchers said the business shift was aimed at unifying Samsung Group's energy-related businesses and generating synergies between the solar cell business and Samsung SDI's existing businesses such as rechargeable batteries and energy storage systems.

Stock investors, however, seemed to see the business transfer from a negative perspective. Shares in Samsung SDI nosedived 11.47 percent to close at 177,500 won on Monday. It was the biggest daily drop since May 2009.

Experts were divided over the transfer. Optimistic experts said the acquisition of solar cell business will strengthen Samsung SDI ' s growth potential as the energy-focused arm of Samsung Group. But,pessimists focused on the solar cell industry entering the down cycle and enormous investment requirements.

COMING DOWN CYCLE

Solar power industry, including polysilicon, ingot & wafer, cell and module, is widely expected to fall into the down cycle in the near term due to excess supply and expected demand weakness.

Moody's said Wednesday in a special report that the solar photovoltaic industry will face challenges from weaker demand and global overcapacity despite the sector's favorable long-term outlook.

Following the devastating Japanese earthquake in March, many countries felt the need to embrace safer renewable energies, including solar power, as a means to generate electricity. Radiation leaks from Japan's nuclear power plant prompted Germany to shut down all nuclear power stations by 2022, and encouraged Italy to extend its own moratorium on nuclear projects indefinitely.

Rising costs of fossil fuels and growing needs for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions require countries to expand the usage of solar and wind power as electricity-generating sources. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has advised governments to halve their carbon-dioxide emissions by 2050, and the share of renewable energies in the European Union (EU) will rise from 9 percent to 20 percent by 2020.

Overcapacity and weaker demand, however, is projected to worsen the solar power industry in the short term.

The pullback of government incentives and subsidies in Europe will cut demand for solar power in the near term, according to Moody's. Europe, which accounts for 80 percent of the world's solar power demand, has lowered subsidies in response to ballooning fiscal deficits in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Europe's incentives, including tax credits and favorable feed- in tariffs, have recently contracted, adding pressure to demand for solar power. Germany, the world's largest market, cut feed-in tariffs by 15 percent in January, with further decreases expected. Feed-in tariffs, introduced by Germany for the first time, fix the rate at which utilities buy electricity generated by renewable energy sources such as solar power.

Excessive supply is forecast to drive down profits of solar power manufacturers and to crowd out marginal players by increasing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among rivals. As a sign of excess capacity, solar module makers planned to raise exports by 55 percent this year, but full-year growth in demand will be much lower, according to the San Francisco-based industry publisher Solarbuzz.

A reduction in average selling prices (ASP), driven by overcapacity and competition, will hurt high-cost players with limited ability to control their input costs and producers with uncompetitive processing, Moody's warned.

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Groupon cooperation with Expedia

Groupon and the world's largest Internet travel company Expediasaid Wednesday it will launch a travel deal site.

The companies said the new website will provide hotel accommodation, air tickets, car rental, cruise discounts and vacation activities. These discounts will continue to uphold theGroupOn the original model, at a given time discount vouchersavailable to consumers for future consumption.

The two companies also said efforts will be larger discount retailprices of other online travel site is about 50%. New site will be named GroupOn Gataways with Expedia, will be launched later this month.

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Man-made full-size "Noah's Ark"is expected to first sailed in 2012

John Hui Boss Dutch man dreamed 20 years ago flooded by the Dutch and believe this is God's revelation to him, his wife 3 years ago despite opposition by the legendary "Noah's Ark," the size of the construction of a similar size the ship. Over time, this ship will be completed in 2012 and is expected to appear in London on the Thames during the Games.

Hui, 60, Bosch is the owner of a construction company. In 2008, he began construction on the river the Netherlands is now aboard the full-size "Noah's ark." The optional Bose benefit all of the Swedish pine wood, because he believes that "Bible" God told Noah to use "pine" to ship is a fact. In addition, he also strictly follow the legend, "Noah's Ark," the size, the size of the hull length of 450 feet as wide, 75 feet. It is learned that heavy ship 3,000 tons of ship cost over 100 million pounds, of which only two conference rooms can accommodate 1,500 people.

