metro-reality.com – Clashes between the maker of Blackberry smart phones and India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the latest rounds in a cat-and-mouse game pitting authorities against technologies racing beyond their grasp.
“What is going on is this elegant dance we go through when countries think their sovereignty is… Continue reading
Categories: Gadget Tags: Blackberry, Era, Espionage, Internet, John Bumgarner, Mark Rasch, Philip Zimmermann, Pits, RIM, smart phones, Spy, Tech
metro-reality.com – A manager at Apple has been charged in California with taking kickbacks he received after leaking corporate secrets to Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories, court documents showed.
Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager at technology company Apple since 2005, was accused… Continue reading
Categories: Crime Tags: Apple, Apple Manager, Charged, Corporate, Corporate Secrets, Leaking, Manager, Paul Shin Devine, Secrets
metro-reality.com – Elvis Presley fans from around the world flocked to Graceland on Sunday for the annual late night procession past the king of rock ’n’ roll’s grave. Presley died at his Graceland mansion Aug. 16, 1977.
The procession is the highlight of a weeklong series of… Continue reading
Categories: Showbiz Tags: Elvis, Elvis Presley, Faithful, Gladys, Graceland, Minnie Mae, Pilgrimage
metro-reality.com – Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York’s ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so.
Obama… Continue reading
Categories: News Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Burton, Ground, John Boehner, Michael Bloomberg, Mosque, Obama, political, President Barack Obama, Supports, The Right, Zero
metro-reality.com – The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts. A week later, one of the girls, a 17-year-old from Indiana, started getting threatening e-mails.
A stranger said he had captured… Continue reading
Categories: Crime Tags: Anthony Stancl, crime, Jonathan Vance, Michael Donahoe, Online, Parry Aftab, Rise, Sextortion, Steve DeBrota, Teens, Trevor Shea
metro-reality.com – A City banker paid two escorts to help him commit suicide – in what one police source described as ‘death by hooker’.
Married father-of-two Colin Birch, 44, hanged himself from a tree after convincing the the women that he was wearing a safety harness and… Continue reading
Categories: Crime Tags: Birch, Death, Escorts, Hooker, Katie, Katie's, Katies Lovely Escorts, Lovely, Lovely Escorts
metro-reality.com – Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to its moratorium on deepwater drilling.
But four months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, regulators have only started to make good… Continue reading
Categories: News Tags: Ban, BP, BP Spill, Control, Drill, Drill Ban, George Hirasaki, oil, Spill, US, William K. Reilly
metro-reality.com – India may shut down Google and Skype Internet-based messaging services over security concerns, the Financial Times reported on Friday, as the government threatened a similar crackdown on BlackBerry services.
The Financial Times quoted from the minutes of a July 12 meeting between telecommunication ministry security… Continue reading
metro-reality.com – An Iranian woman whose sentencing to death by stoning has sparked international outrage has apparently ‘confessed’ to adultery in a state television interview.
In the interview, aired last night, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani criticised her lawyer for publicising the case, saying it had brought shame on… Continue reading
Categories: News Tags: Adultery, Confessed, Death, Iranian, Iranian Woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Stoning, Woman
metro-reality.com – The Balinese spiritual guru featured in Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir “Eat Pray Love” has been hospitalised in Indonesia with heart problems, a family member said Thursday.
Ketut Liyer, 95, has been receiving treatment since last week, with the movie adaptation of the book starring actress… Continue reading
Categories: Showbiz Tags: Balinese, Balinese Guru, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Guru, Hospitalised, Julia Roberts, Ni Wayan Puspita Sari
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