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NEW YORK (Reuters) – United Parcel Service (UPS.N) is expected to report a 40 percent increase in quarterly profit on Tuesday as more confident consumers opened their wallets.

The gain might be less than estimated by Wall Street because of unusually harsh winter storms and higher fuel costs that slowed momentum from higher holiday sales, improved...

BEIJING, Feb 1 (Reuters) – China's factories slowed a touch in January under the weight of monetary tightening, but input prices rose quickly, keeping the pressure on the government to tackle inflation despite easing growth.

The official purchasing managers' index fell to a five-month low of 52.9 in January, the China Federation of Logistics and...

Several Joomla User Groups (JUG) have reports of around a hundred people attending, joomladays might have 3-400 people attend. So why in some cases do JUGs only have 4 or 5 attend their meetings and 100 at a national event?

How do you make a JUG successful, is it food? beer? or dancing penguins and a late night disco?

Several JUGs have on an...

DETROIT (Reuters) – U.S. auto sales lost momentum in the final weeks of January, auto executives and a leading analyst cautioned on Monday, setting the stage for a softer start to 2011 than the industry had expected.

J.D. Power, which gathers sales data from almost 9,000 U.S. car dealerships, issued an unusual update to its monthly sales forecast...

The films can be bought and downloaded from the App store on iTunes.

Russian films are being made available through Apple's iTunes service without the consent of the copyright holders, the BBC has learned.

The...

The bug affects every version of Microsoft's Windows system

Microsoft has issued a "critical" warning over a newly-discovered flaw in Windows.

In a security advisory, the company warned of a loophole that could be used by malicious hackers to steal private information or hijack computers.

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Mobiles have played their part in the ongoing protests in Egypt

Fax machines, ham radio and dial-up modems are helping to avoid the net block imposed on Egypt.

On 27 January, Egypt fell off the internet as virtually all international connections were cut following an order from the...

From the highest point in the tallest building in Santiago, Chile, Joomla!Day Chile provided South America's Spanish-speaking community the first Joomla!Day of it's kind on January 18, 2011.  With sweeping views of Santiago and the great Andes mountains, Joomla users, developers, and designers from across Chile participated in one of the largest ...