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Nokia pressure on the Chinese market by Android

Nokia CEO Elop conference call at the house acknowledged that because of poor management and inventory high, the Nokia business in China suffer from a Google Android smartphone pressure.

Elop said that to the Chinese market perspective, Android is to achieve greater market share growth, especially in some of Nokia's product portfolio at this stage is not involved in the technology areas. He pointed out that, CDMA market in China for a larger share of growth, but there is no support for Nokia CDMA technology. Meanwhile, Elop admits, though Nokia is facing problems in the Chinese market mainly around the smart phone, but its feature phone market has suffered a blow.

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Rumors! Nokia denies rumors of being acquired by Microsoft

Mobile-Review.com edited by Eldar Murtazin Microsoft broke the news to 19 billion dollars to buy .. Nokia Nokia said after the very angry and has recently made ​​a clarification on the incident.

It is reported that Russia and evaluation of mobile news site Mobile-Review.com edit Eldar Murtazin have released a Twitter message, the message said, "decided last week to a small software company, will pay 19 billion U.S. dollars acquisition of a small part of the business for handset manufacturers. " . This news caused an uproar and led to the shares of Nokia fell once.

However, Nokia has already stated its position recently and called the claims "baseless hundred percent"

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Toyota Prius worldwide recall

Toyota Motor Corporation on Wednesday announced that it will recall 106,000 vehicles around the world to replace the electric power steering pinion shaft attachment nuts. Of the total, approximately 52,000 would be from the United States.

Toyota said in a publication that if the steering wheel is strongly turned to the full lock position over and over again, the electric power steering pinion shaft nuts may become loose. Over time, that may result in the driver having to exert more force than typically necessary to turn left.

Owners will receive the notification letters in early July and Toyota dealers will replace the electric power steering pinion shaft nuts with new equipment will at no charge.

Meanwhile, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. (TMS) also announced to recall 34 Venza AWD and 16 Sienna AWD vehicles to replace an insufficiently heat treated front right-hand driveshaft, in the U. S. and Canada.

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Five people in the Netherlands have been sickened with an unusual strain of the E. coli bacteria

 Five people in the Netherlands have been sickened with an unusual strain of the E. coli bacteria, the institute for public health (RIVM) reported Wednesday.

Of the five patients, four also suffered from intestinal problems and renal failure. The five who are infected all had recently been in Germany.

The patients were infected with enterohaemorrhagic E.coli, or EHEC, a particularly deadly strain of the common bacteria found in the digestive systems of cows, humans and other mammals.

The outbreak has hit at least eight European countries but virtually all of the sick people either live in Germany or recently traveled there.

Medical authorities appeared no closer to discovering either the source of the infection or the mystery at the heart of the outbreak: why the unusual strain of the E. coli bacteria appears to be causing so many cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome, which attacks the kidneys and can cause seizures, strokes and comas.

Earlier this week German researchers showed that Dutch cucumbers were not the cause of the contamination.

"It is essential to quickly find the source, as long as that is not found, the contamination can spread. It's a very aggressive bacteria and many people are seriously ill," a RIVM spokesman said.

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Germany's disease control center reported on Wednesday 365 new cases of the fatal enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)

Germany's disease control center reported on Wednesday 365 new cases of the fatal enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), which marked a sharp rise since its outbreak in the middle of May.

Twenty-five percent of the new cases involved the hemolytic- uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious complication resulting from E. coli infection that affects the blood and kidneys, Germany's Robert Koch Institute said.

Until now 17 people in Europe, one in Sweden, the other in Germany have been killed by the deadly disease, while the source of the infection was still not identified.

According to the data of Robert Koch Institute, at present 470 patients are suffering from HUS due to the infection, raising concerns that the death toll could be even higher in the future.

Germany's Agriculture and Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner defended Germany's previous alert on cucumbers from Spain on Wednesday.

