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Mar82017 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Is Trump Gaining Valuable Benefits From Chinese Government With Trademarks Approval

Business

China is probably looking for a greener pasture with Donald Trump as president of America and lately its state trademark office is learned to have granted preliminary approval more than three dozen trademarks that is linked to him. Trump's lawyers in China, Chang Tsi & Partners, applied for several trademarks covering a wide sweep of businesses including mobile libraries, hotels and escorts. The preliminary approval seems granting the president and his family the protection if they want to develop "Trump" brand in the market in future. Most of the trademarks applied are registered to "Donald J. Trump" and the address listed is of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York. The business areas listed are spas, golf clubs, massage parlors, insurance, real estate, finance, bars, bod...

Mar72017 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Why Mosul’s Victory Important For Iraq To Change ISIS Definition

General

Could the fall of Mosul be the correct meaning of end of the Islamic State's eastern province in Iraq? If this is so, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria will thereafter be only defined as Islamic State of Syria. However, in Arabic it will continue to be called as Daesh, an acronym version of the original in English - "Dish." The Iraqi forces have lately been pushing into the western half of Mosul, and in fact the northern part of the country in general, which is the most complicated human and physical terrain. It is also to note the western half of Mosul is more of Sunni Arab compared to the eastern part and so the so-called ISIS has good local support due to such diversity. Demographically too the city is diverse. The western part is dense urban terrain that leads to the wes...

Mar62017 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Whats In, Whats Out In Updated Version Of Trump’s Travel Ban

Travel

United States President Donald Trump has come up with second round of its executive order, though it is officially termed as a revised version. Among the seven nations ban of the first edition Iraq has been omited now, probably due to diplomatic reasons and it is fighting against Islamic State militant group in Syria. Also, the first attempt became highly controversial and was blocked in the courts. The new order was signed on Monday and will be effective from March 16. It reads a 90-day ban on travel to the US by citizens of the six Muslim-majority countries and those are Iran, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Yemen and Sudan. However, the travel ban is only applicable to the new visa applicants. This mean 60,000 people who were revoked after the original order will be allowed to enter th...

Mar52017 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Infectious Disease On Rise Among Children Due To Rise In Antibiotics

Health

In one of the latest studies related to harmful effects of antibiotic it is learned since 2007 the number of hospitalized children infected with bacteria resistant to several types of antibiotic drugs in the United States have surged. The study was conducted by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. They followed diagnostic and billing claim codes from data of 48 children's hospitals and confirmed for the first time the extent of infections with multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, which are commonly called superbugs. The researchers identified from the data diagnoses of infections with Enterobacteriaceae, which is a bacterial family that includes Shigella, Escherichia coli and salmonella. More than 700 instances of MDR was found by the researchers...

Mar42017 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Brief History Of Google’s Killing Off Interesting Projects

Business, Technology

Google is well-known for kicking off a project and forgetting it. There have tons of such platforms that emerged from the stable of the search engine giant and later killed off. Below are some of the popular those: Google Answers In 2006 the search engine giant kicked off with full enthusiasm the Google Answers, something similar to Yahoo Answers then and the current rivals like Quora and Stack Exchange, but the service is now killed even after the effort of offering cash payments to the user whose answers were best. Bounty between $2 and $200 was added to urge people pay out and also add a tip on it. Before Google Answers came into existence, it had Google Questions and Answers service where a question was mailed to its staff and answers were delivered at the cost of $3. Howe...

Mar32017 by Paul LinusNo Comments

How To Get Apple’s iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus Free From T-Mobile

Technology

T-Mobile is luring new customers with free offer of iPhone 7 in its latest promotion. Those who will port numbers of other carriers will get the Apple's flagship smartphone without bearing any cost. iPhone 7 Plus can also be opted instead of iPhone, but for a cost of $100. The offer is also valid for existing customers, but they need to add a line to the T-Mobile One or Simple Choice Unlimited plan. In both the cases, new as well as existing customers, a qualifying smartphone trade-in is required and those include iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, and Samsung Galaxy S7 active. The process of getting the deal is simple. Customers need to just head to a T-Mobile store and port their existing nu...