UBS fined $1.5 billion in growing Libor scandal

By Katharina Bart and Tom Miles ZURICH | Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:17am EST (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS admitted fraud and accepted a $1.5 billion fine on Wednesday for its role in manipulating global benchmark interest rates. Dozens of UBS staff rigged the Libor rate, which is used to price trillions of dollars worth of loans, in collusion with brokers and traders at other banks, according to an investigation by authorities in multiple countries. The...

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Maya apocalypse and Star Wars collide in Guatemalan temple

(Reuters) - At the center of the rebel base where Luke Skywalker took off to destroy the Death Star and save his people from the clutches of Darth Vader, Guatemala is preparing for another momentous event: the end of an age for the Maya. Deep inside the Guatemalan rainforest stand the ruins of the Maya temples that George Lucas used to film the planet Yavin 4 in the movie "Star Wars," from where Skywalker and his sidekick Han Solo launched their...

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In modern scandal, an e-mail is forever

By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON | Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:04am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - When ousted Barclays CEO Bob Diamond says he felt "physically ill" reading e-mails of his traders crowing over interest rate manipulation, he is almost certainly telling the truth. The veteran banker says it was the first he knew that employees had worked to artificially inflate the London interbank rate LIBOR. Whatever the reality, he must have realized that the saved messages - with employees glorying in their activities and promising each...

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This Rotten Week: Predicting Jack Reacher, This is 40, And More Reviews

After weeks of skating by with one movie here, two there, the studios saw fit to dump a full on smorgasbord on us all at once. No time or words to spare. We’ve got Jack Reacher, guilt trips, manhunts, mid-life crises, and acrobats. Note: Won’t be doing Monsters, Inc (3D) because Rotten Tomatoes combines its reviews with the original making a prediction moot. Instead, replacing it with Zero Dark Thirty in a slippery slope effort to hit on limited...

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Zero Dark Thirty

The scene you may be expecting from Zero Dark Thirty comes at the very end of the nearly three-hour film, as director Kathryn Bigelow precisely recreated the raid on the house in Pakistan that led to the Navy SEAL team assassinating Osama bin Laden. It's a spectacularly tense and realistic scene, full of the same adrenaline you remember from Bigelow's Point Break and The Hurt Locker, and suffused with both films' sense of male camaraderie and...

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Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians Production year: 2012 Cast: Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine , Isla Fisher, Jude Law Just to confirm that the noughties' golden age of animation is behind us, here's a bland, underpowered, humourless feature from DreamWorks. Rise of the Guardians is about an Avengers-style grouping of all the mythic heroes in your childish imagination: there's Santa Claus, voiced with a Russian accent by Alec Baldwin; the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman);...

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The War Z: Murder of the Fittest

In The War Z's alternate version of history, Colorado is a cold, lonely place where the dead rise from their graves and seek out the last remnants of survivors to snack on. The droves of zombies congregating in the towns and cities nestled in this bucolic patch of countryside are deadly indeed in large numbers, but they're not what concerns me the most. It's those that are still breathing you really have watch out for. Spawning in this zombie apocalypse...

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Symantec Norton Internet Security 2013 review

Probably the best-known Windows internet-security (IS) suite in the world (although AVG may come close), Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2013 offers anti-virus, firewall, website/online banking protection and parental control. Internet Security doesn't include PC tuneup or online backup; for those elements you need to look for Norton 360. Symantec boldly claims 'Our exclusive reputation and behaviour antivirus technology are so advanced that...

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TGS: Metal Gear Rising Is Insane, Intelligent, Awesome

Each time we see Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Platinum Games has a point to prove. At E3, the developer reassured us the slicing mechanic was a viable form of ferocious tactics and not just a parlor trick. Trailers and messaging from the developer since then communicated that Rising was very much a Platinum Games joint, with the signature wacky comedy and badass presentation present in spades. Revengeance always seemed to be missing that...

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Movie Review: "The Hobbit"

By Stupid Celebrities, Mon, December 10, 2012 ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey‘ is a prequel to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy and the latest movie reviewed by Stupid Celebrities. Peter Jackson returns as the director. It starts off really slow and a tad on the boring side. You’re going to have to fight to stay awake for the first quarter of the film! I had to nudge my tween niece to wake her up! Needless to say, it’s more for adults than...

