Future building in Makkah aims to match heritage

Future development in the Muslim sacred city of Makkah willbe more in tune with traditional architecture, the mayor says, but for nowresidents worry that Islam’s holiest sites are disappearing behind skyscrapers. The historic city, the birthplace of Islam, is studded withdozens of yellow and red cranes and metal scaffolding aimed at increasing hotelspace and improving facilities to make the annual hajj pilgrimage safer andeasier.

Princeton Scores Swimming World Five Star Recruit

PHOENIX, Arizona, October 17. PRINCETON joined the ranks of future homes of Swimming World five-star recruits. Sada Stewart, whose profile in the Swimming World College Recruit Rankings ranks her with a five-star ranking, is headed to the Ivy League next fall as a new member of Princeton. Stewart, who trains with York YMCA and preps at York Suburban, has multiple senior national cuts: 200m free 2:03.34; 100m fly 1:01.99; 200m fly 2:16.78.

Website to monitor bullying and predators

AN AUSSIE entrepreneur is leading the fight against on-line predators with a world-first service that “puts social media back in the hands of the parent”. New website Chatsec monitors all interactions on Facebook and sends weekly updates to parents worried about such things as bullying, inappropriate photographs or drug use.

Reportlinker Adds World Handset RF Semiconductor Market

Press Release Source: Reportlinker On Monday June 20, 2011, 7:01 am EDT NEW YORK, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Handset RF Semiconductor Market The global trend in the handset industry has evolved rapidly in most countries from a easy voice service to the current video broadcasting.

NL Playing Crucial Role in Ocean Research

This province will play a very important role as the world’s cceans take on an increasing importance for future life on the planet. Karl Kenny is president of Marport, a company turning heads worldwide in developing innovative and advanced software-defined sonar technologies.

KFH Receives Global Finance award for World Best Islamic Real Estate finance provider

Mohammed Suleiman Al-Omar, KFH CEO KD One Billion Funds Thirty Thousand Kuwaiti families Al-Omar: The award affirms 33 year of continued efforts in financing and real estate development We offer additional and exceptional benefits to our services based on our national sense.

TOMS Asks: Can You Go One Day Without Shoes?

00:00/00:0000:00 The buy-one-give-one shoe company, TOMS shoes, is hosting its annual day of action, “A Day Without Shoes,” on Tuesday April 5. Can you go one day without shoes to let your neighbors, classmates, co-workers or just one confused stranger know you care about the the millions of kids around the world too poor to own shoes? Last year’s campain sparked 1,600 events.

IEEE approves next WiMax standard

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved IEEE 802.16m, the standard for the next generation of WiMax, which may deliver downstream speeds of more than 300M bps (bits per second). At the CEATAC trade show in Tokyo last year, Samsung demonstrated a pre-standard 802.16m network that achieved a speed of 330M bps.

Awan praises Baitul maal support to orphans

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan Tuesday stated that Pakistan Baitul Maal has fulfilled the dream of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto by helping orphans. Addressing a ceremony in connection with Pakistan Baitul Maal-supported sweet homes, she stated that the helpless kids who have no parents are assets of the country.

Audi displays LTE-equipped A8 sedan

Keywords: LTE broadband communications technology  bandwidth-hungry applications  Carmaker Audi demonstrated an A8 luxury sedan equipped with LTE broadband communications technology at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Considered a “functional prototype”, the car featured LTE equipment based on Alcatel-Lucent’s commercially available broadband mobile infrastructure.