Saturday, May 19, 2012

DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth II And Prince Philip Attending Armed Forces Parade And Muster At Home Park In Windsor England

DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth II And Prince Philip  Attending Armed Forces Parade And Muster At Home Park In Windsor England 


(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 19, 2012: Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (L), greets vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence (2nd L) as Queen Elizabeth II walks by Princess Anne during the Armed Forces Parade and Muster at Home Park on May 19, 2012, in Windsor, England. Over 2500 troops took part in the Diamond Jubilee Muster in Home Park. 
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Friday, May 18, 2012

DTN News - BRAZILIAN NEWS: Security Being Maintained At Shantytown In Southern Rio de Janeiro For Football's 2014 World Cup And 2016 Summer Olympics.

DTN News - BRAZILIAN NEWS: Security Being Maintained At Shantytown In Southern Rio de Janeiro For Football's 2014 World Cup And 2016 Summer Olympics.

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 18, 2012: Officers stand guard at Santo Amaro shantytown in southern Rio de Janeiro, on May 18, 2012 during a joint operation between the Civil and Military Police and the National Guard to install a Peacemaker Police Unit here as part of a government program to pacify the famed favelas as Brazil prepares to host football's 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. (Photo - Getty)

DTN News - TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Facebook Stock ~ First-Day Of Trading Not For The Faint Of Heart

DTN News - TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Facebook Stock ~ First-Day Of Trading Not For The Faint Of Heart

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 18, 2012: People walk past a sign welcoming Facebook at the NASDAQ stock exchange on Times Square in New York, on May 18, 2012. Facebook shares saw an opening pop fade Friday as the wildly popular social network made its long-anticipated market debut.

The shares, priced at 38 USD in the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) for a technology company, jumped 12 percent to 42.55 USD in the opening Nasdaq trades before enthusiasm faded. 

The shares dropped back all the way to the $38 offering price before showing modest gains at midday.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian AF To Get First T-50 Fighters In 2013

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian AF To Get First T-50 Fighters In 2013

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 18, 2012: The Russian Air Force will receive the first batch of prototypes of its fifth-generation T-50 fighter for performance testing in 2013, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Thursday.

The T-50, developed under the PAK FA program (Future Aviation System for Tactical Air Force) at the Sukhoi experimental design bureau, is Russia's first new major warplane designed since the fall of the Soviet Union.

“The work on the fifth-generation fighter is going according to schedule,” Zelin, a former Air Force commander, told a news conference in Voronezh (central Russia). “The third prototype has joined the testing program and the fourth is being built.”

The T-50 made its maiden flight in January 2010 and three prototypes have since been undergoing flight tests.

Zelin earlier said that the number of T-50 aircraft involved in testing would be increased to 14 by 2015.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Flies New Stealth Fighter As Problems Plague U.S. Jets

DTN News - CHINA DEFENSE NEWS: China Flies New Stealth Fighter As Problems Plague U.S. Jets

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 17, 2012: The second copy of China’s stealth fighter prototype has just flown at a research facility in the city of Chengdu. The first flight of the J-20 Mighty Dragon with the nose number 2002 doubles Beijing’s stealth test fleet at a time when America’s latest jet fighters are hobbled by cost overruns, labor disputes and lethal design flaws. But it’s far from certain how much, and how fast, the new Chinese jet will alter the military balance.

The challenges for American stealth developers are clear. It has come to light that Lockheed’s F-22 Raptor — the first of the current generation of stealth fighters — is steadily poisoning its pilots owing to a faulty oxygen system. Meanwhile, the F-35 has been delayed by several years and the overall cost to design and build thousands of the new jets has risen by hundreds of billions of dollars. To make matters worse, workers at Lockheed’s F-35 factory have gone on strike, with no end in sight.

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DTN News - ISRAELI DEFENSE NEWS: Stealth Yansh - The Israeli Top Secret Radar-Evading Chopper Used To Drop Spies In Iran

DTN News - ISRAELI DEFENSE NEWS: Stealth Yansh - The Israeli Top Secret Radar-Evading Chopper Used To Drop Spies In Iran

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 17, 2012: According to F. Michael Maloof, a former Pentagon senior policy analyst the Israeli Air Force is equipped with the same Stealth Black Hawk helicopter used by the U.S. Navy SEALs to kill Osama Bin Laden last year.