"The fatal strain of EHEC bacteria was indeed found on Spanish cucumbers. According to the European rules, a quick warning must be sent out," she told a local TV station.

Laboratory tests in Hamburg on Tuesday overthrew the previous finding that Spanish cucumbers were the sources of the outbreak.

As a result of the alert, Europe and Russia imposed bans on Spanish vegetables, leaving Spanish farmers a loss of 200 million euros (287.5 million U.S. dollars) a week.

Spain has expressed its intention to take possible legal actions against authorities in Hamburg and ask for compensations from Germany and the European Union.

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U.S. stocks plunged on Wednesday

 U.S. stocks plunged on Wednesday, snapping a four-day winning streak, as weak reports on jobs and the manufacturing sector triggered severe sell-off in the market.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average plunged 279.65 points, or 2.22 percent, to close at 12,290.14.

Financial stocks were among the worst performers of the Dow components, with Bank of America falling more than 4 percent and JP Morgan down nearly 3.5 percent. Meanwhile, on fears of a global slowdown, multinational companies like Caterpillar and Alcoa both slumped more than 4 percent.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500, the most widely accepted barometer of the market, plummeted 30.65 points, or 2.28 percent, to 1,314.55, the biggest one-day decline since last August.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index suffered most, slumping 66.11 points, or 2.33 percent, to close at 2,769.16.

Wednesday's sell-off came after Automatic Data Processing Inc., a payrolls processor said that U.S. private employers added a scant 38,000 jobs in May, far below expectations and also the lowest level since September 2010.

The ADP report got market so much attention because investors looked to it as a leading indicator for the most closely-watched monthly non-farm payrolls which is due out on Friday. The Labor Department is expected to say non-farm payrolls grew by 180,000 and the unemployment rate declined to 8.9 percent from 9.0 percent in April.

Adding to the losses, the expansion in the manufacturing sector slowed more than expected to its lowest level in more than 1-1/2 years, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

Data showed the ISM's manufacturing gauge fell to 53.5 last month from 60.4 in April, marking the third straight decline and the biggest one-month drop since 1984.

Although any reading over 50 indicates expansion other than shrinking, the steep retreat still raised fears that the once strongest sector in the economic recovery was also losing steam.

Besides, mounting concerns over the debt situation in Greece continued to weigh on the market.

Moody's Investors Service announced on Wednesday that it downgraded Greece's local and foreign currency bond ratings to Caa1 from B1 and assigned a negative outlook to the ratings due to higher debt restructuring risks.

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West Bank part of the medical staff to continue strike

Palestinian government medical workers went on a partial strike Wednesday, demanding improvement in wages.

Palestinian Physicians Syndicate referred to as for the strike, which took location in the West Bank for four hours. The medical workers, such as doctors and nurses, will also suspend their work for one more four hours Thursday.

The workers threatened to escalate their protests and decline from going to their work following the middle of this month if their demands were not met.

The strike stopped outpatient clinics in all government hospitals within the West Bank, but work remained ongoing in some crucial departments like emergencies and those searching right after cancer patients.

The Palestinian National Authority, which controls the West Bank, suffers from a financial deficit estimated at 1 billion U.S. dollars. The deficit comes as the PNA is about to complete a two- year plan to upgrade national institution for feasible declaration of a Palestinian state.

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Palestinian government medical workers went on a partial strike Wednesday, demanding improvement in wages.

Palestinian Physicians Syndicate referred to as for the strike, which took location in the West Bank for four hours. The medical workers, such as doctors and nurses, will also suspend their work for one more four hours Thursday.

The workers threatened to escalate their protests and decline from going to their work following the middle of this month if their demands were not met.

The strike stopped outpatient clinics in all government hospitals within the West Bank, but work remained ongoing in some crucial departments like emergencies and those searching right after cancer patients.

The Palestinian National Authority, which controls the West Bank, suffers from a financial deficit estimated at 1 billion U.S. dollars. The deficit comes as the PNA is about to complete a two- year plan to upgrade national institution for feasible declaration of a Palestinian state.

