Shell announce near-doubling of annual profit (Video)
As petrol prices at the pump put pressure on motorists pockets, oil giant Shell have announced annual profits of $18.6 billion. Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, will delay its drilling campaign in Alaska after the worst U.S. oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Shell hasn’t received full clearance to [...]
Toyota Recall 1.7 Million Vehicles Worldwide (Video)
Toyota is recalling nearly 1.7 million cars, the bulk of them in Japan, for various defects that may cause fuel leakage. It has just been revealed that car giants Toyota has announced another global recall, affecting around 1.7 million of their vehicles due to defects which could cause fuel leaks and other problems. As reported [...]
Final Fantasy Versus XIII Trailer Video
A new trailer of Final Fantasy Versus XIII was shown at the Production 1 press conference. The video, like others, started with the tagline “this is a fantasy based on reality.” It opened with a scene of Prince Noctis that may have been in or resembled Japan on a freeway. The next scene showed Noctis [...]
Europe dominates singles to win Golf Royal Trophy 2011
Europe dominated Sunday’s singles matches to produce an unlikely comeback over Asia and defend its Royal Trophy title with a 9-7 victory at the Black Mountain Golf Club. Asia needed 2½ points from the eight singles matches to clinch the win but the Europeans held them to just one, winning six of the eight matchups [...]
Video: Winter Weather Continues to Foil Travel Plans in Europe
For the fourth straight day, hundreds of thousands of air travelers were stuck around the world due to snow storms in Europe. Carl Dinnen of Independent Television News reports from London’s Heathrow Airport. British Airways Plc is struggling to restore flights at its London Heathrow hub even as runways are cleared of snow and ice [...]
Honda Recall 1.35M Fit Cars for headlight problem
Honda will recall 143,000 cars in the United States, and 734,000 cars in Japan. The Fit recall in Japan will cost Honda about 3.6 billion yen ($42.8 million), the Associated Press reports. The Japanese automaker also said it will recall Fit cars in Europe and Asia. It will recall 385,000 units in Europe, where the [...]
Amazon.com outage due to hardware failure
Amazon.com Inc’s websites in Europe suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware failure in its European data center network. “The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in our European datacenter network and not the [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablet
Samsung have launched the Galaxy Tab, their first entry into the tablet market and the iPad’s first rival, at Europe’s largest consumer electronics sh.