Believed to be an exclusive U.S. “black project”, the radar-evading chopper (most probably a quiet one, rather than an actual helicopter invisible to radars), such helos would be used by the IAF to drop Iranian dissidents into Iran to gather intelligence on the Tehran’s nuclear program, according to a report written by Maloof for G2 bulletin, a global intelligence newsletter.

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DTN News - TECHNOLOGY NEWS: How Facebook Took Over The Web

DTN News - TECHNOLOGY NEWS: How Facebook Took Over The Web

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 17, 2012: Facebook is on its way to 1 billion users with an IPO around the corner. Not bad for a company with its roots in a Harvard dorm room.

*New data from Nielsen reveals how Facebook grew to become the dominant social network it is today.

But how did it achieve its grip on the global market? New findings from Nielsen offer a peek into some key milestones for the social network.

Facebook's user base currently numbers more than 900 million. But it's also one of the most visited Web sites in the world, according to Nielsen.

The site received around 152 million unique visits from people in the U.S. in March, which means that more than two out of three online Americans checked out Facebook that month. In such countries as Brazil, Italy, and New Zealand, the rate is even higher.

Facebook first grabbed 10 million unique U.S. visitors in November 2006 and 10 million unique U.K. visitors in April 2008. The site captured 10 million unique visitors in France, Germany, and Spain in 2009, Nielsen said.

In August of last year, Facebook surpassed Orkut as the top social network in Brazil and has continued to grab more users in the country since then. MySpace was also once a hot social network. But in January 2009, Facebook officially surpassed MySpace at the top social network and has held that title since.

Facebook is currently ranked top among all social networking and blog sites in 11 of 12 major countries around the world. The following table from Nielsen shows Facebook's reach in those 12 countries.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated May 16, 2012

DTN News: Pakistan Top Stories/ Headlines News Dated May 16, 2012

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 16 2012: Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, left, speaks as Pakistan's Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira looks on during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 14, 2012. Khar indicated Monday the time has come to reopen the country's Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for a deadly U.S. attack on its troops.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that he was contacting other political parties for the opposition campaign against expected re-opening of the Nato supply routes to Afghanistan, DawnNews reported. Talking to media representatives at the press conference at Zaman Paark in Lahore, Khan criticised the parliament for its inability to implement the resolution regarding future rules of engagement with the United States.

DTN News - TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Facebook Value Up To $104 Billion - Company Hikes IPO Price Range

DTN News - TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Facebook Value Up To $104 Billion - Company Hikes IPO Price Range

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 16, 2012: A woman shoots video of the sign at the entrance to the Facebook main campus in Menlo Park, California, May 15, 2012. Facebook, the world's most popular internet social network, expects to raise USD $12.1 billion in what will be Silicon Valley's largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) later this week.

*Already expected to be the largest initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making its IPO even bigger.
The world’s largest online social network on Tuesday increased the planned price range for its stock to $34 to $38 per share in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That’s up from its previous range of $28 to $35. At the upper limit of $38, the sale would raise about $12.8 billion.
The move, which values
Facebook as high as $104 billion, comes amid growing investor excitement about the offering. Analysts are comparing the frenzy surrounding
Facebook’s IPO to Google Inc.’s in 2004, though in sheer size the latter pales in comparison.
At the same time, half of Americans think the expected value for Facebook Inc. is too high, according to a new Associated Press-CNBC poll conducted before the company raised its expected stock price on Tuesday. Only one-third of those surveyed said they think Facebook’s expected value is appropriate.

DTN News - NATO NEWS: NATO Invites Pakistan To Chicago Summit


DTN News - NATO NEWS: NATO Invites Pakistan To Chicago Summit


(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 16, 2012: NATO said on Tuesday it had invited Pakistan to a summit in Chicago next week, lifting a veiled threat that it might exclude the country from the talks on the future of Afghanistan.


"Allies decided to invite President (Asif Ali) Zardari of Pakistan to Chicago to the meeting on Afghanistan," NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said in a statement.


"This meeting will underline the strong commitment of the international community to the people of Afghanistan and to its future. Pakistan has an important role to play in that future."


NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen suggested on Friday that Pakistan could be excluded from the May 20-21 summit if it failed to reopen the supply routes to Afghanistan that it closed after 24 of its soldiers were killed by a NATO cross-border air attack last November.


Rasmussen noted that other countries providing supply routes to NATO had been invited to the summit, which will map out a future for Afghanistan after most foreign combat troops are withdrawn at the end of 2014.


