By Nauman Farooq As years go, 2005 was a rather good one. It was the year I got to drive the incredible Porsche Carrera GT and the spectacular Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. I also got to live with a Porsche 911 Turbo for a month, and had so much access to a Dodge Viper, it felt [...]
Hundreds Of Indian Students Face Deportation Washington: This is a huge scandal that can have repercussions across the NRI lands, including Canada. This week, the US authorities exposed an entire ‘university’ that existed just to bring in Indian students to the country with the aim of allowing them to stay back long term. Now hundreds [...]
Irvine, California: Following the success of its Super Bowl advertising debut last year, Kia Motors America (KMA) is returning to the big game with a fully integrated and interactive marketing campaign incorporating TV, digital, print, social media and in-dealership components to introduce the all-new 2011 Optima midsize sedan. At the centre of the initiative is [...]
Houston: Nissan North America, Inc. brought sustainable mobility to Texas with the arrival of the state’s first all-electric Nissan LEAF. The Sauers family took delivery of their blue Nissan LEAF SL at Clear Lake Nissan of League City, Texas. This groundbreaking moment follows last month’s deliveries in Northern and Southern California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and [...]
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced a recall involving 1.3 million vehicles worldwide to remedy a different condition on a different fuel delivery pipe and a high pressure fuel pump check valve. However, TMC’s recall announcement does not involve vehicles sold in North America. Toyota said that it will conduct a voluntary Safety Recall involving approximately [...]
New Delhi; BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) reiterated on Thursday that it would not provide intelligence agencies access to its its enterprise email services. The issue should be dealt at the industry level, the company said. Indian intelligence authorities want access to all BlackBerry services including corporate email. “There is no possibility of us [...]
London: Facebook has no plans to launch Facebook-branded phones with Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, it said on Thursday, following reports that it planned to launch an official tie-up next month. “This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs (application programming interfaces) and integrated them into their device in [...]
Murder Plan Hatched On Facebook London: A 15-year-old schoolboy in Britain was killed in a merciless attack with samurai swords and machetes that was apparently planned on social networking website Facebook. Sofyen Belamouadden was hunted down by an armed group of 20 teenagers before being stabbed nine times during rush hour at Victoria station, jurors [...]
Cairo: Egyptian police fought protesters in two cities in eastern Egypt on Thursday and prominent reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei headed back to the country to join demonstrators trying to oust President Hosni Mubarak. Police fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern city of Suez, on a third [...]
The world’s highest restaurant situated 442 metres up in the sky on the 122nd floor of the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai has opened its doors to the public. ‘At.mosphere’, located on the 122nd floor of 828-metre high Burj Khalifa, was opened on Sunday. However, dining at this height comes for a price. [...]