Laptop kills Canadian woman

August 20th, 2009 TORONTO - The Canadian government, which is reviewing the sale of Nortel's wireless business to Swedish telecom major Ericsson after protests by opposition parties and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), is almost set to give the go-ahead to the deal. The 124-year-old Nortel, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection since January, is selling its business part by part to pay off its debtors.

February 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government's security concern over Blackberry phones, manufactured by the Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), has been 'resolved as far as possible', visiting Canadian Minister of Industry Tony Clement has said. Clement, the fourth Canadian minister to be in India in a month, started his five-day visit from Saturday, and met Communications Minister A.

August 20th, 2009 RIM urges Canadian government to reviewOTTAWA — BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says Canadians want and expect the Canadian government to prevent the $1.1 billion sale of Nortel Network's coveted wireless assets to Ericsson of Sweden. Canada-based RIM issued a statement Wednesday after the deadline passed for appeals to challenge a bankruptcy court ruling allowing the Nortel sale to the Swedish telecommunications firm.

July 21st, 2009 TORONTO - Playing up the nationalist card, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Limited (RIM) has cried foul over the denial of the right to bid for the wireless businesses of dying Canadian telecom giant Nortel. Toronto-based Nortel, which is selling its various businesses to liquidate itself as part of bankruptcy protection, is selling its CDMA and Long Term Evolution Access businesses this Friday.

January 20th, 2009 TORONTO - Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has withdrawn its offer to make a hostile bid for acquiring an encryption technology company owned by an Indo-Canadian after its action was stalled by a Canadian court. Waterloo-based RIM had made an offer of $66 million to the shareholders of Certicom Corp, based at Mississauga on the outskirts of Toronto, after its talks with the management failed.

October 5th, 2009 Police: Reality star left suicide note on laptopBUENA PARK, Calif. — A reality show contestant charged in the gruesome slaying of his ex-model wife left a suicide note on his laptop that says he considered her the love of his life but thought she was cheating on him, a police spokesman said Monday.

January 1st, 2009 TORONTO - BlackBerry founder Michael Lazaridis and his co-CEO James Balsillie were top grossers among Canada's best paid 100 CEOs who collectively earned a whopping $1 billion in 2007. While Lazaridis' pay package stood at $51.5 million, RIM co-CEO Balsillie earned $32.05 million, said a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) here Thursday.

August 22nd, 2009 TORONTO - Swedish telecom major Ericsson, whose acquisition of Nortel's wireless business here last month has been challenged by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Canadian opposition parties, says it is still in the dark about the fate of the deal. Ericsson was the highest bidder at $1.13 billion at last month's court supervised auction of Nortel's wireless division.

August 6th, 2009 Soldiers warned about ID theft after laptop stolenMADISON, Wis. — The Army National Guard is warning 131,000 soldiers to take steps to protect themselves from identity theft after a laptop containing their personal information was stolen.

May 22nd, 2009 Nelson Motta has designed a laptop stand which can take your laptop to every possible dimension so that you can work in any posture you like. It is made of aluminum and can take laptops from 10 inches up to 17 inches (which means every laptop in this planet!).

March 18th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Dell has officially launched a high-end laptop computer which the company said is the thinnest in the world. The laptop is the first product under Dell's Adamo brand.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unidentified robbers engaged a former Indian intelligence officer in a conversation to divert his attention and lifted a laptop from his car parked in an upscale south Delhi market, police said Thursday. S.S. Bhutalia, a retired Colonel of India's external intelligence wing RAW, told police that he had gone to South Extension market with his wife for shopping Wednesday evening when the incident took place.

July 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian investigators are probing into the possibility whether a cat could have sparked a fire that has nearly destroyed a house in Gold Coast by urinating on a laptop. Police said that two teenage boys were in their home when the blaze began in the corner of one of two bedrooms in the Royal Pines Golf Resort at Benowa.

April 17th, 2009 LONDON - Music-loving mothers-to-be may soon be able to play tunes to their unborn child, courtesy a specially designed 'baby iPod'. The contoured belt called a B(l)aby boasts a built-in MP3 player.

June 20th, 2009 Nokia Siemens in deal to buy Nortel wireless unitsHELSINKI — Nokia Siemens Networks said Saturday it will buy the wireless operations of Canadian-based Nortel Networks in a $650 million (euro465 million) deal to strengthen its position in North American markets. The Finnish-German joint venture said it will purchase the LTE and CDMA assets of Nortel, a former telecom equipment giant now operating under bankruptcy protection.