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California extends film, TV tax credits to get 5 years

The California State Assembly approved a bill on Tuesday to extend the state's film and television tax credits program for five more years, which would add an extra 500 million dollars in a bid to slow runaway production.

"By any measure, the program so far has been a tremendous success and should be extended," the bill's co-sponsor and assemblyman Felipe Fuentes said.

"With the state's unemployment rate hovering around 12 percent, we need this incentive to help keep hundreds of thousands of Californians employed. Extending this incentive program will prevent production companies from moving their projects, jobs and spending out of California."

The measure, named AB 1069 and which has been carried out for two years, will be handed over to the State Senate for vote later in the summer.

If the Senate approves the bill, the program will get another 500 million dollars in credits, which is aimed at stopping movies and TV shows such as ABC's "Ugly Betty" flying to other states.

"What we're doing with this bill is retaining and creating jobs by leveling the playing field and making California competitive again," Fuentes said.

The bill, which was launched in early 2009, has yielded 2.2 billion dollars in direct production spending in California so far.

According to statistics provided by Fuentes, 728 million dollars have been spent on wages for an estimated 25,700 below-the-line crew and 6,100 cast members, with additional 172,000 individuals have received daily employment as background extras.

More than 100 productions, including "No Strings Attached," "Faster" and "The Social Network," as well as ABC's "Ugly Betty," have been benefited from this program.

The measure offered a maximum 25-percent credit and a total of 500 million dollars in credits over a span of five years to hold production down in California, the home of Hollywood.

It has been criticized by some for being too restrictive, as it excludes movies with budgets over 75 million dollars and commercial shoots. But the measure is widely supported by unions and film industry officials in Los Angeles for helping to slow so-called runaway production.

However, compared with such measures put forward in other states in the United States, the incentives provided by the bill are relatively small. More than 40 states and New York City and Canada offer "substantial" financial incentives to the film industry to lure production and post-production jobs and spending away from California, Fuentes said.

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The Third International Documentary Film Festival will take place in Vietnam's capital Hanoi

The Third International Documentary Film Festival will take place in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on June 8-14 and southern Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City on June 6-13, attracting film makers from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium and Vietnam, the festival's organizers announced at a press briefing here Wednesday.

The festival is an opportunity for Vietnamese film-makers to exchange experience with their foreign partners, and for Vietnamese audience to enjoy foreign movies of different styles and approaches, said Nguyen Thi Tuyet, Director of the Vietnam Central Scientific and Documentary Film Studio, the only domestic participant to the festival.

According to Franck Pezza, Chief of the Wallonie-Brussels Group (Belgium) and the festival's coordinator, the event will be held simultaneously in Hanoi and HCM City with more high-quality movies than the two previous festivals. A Vietnamese movie and a European movie of the same topic will be shot in one night, like a dialogue.

The festival is held as part of the activities by the European Union of National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Hanoi.

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The Israeli Knesset parliament recently approved the new law for the encouragement of capital investments

The Israeli Knesset parliament recently approved the new law for the encouragement of capital investments, which will cut corporate taxes to as low as 6 percent by 2015.

Under the new law, which qualifies any industrial company that exports part of its production, corporate tax will gradually be lowered so that by 2015 companies located in the center of the country will pay just 12 percent, while those located in the priority area, in Israel's north or south, will pay 6 percent.

"The companies who are eligible for the reduced corporate tax rates are industrial companies which export at least 25 percent out of their revenues abroad, while the companies in the priority areas are eligible as well for capital grants from the Investment Center," Sharon Kedmi, director general at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor told Xinhua.

In an additional effort to promote development in Israel's periphery, companies located in priority areas will also be eligible for investment grants of 20 percent of an approved investment plan. The dividend tax for all eligible companies in all areas will be set at 15 percent.

As government officials lauded the considerable efforts in encouraging investment, Israeli economists noticed the negative impact to state-owned enterprises and showed discretion in evaluating the new policy.

