This year, CTIA Wireless 2009 is being held April 1 – 3, 2009 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, as opposed to last year’s venue. Given the dominance that Apple [AAPL] has demonstrated in the mobile device application development arena, it would certainly be surprising to see how many competitors will rise to the challenge [...]
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
A “sort-of holiday” celebrated on April 1 each year, April Fools’ Day has been one of those annual events that seem to get funnier or just maliciously bad, depending on whom you ask. Given the omnipresence of the Internet and the near-ubiquity of pranksters, many netizens are extra-wary of practical and not-so-practical jokes that spin [...]
Today marks the beginning of the “modern” Assyrian New Year, sometimes depicted as Kha b-Nisan. While ethnic Assyrians have been dispersed across the world, there are heavy concentrations in places within Syria and Iraq (both which were part of the Assyrian territories historically), as well as in the U.S. Since the ancient Assyrian calendar did not [...]
