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- 'Phoney' queues used to spur Polish iPhone launch
- WARSAW AFP — Poland's biggest telecoms operator, Telekomunikacja Polska, acknowledged Friday that it had paid young, hip-looking film extras to stand in queues for the national launch of Apple's iPhone. "It was a marketing move. We thought it was a pretty interesting strategy," TP spokesman Wojciech Jabczynski told AFP....
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Poles queue for 'paczki' doughnuts on Fat Thursday
- WARSAW AFP — Lengthy queues grew in front of pastry shops in Warsaw on "Fat Thursday" as Poles bought-up lip-smacking, plump traditional Polish "paczki" ahead of the Christian period of Lent. "It a great excuse to eat as many doughnuts as you want," Marzena, 31, told AFP. "Ten...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- Truckers stuck in border jams threaten to block Warsaw
- WARSAW AFP — Polish truckers, fed up with massive queues at border crossings due to a protest by customs staff, threatened Saturday to block Warsaw and other cities in the country. "If the government and the customs agents do not quickly agree we are ready to block Warsaw, Monday...
- Research articles 2008-01-26
- Sex Pistols return all guns blazing
- LONDON AFP — Punk pioneers the Sex Pistols blasted back into London on Thursday to kick off a comeback mini-tour marking the 30th anniversary of their iconic first album. Frontman John Lydon, also known as Johnny Rotten, said the band agreed to do five nights at the Brixton Academy,...
- Research articles 2007-11-08
- Foreign students in Britain to be schooled in queuing
- LONDON AFP — Foreign students visiting Britain are to be educated in the etiquette of queuing for buses, after local users complained about them not observing the conventions of standing in line. Southern Vectis, which operates buses on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast, said it was...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
- Mortars slam into Iraq petrol queue, 11 dead
- BAGHDAD AFP — Mortar rounds slammed into cars queueing at a Baghdad petrol station on Sunday, killing 11 civilians and wounding more than a dozen in the morning rush hour, security officials and medics said. One security official said nine mortar rounds rained down on the Iraqis as they...
- Research articles 2007-08-05
- SSM: slot scheduling mechanisms in a multihop wireless hotspot network
- INTRODUCTION In the Ad Hoc network, mobile nodes move constantly so that the topology of the network is dynamic, the links between nodes are unreliable, even broken, etc,. These uncertainties are related to the geographical locations. Likewise, when a mobile node has already had lots of data to process,...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- ACCC gives final approval to amended system to reduce Newcastle coal ship queue.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-23 May 2007-ACCC: ACCC gives final approval to amended system to reduce Newcastle coal ship queueC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23052007 Port Waratah Coal Services can now better manage the large queue of vessels waiting offshore at Newcastle, saving the coal...
- Research articles 2007-05-23
- Ship queues to take months to clear.
- Byline: Andrew Trounson Feb 22, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New coal export quotas through the port of Newcastle are expected to take at least three months to clear long queues of waiting ships. Coal miners voted on 21 February...
- Research articles 2007-02-22
- Stressed bank guard shoots Thai queue-jumper
- BANGKOK AFP — A stressed-out security guard opened fire on a woman who jumped the queue at a branch of Thailand's largest bank, police said. The 33-year-old guard was charged with attempted murder for shooting a university student Thursday after a quarrel that erupted when a queue-ticketing machine broke...
- Research articles 2006-02-10
- Teenage girls flock to Potter film audition
- LONDON AFP — Thousands of hopeful teenage girls queued in the cold London air for hours at the weekend, some overnight, for a chance to star in the next Harry Potter movie. The excited teenagers, aged between 13 and 16, stood patiently, some with their parents, outside Westminster Central...
- Research articles 2006-01-14
- No more queues with Japanese instant checkout
- TOKYO AFP — In a bid to make the queue at the cashier a thing of the past, a Japanese convenience store will test a checkout system that scans shopping baskets instantly. The trial-run will take place at a FamilyMart convenience store in Tokyo for a month from January...
- Research articles 2005-12-21
- Liver transplants halted at US hospital amid claims Saudi paid to jump queue
- LOS ANGELES AFP — A top US organ transplant hospital said it had suspended its liver program amid claims doctors helped a Saudi jump the queue and take an organ intended for a higher priority patient. St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles said its liver transplantation program had...
- Research articles 2005-09-27
- Design and simulation of an input queuing packet switch
- Abstract: Many Architectures of Internet routers, ATM and Ethernet switches have been proposed and analysed in literature. Theoretically reliable and valid solutions have been developed to achieve high performances, but a lot of them are not feasible in practice for commercial and technological reasons. Few papers develop the implementation and...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Hundreds queue at dawn to see Pope's tomb
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Bringing messages, pictures and their national flags, hundreds of pilgrims from the world over were allowed for the first time Wednesday to pay their last respects at the tomb of Pope John Paul II. "I want to pray at the tomb of the Holy Father,"...
- Research articles 2005-04-13
- A million pay tribute to pope, Vatican says he left testament
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Close to a million mourners have paid their last respects in front of the body of Pope John Paul II, the Vatican said, as it issued more details of his funeral and said he had left a final testament. A sea of humanity flooded streets...
- Research articles 2005-04-05
- A million throng Vatican as cardinals set date for conclave
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Roman Catholic cardinals set April 18 as the date they will start electing a successor to Pope John Paul II, as a million pilgrims massed at the Vatican desperate to pay their last respects. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the cardinals set the date for...
- Research articles 2005-04-06
- Cardinals yet to read pope's testament, Rome's long goodbye continues
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope John Paul II left a final testament, the Vatican said as cardinals convened in secret for a second day and a sea of humanity packed the streets round St Peter's Basilica to file past the body of their beloved pontiff lying in state. The...
- Research articles 2005-04-05
- Safety fears raised over coal ship armada.(Brief Article)
- Feb 17, 2005 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) Safety concerns have been expressed about as many as 44 empty coal ships, anchored off the Queensland coast near Mackay. The queue of ships waiting to load coal at the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal is worrying...
- Research articles 2005-02-17
- Computer crash spells endless queues for frustrated Heathrow travellers
- LONDON AFP ? Facing hours of delays, travellers at London's main Heathrow airport vented their frustration as they lined up and waited in long, winding queues -- determined if nothing else to get their luggage back. "We've been on the road for 20 hours," said Mike Rouse, whose flight...
- Research articles 2004-06-03
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