NEW INCENTIVES

Large corporations with a turnover of more than 1.5 billion shekels (1 shekel = 0.29 U.S. dollars) and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8 percent in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Those in priority areas that invest at least 400 million shekels will be entitled to a tax rate of 5 percent.

These criteria can be interchanged with R&D investments or a large employment program by the company, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor noted in a statement.

"The reform in the law for the encouragement of capital investment in Israel, which went into effect in 2011, creates an especially attractive tax environment for industrial companies in Israel," said Eden Kanovsky, chief spokesperson for the Manufacturer's Association of Israel, adding that the tax rates were among the lowest in the world.

She noted that the revisions made to the law would form a powerful front alongside other incentives to encourage investments, such as those geared at the employment of workers and increasing productivity.

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Acer said the laptops will be postponed Ultrabook

World's second-largest PC brand - Acer (2353.TW) said Wednesday it will launch in the fourth quarter Intel (INTC.P)announced Ultrabook notebook platform.

Acer Global CEO Wengjian Ren after he took office in April's firstsmall press conference made ​​the above remarks.

Intel released the previous day known function of both theUltrabook Series Tablet PC laptop, look slim, but will configurehigh-performance processors, expected end of this year, the series of personal computers will account for 40% of notebook sales

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The Israeli Knesset parliament recently approved the new law for the encouragement of capital investments

The Israeli Knesset parliament recently approved the new law for the encouragement of capital investments, which will cut corporate taxes to as low as 6 percent by 2015.

Under the new law, which qualifies any industrial company that exports part of its production, corporate tax will gradually be lowered so that by 2015 companies located in the center of the country will pay just 12 percent, while those located in the priority area, in Israel's north or south, will pay 6 percent.

"The companies who are eligible for the reduced corporate tax rates are industrial companies which export at least 25 percent out of their revenues abroad, while the companies in the priority areas are eligible as well for capital grants from the Investment Center," Sharon Kedmi, director general at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor told Xinhua.

In an additional effort to promote development in Israel's periphery, companies located in priority areas will also be eligible for investment grants of 20 percent of an approved investment plan. The dividend tax for all eligible companies in all areas will be set at 15 percent.

As government officials lauded the considerable efforts in encouraging investment, Israeli economists noticed the negative impact to state-owned enterprises and showed discretion in evaluating the new policy.

NEW INCENTIVES

Large corporations with a turnover of more than 1.5 billion shekels (1 shekel = 0.29 U.S. dollars) and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8 percent in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Those in priority areas that invest at least 400 million shekels will be entitled to a tax rate of 5 percent.

These criteria can be interchanged with R&D investments or a large employment program by the company, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor noted in a statement.

"The reform in the law for the encouragement of capital investment in Israel, which went into effect in 2011, creates an especially attractive tax environment for industrial companies in Israel," said Eden Kanovsky, chief spokesperson for the Manufacturer's Association of Israel, adding that the tax rates were among the lowest in the world.

She noted that the revisions made to the law would form a powerful front alongside other incentives to encourage investments, such as those geared at the employment of workers and increasing productivity.

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Spain considers suing Germany for being wrongly blamed in E. coli outbreakSpain said

Wednesday it's considering legal action against German authorities for blaming its produce for an E. coli outbreak that has killed 16 men and women and sickened more than 1,000 other people across Europe.

"We aren't ruling out legal actions against the authorities in Hamburg who have put our produce in the line of fire," Vice President Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told radio station Cadena Ser.

"There has not been one case of this type and there in no way has been. That means that the bacteria is not in Spain and if it is not in Spain, then it has not come from Spain, nor is it expected to come from Spain inside the future," Rubalcaba said.

German wellness officials claimed Might 26 that cucumbers imported from Spain was 1 source of the recent deadly E. coli outbreak in its northern states.

But they admitted Tuesday that the most recent laboratory tests have shown that the Spanish exports were not behind the outbreak.

About 200 million euros (288 million U.S. dollars) and 550 jobs have already been lost within the agricultural sector soon after Spanish cucumbers had been wrongly blamed for the E. coli outbreak.

