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Asiana Airlines won the prestige Airline of the Year award at the 2010 World Airline Awards, that took place in Hamburg.  Asiana Airlines was named winner of the Airline of the Year 2010 title, ahead of Singapore Airlines (2nd) and Qatar Airways in 3rd place.  Some 40 different airlines from around the world assembled to receive their accolades, which were handed out by Mr Edward Plaisted, Chairman of Skytrax. The award winners are selected by the airline industry's most important audience, it's customers.    More than 17.9 million air travellers from over 100 different nationalities took part in the 10 month survey, between July 2009 and April 2010. The awards are respected and recognised around the world for being the only truly global, independent passenger survey of airline standards, and are known as "the Passenger's Choice".  Commenting on the Airline of the Year 2010 award received by Asiana Airlines, Mr Plaisted said: "this is a fantastic ac...

This is the story of how, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of two Harvard Crimson reporters using data obtained from TheFacebook.com's logs. The details are drawn from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook, the  sourcing of which is described here. Facebook  CEO and cofounder  Mark Zuckerberg  now runs a site that 400 million people visit each month. But back in May 2004, he was a 19-year-old finishing up his sophomore year at Harvard. He was also the acclaimed founder and creator of an increasingly popular Web site called TheFacebook.com, which had launched in February 2004. As we've reported in detail in  a separate story , the launch of TheFacebook.com was not without controversy. Just six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Mark of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com,...

Via  Gizmodo  Facebook privacy policies keep going down the drain. That's enough reason for many to abandon it. Here you will find nine more:   After some reflection, I've decided to delete my account on Facebook. I'd like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I'd like my own social network to migrate away from Facebook so that I'm not missing anything. In any event, here's my "Top Ten" reasons for why you should join me and many others and delete your account. 10. Facebook's  Terms Of Service  are completely one-sided Let's start with the basics. Facebook's Terms Of Service state that not only do they own your data (section 2.1), but if you don't keep it up to date and accurate (section 4.6), they can terminate your account (section 14). You could argue that the terms are just protecting Facebook'...

By Selena Dehne, JIST Publishing Top of Form Bottom of Form Nearly one-in-four  human resources  managers said they receive, on average, more than 75 résumés for each open position, according to a nationwide survey by Careerbuilder.com. When a job posting's response is that overwhelming, human resource managers often struggle to distinguish one candidate from another -- particularly since most of them spend only a minute or two assessing each candidate's résumé. That's why job seekers have to be savvy about their résumé's content and presentation. Unfortunately, even the most talented, qualified candidates sometimes write weak résumés. Whether they're in a hurry, lack writing skills or are unsure how to market themselves to employers, they fail to score interviews because their résumés don't immediately demonstrate what return on investment they offer employers. To sidestep this dilemma, consider Susan Britton Whitcomb's 10 tips for writing great résumé copy...

Pentagon creates specialist online unit to counter cyber attack amid growing fears of militarisation of the internet The  US military  has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace. The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon's ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to conduct virtual combat across the world's computer networks. He was appointed on Friday afternoon in a low-key ceremony at Fort Meade, in Maryland. The creation of America's most senior cyber warrior comes just days after the US air force disclosed that some 30,000 of its troops had been re-assigned from technical support "to the frontlines of cyber warfare". The creation of Cyber Command is in response to increasing anxiety over the vulnerability of the US's military and other networks to a cyber attack. James Miller, the deputy under-se...

By Urooj Zia A couple of months ago, when self-styled 'security analyst' Zaid Hamid's anti-India vitriol started getting out of hand, a group of Pakistanis got together on Facebook to condemn his hate speech and calls for war against 'Hindu Zionists'. There were jokes about 'Jihad-e-Facebook' and 'Ghazwa-e-YouTube' because, like former dictator Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, that's where an overwhelming majority of Hamid's supporters were anyway. No one could have thought at the point that an organ of the state would declare jihad against Facebook, but that is exactly what has happened. On 19 May, on a petition filed by a group calling itself the Islamic Lawyers Movement, the Lahore High Court ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block Facebook in response to the perceived blasphemy of a single page about 'Draw Muhammad Day'. It all started in April, when the creators of the animated TV series  South Park  dec...

By  Robert Evans May 18, You'd be hard-pressed to find a company more beloved than Google. And why not? They make the Internet easier to use, pamper their employees and foot the bill for YouTube even though it loses money like it's got a gambling problem that's made of cocaine. Unfortunately, much of what is awesome about Google also makes them increasingly terrifying with each passing day. #5. Google Has All The Answers (About You) The Misconception: Before Google, if you were curious about some weird sexual position or the dangers of sticking glass rods down your pee hole, you had to go to an older sibling or classmate. This would result in either hilarious but ultimately fulfilling sexual misadventure or, if you didn't go to high school in a teen comedy, a mortifying nickname that followed you all the way to college. Google wasn't the first search engine to take the human interaction out of that process, it was just the best a...

I have never been a huge fan of Pervaiz Musharraf. I think most of his policies were woefully short-sighted but if there was one thing he was right about, atleast in his choice of words, that was Enlightened Moderation. I think of those words today because the last 2 days have been a sad display of how Pakistanis are prone to be extremists in their point of views.  On one end of a continuum are the pseudo-religious fanatics, for whom the very foundation of religion rested on one's willingness to ban facebook for a day- or two and now till the 31st. On the other extreme end are those who have really disappointed me- the online community of bloggers and tweeple on whom the intricacies of the decision by the LHC are lost. I see the Court's decision as a sound Disaster Prevention Plan. The last time when there was a similar outcry against the Danish cartoons, rioting and vandalism had resulted in a huge loss of property as well as lives. When the DMD story first surfaced, I was ala...