President Zardari's spokesman said he was considering whether to attend the Chicago summit and that the invitation was "unconditional and not linked to the opening of ground lines of communication for NATO or to any other issue."


Pakistan has demanded a formal apology from the United States for the attack before it reopens the supply routes, and has also called for an end to U.S. drone strikes on its tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.


Pakistan boycotted an international conference on Afghanistan in Bonn in December in protest against the NATO air strikes.


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DTN News - FRANCOIS HOLLANDE IN GERMANY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel Welcomes President Of France Francois Hollande With Military Honors In Berlin

DTN News - FRANCOIS HOLLANDE IN GERMANY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel Welcomes President Of France Francois Hollande With Military Honors In Berlin

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 16, 2012: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, welcomes the President of France, Francois Hollande, right, with military honors at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. 

The French president's first foreign trip since taking office earlier Tuesday continues a tradition for leaders of both countries to visit each other shortly after inauguration. (Photo - AP)

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

DTN News - IRAN NUCLEAR FACTOR: Iran's IAEA Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh Arrives In Vienna To Resolve Nuclear Factor Pending Issues

DTN News - IRAN NUCLEAR FACTOR: Iran's IAEA Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh Arrives In Vienna To Resolve Nuclear Factor Pending Issues

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 15, 2012: Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh arrives at the Iranian Embassy for a meeting with IAEA officials in Vienna May 14, 2012. 

Two previous rounds of talks in Tehran early this year failed to make any notable progress, especially on the IAEA's request for access to a military site where it believes nuclear weapons-relevant research may have taken place.

Monday, May 14, 2012

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Defense Spending Bill Includes Provision To Keep Air Guard Jets

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Defense Spending Bill Includes Provision To Keep Air Guard Jets

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 14, 2012: A defense spending bill proposed Monday in the U.S. House would block the Air Force from eliminating F-16 aircraft at the 132nd Fighter Wing in Des Moines until a cost-benefit analysis can be completed.

U.S. Rep. Tom Latham said the legislation would freeze the proposed retirement of Air Force aircraft, including the Iowa Air National Guard’s F-16s. The bill would require the Air Force to finish the cost-benefit study by October, with a review by the nonpartisan General Accounting Office within 120 days of its completion.

The bill is sponsored by the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee, on which Latham serves. The Iowa Republican said he believes a review will ultimately show the 132nd Fighter Wing operates cost-effectively and should continue flying F-16 combat aircraft over the long term. He called Monday’s action a major step forward.

“This is a great victory, and we are going to fight to save the 132nd Fighter Wing,” Latham said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C.

The Air Force has proposed budget cuts that include eliminating all 21 of the Iowa unit’s F-16 aircraft, replacing them with a smaller unit based in Des Moines that would remotely control unmanned aircraft that would be flown elsewhere, such as Afghanistan.

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed Martin's DAGR Successfully Engages Moving Target in Apache Demonstration

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed Martin's DAGR Successfully Engages Moving Target in Apache Demonstration

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 14, 2012: Lockheed Martin’s Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) successfully tracked and engaged a moving target in a recent demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.

“DAGR hit a moving target from 3.5 kilometers,” said Hady Mourad, DAGR program director in Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control business. “Defeating high-value targets on the move is a critical capability, and demonstrating this ability is a significant milestone for the precision-strike DAGR.”

Test pilots launched an inert DAGR round in high winds from an AH-64D Apache, designating the target using the helicopter’s lock-on-before-launch mode. The target was a truck moving at 25 miles per hour. 

The demonstration, which consisted of four flight tests, also showed other DAGR capabilities including use of lock-on-after-launch mode, a long-range 5 kilometer flight and launch from a 5-degree offset. The DAGR round hit within one meter of the laser spot in all four tests.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

DTN News - Today's ~ Humor & Jokes for Laughs: Tech Savvy Child.......



DTN News - Today's ~ Humor & Jokes for Laughs: Tech Savvy Child....... 

Tech Savvy Child.......


I started to learn the computer at a late age of 50. Though was a bit late, nevertheless my young heart and mind helped me to explore and to progress this far. Good enough for me to understand the blogging world. 


Today, things have changed! Everyone is accessible to a computer and parents are sending their children to learn the Internet. Let me introduce you to my young friend who is a Tech Savvy Child of the year.


Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about 
everything.


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