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Latest version of UTorrent to Win 7

uTorrent Description uTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients out there for several reasons: it's fast, lightweight, easy to use and very efficient. The new uTorrent 3 introduces lots of changes to the previous version. To begin with, the program sports a totally redesigned interface: more usable, easier to use and a perfect match for uTorrent’s web interface. Besides the new design, uTorrent 3 lets you play media in streaming as...

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TypingMaster Pro Premium 7

TypingMaster Pro by TypingMaster is a solid typing software product with a set of rather basic features. What you get with this typing program will help you either learn how to type or get better at keyboarding. However, the user interface is somewhat dated and the software's various features could be better organized. TypingMaster Pro is fairly easy to figure out, but there is no screen-by-screen information or instruction. Nonetheless,...

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NeoMedia sues SpyderLynx as scanning figures rise

Rating: W7 Mango users bottom of scanning list As mobile barcode scanning expert, NeoMedia Technologies, announced its performance figures for Q1 2012, the company also let slip that it had started another law suit over its patent portfolio. This time the supplier on the wrong end of NeoMedia’s lawyers is SpyderLynx. That’s interesting because SpyderLynx itself is trying to patent the use of embedding a log into a QR code. See our previous story here. For the lawyers amongst our readership, we decided to publish NeoMedia’s Press release on the...

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Google Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Upgrade Going Out to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Those who have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus because they want to keep up with the latest version of Google's operating system are getting rewarded: they'll be the first to be able to download Android OS 4.1 (Jelly Bean). There's a hitch, however: this applies only to those who have the HSPA+ version. This means that those who have the version for Verizon or Sprint still have to wait a bit more. Still, Google promises this is in the works. Those who do have the HSPA+ version (which is available from Google Play) will soon see a note pop up on their...

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Canon to enter mirrorless camera market from September

A logo of Canon Inc is pictured at the 3D and Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo June 20, 2012. The expo which showcases the latest technology will be held until June 22. Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao TOKYO | Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:38am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Canon Inc said on Monday it would sell its first mirrorless camera from mid-September in a bid to tap a growing market for small, interchangeable-lens cameras that rival Nikon Corp entered...

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Apple heads into choppy waters as new iPhone awaited

A man shows a photograph he took on his iPhone of an Apple store in Beijing June 6, 2012. Credit: Reuters/David Gray By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:06am EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc faces an unusual phenomenon when reporting earnings this time around: low expectations. Few are expecting the world's most valuable technology company -- which surpasses Wall Street expectations with near regularity -- to deliver...

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‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’ Review

Director Michael J. Bassett has stepped into the terrifying world of video game-turned-movie franchise Silent Hill with his latest film, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D - a follow-up to Christophe Gans’ 2006 movie about the titular (and twisted) town. For a long time, video game adaptations have delivered underwhelming big screen experiences (and equally unimpressive box office returns), as directors (most famously Uwe Boll) pilfered one well-known...

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'Wuthering Heights' Review

A Drama Ahead of Its Time When Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847, under the name of Ellis Bell, it received mixed reviews. Although some critics saw the potential evident in the cyclical plot and other literary devices, many others were shocked and dismayed by the unashamedly dark storyline. To be sure, Wuthering Heights was a very different book than what was generally considered acceptable during that era. In...

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Adobe PhotoShop CS6 Serial Numbers -Updated

If you are a regular user of Adobe Photoshop then you will be well known that a Image Editor can not be better than it.. So if you are a Editor Pro or Newbie for you Adobe PhotoShop is must... But The Main Problem of  this amazing software is that this is not a free product ... You have to purchase it for use it's full function and for use it more than 30 days.. But there is many user who loves to edit pix but cannot afford buying this costly...

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A Must CheckOut: Future of Apple Product

Hey.. Are you an Apple freak ? Loves the product which comes with a name starting with "i" ?? Then this post is just for you.. But before we start our post one thing should be known to everyone.. Do you know what actually the "i" means which comes every time before an apple product ? As Steve Jobs the "i" actually  mean two things .. One is "internet" which comes first on "i-MacBook"  and the other one is actually "individual" .. Coz as...

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Windows 8 RTM Theme for Windows 7

Windows 8 Release Preview Aero Theme for Windows 7 [link] ************************************************* A month ago I presented Windows 8 Release Preview aero visual style. This time I decided to create Windows 8 RTM theme. Like the last time i again used resources from original aero.msstyles - Windows 8 RTM build 9200. Almost all resources is original but this time I had to use Photoshop much more to get realistic theme. In this visual...

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