Meanwhile, Environment Minister Rosa Aguilar said that Spain will ask the European Union for economic aid to help cover the heavy losses its agricultural sector has suffered.

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Danish cucumber panic subsided, but the persistence of E. coli infection

 Danish authorities have stated cucumbers produced in the country were free of charge of E.coli however it was unclear when the outbreak of infections caused by the harmful bacteria would end.

"We have the results from our laboratory and there is no E.coli inside the Danish cucumbers we have analyzed," Kim Vandrup Sigsgaard, head of food emergencies at Denmark's Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA).

"We have been able to obtain some cucumbers from the lot that was suspected. We have also been taking samples from production from other Danish batches, along with the results had been negative all around," Sigsgaard added.

Many hundred circumstances of severe intestinal infection caused by E.coli bacteria have been reported in northern Europe within the past week.

German authorities suspected Danish cucumbers as a source of the outbreak as numerous individuals contracted the infection soon after eating at a restaurant in Hamburg, Germany, where cucumbers originating from both Denmark and the Netherlands were served.

This statement from the Danish authorities need to cheer up Danish growers who create some 250,000 cucumbers per day.

They had been losing up to half a million Danish kroners (about 100,000 U.S. dollars) worth of sales daily owing to the outbreak, stated Torben Lippert, a consultant at Danish Horticulture, an business association.

"Sales were low simply because buyers were nervous ... We hope we have seen the high-point of the outbreak and are anxious to know the origin and reason of the difficulty," he told Xinhua Tuesday.

However, these answers may not be simply forthcoming.

"It is really difficult to predict when the outbreak will be over because we do not know the exact source of the outbreak," stated Kaare Moelbak, an expert in epidemiology at Copenhagen's National Serum Institute, a medical research institute.

"If it really is a source that continues to distribute contaminated goods, there will be a long tail on this outbreak," he told Xinhua in an interview Tuesday.

As of Tuesday, there were 14 confirmed circumstances and 26 suspected ones of E. coli infection in Denmark.

In neighboring Germany, where the outbreak began, there were about 1,200 confirmed and suspected circumstances, and a minimum of 14 men and women reported dead. Cases have also been reported in Sweden and Spain.

Nearly all of the confirmed instances are thought to have recently travelled to northern Germany, Moelbak stated.

The infection, which is food-borne, can be caused by consuming raw foods such as vegetables contaminated with the E.coli bacteria. Symptoms contain mild fever, bloody diarrhea and vomit.

Even though usually affecting the very young, Moelbak said 88 percent of those affected by the existing outbreak are above the age of 20. Moreover, 373 cases of kidney failure have been registered in Germany.

"This is a rare illness that generally affects young kids. So both the number of kidney failures and also the age distribution tell us that this is actually a quite unusual scenario," he stated.

Whilst it's unclear how the contamination occurred, the DVFA advises Danish consumers "not to eat raw tomato, cucumber or leaf salad from northern Germany and cucumbers from Spain," items suspected to be behind the outbreak.

The fact that these are foods typically preferred by adults than children could explain the tilt toward adult infections, Moelbak stated.

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Five people were killed as a security force helicopter crashed into Indus River in central Pakistan Wednesday morning

Five people were killed as a security force helicopter crashed into Indus River in central Pakistan Wednesday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Express.

According to the report, the people killed in the chopper crash included a top official of the Punjab Rangers Director General Muhammad Nawaz, his son, two pilots and one ranger.

Earlier reports said that three people on board were feared dead while two pilots survived by swimming to the shore of the river.

The accident took place at about 10:30 a.m. local time shortly after it took off from Deraghazi Khan, a city nearby the Indus River in central Pakistan.

The helicopter fell into the river near the city of Layyah while on its way to Peshawar, the largest city in northwest Pakistan.

Eyewitnesses said that the helicopter caught fire before it plunged into the river.

Local media quoted official sources as saying that the helicopter crashed mainly due to the poor weather in the area.

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