Tag: reuters

  • World mourns passing of Apple visionary Jobs

    Andreas Raptopoulos, of Palo Alto, looks upon the flowers, candles and apples which adorn the sidewalk outside the home of Steve Jobs in Palo Alto, California.—Reuters Millions of people paid emotional tribute on Thursday to the late Steve Jobs, praising the Apple founder’s vision and creative genius which has left behind a world transformed by…

  • Samsung to Open Bada to External Developers

    SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. plans to open up its homegrown mobile software platform to outside developers and device makers next year in a bid to kick-start growth in the operating system and reduce its reliance on Google Inc.’s Android in the increasingly litigious smartphone and tablet computer business. Samsung “is planning to make Bada software an…

  • Gunmen attack bus in Balochistan, 20 killed

    QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus in the Mastung area of Balochistan, carrying passengers to Iran on Tuesday, killing around 20 Shia pilgrims, police said. “The bus was travelling to the town of Taftan when it was attacked,” a police official in Quetta, the provincial capital, told Reuters. The bus was carrying 60 passengers…